What is pass?

More definitions of "pass":

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• (verb): Pass (time) in a specific way.
  Synonyms: spend

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

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

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

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

• (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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Famous quotes containing the word pass:

“It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)

“Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)