Pass
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English
Noun
Pass (plural Passes)- 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.
- (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- A movement over or along anything; the manipulation of a mesmerist.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- (baseball) An intentional walk
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission; as, a railroad or theater pass; a military pass.
- (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit. (Shakespeare)
- A sexual advance.
- (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. (Antonym: a meet.)
- (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- (computing) (slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff
Verb
Pass (third-person singular simple present passes, present participle passing, simple past and past participle passed)
- (intransitive) To move or be moved from one place to another.
- (intransitive) To change from one state to another.
- (intransitive) To move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge.
- (intransitive) To come and go in consciousness.
- (intransitive) To happen.
- (intransitive) Of time, to elapse, to be spent.
- (intransitive) To go from one person to another.
- (intransitive) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness.
- (intransitive) To go through any inspection or test successfully.
- (intransitive) To be tolerated.
- (intransitive) To continue.
- (intransitive) To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- (intransitive, law) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- (intransitive, fencing) To make a lunge or swipe.
- (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
- (intransitive) In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- (transitive) To go by, over, through, or the like; to proceed from one side to the other of.
- (transitive) To go from one limit to the other of; to spend.
- (transitive) To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- (transitive) To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- (transitive) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- (transitive) To go successfully through, as an examination, trail, test, etc.
- (transitive) To obtain the formal sanction of, as a legislative body.
- (transitive) 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.
- (transitive) To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce.
- (transitive) Hence, to promise; to pledge.
- (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.
- (transitive) To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- (transitive) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- (intransitive) To go through the intestines. (John Arbuthnot)
- (transitive, medicine) To eliminate 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.
- (transitive, fencing) To make, as a thrust, punto, etc.
- (transitive, sports) To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- (transitive, soccer) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- (intransitive, law) To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
Adjectives for Pass
dolorous; desolate; silly; Inaccessible; mountain; ragged; permissive; stupendous; perpendicular; gleaming.
Adverbs for Pass
translucently; invariably; harmoniously; deliberately; meekly; obliquely; economically; wistfully; triumphantly; consciously; tediously; successively; victoriously; irresolutely; sedately; serenely; jauntily; leisurely; dolorously.
Thesaurus
authority, authorization, authorize, autograph, avail, avenue, back, bag of tricks, barter, be all over, be annihilated, be at sea, be blooded, be consumed, be destroyed, be done for, be equal to, be found, be gone, be innocent of, be lost, be met with, be no more, be past, be realized, be regarded as, be successful, be wiped out, bear, bearings, beat, become extinct, become void, befall, bequeath, bestow, bestride, bet, bet on, betide, bill of health, bind, bite the dust, black out, blind, blink at, blow over, bluff, breach, break, breakers ahead, broadcast, buck, bypass, call, canal, carry, carry over, case, cash in, cast, catapult, catch, catch on, catch up with, cause for alarm, cavity, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, cede, certify, change of pace, change-up, channel, chap, chasm, check, chicanery, chimney, circulate, circumstance, clearance, collapse, colonnade, come, come about, come across with, come along, come down, come off, come on, come through, come to naught, come to nothing, come to pass, come true, come up to, come up with, communicate, communication, commute, complication, complimentary ticket, condition, conduit, confer, confirm, conk out, connect, connection, consecrate to, consign, constitute, consume, contingency, continue, convergence of