Pass Definition
pass
See also Pass
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /pɑːs/
- (US) IPA: /pæs/
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- Rhymes: -ɑːs
Etymology 1
From Middle English pas, pase, pace, from passen (“to pass”). See the verb section, below.
Noun
pass (plural passes)
- 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.
- a mountain pass
- (Can we date this quote?) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
- "Try not the pass!" the old man said.
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- 1921, John Griffin, "Trailing the Grizzly in Oregon", in Forest and Stream, pages 389-391 and 421-424, republished by Jeanette Prodgers in 1997 in The Only Good Bear is a Dead Bear, page 35:
- [The bear] made a pass at the dog, but he swung out and above him [...]
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
- A sexual advance.
- The man kicked his friend out of the house after he made a pass at his wife.
- (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- (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 it.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- (Can we date this quote?) James Kent:
- A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy.
- 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.
- (baseball) An intentional walk.
- Smith was given a pass after Jones' double.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- (Can we date this quote?) Shakespeare:
- What, have his daughters brought him to this pass?
- (Can we date this quote?) Robert South:
- 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...
- (obsolete) Estimation; character.
- (Can we date this quote?) Shakespeare:
- Common speech gives him a worthy pass.
- (obsolete, Chaucer, compare 'passus') A part, a division.
- The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
Synonyms
- (opening, road, or track, available for passing): gap
- (fencing: thrust or push): thrust
- (figurative: a thrust; a sally of wit):
- (movement over or along anything):
- (movement of a tool over something, or something other a tool): transit
- (the state of things): condition, predicament, state
- (permission or license to pass, or to go and come): access, admission, entry
- (document granting permission to pass or to go and come):
- (obsolete: estimation; character):
- (obsolete: a part, a division):
Antonyms
Derived terms
Terms derived from pass (noun)
Translations
opening, road, or track, available for passing
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- Japanese: 小道 (ja) (こみち, komichi), 細道 (ja) (ほそみち, hosomichi), 山道 (ja) (さんどう, sandō)
- Slovene: prehod, prelaz (sl) m.
- Swedish: passage (sv)
- Turkish: geçit (tr), boğaz (tr), dar yol (tr)
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fencing: thrust or push
- Japanese: 突き (ja) (つき, tsuki)
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movement of a tool over something, or something over a tool
the state of things
- Japanese: 事態 (ja) (じたい, jitai), 段階 (ja) (だんかい, dankai)
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- Turkish: durum (tr), vaziyet (tr)
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permission or license to pass, or to go and come
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- Slovene: prepustnica (sl)
- Turkish: geçiş izni (tr), giriş-çıkış izni (tr)
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document granting permission to pass or to go and come
- Arabic: جَوَاز (ar) m.
- French: laissez-passer (fr), sauf-conduit (fr) m.
- Japanese: 通行証 (ja) (つうこうしょう, tsūkō-shō); 許可証 (ja) (きょかしょう, kyoka-shō)
- Polish: przepustka (pl) f.
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Translations to be checked
- Arabic: تَمرير (ar)
- Turkish: el çabukluğu (tr)
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Etymology 2
From Middle English passen, from Old French passer (“to step, walk, pass”), from Vulgar Latin *passāre (“step, walk, pass”), from Latin passus (“a step”), pandere (“to spread, unfold, stretch”), from Proto-Indo-European *patno-, from Proto-Indo-European *pete- (“to spread, stretch out”). Cognate with Old English fæþm (“armful, fathom”). More at fathom.
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.
- They passed from room to room.
- (transitive) To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
- You will pass a house on your right.
- (intransitive) To change from one state to another.
- He passed from youth into old age.
- (intransitive) (of time) To elapse, to be spent.
- Their vacation passed pleasantly.
- (transitive) (of time) To spend.
- what will we do to pass the time?
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton:
- To pass commodiously this life.
- (intransitive) To happen.
- It will soon come to pass.
- 1876, The Dilemma, Chapter LIII, republished in Littell's Living Age, series 5, volume 14, page 274:
- [...] for the memory of what passed while at that place is almost blank.
- (intransitive) To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- At first, she was worried, but that feeling soon passed.
- 1995, Penny Richards, The Greatest Gift of All:
- The crisis passed as she'd prayed it would, but it remained to be seen just how much damage had been done.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Dryden:
- Beauty is a charm, but soon the charm will pass.
