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noun ˈpasɪdʒˈpæsɪdʒ 1mass noun The action or process of moving through or past somewhere on the way from one place to another. there were moorings for boats wanting passage through the lock Example sentencesExamples - It may seem tame in this context to devote time and technical skill to throwing up perfect spheres of glass in a vacuum and timing their passage up and down past two pairs of slits.
- These are well-named and can be observed swimming at the surface on almost every passage by boat in the tropics.
- They had received no help from the wealthy Singapore Hadhrami families who in the past often gave new migrants money and assisted their passage to Indonesia.
- It often crosses Griffin's mind how rowing must seem to the layman watching from the bank: the harmony of the strokes, the smooth passage of the boats across the water, the apparent control.
- A second metaphor, then, is how easily such travel is derailed, passage blocked and messages scrambled.
- Go over the bridge, which runs over the moving lava passage then up to the altar.
- He said: ‘These passports not only speed your passage through immigration but are also more difficult to forge or use fraudulently.’
- The sea is subject to far more turbulent weather and the coast offers few places of shelter for the vessels that have been making passage here since boats were invented.
- He was pointing to some obstructions to his boat's passage.
- The ambulances are regularly denied passage through security checkpoints, allegedly for fear that they may be smuggling weapons.
- On August 30th, 1906, he passed the Bering Strait to make the historic first boat passage into the Pacific Ocean.
- That was before the Uefa Cup run gathered momentum, before his booming finish at Anfield sealed Celtic's passage past Liverpool and his position as a crowd favourite.
- Having no quarrel with the medial view of motion, Sadra sets out to prove the objective existence of motion as passage.
- The bus's passage through Trinidad and past the turnoff for Ludlow, Colorado, marks the midpoint on its route from Albuquerque to Denver.
- The decrease was because of competition from land transport and the easier passage through the Bulgarian land borders, the airport said.
- There is a road to the coast there, and passage by boat from Lina or Riale.
- Town's defence stayed on top of the exchanges in their zone and it was their efforts that secured their passage into the next round.
- Through Tom Tom's eyes we experience the plunge from the roof and his slow-motion passage past the windows on each floor.
- These can grant passage to higher tiers of coliseum borders or past a sealed off fortress, to cite some examples.
- The game was hallmarked by a superb full back display by Ms. Dalton, past whom nothing found passage, although she had generous aid from a better-balanced team.
- You think that clearing the snow is an act of old fashioned community spirit that creates safe passage for passing pedestrians.
Synonyms transit, progress, passing, movement, moving, motion, going, crossing, travelling, traversal, traverse - 1.1 The action or process of moving forward.
despite the passage of time she still loved him Example sentencesExamples - In our judgment the conclusion reached by the judge, despite the unprecedented passage of time since 1942, was correct.
- The money could be recoverable from the officer who was responsible for not having filed the written statement despite passage of so much time.
- He sneers at her approach and waddles forward to block her passage.
- She tapped the shoulder of the person in front of her, asking for passage forward.
- Something blocked his passage, despite his clear view of the dirt, trampled plants, and pebbles of the path outside.
- Despite this passage of time, the contents of these documents have immense relevance to the current policies of the US government.
- There is an anchor locker forward and rigging shrouds are well inboard for easy passage fore and aft.
Synonyms passing, advance, course, march, moving on, flow - 1.2 The right to pass through somewhere.
we obtained a permit for safe passage from the embassy Example sentencesExamples - It is disturbing, for example, to hear of vehicles stolen from Tanzania easily finding safe passage into Zambia without encountering problems at the border.
- But we provide space-based utilities no such security or assurance of safe passage or operation.
- As is often the way in Vietnam, moving from the raft to the cruiseship was a haphazard, risky venture that relies largely on local know-how rather than any sort of safe passage.
- Where you once safely drove around the dodgy streets of seedy inner-city suburbs, you're now confined to relying on your alertness and stealth to ensure safe passage.
- Imagine knowing that a close member of your family's life was in danger, selling everything you and your family owned to try to pay for their passage to a safe haven may be the only way of saving their life.
- While Gerry was to be congratulated for his thoroughness in preparation, it was perhaps unfortunate that Chic was handed the responsibility of ensuring safe passage for our runners.
- The advisory assumes significances amid reports that efforts are on to secure the safe passage of three Indians being held hostage there.
- Conneh was duly freed and ensured his safe passage back to Guinea.
- He allegedly donated #1m for safe passage to Hong Kong after alleged involvement with Asian drugs ring.
- In Naas, the main street will be closed from 10 am to 2 pm and there will be barriers erected to ensure the runners safe passage through the crowd.
- Ask yourself if it would have lead to an effective strategy for countering the enemy or ending the safe passage they had through-out Afghanistan?
- Very little has been done to ensure pedestrians have safe passage over the bridge.
- The group also demanded a $50m ransom as well as safe passage and the publication of their manifesto by all of the countries whose diplomats had been held.
- Some are kidnapped but most often their parents not only know, but actually pay ‘busones’ or scouts to ensure their safe passage in the hope that they will have a better life.
- Trangmar's starting point was the Greek myth of Ariadne, who sent a ball of thread twisting through pathways to enable Theseus's safe passage from the Minotaur's labyrinth.
- In this way the Newport fleet connects to an ancient maritime tradition of asking for safe passage and a bountiful catch.
- In another audacious move he sent envoys to the Crusader leaders in Acre asking for safe passage and the right to purchase supplies.
- Despite a letter of free passage signed by the Hungarian foreign minister, officials at the airport still obstructed Douglas's departure and called the interior ministry.
- The general manager spent much of yesterday negotiating safe and swift passage out of Turkey but was unable to secure the return of a £40,000 jet pump.
- He was on the island of a good king who gave passage to many travelers.
Synonyms safe conduct, entry, admission, access permission/authorization to travel through, leave to travel in warrant, visa - 1.3count noun A journey by sea or air.
I booked a passage on the next ship Example sentencesExamples - These generally include full-board accommodation and air passage or road transportation to the islands.
- A place where goods were traded and travellers could buy passage, be it a ferry across the Potomac or transport on to another Sathe port by sea or land.
- Way too many hours and credits later, Duvessa had triumphantly booked passage on the small transport, the Star Dancer, to Paranoth.
- Discounts and upgrades Instead of selling specific staterooms, cruise lines may offer a ‘guarantee’ of passage on a voyage.
- John wanted to set about their adventure as expeditiously as possible and had booked passage on a postal aeroplane traveling to nearby Hog's Creek.
- Less desirable boats were offering passage for as little as fifty cents.
- When the prophet Jonah hears an inner voice calling him to teach in the Assyrian city of Nineveh, he books immediate passage on a boat - going in the other direction.
- Luckily, we disembarked there for an afternoon for we had on board several Greek tourists, who also had booked passage for Philae.
- She was so aware of the danger that she'd booked passage in a ship for Australia for herself and me in 1940, meaning to leave me with her family there and return to England.
- Pop described how he escaped Mayo poverty, four years before the Easter Rising, by stowing away on a boat to England, where he planned to earn passage to America.
- He was a legend in his hometown for having worn out many pairs of straw sandals, as he walked hundreds of miles to the port of Yokohama, to book passage on a boat to North America.
