To extend; run: The river passes through our land.
To move by: The band passed and the crowd cheered.
To move past another vehicle: The sports car passed on the right.
To be transferred from one to another; circulate: The wine passed around the table.
Sports To transfer a ball or puck to a teammate.
To be allowed to happen without notice or challenge: Let their rude remarks pass.
Sports & Games To decline one's turn to bid, draw, bet, compete, or play.
To decline an offer: When we offered him dessert, he passed.
To serve as a barely acceptable substitute: The spare tire was nearly bald but would pass until we bought a new one.
To be accepted as a member of a group by denying one's own ancestry or background.
To pronounce an opinion, judgment, or sentence.
To sit in adjudication.
To gain passage despite obstacles: pass through difficult years.
To move past in time; elapse: The days passed quickly.
To be transferred from one to another; circulate: The wine passed around the table.
Sports To transfer a ball or puck to a teammate.
To be allowed to happen without notice or challenge: Let their rude remarks pass.
Sports & Games To decline one's turn to bid, draw, bet, compete, or play.
To decline an offer: When we offered him dessert, he passed.
To serve as a barely acceptable substitute: The spare tire was nearly bald but would pass until we bought a new one.
To be accepted as a member of a group by denying one's own ancestry or background.
To pronounce an opinion, judgment, or sentence.
To sit in adjudication.
To be communicated or exchanged between persons: Loud words passed in the corridor.
To be transferred or conveyed to another by will or deed: The title passed to the older heir.
To undergo transition from one condition, form, quality, or characteristic to another: Daylight passed into darkness.
To come to an end: My anger suddenly passed. The headache finally passed.
To cease to exist; die. Often used with on:The patient passed on during the night.
To happen; take place: What passed during the day?
To be allowed to happen without notice or challenge: Let their rude remarks pass.
Sports & Games To decline one's turn to bid, draw, bet, compete, or play.
To decline an offer: When we offered him dessert, he passed.
To serve as a barely acceptable substitute: The spare tire was nearly bald but would pass until we bought a new one.
To be accepted as a member of a group by denying one's own ancestry or background.
To pronounce an opinion, judgment, or sentence.
To sit in adjudication.
To undergo an examination or a trial with favorable results.
To serve as a barely acceptable substitute: The spare tire was nearly bald but would pass until we bought a new one.
To be accepted as a member of a group by denying one's own ancestry or background.
To pronounce an opinion, judgment, or sentence.
To sit in adjudication.
To be approved or adopted: The motion to adjourn passed.
Law
To pronounce an opinion, judgment, or sentence.
To sit in adjudication.
To be voided: Luckily the kidney stone passed before she had to be hospitalized.
Sports To thrust or lunge in fencing.
v.
tr.
To go by without stopping; leave behind.
To go by without paying attention to; disregard or ignore: If you pass the new photographs in the collection, you'll miss some outstanding ones.
To fail to pay (a dividend).
To undergo (a trial or examination) with favorable results: She passed every test.
To cause or allow to go through a trial, test, or examination successfully: The instructor passed all the candidates.
To cause to move: We passed our hands over the fabric.
To cause to move into a certain position: pass a ribbon around a package.
To cause to move as part of a process: pass liquid through a filter.
To cause to go by: The sergeant passed his troops before the general and halted them at the grandstand.
Baseball To walk (a batter).
To maneuver (the bull) by means of a pase in bullfighting.
To cause to be transferred from one to another; circulate: They passed the news quickly.
To hand over to someone else: Please pass the bread.
Sports To transfer (a ball, for example) to a teammate, as by throwing.
To cause to be accepted; circulate fraudulently: pass counterfeit money.
Law To transfer title or ownership of.
To approve; adopt: The legislature passed the bill.
To be sanctioned, ratified, or approved by: The bill passed the House of Representatives.
To go beyond; surpass: The inheritance passed my wildest dreams.
To go across; go through: We passed the border into Mexico.
To undergo (a trial or examination) with favorable results: She passed every test.
To cause or allow to go through a trial, test, or examination successfully: The instructor passed all the candidates.
To cause to move: We passed our hands over the fabric.
To cause to move into a certain position: pass a ribbon around a package.
To cause to move as part of a process: pass liquid through a filter.
To cause to go by: The sergeant passed his troops before the general and halted them at the grandstand.
Baseball To walk (a batter).
To maneuver (the bull) by means of a pase in bullfighting.
To cause to be transferred from one to another; circulate: They passed the news quickly.
To hand over to someone else: Please pass the bread.
Sports To transfer (a ball, for example) to a teammate, as by throwing.
To cause to be accepted; circulate fraudulently: pass counterfeit money.
