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Pass

verb
(past & past part. passed; pres. part. passing)
1.
Go across or through.  Synonyms: go across, go through.  "A terrible thought went through his mind"
2.
Move past.  Synonyms: go by, go past, pass by, surpass, travel by.  "He passed his professor in the hall" , "One line of soldiers surpassed the other"
3.
Make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation.  Synonym: legislate.  "We cannot legislate how people spend their free time"
4.
Pass by.  Synonyms: elapse, glide by, go along, go by, lapse, slide by, slip away, slip by.
5.
Place into the hands or custody of.  Synonyms: give, hand, pass on, reach, turn over.  "Turn the files over to me, please" , "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers"
6.
Stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point.  Synonyms: extend, go, lead, run.  "His knowledge doesn't go very far" , "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life" , "The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets"
7.
Travel past.  Synonyms: overhaul, overtake.
8.
Come to pass.  Synonyms: come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass off, take place.  "The meeting took place off without an incidence" , "Nothing occurred that seemed important"
9.
Go unchallenged; be approved.  Synonym: clear.
10.
Pass time in a specific way.  Synonym: spend.
11.
Pass over, across, or through.  Synonyms: draw, guide, run.  "She ran her fingers along the carved figurine" , "He drew her hair through his fingers"
12.
Transmit information.  Synonyms: communicate, pass along, pass on, put across.  "Pass along the good news"
13.
Disappear gradually.  Synonyms: blow over, evanesce, fade, fleet, pass off.
14.
Go successfully through a test or a selection process.  Synonym: make it.  Antonym: fail.
15.
Be superior or better than some standard.  Synonyms: exceed, go past, overstep, top, transcend.  "She topped her performance of last year"
16.
Accept or judge as acceptable.  Antonym: fail.
17.
Allow to go without comment or censure.
18.
Transfer to another; of rights or property.
19.
Pass into a specified state or condition.  Synonyms: lapse, sink.
20.
Throw (a ball) to another player.
21.
Be inherited by.  Synonyms: devolve, fall, return.  "The land returned to the family" , "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead"
22.
Cause to pass.  Synonym: make pass.
23.
Grant authorization or clearance for.  Synonyms: authorise, authorize, clear.  "The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography"
24.
Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life.  Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it.  "The children perished in the fire" , "The patient went peacefully" , "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"  Antonym: be born.
25.
Eliminate from the body.  Synonyms: egest, eliminate, excrete.
noun
1.
(baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls.  Synonyms: base on balls, walk.
2.
(military) a written leave of absence.
3.
(American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate.  Synonyms: passing, passing game, passing play.
4.
The location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks.  Synonyms: mountain pass, notch.
5.
Any authorization to pass or go somewhere.  Synonym: passport.
6.
A document indicating permission to do something without restrictions.  Synonym: laissez passer.
7.
A flight or run by an aircraft over a target.
8.
A bad or difficult situation or state of affairs.  Synonyms: strait, straits.
9.
A difficult juncture.  Synonyms: head, straits.  "Matters came to a head yesterday"
10.
One complete cycle of operations (as by a computer).
11.
You advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent.  Synonym: bye.
12.
A permit to enter or leave a military installation.  Synonym: liberty chit.
13.
A complimentary ticket.
14.
A usually brief attempt.  Synonyms: crack, fling, go, offer, whirl.  "I gave it a whirl"
15.
(sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team.  Synonyms: flip, toss.
16.
Success in satisfying a test or requirement.  Synonyms: passing, qualifying.  "He got a pass in introductory chemistry"  Antonym: failing.
adjective
1.
Of advancing the ball by throwing it.  Synonym: passing.  "A pass play"  Antonym: running.



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"Pass" Quotes from Famous Books



... and tried all the way there to think of Bessie as she looked in the park, in the old faded gown with the disfiguring puffs; tried to make himself believe that she had no manner, no style, and would not pass for a great lady among people city bred; that she was better suited to some quiet home such as Grey Jerrold might give her, were he happy enough to win her. Neil had no doubt that Grey would try to win her when once he had seen her, and ...
— Bessie's Fortune - A Novel • Mary J. Holmes
... otherwise the man would hardly be disposed to give up the security of his own people for the perils of a strange community; on the other hand it is hardly likely that the man's tribe would allow him to pass over to the ranks of the strangers, nor would they view with equanimity the loss of effective fighting strength which would result from the fact that his children too would be numbered against them, not for them, if it came to hostilities. The custom is therefore clear evidence of fairly permanent ...
— Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia • Northcote W. Thomas
... the first month of life takes food every two hours, and even when asleep should not be allowed to pass more than three hours; and this frequent need of food continues until the age of two, sometimes even until three, months. Afterwards, and until six months old, the child does not need to be fed oftener than every three hours during the twelve waking hours, and every four ...
— The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases • Charles West, M.D.
... wrote her parents, "Sometimes I can hardly wait for the day to come. They have talked of building a new academy this summer, but I do not believe they will. My room is not fit to stay in and I have promised myself that I would not pass another winter in it. If I must forever teach, I will seek at least a comfortable house to do penance in. I have a pleasant school of twenty scholars, but I have to manufacture the interest duty compels ...
— Susan B. Anthony - Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian • Alma Lutz
... with the watch-dog and with the birch-trees, because they had let the children pass. But ...
— The Yellow Fairy Book • Various


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