- One young Pakistani man told the program he had paid Enniss $10,000 for passage in a boat that sank soon after leaving Indonesia.
- We both shook our heads, turned right into St. Thomas and booked our own boat's passage to Fort Lauderdale.
- He himself could not be present at the auction, having already booked passage for England, departing on April 4.
- Delayed only by her trial, she finally booked passage aboard a tanker and sailed alone to Karachi, to join the rest of the family in exile.
- An accomplished con man, Goddard not only gets the loan of the car, but talks his way into free boat passage to China and hits up fellow competitors for gasoline.
- They reached Hong Kong, from where they booked passage to France.
- I could take on a crew and sail to Canada in my own boat instead of booking passage, or turn into a rover of the sea, going where I please and doing what I like.
- Benito finally admits that Vincenzo has booked passage on the train from Charlottesville to Philadelphia the following afternoon.
- I am wondering if you are in the travel business and how I can arrange passage on that boat.
Synonyms voyage, crossing, trip, cruise, sail journey, tour, trek - 1.4Ornithology (of a migrating bird) the action of passing through a place en route to its final destination.
the species occurs regularly on passage as modifier a passage migrant Example sentencesExamples - For Veeries, Remsen's approach was to identify winter as the period when no known passage birds were collected from anywhere.
- A small shore bird common, in fact often abundant, on passage and in winter, it breeds in the High Arctic.
- Birds collected in May could have already been on the breeding grounds, so for May only birds collected during passage through Chicago were analyzed.
- That section also covers breeding, winter, passage migration, or vagrant records for each species as applicable.
- Green, Wood and Common Sandpipers are regular on passage, as are Ospreys.
- Reform act a boost to migratory birds Bill's passage stops protection of harmful species
- These routes used by migratory birds for passage between wintering and breeding ranges are called flyways.
- The Portavogie prawn trawler ‘Sonas’ had a lucky escape recently when she was struck by a coaster while on passage home to Portavogie.
- Purple sandpipers were not observed during the spring surveys, and those present in August were likely passage migrants from farther north.
- To most observers they are a spring and autumn passage migrant.
- But it was as a coastal spring passage migrant that the most spectacular numbers were noted.
- Redstarts visit us still with some regularity on their spring and autumn passage migrations, especially along the East Coast.
- Similarly, identifying the correct winter range of birds in South America will allow better study of passage birds.
- Poor upstream passage for migrating spawners is the major reason for the decline in diadromous stocks.
- This is a good time of the year to observe passage migrants and returning winter visitors plus our resident wetland birds.
- For many years, firecrests appeared here as spring and autumn passage migrants.
- This development attracts passage migrant waders, nesting lapwing and redshank together with winter wildfowl.
- These results support the possibility that migrants with extended stopovers utilize stopover sites differently than most passage migrants.
- Norfolk birders know the hoopoe as a spring and autumn passage migrant, but only in small numbers.
- Continental birds also pass through on passage, particularly on the east coast.
2A narrow way allowing access between buildings or to different rooms within a building; a passageway. the larger bedroom was at the end of the passage Example sentencesExamples - For the next ten minutes, the passage led only forwards, turning once in a while, but never branching off.
- As one walks through the different rooms, passages and interstices of the gallery, there is a tremendous but transient concatenation of sound.
- The other passages are so narrow only one person at a time can squeeze through.
- What we now have are three- or four-storey structures with no open space, and with narrow passages and narrow stairs.
- I moved forward, and chose the central passage as it was largest, and walked slowly down it, casting my light from side to side.
- They consisted of labyrinthine passages connecting layers of rooms built on and around a conical hill.
- Among the signs he placed about the place was one insisting: ‘Accumulations must not be allowed in passages or cupboards.’
- Her shoulder rammed into a pipe at the end, but she ignored it and sped down another passage, cutting herself in several places as she scraped past floating debris.
- Within the narrow passages candles were placed along the walls, dimly lighting up the blood red stone.
- The house is old and creaky, stairs to half-floors leading from narrow rooms and confusing passages as if designed by M.C. Escher.
- Another short corridor brought them to a large common room, with several other narrow passages leading off from it.
- She moved to a larger room and we suddenly had no way to access that office, for there were no secret passages leading to that room.
- No one put their lives on the line for us, re-entering the building, climbing the stairs, wending their way through the passages to our meeting room.
- They charged down the two lane wide passages between the buildings.
- During daytime, the narrow passages, which accommodate provision stores, vegetable outlets and shops dealing in spices and condiments, are a beehive of activity.
- She sighed and nodded, allowing him to lead her down the dark passage to her room.
- Through an access passage in the rear of the Main Dining Room there's a small room called the Tai Pan Room.
- Excavations revealed a massive timber gate about halfway along the passage allowing access to be controlled.
- Lily took a few cautious steps forward through the passage of bookcases and strained her ears again.
- We told her we were slaves that had been locked in the pantry passage for years and we were hungry.
Synonyms corridor, passageway, hall, hallway, entrance hall, entrance, walkway, aisle, gangway alley, alleyway, lane, path, pathway, way, footpath, track, trackway, road, thoroughfare Scottish & Northern English ginnel, snicket, vennel, wynd, twitten North American areaway North American & West Indian trace Indian gully - 2.1 A duct, vessel, or other channel in the body.
Example sentencesExamples - Asthma is due to an inflammatory process in the bronchial air passages of the lungs that causes narrowing of the airways and, if untreated, may result in gradual loss of lung function.
- These potent chemicals dilate blood vessels and constrict bronchial air passages.
- The most posterior of these is the fenestra ovalis, while the anterior is the passage for cranial nerve VII.
- That is to say they contain a network of very small blood vessels or passages.
- In the skeletally immature patient, the placement of physeal and epiphyseal drill holes and the passage of tendon grafts through them raises biologic issues.
- The infection spreads from the nose or throat through the Eustachian tube, a passage between the throat and the middle ear.
- We all have a small passage leading from the middle ear to the back of the nose called the eustachian tube, which equalizes the air pressure between the middle ear and the outside world.
- It works in the body specifically to reduce any allergic inflammation of the nasal passages, the bronchial airways and the throat.
- A filter of Water energy woven into the nasal passages allowed the channler to catch the scents that different forms of life gave off.
- Oya Orisha predominates in the lungs, bronchial passages, and the mucous membranes.
- They stretch the skin that makes up that passage in the process and sometimes they tear it badly.
- Also, in some persons histamine can close up the bronchial tubes (air passages of the lungs) and make breathing difficult.
- A psychiatrist ran out and saw that he wasn't breathing, and pulled his jaw forward to free up the air passage.
- The pharynx is the garbage dump of the bronchial tubes and nasal passages.
- These foramina are the passages for the optic nerve (Cranial nerve II) and the eyestalk.
- They work by opening up the bronchial tubes (air passages of the lungs) and increasing the flow of air through them.
- Like clogged blood vessels, passages become restricted and are plagued by flaking.
- When we swallow, the soft palate closes off the nasal passages from the throat to prevent food from entering the nose.
- This is taken care of by the eustachian tube, a small passage that connects the middle ear to the back of the throat behind the nose.
- ‘In this form, the foetal passages, the foramen ovale, and the ductus arteriosus, remain open,’ he wrote.
