passes

Meanings

Noun

• (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
• (military) a written leave of absence
• (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
• the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks
• any authorization to pass or go somewhere
• 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
• a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
• a difficult juncture
• one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer)
• you advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent
• a permit to enter or leave a military installation
• 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
• success in satisfying a test or requirement
• plural of pass

Verb

• go across or through
• move past
• make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation
• 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
• come to pass
• go unchallenged; be approved
• pass time in a specific way
• pass over, across, or through
• transmit information
• disappear gradually
• go successfully through a test or a selection process
• be superior or better than some standard
• accept or judge as acceptable
• allow to go without comment or censure
• transfer to another; of rights or property
• pass into a specified state or condition
• throw (a ball) to another player
• be inherited by
• cause to pass
• grant authorization or clearance for
• pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
• eliminate from the body
• third-person singular simple present indicative of pass

Synonyms

authorise, authorize, base on balls, blow over, buy the farm, bye, cash in one's chips, choke, clear, come about, communicate, conk, crack, croak, decease, devolve, die, draw, drop dead, egest, elapse, eliminate, evanesce, exceed, excrete, exit, expire, extend, fade, fall, fall out, fleet, fling, flip, give, give-up the ghost, glide by, go, go across, go along, go by, go on, go past, go through, guide, hand, hap, happen, head, kick the bucket, laissez passer, lapse, lead, legislate, liberty chit, make it, make pass, mountain pass, notch, occur, offer, overhaul, overstep, overtake, pass, pass along, pass away, pass by, pass off, pass on, passing, passing game, passing play, passport, perish, pop off, put across, qualifying, reach, return, run, sink, slide by, slip away, slip by, snuff it, spend, strait, straits, surpass, take place, top, toss, transcend, travel by, turn over, walk, whirl

Antonyms

be born, fail, failing