pass
IPA: pˈæs
noun
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- An attempt.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
- A sexual advance.
- (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- (baseball) An intentional walk.
- (sports) The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- (obsolete) Estimation; character.
- (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
- (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- A surname.
- (education) Initialism of positive alternative to school suspension.
verb
- To change place.
- (intransitive) To move or be moved from one place to another.
- (transitive) To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
- (ditransitive) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- (intransitive, transitive, medicine) To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- (transitive, nautical) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- (sports) To make various kinds of movement.
- (transitive, soccer) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- (transitive) To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- (intransitive, fencing) To make a lunge or swipe.
- (intransitive, American football) To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- (intransitive) To go from one person to another.
- (transitive) To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- (transitive) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- (transitive, cooking) To put through a sieve.
- To change in state or status
- (intransitive) To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- (intransitive) To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- (intransitive) To die.
- (intransitive, transitive) To achieve a successful outcome from.
- (intransitive, transitive) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- (intransitive, law) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- (transitive) 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.
- (intransitive, law) To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- (transitive) To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- (intransitive) To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- To move through time.
- (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to be spent.
- (transitive, of time) To spend.
- (transitive) To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- (intransitive) To continue.
- (intransitive) To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- (transitive) To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- (intransitive) To happen.
- To be accepted.
- (intransitive, stative) To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- (intransitive, stative, sociology) To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
- To refrain from doing something.
- (intransitive) To decline something that is offered or available.
- (transitive) To reject; to pass up.
- (intransitive) To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- (intransitive) In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- (intransitive, card games) In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- To do or be better.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.
- (transitive) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed, to have an interest, to care.
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Examples of "pass" in Sentences
- The bridle passes through a hole.
- The lines pass through the centre of the village.
- The first steamboat to pass through was the Uncas.
- Fuel passes through the arm into the carburetor body.
- Therefore, it passes through the zenith and the nadir.
- The grasping forceps are passed through the snare loop.
- The axis passes through the equator at the prime meridian.
- The fee is passed along to the retailer and to the consumer.
- Along the waterfront north of the alley passes the quay Kanslikajen.
- The eggs infiltrate through the tissues and are passed in the feces.
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