Synonyms duct orifice, opening, aperture, hole, channel inlet, outlet
3mass noun The process of transition from one state to another. an allegory on the theme of the passage from ignorance to knowledge Example sentencesExamples - They probably represent dancing grounds on which were performed intricate dances representing the passage of the soul from life to death and back again.
- Rite of passage conveying status change for males, from young boys to responsible men.
- Rites of passage denote an individual's transition from one existence to another.
- Historical thought redefines the present in terms of a reinterpreted and reconstructed past and thereby facilitates passage into the future.
- I can see the inexorable passage of time moving Baby to the inevitable Teenager II but whilst Baby is still at junior school I can make the most of an ally!
- The rate of temporal passage cannot be changed consciously by mortals, generally speaking.
Synonyms transition, development, progress, progression, move, change, shift, conversion, metamorphosis - 3.1 The passing of a bill into law.
a catalyst for the unrest was the passage of a privatization law Example sentencesExamples - We are writing to ask you to support the Children's Food Bill in its passage through Parliament.
- It is about getting the structure around early childhood education policy right, and I look forward to its speedy passage through the House.
- So the parliamentary passage of the bill holds additional significance in that it may pave the way for the two allies of 50 years to mend their sour relations.
- In that case, the bill's passage to a second reading is inevitable.
- Without further ado, I want to say that this is a good bill, and I look forward to its speedy passage.
- I look forward to its rapid passage through the House and to the constructive debate that will ensue.
- It has the support of a number of the key stakeholders, and I look forward to its rapid passage through the House.
- We congratulate the Minister on taking the necessary steps to advance the development of this legislation, and we look forward to assisting its passage in whatever way we can.
- In an effort to push forward early passage of the Financial Res-tructuring Fund bill, the Ministry of Finance has asked banks to exert pressure on the legislature.
- Kwok believes passage of the motion will send a strong message that society is concerned about the problem.
- This is considered the final hurdle for the bill's passage, as approval is considered certain in the Senate.
- We introduced this Bill and we have continued to press for its passage despite continued resistance and obstruction by the Opposition.
- Some civic organizations and academic circles asserted that the previous passage of the particular bills was null and void, as they were voted upon without the required quorum.
- Despite passage in the House, a similar bill faces a hard fight in the Senate.
- I look forward to its passage into law in the very near future.
- From the bill's passage to the second half of 1965, the Civil Rights Movement continued to press American society for changes.
- As I outlined, United Future supports the second reading of the bill and its passage to the Committee stage.
- Unfortunately, despite passage of a federal election reform bill, another Florida remains a tragic risk for 2004.
- This bill is a good step in the Government's commitment towards greater energy efficiency and a sustainable energy future, and I look forward to its passage through the House.
- The bill is very good, and I look forward to its passage through Parliament.
Synonyms enactment, passing, ratification, acceptance, approval, adoption, authorization, sanction, validation, legalization, endorsement
4A short extract from a book or other printed material. he picked up the newspaper and read the passage again Example sentencesExamples - The book is so dense and difficult that I find myself reading a short passage and rereading it (and sometimes going back over it again) to get a better idea of what he's saying.
- That passage suggests a three-stage process, the outlining of the story, the summary of basic findings of fact and a statement as to why and how those findings of fact lead to the final decision.
- The didacticism of this passage demonstrates that the caprice of nature expresses the narrator's perspective and not the other way around.
- Now, may I just take your Honours to some short passages in the first book to make good, as it were, what I am saying in an evidentiary sense.
- The passages are different ones in German and English because everybody understands English well enough
- The conclusion of Quinn's passage results in complete transformation.
- Despite the eloquence of this passage, misunderstanding was not always averted.
- Mr Gallagher deals with the decision making process in the following passage in his Witness Statement: -
- Different passages require different degrees and kinds of interpretive infrastructure.
- In fact all the major theological themes of this passage are developed further by Luke in his two volumes: these verses are indeed programmatic.
- Mystics explain this cryptic passage as an amazingly prescient script not only for the past but for the future as well.
- Look, there are lots of narrative shifts in this book with short passages, and this gives a sense of dislocation too, for the reader; one voice and then another.
- The only odd thing about this passage is that it is written in the past tense.
- On closer inspection, the Sixth Meditation passage does not put forward a naturalistic solution, but a theistic solution.
- Also, notice that the metaphoric language Benjamin employs in this passage invokes travel and, indeed, traversal.
- I'll read a short passage from my book Four Seasons in Five Senses, that talks about that connection we have with memory, the land and ultimately generation.
- One of the images offered by this passage is that of the writer inherently connected to a past that is imprinted in a particular time and place.
- May we choose to read a short passage at the end of the first paragraph on page 21.
- The most sobering part of the book is a short passage where Guttenplan elaborates this country's history of anti-Semitism.
- In this passage, sewing and conversation are allied and inseparable, part of the alternative methodology of speech Walker is explicating.
Synonyms extract, excerpt, quotation, quote, citation, cite, reading, section, piece, selection, part, snippet, fragment, portion text, paragraph, verse, stanza, canto, line, sentence, phrase - 4.1 A section of a piece of music.
Example sentencesExamples - The ‘music’ includes some passages of surging choruses and fierce chanting, half to my taste, if deformed from the original.
- On top of this was a sweet singing voice that caught the lilting melodies and highlighted the complicated passages of the music.
- Her favorites were the soulful climaxes of country-western ballads and the tutti passages of Mozart orchestral works.
- The piece concludes with a passage from the Georgian hymn Upalo Ghmerto - lovely but also undocumented - and clanging bells.
- It involves calling on such resources as imagination, knowledge of style, and anticipation of what is likely to come next in a particular passage of music.
- Breth's tips help students learn principles of effective practice and learn when to apply principles to various passages in the pieces they are playing.
- Students can slow down the tempo or loop a particular section of music to practice difficult passages.
- A few of the later selections present rapid octave passages and optional cadenzas that sound more difficult than they are.
- Starting off with an elegant andante passage, Navas moved on to the crisp, unmannered race-car speed that he injects into his choreography so well.
- The horn duet in the first movement is one of the most beautiful passages of music ever written by anybody and Steinberg imbues it with a tenderness that is almost poignant.
- They become a small Baroque ensemble for recitative passages.
- Several pieces have tricky rhythmic passages that will be fun for students to work out, as in ‘Linus and Lucy’ by Vince Guaraldi.
- Invent exercises from passages in your pieces, he would tell me.
- Here's a short drum passage and a time-reversed version of the same file, making the same point even more strikingly.
- This is especially noticeable in full orchestral and choral passages.
- The second movement leads without pause to the finale by way of a very brief passage based on the opening theme to the entire concerto.
- The curtain fell as the orchestra played a transitional passage of music.
- The Così arias are stylish, and Mozart's showiest passages are delivered with clean agility and musicality.
- The B section is a virtual solo for secondo, with primo finishing the melodies with scale passages in octaves.
- For example, use the thumb to express tenor melodies or in passages requiring maximum power.
- 4.2 An episode in a spell of longer activity such as a sporting event.
a neat passage of midfield play Example sentencesExamples - In an ensuing passage of play Rooney loses a boot.
- There followed a passage of play in the Otley half resulting in a missed penalty attempt, closely followed by a successful three points when the full-back was tackled late on a follow up.