events, convey, corridor, cosign, crawl, creep, crevasse, crevice, crisis, critical juncture, critical point, croak, cross, crossroads, crucial period, cruise, crunch, crux, curve, curve-ball, cut, cwm, dabble, dale, danger, dangerous ground, dart, dash, deal, deal out, decease, declare, decline, decree, dedicate to, deed, deed over, defecate, defile, deliver, deliver over, dell, dematerialize, demise, depart, depart this life, deport, design, develop, device, devolve upon, devote, die, die away, die out, diffuse, dike, dingle, dirty deal, dirty trick, disappear, disburse, discharge, discontinue, discount, discount ticket, dismiss, dispel, dispense, disperse, dispose, disregard, disseminate, dissipate, dissolve, distance, distribute, ditch, do, do a fade-out, elapse, elevate, eliminate, embarrassing position, embarrassment, embrace, emergency, emit, employ, enact, enact laws, end, endorse, endure, exceed, exchange, excrete, exigency, exit, expel, expend, expire, export, express, extend, fade, fade away, fade out, fail, faint, fall, fall asleep, fall out, fare, fare forth, farewell, fast deal, fastball, fault, feint, ferry, fly, footing, ford, forget, forgo, fork, fork over, forsake, forswear, forward, forward pass, fracture, free admission, free pass, free ticket, get through, gill, gimmick, give, give in, give off, give out, give over, give over to, give permission, give the go-ahead, give the imprimatur, give thumbs up, give title to, give to, give up, give word, glen, glide, go, go across, go ahead, go along, go around, go as, go away, go beyond, go by, go fast, go forward, go great guns, go in for, go off, go on, go out, go over, go over big, go to town, go west, go-ahead, googly, gorge, graduate, green light, groove, grove, guest pass, gulch, gulf, gully, hack it, hand, hand down, hand forward, hand in, hand on, hand out, hand over, hap, happen, have it, have its time, have no idea, have run out, have the floor, hazard, hurl, hurtle, ignore, imbroglio, imitate, impart, imperilment, impersonate, interchange, intersection, junction, juncture, just do, keel over, kick the bucket, kick upstairs, lapse, last, lateral, lateral pass, launch, lay, lay a wager, lay down, leak, leave behind, leave no trace, leave standing, leave the scene, leave word, legislate, let fly, let go by, let pass, liberty, lie, lob, lobby through, location, masquerade as, measure out, meet, meet a bet, meet requirements, meet with success, motion, move, move along, move forward, move on, narrow, narrows, neck, negotiate, not know, not rightly know, not understand, notarize, omit, opening, ordain, outdo, outgo, outlet, outmatch, outpace, outrun, outshine, outstrip, overhaul, overlook, overpass, overreach, overrun, overshoot, overshoot the mark, overstep, parlay, parlous straits, part, pass along, pass around, pass as, pass away, pass by, pass for, pass muster, pass off, pass on, pass out, pass over, pass the buck, pass up, pass upon, passage, passageway, passport, permission, permit, peter out, pickle, pigeonhole, pinch, pitch, pitchfork, place, play, play against, pledge, plight, ploy, plunge, pocket, portico, portion out, pose as, position, posture,pretend to be, pretty pass, pretty pickle, pretty predicament, prevail, proceed, progress, promote, pronounce, proposal, proposition, prosper, protection, punt, push, push on, put, put in, put in force, put off mortality, put the shot, put through, quagmire, qualify, quicksand, quit this world, railroad through, railroad tunnel, raise, rank, ratify, ravine, reach, refuse, reject, relay, render, renounce, rent, repair, report, request, resign, resolution, retire from sight, return to dust, rift, rime, rise, risk, road, rocks ahead, roll, roll logs, roll on, route, rub, rubber stamp, run, run its course, run on, run out, rupture, ruse, safe-conduct, safeguard, sanction, sashay, satisfy, say amen to, scheme, send, send word, serve, serve the purpose, service, set forth, settle, settle on, sexual advance, share, share with, shift, shoot, shoot ahead of, shot-put, shy, sign, sign and seal, sign away, sign over, signal, sink, sink away, sinker, situation, skip, sleight, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand trick, slide, slider, slight, sling, slip, slip away, slip by, succeed, succumb, suffer an eclipse, suffice, suggestion, support, surmount, surpass, surrender, swamp, swear and affirm, swear to, sweep, swing, switch, swoon, table, take, take it, take place, take the floor, take up, tell, terminate, thin ice, threat, throat, throw, thrust, tight spot, tight squeeze, tightrope, tilt, tolerate, top, toss, toy with, trade, transcend, transfer, transfer property, transfuse, transit, transmit, travel, trough, try, tunnel, turn, underpass, undersign, undertake, validate, valley, vanish, vanish from sight, veto, visa, vise, void, wadi, wager, waive, warrant, waste,
