What is pass?

More definitions of "pass":

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

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

• (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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• (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

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

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

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

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

• (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"

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

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

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

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

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

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

• (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

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

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

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

Famous quotes containing the word pass:

“I have a vocabulary all my own. I “pass the time” when it is wet and disagreeable. When it is fine I do not wish to pass it; I ruminate it and hold on to it. We should hasten over the bad, and settle upon the good.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“There the traveler meets, aghast,
Sheeted memories of the past—
Shrouded forms that start and sigh
As they pass the wanderer by—
White-robed forms of friends long given,
In agony, to the earth—and heaven.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

“When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)