- The next was a great try set up from a solid Ilkley scrum which set up a superb passage of back play in which Hinchliffe was twice involved.
- The morning's weather was just as bad as the previous day, and constant heavy showers meant that a mere 22 deliveries were sent down in a further three passages of play before an early lunch.
- Heath enjoyed their best passage of play early in the second half.
- Rangers' unease showed in an untidy passage of play which again incurred the wrath of the home support.
- In the next passage of play Clarke made ground from his own half.
- But once those two had fallen in the same over to Danish Kaneria's leg-spin, it kickstarted a dreadful passage of play for England.
- A soccer match turns on the outcome of half a dozen passages of play.
- The scoring system has also changed in recent years to speed up the game and increase the number of exciting passages of play.
- Another slick passage of handling, featuring backs and forwards, culminated in Smith sliding over in the corner for No7.
- They did the spadework for the score in a good passage of support play, Wade arriving on cue to drive over and finish off the movement.
- Most of the good work was destructive rather than creative, with the inevitable limitations of both sides in terms of fitness and conditioning preventing any prolonged passages of play.
- He responded with their best passage of play.
- Not that the Blues are invincible, for there can also be passages of play that show them in a much less flattering light.
- After working hard all afternoon Keighley let the game slip from their grasp with two passages of poor defence.
- As the game ebbed and flowed there was little to choose between the sides, but York extended their lead just before half time when a good passage of play involving backs and forwards brought a second try for the speedy Kama.
- It was just the tonic the visitors needed and soon afterwards the second row forward finished of a fine passage of play involving forwards and backs with the second try, this time converted by Cooke.
- During this period the Welsh put in some big passages of play, yet the Boks remained composed and unflappable and limited the Six Nations champions to just one try.
- Then along came one of the most peculiar passages of play you'll see all season.
5Biology Medicine
mass noun The propagation of microorganisms or cells in a series of host organisms or culture media, so as to maintain them or modify their virulence. cultured cells can replicate on serial passage for predictable periods of time Example sentencesExamples - These electrons will oscillate in unison with the incoming light wave and can affect or modify the passage of light through matter in several ways.
- In some other cases, sequences were verified after a series of passages on a host.
- The cells in the two unstained wells of each specimen were processed for a second blind passage of culture on fresh McCoy cell monolayers.
- For all experiments, cells were used between passages 9 and 15.
- The fibroblasts were used between culture passages 3 and 6.
- Fourth, after some 30 passages, cells cultured at 33°C stopped proliferating, suggesting a senescent state.
- Both fungi were maintained by serial passages in Bacto-dextrose-agar medium.
- These cells were used after up to three months of in vitro culture, representing 10 to 15 culture passages.
- Cells of the eighth passages of culture were used.
- TJ2 was cultured by serial passage for up to a few months before returning to the original frozen culture.
- In practice, batches are prepared by taking a small quantity of the vaccine pool (or a batch made from that pool), and amplifying it by a final passage in monkey kidney tissue culture.
- Chemical mutagens or serial passages were employed earlier to decrease susceptibility to penicillin in BHS group A strains.
- The fifth passage of cells was used for the migration assay.
- This is relevant in understanding the species barrier effect in which there is a reduction of incubation times with multiple passages in interspecies infection.
- It was found that, while BA accelerates the passage of cells from G 1 to G 2, ABA delays cell cycle events so that most cells seem to remain in G 1.
- All passage 2 cells became confluent within 7-10 days, at which point an ALI was established.
- A humidifier can provide relief from the effects of dry winter air and soothe irritated nasal and respiratory passages.
- The Stem Cell Registry will eventually contain useful details about the derivation of the cells, the number of passages, culture conditions, and so forth.
- Serial passages were carried out in six-well tissue culture plates containing confluent cell monolayers covered by 4 ml of liquid media.
- Numerous mutations may be added in the passage of the tumor cells.
verb ˈpasɪdʒpaˈsɑːʒˈpæsɪdʒ [with object]Biology Medicine Subject (a strain of microorganisms or cells) to a passage. each recombinant virus was passaged nine times successively Example sentencesExamples - Deletions of gene 1.3 were introduced into the preadapted virus, and the recombinant virus was then passaged to allow fitness recovery.
- All of the strains were passaged for >30 generations before genomic DNA was isolated; additional passages of 60 generations showed no differences in telomere lengths from those illustrated in Fig 4B (data not shown).
- Cells were passaged twice weekly using a standard trypsinization / EDTA protocol.
- Once grown to confluency, the cells were passaged twice in the ratio of 1: 6 to obtain pure fibroblast cultures.
- In addition, influenza viruses are usually passaged in embryonated chicken eggs before isolation.
- These cells had been passaged through 14 passages and were grown to confluence in 35 mm culture dishes.
- Two days after transfection had been initiated, cells were passaged onto coverslips.
- The strain was passaged in mice, subcultured in Middlebrook 7H9 broth (Fisher, Pittsburgh, PA), and used for aerosol infection when the optical density at 600 nm was 0.9.
- Cells were passaged into six-well plates and incubated at either 33°C or 39°C. Cell number was assessed 2, 4, 6, and 8 days after subculture by hemacytometer.
- To test whether either mutant underwent delayed telomere elongation, the mutant strains were extensively passaged by serial colony streaking and telomere lengths were monitored periodically.
- Cells were passaged to 50% confluence 24 h before transfection.
- To test this we cloned 12 colonies from cells that had been passaged on agar plates for 8 days.
- Cultures not showing CPE were passaged twice before being considered as negative for viral isolation, while monolayer tubes showing CPE were passaged once to confirm virus specific CPE and to concentrate the virus.
- One day before experiments, cells were passaged 1: 4 into 35-mm circular dishes containing 22-mm circular coverslips.
- The cells were passaged by trypsinization with 0.05% trypsin-EDTA and used for experiments at passages 3-6.
- Cells were passaged 1: 20 and incubated at 33°C in 10% fetal bovine serum / Dulbecco's minimum essential medium.
- All cells were passaged at subconfluence and maintained in a 5% CO2 environment.
- The MA lines and the marker strain were passaged together for 69 passages and then checked for contamination.
- The virus was serially passaged nine times in 7 days old mice and purified from the intestinal homogenate of infected pups 7.
- Cells were passaged in DMEM with 10% FCS and antibiotics as above.
Phrases archaic A fight or dispute. Example sentencesExamples - Well, we say that's the end of the case, and that's what Mr Stitt conceded in the passage of arms between you…
- Already 2-0 down in the series after consecutive top-order batting collapses, this passage of arms - after a difficult summer for both the players and the board - could not have come at a worse possible time.
- We had applied to lead fresh evidence and that then led to a passage at arms about the appeal strictu sensu, Duralla's Case and the like.
- If your Honours would go to page 83, you will the see the passage - I am not saying it is a passage of arms; that is putting it too highly
- Wherefore, though his hair be grizzled and his face marked with serried lines, he departed not the passage of arms for straight love of tourneying.
- What do we make of all this passage at arms in the trial, Mr Walker?
Origin Middle English: from Old French, based on Latin passus 'pace'. nounpaˈsɑːʒpæˈsɑʒ A movement performed in advanced dressage and classical riding, in which the horse executes a slow elevated trot, giving the impression of dancing.
