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Passages
Passages is collaborative chamber music studio album co-composed by Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass, released in 1990 through Atlantic Records. The album's content is a hybrid of Hindustani classical music and Glass' distinct American minimal contemporary classical style. The album reached a peak position of number three on Billboard's Top World Music Albums chart.
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
passages
Cuts in the parapet of the covered way to continue the communication throughout.
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
passages
Are openings cut in the parapet of the covered way, close to the traverses, in order to continue the communication through all parts of the covered way. See Traverses.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of passages in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of passages in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of passages in a Sentence
Our border is long, and apart from the border crossings and passages, there are a large number of mountain passes, paths, ferry crossings and small roads, and the situation is very complicated.
The area where Leti was found is part of a spiderweb of cramped passages.
The steam helps open stuffed-up nasal passages, and the salty broth can soothe a sore throat.
When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it.
The reason why cold weather is presumed to cause spreading of coughs, colds and flu is that cold air causes irritation in the nasal passages and airways, which makes us more susceptible to viral infection.
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