Law To transfer title or ownership of.
To approve; adopt: The legislature passed the bill.
To be sanctioned, ratified, or approved by: The bill passed the House of Representatives.
To cause to move: We passed our hands over the fabric.
To cause to move into a certain position: pass a ribbon around a package.
To cause to move as part of a process: pass liquid through a filter.
To cause to go by: The sergeant passed his troops before the general and halted them at the grandstand.
Baseball To walk (a batter).
To maneuver (the bull) by means of a pase in bullfighting.
To cause to be transferred from one to another; circulate: They passed the news quickly.
To hand over to someone else: Please pass the bread.
Sports To transfer (a ball, for example) to a teammate, as by throwing.
To cause to be accepted; circulate fraudulently: pass counterfeit money.
Law To transfer title or ownership of.
To approve; adopt: The legislature passed the bill.
To be sanctioned, ratified, or approved by: The bill passed the House of Representatives.
To allow to go by or elapse; spend: He passed his winter in Vermont.
To allow to cross a barrier: The border guard passed the tourists.
To cause to be transferred from one to another; circulate: They passed the news quickly.
To hand over to someone else: Please pass the bread.
Sports To transfer (a ball, for example) to a teammate, as by throwing.
To cause to be accepted; circulate fraudulently: pass counterfeit money.
Law To transfer title or ownership of.
To approve; adopt: The legislature passed the bill.
To be sanctioned, ratified, or approved by: The bill passed the House of Representatives.
To discharge (body waste, for example); void.
To approve; adopt: The legislature passed the bill.
To be sanctioned, ratified, or approved by: The bill passed the House of Representatives.
To pronounce; utter: pass judgment; pass sentence on an offender.
n.
The act of passing; passage.
A way, such as a narrow gap between mountains, that affords passage around, over, or through a barrier. See Synonyms at way.
A permit, ticket, or authorization to come and go at will.
A free ticket entitling one to transportation or admisssion.
Written leave of absence from military duty.
A sweep or run, as by an aircraft, over or toward an area or target.
A single complete cycle of operations, as by a machine or computer program.
Sports A transfer of a ball or puck between teammates.
Sports A lunge or thrust in fencing.
Baseball A base on balls.
A sweep or run, as by an aircraft, over or toward an area or target.
A single complete cycle of operations, as by a machine or computer program.
Sports A transfer of a ball or puck between teammates.
Sports A lunge or thrust in fencing.
Baseball A base on balls.
A condition or situation, often critical in nature; a predicament. See Synonyms at crisis.
A sexual invitation or overture.
A motion of the hand or the waving of a wand.
Sports A transfer of a ball or puck between teammates.
Sports A lunge or thrust in fencing.
Baseball A base on balls.
Sports & Games A refusal to bid, draw, bet, compete, or play.
Games A winning throw of the dice in craps.
A pase in bullfighting.
To pass out of existence; end.
To die.
To offer, sell, or put into circulation (an imitation) as genuine: pass off glass as a gemstone.
To present (one's self) as other than what one is: tried to pass himself off as a banker.
Phrasal Verb(s): pass away
To pass out of existence; end.
To die.
pass for
To be accepted as or believed to be: You could pass for a teenager. The fake painting passed for an original. pass off
To offer, sell, or put into circulation (an imitation) as genuine: pass off glass as a gemstone.
To present (one's self) as other than what one is: tried to pass himself off as a banker.
pass out
To lose consciousness.
pass over
To leave out; disregard.
pass up Informal
To let go by; reject: pass up a chance for promotion; an opportunity too good to pass up.
Idiom(s):
bring to pass
To cause to happen.
Idiom(s):
come to pass
To occur.
Idiom(s):
pass muster
To pass an examination or inspection; measure up to a given standard.
Idiom(s):
pass (one's) lips
To be eaten or drunk.
To issue or be spoken: Rumors never passed her lips.
Idiom(s):
pass the hat
To take up a collection of money.
Idiom(s):
pass the time of day
To exchange greetings or engage in pleasantries.
Idiom(s):
pass the torch
To relinquish (responsibilities, for example) to another or others.
[Middle English passen, from Old French passer, from Vulgar Latin passāre, from Latin passus, step; see pace1.]
pass'er n.
Usage Note: The past tense and past participle of pass is passed: They passed (or have passed) our home. Time had passed slowly.Past is the corresponding adjective (in centuries past), adverb (drove past), preposition (past midnight), and noun (lived in the past).
Moving by; going past: The child waved to the passing cars.
Of brief duration; transitory: a passing fancy.
Cursory or superficial; casual: a passing glance.