Origin Early 18th century: from French, from an alteration of Italian passeggiare 'to walk, pace', based on Latin passus 'pace'. nounˈpæsɪdʒˈpasij 1The act or process of moving through, under, over, or past something on the way from one place to another. there were moorings for boats wanting passage through the lock Example sentencesExamples - You think that clearing the snow is an act of old fashioned community spirit that creates safe passage for passing pedestrians.
- It may seem tame in this context to devote time and technical skill to throwing up perfect spheres of glass in a vacuum and timing their passage up and down past two pairs of slits.
- The game was hallmarked by a superb full back display by Ms. Dalton, past whom nothing found passage, although she had generous aid from a better-balanced team.
- The ambulances are regularly denied passage through security checkpoints, allegedly for fear that they may be smuggling weapons.
- He was pointing to some obstructions to his boat's passage.
- On August 30th, 1906, he passed the Bering Strait to make the historic first boat passage into the Pacific Ocean.
- Town's defence stayed on top of the exchanges in their zone and it was their efforts that secured their passage into the next round.
- That was before the Uefa Cup run gathered momentum, before his booming finish at Anfield sealed Celtic's passage past Liverpool and his position as a crowd favourite.
- There is a road to the coast there, and passage by boat from Lina or Riale.
- The decrease was because of competition from land transport and the easier passage through the Bulgarian land borders, the airport said.
- It often crosses Griffin's mind how rowing must seem to the layman watching from the bank: the harmony of the strokes, the smooth passage of the boats across the water, the apparent control.
- Go over the bridge, which runs over the moving lava passage then up to the altar.
- They had received no help from the wealthy Singapore Hadhrami families who in the past often gave new migrants money and assisted their passage to Indonesia.
- Having no quarrel with the medial view of motion, Sadra sets out to prove the objective existence of motion as passage.
- A second metaphor, then, is how easily such travel is derailed, passage blocked and messages scrambled.
- The sea is subject to far more turbulent weather and the coast offers few places of shelter for the vessels that have been making passage here since boats were invented.
- He said: ‘These passports not only speed your passage through immigration but are also more difficult to forge or use fraudulently.’
- Through Tom Tom's eyes we experience the plunge from the roof and his slow-motion passage past the windows on each floor.
- The bus's passage through Trinidad and past the turnoff for Ludlow, Colorado, marks the midpoint on its route from Albuquerque to Denver.
- These are well-named and can be observed swimming at the surface on almost every passage by boat in the tropics.
- These can grant passage to higher tiers of coliseum borders or past a sealed off fortress, to cite some examples.
Synonyms transit, progress, passing, movement, moving, motion, going, crossing, travelling, traversal, traverse - 1.1 The act or process of moving forward.
despite the passage of time she still loved him Example sentencesExamples - She tapped the shoulder of the person in front of her, asking for passage forward.
- The money could be recoverable from the officer who was responsible for not having filed the written statement despite passage of so much time.
- Something blocked his passage, despite his clear view of the dirt, trampled plants, and pebbles of the path outside.
- There is an anchor locker forward and rigging shrouds are well inboard for easy passage fore and aft.
- He sneers at her approach and waddles forward to block her passage.
- Despite this passage of time, the contents of these documents have immense relevance to the current policies of the US government.
- In our judgment the conclusion reached by the judge, despite the unprecedented passage of time since 1942, was correct.
Synonyms passing, advance, course, march, moving on, flow - 1.2 The right to pass through somewhere.
we obtained a permit for safe passage from the embassy Example sentencesExamples - While Gerry was to be congratulated for his thoroughness in preparation, it was perhaps unfortunate that Chic was handed the responsibility of ensuring safe passage for our runners.
- Conneh was duly freed and ensured his safe passage back to Guinea.
- Some are kidnapped but most often their parents not only know, but actually pay ‘busones’ or scouts to ensure their safe passage in the hope that they will have a better life.
- The general manager spent much of yesterday negotiating safe and swift passage out of Turkey but was unable to secure the return of a £40,000 jet pump.
- He allegedly donated #1m for safe passage to Hong Kong after alleged involvement with Asian drugs ring.
- The group also demanded a $50m ransom as well as safe passage and the publication of their manifesto by all of the countries whose diplomats had been held.
- Trangmar's starting point was the Greek myth of Ariadne, who sent a ball of thread twisting through pathways to enable Theseus's safe passage from the Minotaur's labyrinth.
- It is disturbing, for example, to hear of vehicles stolen from Tanzania easily finding safe passage into Zambia without encountering problems at the border.
- As is often the way in Vietnam, moving from the raft to the cruiseship was a haphazard, risky venture that relies largely on local know-how rather than any sort of safe passage.
- But we provide space-based utilities no such security or assurance of safe passage or operation.
- Where you once safely drove around the dodgy streets of seedy inner-city suburbs, you're now confined to relying on your alertness and stealth to ensure safe passage.
- Despite a letter of free passage signed by the Hungarian foreign minister, officials at the airport still obstructed Douglas's departure and called the interior ministry.
- He was on the island of a good king who gave passage to many travelers.
- Ask yourself if it would have lead to an effective strategy for countering the enemy or ending the safe passage they had through-out Afghanistan?
- Very little has been done to ensure pedestrians have safe passage over the bridge.
- Imagine knowing that a close member of your family's life was in danger, selling everything you and your family owned to try to pay for their passage to a safe haven may be the only way of saving their life.
- In another audacious move he sent envoys to the Crusader leaders in Acre asking for safe passage and the right to purchase supplies.
- In Naas, the main street will be closed from 10 am to 2 pm and there will be barriers erected to ensure the runners safe passage through the crowd.
- The advisory assumes significances amid reports that efforts are on to secure the safe passage of three Indians being held hostage there.
- In this way the Newport fleet connects to an ancient maritime tradition of asking for safe passage and a bountiful catch.
Synonyms safe conduct, entry, admission, access - 1.3 A journey or ticket for a journey by sea or air.
he then booked passage home aboard a Spanish warship Example sentencesExamples - Way too many hours and credits later, Duvessa had triumphantly booked passage on the small transport, the Star Dancer, to Paranoth.
- John wanted to set about their adventure as expeditiously as possible and had booked passage on a postal aeroplane traveling to nearby Hog's Creek.
- I could take on a crew and sail to Canada in my own boat instead of booking passage, or turn into a rover of the sea, going where I please and doing what I like.
- Luckily, we disembarked there for an afternoon for we had on board several Greek tourists, who also had booked passage for Philae.
- A place where goods were traded and travellers could buy passage, be it a ferry across the Potomac or transport on to another Sathe port by sea or land.
- She was so aware of the danger that she'd booked passage in a ship for Australia for herself and me in 1940, meaning to leave me with her family there and return to England.
- They reached Hong Kong, from where they booked passage to France.
- Benito finally admits that Vincenzo has booked passage on the train from Charlottesville to Philadelphia the following afternoon.
- Discounts and upgrades Instead of selling specific staterooms, cruise lines may offer a ‘guarantee’ of passage on a voyage.
- These generally include full-board accommodation and air passage or road transportation to the islands.
