Definition: pass
Source: WordNet (r) 1.7
pass
adj : (football) of advancing the ball by throwing it; "a team
with a good passing attack"; "a pass play" [syn: passing,
pass] [ant: running]
n 1: (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives
four balls; "he worked the pitcher for a base on balls"
[syn: base on balls, walk]
2: (military) a written leave of absence; "he had a pass for
three days"
3: a football play that involves one player throwing the ball
to a teammate; "the coach sent in a passing play on third
and long" [syn: passing play, passing game, passing]
4: the location in a range of mountains of a geological
formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks; "we
got through the pass before it started to snow" [syn: mountain
pass, notch]
5: any authorization to pass or go somewhere; "the pass to
visit had a strict time limit" [syn: passport]
6: a document indicating permission to do something without
restrictions; "the media representatives had special
passes" [syn: laissez passer]
7: a flight or run by an aircraft over a target; "the plane
turned to make a second pass"
8: a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs [syn: strait,
straits]
9: a difficult juncture; "a pretty pass"; "matters came to a
head yesterday" [syn: head, straits]
10: one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer); "it was
not possible to complete the computation in a single
pass"
11: you advance to the next round in a tournament without
playing an opponent; "he had a bye in the first round"
[syn: bye]
12: a permit to enter or leave a military installation; "he had
to show his pass in order to get out" [syn: liberty chit]
13: a complementary (free) ticket; "the start got passes for his
family"
14: a usually brief attempt; "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it
a whirl" [syn: crack, fling, go, whirl, offer]
15: (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of
your team; "the pass was fumbled" [syn: toss, flip]
16: success in satisfying a test or requirement; "his future
depended on his passing that test"; "he got a pass in
introductory chemistry" [syn: passing, qualifying]
[ant: failing]
v 1: go across or through; "We passed the point where the police
car had parked"; "A terrible thought went through his
mind" [syn: go through, go across]
2: pass by; "A black limousine passed by when she looked out
the window"; "He passed his professor in the hall"; "One
line of soldiers surpassed the other" [syn: travel by, pass
by, surpass, go past, go by]
3: make laws, bills, etc.: "They passed the amendment" [syn: legislate]
4: pass by, as of time [syn: elapse, lapse, slip by, glide
by, slip away, go by, slide by, go along]
5: place into the hands or custody of; "Turn the files over to
me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers"
[syn: hand, reach, pass on, turn over, give]
6: stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or
extend between two points or beyond a certain point;
"Service runs all the way to Cranbury"; "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" [syn: run, go, lead, extend]
7: travel past, as of a vehicle; "The sports car passed all the
trucks" " [syn: overtake, overhaul]
8: come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place
off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed
important" [syn: happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur,
come about, take place]
9: go unchallenged; be approved; "The bill cleared the House"
[syn: clear]
10: pass in a specific way; as of time; "How are you spending
your summer vacation?" [syn: spend]
11: guide or pass over something; "He ran his eyes over her
body"; "She ran her fingers along the carved figurine";
"He drew her hair through his fingers" [syn: guide, run,
draw]
12: transmit information ; "Please communicate this message to
all employees" [syn: communicate, pass on, put
across]
13: disappear gradually; as of emotions, for example; "The pain
eventually passed off" [syn: evanesce, fade, blow
over, pass off, fleet]
14: go successfully through a test or a selection process: "She
passed the new Jersey Bar Exam and can practice law now"
[syn: make it] [ant: fail]
15: go beyond; "She exceeded out expectations"; "She topped her
performance of last year" [syn: exceed, transcend, overstep,
go past, top]
16: accept or judge as acceptable; "The teacher passed the
student although he was weak" [ant: fail]
17: allow to go without comment or censure: "the insult passed
as if unnoticed"
18: transfer to another; of rights or property; "Our house
passed under his official control"
19: pass into a specified state or condition: "He sank into
Nirvana" [syn: sink, lapse]
20: be identified, regarded, accepted, or mistaken for someone
or something else; as by denying one's own ancestry or
background; "He could pass as his twin brother"; "She
passed as a White woman even though her grandfather was
Black"
21: throw (a ball) to another player; "Smith passed"
22: be inherited by; "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land
returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir
that everybody had assumed to be dead" [syn: fall, return,
devolve]
23: cause to pass: "She passed around the plates" [syn: make
pass]
24: grant authorization or clearance for; "Clear the manuscript
for publication" [syn: authorize, authorise, clear]
25: pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes
and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from
cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The
patient went peacefully" [syn: die, decease, perish,
go, exit, pass away, expire] [ant: be born]
26: eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone" [syn: excrete,
egest, eliminate]
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Pass \Pass\, n. In football, hockey, etc., a transfer of the ball, etc., to another player of one's side, usually at some distance.
