pass

Meanings

Plural: pass, passed, passes

Noun

• (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
• (military) a written leave of absence
  • "he had a pass for three days"
• (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"
• 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"
• any authorization to pass or go somewhere
  • "the pass to visit had a strict time limit"
• a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions
  • "the media representatives had special passes"
• a flight or run by an aircraft over a target
  • "the plane turned to make a second pass"
• a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
• a difficult juncture
  • "a pretty pass"
• one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer)
  • "it was not possible to complete the computation in a single pass"
• you advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent
• a permit to enter or leave a military installation
  • "he had to show his pass in order to get out"
• a complimentary ticket
  • "the star got passes for his family"
• a usually brief attempt
• (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
  • "the pass was fumbled"
• success in satisfying a test or requirement
  • "his future depended on his passing that test"
  • "he got a pass in introductory chemistry"
• (ballet) a step in dancing (especially in classical ballet)
• 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 channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
• A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
• A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
• An attempt.
• An attempt.
• A sexual advance (often in the phrase make a pass).
• Success in an examination or similar test.
• A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
• A thrust; a sally of wit.
• The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
• 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.
• A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
• An intentional walk.
• The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
• The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
• Estimation; character.
• The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
• An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
• A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
• A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

Verb

• go across or through
  • "We passed the point where the police car had parked"
• move past
  • "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"
• make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation
  • "They passed the amendment"
• pass by
• place into the hands or custody of
• stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
• travel past
  • "The sports car passed all the trucks"
• come to pass
• go unchallenged; be approved
• pass time in a specific way
• pass over, across, or through
• transmit information
  • "pass along the good news"
• disappear gradually
  • "The pain eventually passed off"
• go successfully through a test or a selection process
  • "She passed the new Jersey Bar Exam and can practice law now"
• be superior or better than some standard
• accept or judge as acceptable
  • "The teacher passed the student although he was weak"
• allow to go without comment or censure
  • "the insult passed as if unnoticed"
• transfer to another; of rights or property
  • "Our house passed under his official control"
• pass into a specified state or condition
• throw (a ball) to another player
  • "Smith passed"
• be inherited by
• cause to pass
  • "She passed around the plates"
• grant authorization or clearance for
• pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
• eliminate from the body
  • "Pass a kidney stone"
• To change place.
• To move or be moved from one place to another.
• To change place.
• To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
• To change place.
• To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
• To change place.
• To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
• To change place.
• To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
• To change place.
• To make various kinds of movement.
• To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
• To change place.
• To make various kinds of movement.
• To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
• To change place.
• To make various kinds of movement.
• To make a lunge or swipe.
• To change place.
• To make various kinds of movement.
• To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
• To change place.
• To go from one person to another.
• To change place.
• To put in circulation; to give currency to.
• To change place.
• To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
• To change place.
• To put through a sieve.
• To change in state or status
• To progress from one state to another; to advance.
• To change in state or status
• To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
• To change in state or status
• To die.
• To change in state or status
• To achieve a successful outcome from.
• To change in state or status
• To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
• To change in state or status
• To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
• To change in state or status
• 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.
• To change in state or status
• To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
• To change in state or status
• To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
• To change in state or status
• To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
• To move through time.
• To elapse, to be spent.
• To move through time.
• To spend.
• To move through time.
• To allow to go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
• To move through time.
• To continue.
• To move through time.
• To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
• To move through time.
• To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
• To move through time.
• To happen.
• To be accepted.
• To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
• To be accepted.
• To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
• To refrain from doing something.
• To decline something that is offered or available.
• To refrain from doing something.
• To reject; to pass up.
• To refrain from doing something.
• To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
• To refrain from doing something.
• In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
• To refrain from doing something.
• In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
• To do or be better.
• To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.
• To do or be better.
• To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
• To take heed, to have an interest, to care.

Adjective

• of advancing the ball by throwing it
  • "a team with a good passing attack"
  • "a pass play"

Synonyms

abear, abide, aby, accept, access, admission, admit, allow, approve, assume room temperature, attend, auger in, authorise, authorize, base on balls, be accepted by, be called home, be gathered to one's fathers, be no more, be with Jesus, be with the Lord, bear, bear away the bell, bechance, befall, belimp, best, betide, betime, better, bide, bite the big one, bite the biscuit, bite the dust, blow over, brook, brush off, buy it, buy the farm, bye, cark it, cash in, cash in one's chips, chance, check out, choke, circulate, clear, clock, close one's eyes for the last time, code, come about, come to pass, come-on, communicate, condition, conk, conk out, consider, continue, crack, croak, crop up, cross over, cross rainbow bridge, cross the Great Divide, cross the Styx, decease, decompose, deliver, dematerialize, depart, devolve, die, disincarnate, disregard, dissemble, draw, draw one's last breath, dree, drop dead, drop off the hooks, dwarf, eclipse, egest, elapse, eliminate, enact, endure, entry, evacuate, evanesce, evene, eventuate, exceed, excel, excrete, exit, expire, extend, fade, fall, fall out, flatline, fleet, fling, flip, forbear, forfare, gap, get to be like the one, give, give heed, give one's all, give up the ghost, give-up the ghost, glide by, go, go across, go along, go along with, go by, go for a burton, go gentle into that good night, go on, go out, go over to the majority, go past, go the way of all flesh, go the way of the dinosaurs, go the way of the dodo, go the way of the dodo bird, go through, go to glory, go to one's reward, go west, guide, hand, hand in one's checks, hand in one's dinner pail, hap, happen, head, heed, hold, hold the cards, hop the twig, ignore, join the choir invisible, keel over, kick off, kick the bucket, knock off, laissez passer, lapse, lead, legislate, let in, let in on, let past, liberty chit, liquidate, live with, lose my life for Jesus Christ, lose the number of one's mess, make it, make over, make pass, mark, meet one's doom, meet one's end, meet one's maker, mind, misheed, misregard, mountain pass, move, neglect, notch, notice, occur, offer, outclass, outdo, outmatch, outperform, outrival, outrun, outshadow, outshine, outstrip, outvie, overhaul, overmatch, overshadow, overstep, overtake, pas, pass, pass along, pass around, pass away, pass by, pass in one's checks, pass in one's marble, pass off, pass on, pass over, pass the river, passing, passing game, passing play, passport, pay attention, pay heed, pay nature's debt, pay no heed, pay the debt of nature, peg out, perish, pick up what someone is putting down, pocket, pop off, pop one's clogs, pouch, predicament, prevail, privy, pronounce, proposition, put across, put aside, put to shame, put up with, qualifying, ratify, reach, regard, return, roll on, run, run away with, say, send, shrug off, shuffle off this mortal coil, sink, sleep with one's fathers, slide by, slip away, slip by, slough, snuff it, speak, spend, stand, state, stick, stomach, strait, straits, succumb, suffer, surpass, swallow, take, take a dirt nap, take heed, take no notice of, take note, take notice, take place, take sitting down, thole, thrust, tide, tolerate, top, toss, transcend, transfer, transit, transmit, transpire, travel by, trump, tune out, turn over, turn up one's toes, undergang, undergo, unheed, unmind, upstage, utter, void, walk, whirl, yield up the ghost

Antonyms

be born, fail, failing, meet, running

Related Words

in the closet, pass-agg, pass-dice

Anagrams of pass