pass

verb

1. (intransitive)To change place.

   “They passed from room to room.”

2. (transitive)To change place.

   “You will pass a house on your right.”

   “We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.”

   “The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.”

3. (ditransitive)To change place.

   “The waiter passed biscuits and cheese.”

   “John passed Suzie a note.”

   “The torch was passed from hand to hand.”

   “I had only time to pass my eye over the medals.”

   “Waller […] passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge.”

4. (intransitive, transitive)To change place.

   “He was passing blood in both his urine and his stool.”

   “The poison had been passed by the time of the autopsy.”

5. (transitive)To change place.
6. (transitive)To change place.

   “20 June 2010, The Guardian, Rob Smyth Iaquinta passes it coolly into the right-hand corner as Paston dives the other way.”

7. (transitive)To change place.

   “Brady passed the ball to nine different receivers and handed it off to seven.”

8. (intransitive)To change place.
9. (intransitive)To change place.

   “The Patriots passed on third and long.”

10. (intransitive)To change place.
11. (transitive)To change place.

    “pass counterfeit money”

12. (transitive)To change place.

    “pass a person into a theater or over a railroad”

13. (transitive)To change place.

    “When it's finished cooking, you should pass the sauce to get rid of any lumps.”

14. (intransitive)To change in state or status

    “He passed from youth into old age.”

15. (intransitive)To change in state or status

    “At first, she was worried, but that feeling soon passed.”

    “Beauty's a charm, but soon the charm will pass.”

    “The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.”

    “The crisis passed as she'd prayed it would, but it remained to be seen just how much damage had been done.”

16. (euphemistic, intransitive)To change in state or status

    “His grandmother passed yesterday.”

17. (intransitive, transitive)To change in state or status

    “He attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.”

    “Of the Ancient Wonders, only the pyramids have passed the test of time.”

18. (intransitive, transitive)To change in state or status

    “Despite the efforts of the opposition, the bill passed.”

    “The bill passed both houses of Congress.”

    “The bill passed the Senate, but did not pass in the House.”

    “But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.”

19. (intransitive)To change in state or status

    “The estate passes by the third clause in Mr Smith's deed to his son.”

    “When the old king passed away with only a daughter as an heir, the throne passed to a woman for the first time in centuries.”

20. (transitive)To change in state or status

    “He passed the bill through the committee.”

    “Pass the happy news.”

21. (intransitive)To change in state or status

    “And within three dayes twelve knyghtes passed uppon hem; and they founde Sir Palomydes gylty, and Sir Saphir nat gylty, of the lordis deth.”

22. (transitive)To change in state or status

    “I may almost depend on your own justice, and leave it to yourself to pass sentence on your own conduct”

    “Father, thy word is passed.”

23. (intransitive)To change in state or status

    “And rising out of the fourth stage of deep meditation he entered into the state of mind to which the infinity of space is alone present. And passing out of the mere consciousness of the infinity of space he entered into the state of mind to which the infinity of though is along present.”

    “Rather, he argues that 'within the zero-stage, all special affections have passed over into a general undifferentiated affection; all special consciousnesses have passed over into the one, general, persistently available background-consciousness of our past, the consciousness of the completely unarticulated, completely indistinct horizon of the past, which brings to a close the living, moving retentional past.'”

    “What we call 'our' minds are events beginning with birth and ending with death, each again broken up into other events or mental states, into and out of which we are perpetually passing.”

24. (intransitive)To move through time.

    “Their vacation passed pleasantly.”

25. (transitive)To move through time.

    “What will we do to pass the time?”

    “To pass commodiously this life.”

    “Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.”

    “For, although Allan had passed his fiftieth year,[…], one had continued to think of him as a man of whipcord and iron, a natural source of untiring energy, a mechanism that would not wear out.”

26. (transitive)To move through time.

    “Please you that I may pass / This doing.”

    “I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array.”

27. (intransitive)To move through time.
28. (intransitive)To move through time.

    “You're late, but I'll let it pass.”

29. (transitive)To move through time.

    “Please you that I may pass / This doing.”

30. (intransitive)To move through time.

    “It will soon come to pass.”

    “[…] for the memory of what passed while at that place is almost blank.”

31. (intransitive, stative)To be accepted.

