What is pass?

More definitions of "pass":

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• (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"

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

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

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

• (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): 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"

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

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

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

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

Famous quotes containing the word pass:

“It has never been in my power to sustain ... I can pass swiftly from one effect to another, but I cannot fix one, and dwell on it, with that superb concentration which seems to me the special attribute of the tragic actress.”
—Ellen Terry (1847–1928)

“There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)

“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)