Pass \Pass\, v. i. In football, hockey, etc., to make pass; to transfer the ball, etc., to another player of one's own side.
Pass \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 \Pass\, v. t.
1. In simple, transitive senses; as:
(a) To go by, beyond, over, through, or the like; to
proceed from one side to the other of; as, to pass a
house, a stream, a boundary, etc.
(b) Hence: To go from one limit to the other of; to spend;
to live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to
suffer. ``To pass commodiously this life.'' --Milton.
She loved me for the dangers I had passed.
--Shak.
(c) To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to
take no note of; to disregard.
Please you that I may pass This doing. --Shak.
I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array.
--Dryden.
(d) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
And strive to pass . . . Their native music by
her skillful art. --Spenser.
Whose tender power Passes the strength of storms
in their most desolate hour. --Byron.
(e) To go successfully through, as an examination, trail,
test, etc.; to obtain the formal sanction of, as a
legislative body; as, he passed his examination; the
bill passed the senate.
2. In causative senses: as:
(a) 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; as, the waiter
passed bisquit and cheese; the torch was passed from
hand to hand.
I had only time to pass my eye over the medals.
--Addison.
Waller passed over five thousand horse and foot
by Newbridge. --Clarendon.
(b) To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce;
hence, to promise; to pledge; as, to pass sentence.
--Shak.
Father, thy word is passed. --Milton.
(c) 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; as, he passed the bill through the
committee; the senate passed the law.
(e) To put in circulation; to give currency to; as, to
pass counterfeit money. ``Pass the happy news.''
--Tennyson.
(f) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance;
as, to pass a person into a theater, or over a
railroad.
3. To emit from the bowels; to evacuate.
4. (Naut.) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as
around a sail in furling, and make secure.
5. (Fencing) To make, as a thrust, punto, etc. --Shak.
Passed midshipman. See under Midshipman.
To pass a dividend, to omit the declaration and payment of
a dividend at the time when due.
To pass away, to spend; to waste. ``Lest she pass away the
flower of her age.'' --Ecclus. xlii. 9.
Pass \Pass\, n. [Cf. F. pas (for sense 1), and passe, fr. passer
to pass. See Pass, v. i.]
1. 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; as, a mountain pass.
``Try not the pass!'' the old man said.
--Longfellow.
2. (Fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike
an adversary. --Shak.
3. A movement of the hand over or along anything; the
manipulation of a mesmerist.
4. (Rolling Metals) A single passage of a bar, rail, sheet,
etc., between the rolls.
5. State of things; condition; predicament.
Have his daughters brought him to this pass. --Shak.
Matters have been brought to this pass. --South.
6. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come; a
psssport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission;
as, a railroad or theater pass; a military pass.
A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy.
--Kent.
7. Fig.: a thrust; a sally of wit. --Shak.
8. Estimation; character. [Obs.]
Common speech gives him a worthy pass. --Shak.
9. [Cf. Passus.] A part; a division. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Pass boat (Naut.), a punt, or similar boat.
Pass book.
(a) A book in which a trader enters articles bought on
credit, and then passes or sends it to the purchaser.
(b) See Bank book.
Pass box (Mil.), a wooden or metallic box, used to carry
cartridges from the service magazine to the piece.
Pass check, a ticket of admission to a place of
entertainment, or of readmission for one who goes away in
expectation of returning.
