Pass

[pɑːs] or [pæs]

Definition

(noun.) (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team; 'the pass was fumbled'.

(noun.) a flight or run by an aircraft over a target; 'the plane turned to make a second pass'.

(noun.) (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate; 'the coach sent in a passing play on third and long'.

(noun.) a complimentary ticket; 'the star got passes for his family'.

(noun.) a permit to enter or leave a military installation; 'he had to show his pass in order to get out'.

(noun.) a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions; 'the media representatives had special passes'.

(noun.) any authorization to pass or go somewhere; 'the pass to visit had a strict time limit'.

(noun.) one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer); 'it was not possible to complete the computation in a single pass'.

(noun.) a difficult juncture; 'a pretty pass'; 'matters came to a head yesterday'.

(noun.) the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks; 'we got through the pass before it started to snow'.

(noun.) a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs.

(noun.) (military) a written leave of absence; 'he had a pass for three days'.

(verb.) travel past; 'The sports car passed all the trucks'.

(verb.) go across or through; 'We passed the point where the police car had parked'; 'A terrible thought went through his mind'.

(verb.) cause to pass; 'She passed around the plates'.

(verb.) transfer to another; of rights or property; 'Our house passed under his official control'.

(verb.) place into the hands or custody of; 'hand me the spoon, please'; 'Turn the files over to me, please'; 'He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers'.

(verb.) throw (a ball) to another player; 'Smith passed'.

(verb.) go unchallenged; be approved; 'The bill cleared the House'.

(verb.) accept or judge as acceptable; 'The teacher passed the student although he was weak'.

(verb.) go successfully through a test or a selection process; 'She passed the new Jersey Bar Exam and can practice law now'.

(verb.) allow to go without comment or censure; 'the insult passed as if unnoticed'.

Edited by Kelsey--From WordNet

Definition

(v. i.) To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind or manner of motion; as, to pass on, by, out, in, etc.; to pass swiftly, directly, smoothly, etc.; to pass to the rear, under the yoke, over the bridge, across the field, beyond the border, etc.

(v. i.) To move or be transferred from one state or condition to another; to change possession, condition, or circumstances; to undergo transition; as, the business has passed into other hands.

(v. i.) To move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge; to pass away; hence, to disappear; to vanish; to depart; specifically, to depart from life; to die.

(v. i.) To move or to come into being or under notice; to come and go in consciousness; hence, to take place; to occur; to happen; to come; to occur progressively or in succession; to be present transitorily.

(v. i.) To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as, their vacation passed pleasantly.

(v. i.) To go from one person to another; hence, to be given and taken freely; as, clipped coin will not pass; to obtain general acceptance; to be held or regarded; to circulate; to be current; -- followed by for before a word denoting value or estimation.

(v. i.) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness; to be carried through a body that has power to sanction or reject; to receive legislative sanction; to be enacted; as, the resolution passed; the bill passed both houses of Congress.

(v. i.) To go through any inspection or test successfully; to be approved or accepted; as, he attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.

(v. i.) To be suffered to go on; to be tolerated; hence, to continue; to live along.

(v. i.) To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance or opposition; as, we let this act pass.

(v. i.) To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.

(v. i.) To take heed; to care.

(v. i.) To go through the intestines.

(v. i.) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance; as, an estate passes by a certain clause in a deed.

(v. i.) To make a lunge or pass; to thrust.

(v. i.) To decline to take an optional action when it is one's turn, as to decline to bid, or to bet, or to play a card; in euchre, to decline to make the trump.

(v. i.) In football, hockey, etc., to make a pass; to transfer the ball, etc., to another player of one's own side.

(v. t.) To go by, beyond, over, through, or the like; to proceed from one side to the other of; as, to pass a house, a stream, a boundary, etc.

(v. t.) To go from one limit to the other of; to spend; to live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.

(v. t.) To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.

(v. t.) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.

(v. t.) To go successfully through, as an examination, trail, test, etc.; to obtain the formal sanction of, as a legislative body; as, he passed his examination; the bill passed the senate.

(v. t.) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another; to transmit; to deliver; to hand; to make over; as, the waiter passed bisquit and cheese; the torch was passed from hand to hand.

(v. t.) To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce; hence, to promise; to pledge; as, to pass sentence.

(v. t.) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just; as, he passed the bill through the committee; the senate passed the law.

(v. t.) To put in circulation; to give currency to; as, to pass counterfeit money.