    “It isn't ideal, but it will pass.”

32. (intransitive, stative)To be accepted.

    “Chinese sometimes pass for Europeans, but Japs more often approach Western types.”

    “[…] a situation where I had to know whether I could pass as a woman, and not tell anyone, and not be asked what I was doing dressed as a woman.”

    “Like Olivia's aunts (described above), many Americans passed as white to resist the racially restrictive one-drop rule and the racial status quo of the Jim Crow era (Daniel 2002; Williamson 1980).”

33. (intransitive)To refrain from doing something.

    “He asked me to go to the cinema with him, but I think I'll pass.”

34. (transitive)To refrain from doing something.

    “Instead, the board voted to suspend the dividend, giving Orton his way at last. They passed the dividend again in June 1870 […]”

35. (intransitive)To refrain from doing something.

    “I haven't any idea of the answer, so I'll have to pass.”

36. (intransitive)To refrain from doing something.
37. (intransitive)To refrain from doing something.
38. (intransitive, obsolete)To do or be better.

    “This passes, Master Ford.”

39. (transitive)To do or be better.

    “And striue to passe[…]Their natiue musicke by her skilfull art:”

    “Whose tender power Passes the strength of storms in their most desolate hour.”

40. (intransitive, obsolete)To take heed, to have an interest, to care.

    “Mena[phon]. How now my Lord, what mated and amazd’ To heare the king thus threaten like himſelfe? Coſ[roe]. Ah Menaphon, I paſſe not for his threates, […]”

    “As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not.”

noun

1. 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.

   “mountain pass”

   “"Try not the Pass!" the old man said; / "Dark lowers the tempest overhead, / The roaring torrent is deep and wide!" / And loud that clarion voice replied / Excelsior!”

   “Followed two more weeks of marching,—rougher marching this time,—through the core of the lofty mountains that divide India from Central Asia; across the terrible Depsang Plains, seventeen thousand feet up; and over four passes choked with snow; till they came upon a deserted fort, set in the midst of stark space, and knew that here, indeed, was the limit of human habitation. Next day the work of exploration had begun in earnest.”

2. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.

   “the passes of the Mississippi”

3. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.

   “[The bear] made a pass at the dog, but he swung out and above him […]”

4. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
5. An attempt.

   “My first pass at a career of writing proved unsuccessful.”

6. An attempt.

   “The man kicked his friend out of the house after he made a pass at his wife.”

7. Success in an examination or similar test.

   “I gained three passes at A-level, in mathematics, French, and English literature.”

8. A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
9. (figuratively)A thrust; a sally of wit.
10. The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.

    “Everyone in the football stadium expected a pass play on third down.”

11. 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.
12. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.

    “A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy.”

13. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission

    “a railroad pass; a theater pass; a military pass”

14. An intentional walk.

    “Smith was given a pass after Jones' double.”

15. The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.

    “Albon made hard work of the result. Starting fourth, he dropped back to seventh at the second start and had to fight his way back up, which he did with some excellent passes.”

16. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.

    “England is growne to ſuch a paſſe of late, That rich men triumph to ſee the poore beg at their gate.”

    “What, have his daughters brought him to this pass?”

    “Matters have been brought to this pass, that, if one among a man's sons had any blemish, he laid him aside for the ministry...”

    “"What with Robert strolling out with publicans' daughters, and you having affairs with bicycle-shop keepers, the family is coming to a pretty pass."”

17. (obsolete)Estimation; character.

    “This passes, Master Ford.”

18. The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.

    “The finished dishes are placed on the pass ready to be collected by the waiter.”

19. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".

    “A pass would have seen her win the game, but instead she gave a wrong answer and lost a point, putting her in second place.”

20. A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.

    “Most Pascal compilers process source code in a single pass.”

21. (slang)A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

    “Anyone want to trade passes?”

    “If you don't have your password set within a week I'll remove you from the userlist and I'll add you again next time I see you in the chan and make sure you set a pass.”

22. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of positive alternative to school suspension.
23. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of penile artery shunt syndrome.
24. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of personal alert safety system.
25. (initialism, mnemonic)Used to remember how to use a fire extinguisher: pull the pin, aim at the base (of the fire), squeeze the handle/trigger, sweep from side to side.

name

1. A surname.