- (intransitive) (often with "on" or "away") To die.
- His grandmother passed yesterday.
- His grandmother passed away yesterday.
- His grandmother passed on yesterday.
- (intransitive, transitive) To go successfully through (an examination, trail, test, etc).
- He passed his examination.
- He attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.
- (intransitive, transitive) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- 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.
- (intransitive) To be be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- It isn't ideal, but it will pass.
- (intransitive, law) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- 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.
- (transitive, sports) To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- (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.
- (intransitive, obsolete): To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.
- (Can we date this quote?) Shakespeare:
- This passes, Master Ford.
- (transitive) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- (Can we date this quote?) Edmund Spenser:
- And strive to pass . . . Their native music by her skillful art.
- (Can we date this quote?) Byron:
- Whose tender power Passes the strength of storms in their most desolate hour.
- (intransitive, obsolete): To take heed.
- (Can we date this quote?) Shakespeare:
- As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not.
- (transitive) To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- (Can we date this quote?) Shakespeare:
- Please you that I may pass / This doing.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Dryden:
- I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array.
- (intransitive) To come and go in consciousness.
- (intransitive) To go from one person to another.
- (intransitive) To continue.
- (intransitive) To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- (transitive) To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- (Can we date this quote?) Shakespeare:
- She loved me for the dangers I had passed.
- (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.
- The waiter passed biscuit and cheese.
- The torch was passed from hand to hand.
- I had only time to pass my eye over the medals. - Joseph Addison
- Waller passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge. - Edward Hyde Clarendon
- (transitive) To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce.
- (transitive) Hence, to promise; to pledge.
- to pass sentence - Shakespeare
- Father, thy word is passed. - Milton
- (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.
- He passed the bill through the committee.
- (transitive) To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- pass counterfeit money
- Pass the happy news. - Alfred Tennyson
- (transitive) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- pass a person into a theater or over a railroad
- (intransitive, transitive, medicine) To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- He was passing blood in both his urine and his stool.
- The poison had been passed by the time of the autopsy.
- (transitive, nautical) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- (transitive, soccer) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- Iaquinta passes it coolly into the right-hand corner as Paston dives the other way. - The Guardian, Rob Smyth, 20 June 2010
- (intransitive, law) To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book X:
- And within three dayes twelve knyghtes passed uppon hem; and they founde Sir Palomydes gylty, and Sir Saphir nat gylty, of the lordis deth.
- (LGBT) To be regarded as a member of a specific sex.
Synonyms
- (go by, over, etc): pass by, pass over, etc.
- (go from one limit to the other of): spend
- (live through): bear, endure, suffer, tolerate, undergo
- (go by without noticing): disregard, ignore, take no notice of
- (transcend): better, exceed, excel, outdo, surpass, transcend
- (go successfully through):
- (obtain the formal sanction of): be accepted by, be passed by
- (cause to move or go): deliver, give, hand, make over, send, transfer, transmit
- (utter): pronounce, say, speak, utter
- (promise): pledge, promise, vow
- (cause to advance by stages of process): approve, enact, ratify
- (put into circulation): circulate, pass around
- (cause to obtain entrance): admit, let in, let past
- (medical: emit from the bowels): evacuate, void
- (nautical: take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure)
- (fencing: make, as a thrust, punto): make
- (move or be moved from one place to another): go, move
- (change from one state to another):
- (move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge):
- (die): pass away, pass over
- (come and go in consciousness):
- (happen): happen, occur
- (elapse): elapse, go by
- (go from one person to another):
- (advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness):
- (go through any inspection or test successfully):
- (to be tolerated):
- (to continue): continue, go on
- (proceed without hindrance or opposition):
- (obsolete: go beyond bounds): exceed, surpass
- (obsolete: take heed): take heed, take notice
- (go through the intestines):
- (be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance):
- (fencing: to make a lunge or pass): thrust
- (decline to play in one's turn):
- (in euchre, decline to make the trump):
Derived terms
terms derived from pass (verb)
Translations
move or be moved from one place to another
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- Spanish: pasar (es)
- Swahili: kupita
- Swedish: pasera (sv)
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change from one state to another
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- Slovene: preiti
- Spanish: pasar (es)
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move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge
die
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- Kurdish: مردن, عمری خوا
- Portuguese: falecer (pt)
- Russian: (formal) скончаться (ru) (skončát’sja) pf.
