Passage is a masculine inanimate noun. Underneath it might be a shopping mall, a horse riding figure, a musical transition, or his Majesty's occasion.
Shopping arcade
In the second half of the 19th century, a new type of commercial building became popular, where shops with glazed ceilings are located in tiers on the sides of the wide gallery-passage. The first building in the style of a passage was the Victor Emmanuel Gallery in Milan. In Russia, the most famous Passage In St. Petersburg. He pioneered this kind of architecture in the country. Today, the outstanding Russian representatives of the passages are the Upper Trading Rows and the Popov Passage in Moscow, the Trade Gallery in Sochi and the Aleksandrovsky Passage in Kazan.
Horseback riding
In the higher riding school, the passage is characterized as the main element of horse training. Outwardly, the passage is a rhythmic, collected and very short trot. Each diagonal pair of legs is characterized by a well-defined rhythm and suspension. Despite the active impulsiveness characteristic of the passage, the horse's movements do not lose in the least elegance. Interestingly, the horse's head is lowered almost perpendicular to the ground, which gives the horse a somewhat playful, playful character.
Musical transition
Since the 16th century, the passage has been the main element of the demonstration of the musician's virtuoso art. Literal French translation passage - passage, transition. Actually, in music it is. A fast sequence of sounds is called a passage. The main difficulty in reproducing it lies in the intense pace of transition from one register to another. This musical figure is used mainly for connecting and changing various themes of the composition. In the hands of a real musician, the passage gives the listeners incomparable pleasure.
Happening
The greatest bewilderment is caused by the appearance of the word "passage" in a line of a work of art. For example: "here such a passage happened to N's daughter …". The authors mean by a passage an unexpected, often unpleasant or curious incident.
Other meanings
Literary critics designate the term "passage" as an independent passage from the text of an article, speech or book. According to this interpretation, you can choose some of the funniest passages from the works of Mikhail Zadornov.
A passage can also mean someone's lengthy, emotional speech or an unexpected statement. As they say, "wrap up the passage" can be about the economy, children, bitter fate.
In biology, a standardized and more than once repeated procedure performed with the aim of obtaining new strains of bacteria or studying its properties is also called passage. The procedure consists of reseeding a certain bacterial culture on a new culture medium. So, with the help of an additional 188 passages, a new viral strain is obtained.