- He was a legend in his hometown for having worn out many pairs of straw sandals, as he walked hundreds of miles to the port of Yokohama, to book passage on a boat to North America.
- When the prophet Jonah hears an inner voice calling him to teach in the Assyrian city of Nineveh, he books immediate passage on a boat - going in the other direction.
- Less desirable boats were offering passage for as little as fifty cents.
- I am wondering if you are in the travel business and how I can arrange passage on that boat.
- An accomplished con man, Goddard not only gets the loan of the car, but talks his way into free boat passage to China and hits up fellow competitors for gasoline.
- Pop described how he escaped Mayo poverty, four years before the Easter Rising, by stowing away on a boat to England, where he planned to earn passage to America.
- One young Pakistani man told the program he had paid Enniss $10,000 for passage in a boat that sank soon after leaving Indonesia.
- Delayed only by her trial, she finally booked passage aboard a tanker and sailed alone to Karachi, to join the rest of the family in exile.
- We both shook our heads, turned right into St. Thomas and booked our own boat's passage to Fort Lauderdale.
- He himself could not be present at the auction, having already booked passage for England, departing on April 4.
Synonyms voyage, crossing, trip, cruise, sail - 1.4Ornithology (of a migrating bird) the action of passing through a place en route to its final destination.
the species occurs regularly on passage as modifier a passage migrant Example sentencesExamples - These routes used by migratory birds for passage between wintering and breeding ranges are called flyways.
- For many years, firecrests appeared here as spring and autumn passage migrants.
- To most observers they are a spring and autumn passage migrant.
- Continental birds also pass through on passage, particularly on the east coast.
- Similarly, identifying the correct winter range of birds in South America will allow better study of passage birds.
- That section also covers breeding, winter, passage migration, or vagrant records for each species as applicable.
- This development attracts passage migrant waders, nesting lapwing and redshank together with winter wildfowl.
- Purple sandpipers were not observed during the spring surveys, and those present in August were likely passage migrants from farther north.
- The Portavogie prawn trawler ‘Sonas’ had a lucky escape recently when she was struck by a coaster while on passage home to Portavogie.
- Reform act a boost to migratory birds Bill's passage stops protection of harmful species
- These results support the possibility that migrants with extended stopovers utilize stopover sites differently than most passage migrants.
- Birds collected in May could have already been on the breeding grounds, so for May only birds collected during passage through Chicago were analyzed.
- This is a good time of the year to observe passage migrants and returning winter visitors plus our resident wetland birds.
- Redstarts visit us still with some regularity on their spring and autumn passage migrations, especially along the East Coast.
- Green, Wood and Common Sandpipers are regular on passage, as are Ospreys.
- Norfolk birders know the hoopoe as a spring and autumn passage migrant, but only in small numbers.
- For Veeries, Remsen's approach was to identify winter as the period when no known passage birds were collected from anywhere.
- But it was as a coastal spring passage migrant that the most spectacular numbers were noted.
- A small shore bird common, in fact often abundant, on passage and in winter, it breeds in the High Arctic.
- Poor upstream passage for migrating spawners is the major reason for the decline in diadromous stocks.
2A narrow way, typically having walls on either side, allowing access between buildings or to different rooms within a building; a passageway. Example sentencesExamples - The other passages are so narrow only one person at a time can squeeze through.
- During daytime, the narrow passages, which accommodate provision stores, vegetable outlets and shops dealing in spices and condiments, are a beehive of activity.
- They charged down the two lane wide passages between the buildings.
- What we now have are three- or four-storey structures with no open space, and with narrow passages and narrow stairs.
- They consisted of labyrinthine passages connecting layers of rooms built on and around a conical hill.
- No one put their lives on the line for us, re-entering the building, climbing the stairs, wending their way through the passages to our meeting room.
- She sighed and nodded, allowing him to lead her down the dark passage to her room.
- For the next ten minutes, the passage led only forwards, turning once in a while, but never branching off.
- Her shoulder rammed into a pipe at the end, but she ignored it and sped down another passage, cutting herself in several places as she scraped past floating debris.
- Another short corridor brought them to a large common room, with several other narrow passages leading off from it.
- The house is old and creaky, stairs to half-floors leading from narrow rooms and confusing passages as if designed by M.C. Escher.
- Lily took a few cautious steps forward through the passage of bookcases and strained her ears again.
- We told her we were slaves that had been locked in the pantry passage for years and we were hungry.
- Through an access passage in the rear of the Main Dining Room there's a small room called the Tai Pan Room.
- Within the narrow passages candles were placed along the walls, dimly lighting up the blood red stone.
- As one walks through the different rooms, passages and interstices of the gallery, there is a tremendous but transient concatenation of sound.
- Excavations revealed a massive timber gate about halfway along the passage allowing access to be controlled.
- Among the signs he placed about the place was one insisting: ‘Accumulations must not be allowed in passages or cupboards.’
- She moved to a larger room and we suddenly had no way to access that office, for there were no secret passages leading to that room.
- I moved forward, and chose the central passage as it was largest, and walked slowly down it, casting my light from side to side.
Synonyms corridor, passageway, hall, hallway, entrance hall, entrance, walkway, aisle, gangway alley, alleyway, lane, path, pathway, way, footpath, track, trackway, road, thoroughfare - 2.1 A duct, vessel, or other channel in the body.
Example sentencesExamples - We all have a small passage leading from the middle ear to the back of the nose called the eustachian tube, which equalizes the air pressure between the middle ear and the outside world.
- These potent chemicals dilate blood vessels and constrict bronchial air passages.
- ‘In this form, the foetal passages, the foramen ovale, and the ductus arteriosus, remain open,’ he wrote.
- It works in the body specifically to reduce any allergic inflammation of the nasal passages, the bronchial airways and the throat.
- A psychiatrist ran out and saw that he wasn't breathing, and pulled his jaw forward to free up the air passage.
- They stretch the skin that makes up that passage in the process and sometimes they tear it badly.
- This is taken care of by the eustachian tube, a small passage that connects the middle ear to the back of the throat behind the nose.
- That is to say they contain a network of very small blood vessels or passages.
- The infection spreads from the nose or throat through the Eustachian tube, a passage between the throat and the middle ear.
- In the skeletally immature patient, the placement of physeal and epiphyseal drill holes and the passage of tendon grafts through them raises biologic issues.
- Also, in some persons histamine can close up the bronchial tubes (air passages of the lungs) and make breathing difficult.
- The pharynx is the garbage dump of the bronchial tubes and nasal passages.
- They work by opening up the bronchial tubes (air passages of the lungs) and increasing the flow of air through them.
- A filter of Water energy woven into the nasal passages allowed the channler to catch the scents that different forms of life gave off.
- Like clogged blood vessels, passages become restricted and are plagued by flaking.
- These foramina are the passages for the optic nerve (Cranial nerve II) and the eyestalk.
- When we swallow, the soft palate closes off the nasal passages from the throat to prevent food from entering the nose.
- The most posterior of these is the fenestra ovalis, while the anterior is the passage for cranial nerve VII.
- Oya Orisha predominates in the lungs, bronchial passages, and the mucous membranes.
- Asthma is due to an inflammatory process in the bronchial air passages of the lungs that causes narrowing of the airways and, if untreated, may result in gradual loss of lung function.
3The process of transition from one state to another. an allegory on the theme of the passage from ignorance to knowledge Example sentencesExamples - They probably represent dancing grounds on which were performed intricate dances representing the passage of the soul from life to death and back again.
- Historical thought redefines the present in terms of a reinterpreted and reconstructed past and thereby facilitates passage into the future.
- Rite of passage conveying status change for males, from young boys to responsible men.
- Rites of passage denote an individual's transition from one existence to another.
- The rate of temporal passage cannot be changed consciously by mortals, generally speaking.
- I can see the inexorable passage of time moving Baby to the inevitable Teenager II but whilst Baby is still at junior school I can make the most of an ally!
Synonyms transition, development, progress, progression, move, change, shift, conversion, metamorphosis - 3.1 The passing of a bill into law.
a catalyst for the unrest was the passage of a privatization law Example sentencesExamples - We introduced this Bill and we have continued to press for its passage despite continued resistance and obstruction by the Opposition.
- It has the support of a number of the key stakeholders, and I look forward to its rapid passage through the House.
- I look forward to its passage into law in the very near future.
- From the bill's passage to the second half of 1965, the Civil Rights Movement continued to press American society for changes.
- In an effort to push forward early passage of the Financial Res-tructuring Fund bill, the Ministry of Finance has asked banks to exert pressure on the legislature.
- Despite passage in the House, a similar bill faces a hard fight in the Senate.
- Unfortunately, despite passage of a federal election reform bill, another Florida remains a tragic risk for 2004.
- Kwok believes passage of the motion will send a strong message that society is concerned about the problem.
- This bill is a good step in the Government's commitment towards greater energy efficiency and a sustainable energy future, and I look forward to its passage through the House.
- I look forward to its rapid passage through the House and to the constructive debate that will ensue.
- The bill is very good, and I look forward to its passage through Parliament.
- Some civic organizations and academic circles asserted that the previous passage of the particular bills was null and void, as they were voted upon without the required quorum.
- So the parliamentary passage of the bill holds additional significance in that it may pave the way for the two allies of 50 years to mend their sour relations.
- Without further ado, I want to say that this is a good bill, and I look forward to its speedy passage.
- This is considered the final hurdle for the bill's passage, as approval is considered certain in the Senate.
- It is about getting the structure around early childhood education policy right, and I look forward to its speedy passage through the House.
- As I outlined, United Future supports the second reading of the bill and its passage to the Committee stage.
- We are writing to ask you to support the Children's Food Bill in its passage through Parliament.
- In that case, the bill's passage to a second reading is inevitable.
- We congratulate the Minister on taking the necessary steps to advance the development of this legislation, and we look forward to assisting its passage in whatever way we can.
Synonyms enactment, passing, ratification, acceptance, approval, adoption, authorization, sanction, validation, legalization, endorsement
4A short extract from a book or other printed material. he picked up the newspaper and read the passage again Example sentencesExamples - The conclusion of Quinn's passage results in complete transformation.
- The book is so dense and difficult that I find myself reading a short passage and rereading it (and sometimes going back over it again) to get a better idea of what he's saying.
- Mr Gallagher deals with the decision making process in the following passage in his Witness Statement: -
- The passages are different ones in German and English because everybody understands English well enough
- In fact all the major theological themes of this passage are developed further by Luke in his two volumes: these verses are indeed programmatic.
- Now, may I just take your Honours to some short passages in the first book to make good, as it were, what I am saying in an evidentiary sense.
- The most sobering part of the book is a short passage where Guttenplan elaborates this country's history of anti-Semitism.
- Look, there are lots of narrative shifts in this book with short passages, and this gives a sense of dislocation too, for the reader; one voice and then another.
- The didacticism of this passage demonstrates that the caprice of nature expresses the narrator's perspective and not the other way around.
- I'll read a short passage from my book Four Seasons in Five Senses, that talks about that connection we have with memory, the land and ultimately generation.
- On closer inspection, the Sixth Meditation passage does not put forward a naturalistic solution, but a theistic solution.
- One of the images offered by this passage is that of the writer inherently connected to a past that is imprinted in a particular time and place.
- That passage suggests a three-stage process, the outlining of the story, the summary of basic findings of fact and a statement as to why and how those findings of fact lead to the final decision.
- The only odd thing about this passage is that it is written in the past tense.
- May we choose to read a short passage at the end of the first paragraph on page 21.
- Mystics explain this cryptic passage as an amazingly prescient script not only for the past but for the future as well.
- Also, notice that the metaphoric language Benjamin employs in this passage invokes travel and, indeed, traversal.
- In this passage, sewing and conversation are allied and inseparable, part of the alternative methodology of speech Walker is explicating.
- Different passages require different degrees and kinds of interpretive infrastructure.
- Despite the eloquence of this passage, misunderstanding was not always averted.
Synonyms extract, excerpt, quotation, quote, citation, cite, reading, section, piece, selection, part, snippet, fragment, portion - 4.1 A section of a piece of music.
nothing obscures the outlines of an orchestral passage more than a drumroll on an unrelated note Example sentencesExamples - Several pieces have tricky rhythmic passages that will be fun for students to work out, as in ‘Linus and Lucy’ by Vince Guaraldi.
- For example, use the thumb to express tenor melodies or in passages requiring maximum power.
- The ‘music’ includes some passages of surging choruses and fierce chanting, half to my taste, if deformed from the original.
- Invent exercises from passages in your pieces, he would tell me.
- This is especially noticeable in full orchestral and choral passages.
- A few of the later selections present rapid octave passages and optional cadenzas that sound more difficult than they are.
- The piece concludes with a passage from the Georgian hymn Upalo Ghmerto - lovely but also undocumented - and clanging bells.
- On top of this was a sweet singing voice that caught the lilting melodies and highlighted the complicated passages of the music.
- The horn duet in the first movement is one of the most beautiful passages of music ever written by anybody and Steinberg imbues it with a tenderness that is almost poignant.
- The curtain fell as the orchestra played a transitional passage of music.
- They become a small Baroque ensemble for recitative passages.
- Here's a short drum passage and a time-reversed version of the same file, making the same point even more strikingly.
- Starting off with an elegant andante passage, Navas moved on to the crisp, unmannered race-car speed that he injects into his choreography so well.
- The second movement leads without pause to the finale by way of a very brief passage based on the opening theme to the entire concerto.
- The Così arias are stylish, and Mozart's showiest passages are delivered with clean agility and musicality.
- Breth's tips help students learn principles of effective practice and learn when to apply principles to various passages in the pieces they are playing.
- Students can slow down the tempo or loop a particular section of music to practice difficult passages.
- It involves calling on such resources as imagination, knowledge of style, and anticipation of what is likely to come next in a particular passage of music.
- Her favorites were the soulful climaxes of country-western ballads and the tutti passages of Mozart orchestral works.
- The B section is a virtual solo for secondo, with primo finishing the melodies with scale passages in octaves.
- 4.2 An episode in a longer activity such as a sporting event.
a neat passage of midfield play Example sentencesExamples - There followed a passage of play in the Otley half resulting in a missed penalty attempt, closely followed by a successful three points when the full-back was tackled late on a follow up.
- The next was a great try set up from a solid Ilkley scrum which set up a superb passage of back play in which Hinchliffe was twice involved.
- In an ensuing passage of play Rooney loses a boot.
- Not that the Blues are invincible, for there can also be passages of play that show them in a much less flattering light.
- During this period the Welsh put in some big passages of play, yet the Boks remained composed and unflappable and limited the Six Nations champions to just one try.
- As the game ebbed and flowed there was little to choose between the sides, but York extended their lead just before half time when a good passage of play involving backs and forwards brought a second try for the speedy Kama.
- The morning's weather was just as bad as the previous day, and constant heavy showers meant that a mere 22 deliveries were sent down in a further three passages of play before an early lunch.
- In the next passage of play Clarke made ground from his own half.
- Then along came one of the most peculiar passages of play you'll see all season.
- Most of the good work was destructive rather than creative, with the inevitable limitations of both sides in terms of fitness and conditioning preventing any prolonged passages of play.
- Heath enjoyed their best passage of play early in the second half.
- He responded with their best passage of play.
- It was just the tonic the visitors needed and soon afterwards the second row forward finished of a fine passage of play involving forwards and backs with the second try, this time converted by Cooke.
- Another slick passage of handling, featuring backs and forwards, culminated in Smith sliding over in the corner for No7.
- They did the spadework for the score in a good passage of support play, Wade arriving on cue to drive over and finish off the movement.
- Rangers' unease showed in an untidy passage of play which again incurred the wrath of the home support.
- The scoring system has also changed in recent years to speed up the game and increase the number of exciting passages of play.
- But once those two had fallen in the same over to Danish Kaneria's leg-spin, it kickstarted a dreadful passage of play for England.
- A soccer match turns on the outcome of half a dozen passages of play.
- After working hard all afternoon Keighley let the game slip from their grasp with two passages of poor defence.
5Medicine Biology
The process of propagating microorganisms or cells in a series of host organisms or culture media, so as to maintain them or modify their virulence. Example sentencesExamples - Both fungi were maintained by serial passages in Bacto-dextrose-agar medium.
- A humidifier can provide relief from the effects of dry winter air and soothe irritated nasal and respiratory passages.
- Cells of the eighth passages of culture were used.
- In some other cases, sequences were verified after a series of passages on a host.
- The Stem Cell Registry will eventually contain useful details about the derivation of the cells, the number of passages, culture conditions, and so forth.
- These cells were used after up to three months of in vitro culture, representing 10 to 15 culture passages.
- It was found that, while BA accelerates the passage of cells from G 1 to G 2, ABA delays cell cycle events so that most cells seem to remain in G 1.
- Serial passages were carried out in six-well tissue culture plates containing confluent cell monolayers covered by 4 ml of liquid media.
- Fourth, after some 30 passages, cells cultured at 33°C stopped proliferating, suggesting a senescent state.
- The cells in the two unstained wells of each specimen were processed for a second blind passage of culture on fresh McCoy cell monolayers.
- This is relevant in understanding the species barrier effect in which there is a reduction of incubation times with multiple passages in interspecies infection.
- For all experiments, cells were used between passages 9 and 15.
- The fifth passage of cells was used for the migration assay.
- These electrons will oscillate in unison with the incoming light wave and can affect or modify the passage of light through matter in several ways.
- Chemical mutagens or serial passages were employed earlier to decrease susceptibility to penicillin in BHS group A strains.
- All passage 2 cells became confluent within 7-10 days, at which point an ALI was established.
- Numerous mutations may be added in the passage of the tumor cells.
- In practice, batches are prepared by taking a small quantity of the vaccine pool (or a batch made from that pool), and amplifying it by a final passage in monkey kidney tissue culture.
- The fibroblasts were used between culture passages 3 and 6.
- TJ2 was cultured by serial passage for up to a few months before returning to the original frozen culture.
verbˈpæsɪdʒˈpasij [with object]Medicine Biology Subject (a strain of microorganisms or cells) to a passage. each recombinant virus was passaged nine times successively Example sentencesExamples - To test this we cloned 12 colonies from cells that had been passaged on agar plates for 8 days.
- In addition, influenza viruses are usually passaged in embryonated chicken eggs before isolation.
- All of the strains were passaged for >30 generations before genomic DNA was isolated; additional passages of 60 generations showed no differences in telomere lengths from those illustrated in Fig 4B (data not shown).
- Cells were passaged into six-well plates and incubated at either 33°C or 39°C. Cell number was assessed 2, 4, 6, and 8 days after subculture by hemacytometer.
- Once grown to confluency, the cells were passaged twice in the ratio of 1: 6 to obtain pure fibroblast cultures.
- All cells were passaged at subconfluence and maintained in a 5% CO2 environment.
- Cells were passaged twice weekly using a standard trypsinization / EDTA protocol.
- Cultures not showing CPE were passaged twice before being considered as negative for viral isolation, while monolayer tubes showing CPE were passaged once to confirm virus specific CPE and to concentrate the virus.
- These cells had been passaged through 14 passages and were grown to confluence in 35 mm culture dishes.
- Cells were passaged to 50% confluence 24 h before transfection.
- One day before experiments, cells were passaged 1: 4 into 35-mm circular dishes containing 22-mm circular coverslips.
- To test whether either mutant underwent delayed telomere elongation, the mutant strains were extensively passaged by serial colony streaking and telomere lengths were monitored periodically.
- Cells were passaged in DMEM with 10% FCS and antibiotics as above.
- The MA lines and the marker strain were passaged together for 69 passages and then checked for contamination.
- The strain was passaged in mice, subcultured in Middlebrook 7H9 broth (Fisher, Pittsburgh, PA), and used for aerosol infection when the optical density at 600 nm was 0.9.
- Cells were passaged 1: 20 and incubated at 33°C in 10% fetal bovine serum / Dulbecco's minimum essential medium.
- The virus was serially passaged nine times in 7 days old mice and purified from the intestinal homogenate of infected pups 7.
- Deletions of gene 1.3 were introduced into the preadapted virus, and the recombinant virus was then passaged to allow fitness recovery.
- The cells were passaged by trypsinization with 0.05% trypsin-EDTA and used for experiments at passages 3-6.
- Two days after transfection had been initiated, cells were passaged onto coverslips.
Phrases archaic A fight or dispute. Example sentencesExamples - What do we make of all this passage at arms in the trial, Mr Walker?
- Well, we say that's the end of the case, and that's what Mr Stitt conceded in the passage of arms between you…
- We had applied to lead fresh evidence and that then led to a passage at arms about the appeal strictu sensu, Duralla's Case and the like.
- Wherefore, though his hair be grizzled and his face marked with serried lines, he departed not the passage of arms for straight love of tourneying.
- Already 2-0 down in the series after consecutive top-order batting collapses, this passage of arms - after a difficult summer for both the players and the board - could not have come at a worse possible time.
- If your Honours would go to page 83, you will the see the passage - I am not saying it is a passage of arms; that is putting it too highly
Origin Middle English: from Old French, based on Latin passus ‘pace’. nounpaˈsäZHpæˈsɑʒ A movement performed in advanced dressage and classical riding, in which the horse executes a slow elevated trot, giving the impression of dancing.
Origin Early 18th century: from French, from an alteration of Italian passeggiare ‘to walk, pace’, based on Latin passus ‘pace’. |