What is pass?

More definitions of "pass":

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• (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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Famous quotes containing the word pass:

“Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and a silence.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)

“They tell us that women can bring better things to pass by indirect influence. Try to persuade any man that he will have more weight, more influence, if he gives up his vote, allies himself with no party and relies on influence to achieve his ends! By all means let us use to the utmost whatever influence we have, but in all justice do not ask us to be content with this.”
—Mrs. William C. Gannett, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 5, ch. 8, by Ida Husted Harper (1922)

“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)