- Slovene: umreti, preminiti
- Spanish: fallecer (es)
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come and go in consciousness
happen
elapse
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- German: vergehen (de)
- Japanese: 過ぎる (ja) (すぎる, sugiru), 経つ (ja) (たつ, tatsu)
- Lithuanian: slinkti
- Russian: проходить (ru) (proxodít’) impf., пройти (ru) (projtí) pf., миновать (ru) (minovát’) impf., минуть (ru) (mínut’) pf., истекать (ru) (istekát’) impf., истечь (ru) (istéč’) pf.
- Slovene: miniti
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go from one person to another
advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness
- Arabic: اجتازَ (ar)
- Finnish: läpäistä, mennä läpi
- Japanese: 通る (ja) (とおる, tōru), 通過する (ja) (つうかする, tsūka suru), 承認する (ja) (しょうにんする, shōnin suru), 可決する (ja) (かけつする, kaketsu suru), 批准する (ja) (ひじゅんする, hijyun suru)
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go through any inspection or test successfully
to be tolerated
to continue
proceed without hindrance or opposition
obsolete: go beyond bounds
obsolete: take heed
go through the intestines
law: to be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance
- Japanese: 譲渡する (ja) (じょうとする, jōto suru)
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fencing: to make a lunge or pass
decline to play in one's turn
in euchre, decline to make the trump
go by, over, etc
- Arabic: مر (ar) (márra)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 過 (zh), 过 (zh) (guò)
- Dutch: voorbijgaan (nl)
- Finnish: kulkea (fi)
- French: passer (fr)
- German: vorbeigehen (de)
- Hungarian: elmenni (hu)
- Italian: passare (it)
- Japanese: 通る (ja) (とおる, tōru), 過ぎる (ja) (すぎる, sugiru), 通過する (ja) (つうかする, tsūka suru)
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go from one limit to the other of
live through
go by without noticing
transcend
go successfully through
- Arabic: اجتازَ (ar)
- Dutch: Slagen (nl)
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obtain the formal sanction of
cause to move or go
utter
promise
cause to advance by stages of process
- Japanese: 通る (ja) (とおる, tōru), 通過する (ja) (つうかする, tsūka suru), 承認する (ja) (しょうにんする, shōnin suru), 可決する (ja) (かけつする, kaketsu suru), 批准する (ja) (ひじゅんする, hijyun suru)
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put into circulation
cause to obtain entrance
medical: emit from the bowels
take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure
fencing: make, as a thrust, punto
- Japanese: 突く (ja) (つく, tsuku)
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sports: to move the ball or puck to a teammate
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- Japanese: パスする (ja) (ぱすする, pasu suru)
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Translations to be checked
- Dutch: aanreiken (8)
- Esperanto: pasigi
- Swahili: kupitisha
- Slovene: iti mimo
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Etymology 3
Short for password.
Noun
pass (plural passes)
- (computing) (slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- Anyone want to trade passes?
Statistics
External links
- pass in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- pass in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- pass at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
Faroese
Pronunciation
Noun
pass n.
- passport
Declension
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pass |
passið |
pass |
passini |
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pass |
passið |
pass |
passini |
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passi |
passinum |
passum |
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pass |
passins |
passa |
passanna |
German
Verb
pass
- Imperative singular of passen.
Pronunciation
Noun
pass
- step
- mountain pass
Swedish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
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From German, originally from Italian passo.
Noun
pass n.
- passport (document granting permission to pass)
- place which you (must) pass or is passing; pass (between mountains)
- pace; a kind of gait
- place where a hunter hunts; place where a policeman patrols
- spell (a period of duty)
- leave notice (document granting permission to leave) (from prison)
Declension
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pass
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pass |
passet |
pass |
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pass |
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Derived terms
terms derived from pass (document)
terms derived from pass
- bergpass
- bergspass
- passera
- passgång
- passlöp
- passtakt
- passtaktig
- stilpass
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terms derived from pass (gait)
terms derived from pass (hunting place)
terms derived from pass (spell)
- arbetspass
- eftermiddagspass
- förmiddagspass
- kvällspass
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Synonyms
- leave notice: permissionssedel, permissionspass
Etymology 2
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Noun
pass c.
- (ball sports) pass; a transfer of the ball from one player to another in the same team
Declension
Declension of
pass
Derived terms
terms derived from pass
Synonyms
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