What is pass?

More definitions of "pass":

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Famous quotes containing the word pass:

“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)

“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)

“I’d let my golden chances pass me by.”
—Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960)