passage vs route

passage

noun
  • Part of a path or journey. 

  • An incident or episode. 

  • A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten. 

  • A movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic, and elevated trot that has a longer period of suspension between each foot fall than a working trot. 

  • A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places. 

  • The act of passing; movement across or through. 

  • A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning. 

  • A passageway or corridor. 

  • The right to pass from one place to another. 

  • Serial passage. 

  • A strait or other narrow waterway. 

  • The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament. 

  • The advance of time. 

  • The vagina. 

  • The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works. 

  • An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide. 

adj
  • Of a bird: Less than a year old but living on its own, having left the nest. 

verb
  • To execute a passage movement. 

  • To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium. 

  • To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross. 

route

noun
  • A course or way which is traveled or passed. 

  • One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something. 

  • A specific entry in a router that tells the router how to transmit the data it receives. 

  • One of the major provinces of imperial China from the Later Jin to the Song, corresponding to the Tang and early Yuan circuits. 

  • A race longer than one mile. 

  • A road or path; often specifically a highway. 

  • A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation. 

verb
  • To direct or divert along a particular course. 

  • to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet. 

  • To send (information) through a router. 

How often have the words passage and route occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )