What is pass?

More definitions of "pass":

• (noun): A complementary (free) ticket.
  Example: "The start got passes for his family"

• (noun): A difficult juncture.
  Example: "A pretty pass"
  Synonyms: head, straits

• (verb): Pass into a specified state or condition.
  Synonyms: sink, lapse

• (noun): A flight or run by an aircraft over a target.
  Example: "The plane turned to make a second pass"

• (verb): Grant authorization or clearance for.
  Synonyms: authorize, authorise, clear

• (verb): Throw (a ball) to another player.
  Example: "Smith passed"

• (noun): (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team.
  Example: "The pass was fumbled"
  Synonyms: toss, flip

• (noun): (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate.
  Synonyms: passing play, passing game, passing

• (noun): The location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks.
  Example: "We got through the pass before it started to snow"
  Synonyms: mountain pass, notch

• (verb): Allow to go without comment or censure.
  Example: "The insult passed as if unnoticed"

• (verb): Eliminate from the body.
  Example: "Pass a kidney stone"
  Synonyms: excrete, egest, eliminate

• (noun): (military) a written leave of absence.
  Example: "He had a pass for three days"

• (verb): Pass by.
  Synonyms: elapse, lapse, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go along

• (verb): Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life.
  Synonyms: die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire

• (verb): Guide or pass over something.
  Synonyms: guide, run, draw

• (verb): Be identified, regarded, accepted, or mistaken for someone or something else; as by denying one's own ancestry or background.
  Example: "He could pass as his twin brother"; "She passed as a White woman even though her grandfather was Black"

• (verb): Go across or through.
  Synonyms: go through, go across

• (noun): A usually brief attempt.
  Synonyms: crack, fling, go, whirl, offer

• (verb): Pass by.
  Synonyms: travel by, pass by, surpass, go past, go by

• (verb): Go beyond.
  Synonyms: exceed, transcend, overstep, go past, top

• (verb): Transfer to another; of rights or property.
  Example: "Our house passed under his official control"

• (verb): Be inherited by.
  Synonyms: fall, return, devolve

• (noun): A bad or difficult situation or state of affairs.
  Synonyms: strait, straits

• (noun): A permit to enter or leave a military installation.
  Example: "He had to show his pass in order to get out"
  Synonyms: liberty chit

• (noun): A document indicating permission to do something without restrictions.
  Synonyms: laissez passer

• (verb): Transmit information.
  Synonyms: communicate, pass on, put across

• (verb): Go unchallenged; be approved.
  Synonyms: clear

• (noun): (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls.
  Synonyms: base on balls, walk

• (verb): Accept or judge as acceptable.
  Example: "The teacher passed the student although he was weak"

• (noun): Success in satisfying a test or requirement.
  Example: "He got a pass in introductory chemistry"
  Synonyms: passing, qualifying

• (noun): One complete cycle of operations (as by a computer).
  Example: "It was not possible to complete the computation in a single pass"

• (adj): Of advancing the ball by throwing it.
  Example: "A pass play"
  Synonyms: passing

• (verb): Travel past.
  Synonyms: overtake, overhaul

• (verb): Place into the hands or custody of.
  Synonyms: hand, reach, pass on, turn over, give

• (verb): Stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point.
  Synonyms: run, go, lead, extend

• (verb): Make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation.
  Synonyms: legislate

• (verb): Go successfully through a test or a selection process.
  Synonyms: make it

• (noun): You advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent.
  Synonyms: bye

• (verb): Disappear gradually.
  Synonyms: evanesce, fade, blow over, pass off, fleet

• (verb): Come to pass.
  Synonyms: happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, fall out, come about, take place

• (noun): Any authorization to pass or go somewhere.
  Example: "The pass to visit had a strict time limit"
  Synonyms: passport

• (verb): Cause to pass.
  Synonyms: make pass

Famous quotes containing the word pass:

“There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)

“To doubt the end were want of trust in God,
Who, if he has decreed
That we must pass a redder sea
Than that which rang to Miriam’s holy glee,
Will surely raise at need
A Moses with his rod!”
—Henry Timrod (1828–1867)

“The fox, he felt, had never seen his past disposed of like a fall of water. He had never measured off his day in moments: another—another—another. But now, thrown down so deeply in himself, into the darkness of the well, surprised by pain and hunger, might he not revert to an earlier condition, regain capacities which formerly were useless to him, pass from animal to Henry, become human in his prison, X his days, count, wait, listen for another—another—another—another?”
—William Gass (b. 1924)