What is pass?

More definitions of "pass":

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• (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"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• (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

Famous quotes containing the word pass:

“But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“And his ghost may be heard as you pass by that billabong,
‘You’ll come a-waltzing Matilda with me!’”
—Andrew Barton Peterson (1864–1941)

“In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while his article is still on the presses.”
—Calvin Trillin (b. 1940)