Allowing one to pass a test, course of study, inspection, or examination; satisfactory: a passing grade.
Archaic Very or great; surpassing: "'Tis a passing shame"(Shakespeare).
adv.
Very; surpassingly: "I will mention only one particular aspect of the current mess because ... this one is surely something new and passing strange"(Walker Percy).
n.
The act of one that passes or the fact of having passed: the passing of another summer.
lasting a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but it is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms" [syn: ephemeral]
2.
of advancing the ball by throwing it; "a team with a good passing attack"; "a pass play" [ant: running]
3.
allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily; "a passing grade"
4.
hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy" [syn: casual]
adverb
1.
to an extreme degree; "extremely cold"; "extremely unpleasant" [syn: extremely]
noun
1.
(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" [syn: pass]
2.
euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing"
3.
the motion of one object relative to another; "stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets"
4.
the end of something; "the passing of winter"
5.
a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another; "the passage of air from the lungs"; "the passing of flatus" [syn: passage]
6.
going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it; "she drove but well but her reckless passing of every car on the road frightened me"
7.
success in satisfying a test or requirement; "his future depended on his passing that test"; "he got a pass in introductory chemistry" [ant: failing]
Pass\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Passed; p. pr. & vb. n. Passing.] [F. passer, LL. passare, fr. L. passus step, or from pandere, passum, to spread out, lay open. See Pace.]1. 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. "But now pass over [i. e., pass on]." --Chaucer. On high behests his angels to and fro Passed frequent. --Milton. Sweet sounds rose slowly through their mouths, And from their bodies passed. --Coleridge. 2. 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. Others, dissatisfied with what they have, . . . pass from just to unjust. --Sir W. Temple. 3. 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. Disturb him not, let him pass paceably. --Shak. Beauty is a charm, but soon the charm will pass. --Dryden. The passing of the sweetest soul That ever looked with human eyes. --Tennyson. 4. 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. So death passed upon all men. --Rom. v. 12. Our own consciousness of what passes within our own mind. --I. Watts. 5. To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as, their vacation passed pleasantly. Now the time is far passed. --Mark vi. 35 6. 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. "Let him pass for a man." --Shak. False eloquence passeth only where true is not understood. --Felton. This will not pass for a fault in him. --Atterbury. 7. 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. 8. To go through any inspection or test successfully; to be approved or accepted; as, he attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass. 9. To be suffered to go on; to be tolerated; hence, to continue; to live along. "The play may pass." --Shak. 10. To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance or opposition; as, we let this act pass. 11. To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess. [Obs.] "This passes, Master Ford." --Shak. 12. To take heed; to care. [Obs.] As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not. --Shak. 13. To go through the intestines. --Arbuthnot. 14. (Law) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance; as, an estate passes by a certain clause in a deed. --Mozley & W. 15. (Fencing) To make a lunge or pass; to thrust. 16. (Card Playing & other games) 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. She would not play, yet must not pass. --Prior. 17. In football, hockey, etc., to make a pass; to transfer the ball, etc., to another player of one's own side. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] To bring to pass, To come to pass. See under Bring, and Come. To pass away, to disappear; to die; to vanish. "The heavens shall pass away." --2 Pet. iii. 10. "I thought to pass away before, but yet alive I am." --Tennyson. To pass by, to go near and beyond a certain person or place; as, he passed by as we stood there. To pass into, to change by a gradual transmission; to blend or unite with. To pass on, to proceed. To pass on or upon. (a) To happen to; to come upon; to affect. "So death passed upon all men." --Rom. v. 12. "Provided no indirect act pass upon our prayers to define them." --Jer. Taylor. (b) To determine concerning; to give judgment or sentence upon. "We may not pass upon his life." --Shak. To pass off, to go away; to cease; to disappear; as, an agitation passes off. To pass over, to go from one side or end to the other; to cross, as a river, road, or bridge.
Pass"ing\, n. The act of one who, or that which, passes; the act of going by or away. Passing bell, a tolling of a bell to announce that a soul is passing, or has passed, from its body (formerly done to invoke prayers for the dying); also, a tolling during the passing of a funeral procession to the grave, or during funeral ceremonies. --Sir W. Scott. --Longfellow.
Pass"ing\, a. 1. Relating to the act of passing or going; going by, beyond, through, or away; departing. 2. Exceeding; surpassing, eminent. --Chaucer. "Her passing deformity." --Shak. Passing note (Mus.), a character including a passing tone. Passing tone (Mus.), a tone introduced between two other tones, on an unaccented portion of a measure, for the sake of smoother melody, but forming no essential part of the harmony.
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