(v. t.) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance; as, to pass a person into a theater, or over a railroad.

(v. t.) To emit from the bowels; to evacuate.

(v. t.) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.

(v. t.) To make, as a thrust, punto, etc.

(v. i.) An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier; a passageway; a defile; a ford; as, a mountain pass.

(v. i.) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.

(v. i.) A movement of the hand over or along anything; the manipulation of a mesmerist.

(v. i.) A single passage of a bar, rail, sheet, etc., between the rolls.

(v. i.) State of things; condition; predicament.

(v. i.) Permission or license to pass, or to go and come; a psssport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission; as, a railroad or theater pass; a military pass.

(v. i.) Fig.: a thrust; a sally of wit.

(v. i.) Estimation; character.

(v. i.) A part; a division.

Checker: Mimi

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. n. [1]. Go, move, proceed, go on, make a transit.[2]. Elapse, be spent, pass away.[3]. Vanish, disappear, cease, fade, die, be lost.[4]. Occur, happen, take place.[5]. Circulate, be current, gain currency.[6]. Be enacted, be sanctioned by a majority of votes.[7]. Be deemed, be considered, be held, be regarded.[8]. Answer, do, do well enough.[9]. Go unheeded, go unregarded.[10]. Make a thrust, make a pass.

v. a. [1]. Allow to proceed, let go.[2]. Send, transmit, deliver, make over.[3]. Go over, go across.[4]. Undergo, experience, live through, make trial of.[5]. Spend (as time).[6]. Omit, neglect, disregard, take no notice of.[7]. Overstep, go beyond.[8]. Exceed, surpass, excel, transcend.[9]. Be enacted by, be passed by.[10]. Enact, ratify, sanction by a majority of votes.[11]. Utter, deliver, pronounce.[12]. Give currency to, put into circulation.

n. [1]. Passage, way, road, avenue.[2]. Defile, ravine, gorge, narrow passage.[3]. Passport, permission to pass.[4]. Conjuncture, state, condition.[5]. Thrust, push, allonge, lunge, tilt.

Editor: Terence

Definition

v.i. to pace or walk onward: to move from one place or state to another: to travel: to change: to circulate: to be regarded: to go by: to go unheeded or neglected: to elapse as time: to be finished: to move away: to disappear: (B.) to pass away: to go through an examination or an inspection: to be approved: to meet with acceptance: to happen: to fall as by inheritance: to flow through: to thrust as with a sword: to run as a road.—v.t. to go by over beyond through &c.: to spend: to omit: to disregard: to surpass: to enact or to be enacted by: to cause to move: to send: to transfer: to give forth: to cause to go from one person or state to another: to approve: to undergo successfully: to give circulation to: (fencing) to thrust:—pa.p. passed and past.—n. a way through which one passes: a narrow passage esp. over or through a range of mountains: a narrow defile: a passport: state or condition: a written permission to go out or in anywhere: a ticket: (fencing) a thrust: success in any examination or other test a certificate of having reached a certain standard—without honours.—adj. Pass′able that may be passed travelled over or navigated: that may bear inspection: that may be accepted or allowed to pass: a little above the common: tolerable.—n. Pass′ableness.—adv. Pass′ably.—ns. Pass′book a book that passes between a trader and his customer in which credit purchases are entered: a bank-book; Pass′-check a ticket of admission to a place or of readmission when one goes out intending to return; Pass′er one who passes; Pass′er-by one who passes by or near; Pass′key a key enabling one to enter a house: a key for opening several locks.—adj. Pass′less having no pass: impassable.—ns. Pass′man one who gains a degree or pass without honours at a university; Pass′port a warrant of protection and permission to travel; Pass′word (mil.) a private word by which a friend is distinguishable from a stranger enabling one to pass or enter a camp &c.—Pass muster to go through an inspection without fault being found; Pass off to impose fraudulently to palm off; Pass on to go forward: to proceed; Pass on or upon to come upon to happen to: to give judgment or sentence upon: to practise artfully to impose upon to palm off; Pass over or by to go to the other side of: to cross to go past without visiting or halting: to overlook to disregard; Pass the time of day to exchange any ordinary greeting of civility; Pass through to undergo experience.—Bring to pass to cause to happen; Come to pass to happen.

adj. past one's best faded past the heyday of life: nearly out of date:—fem. Passé–.

Typed by Evangeline

Unserious Contents or Definition

A form of transportation issued free to those who are quite able to pay.

Inputed by Jon

Examples

Edited by Clifford

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