What is pass?

More definitions of "pass":

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• (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

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

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

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

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

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

Famous quotes containing the word pass:

“The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“There is hope for the future. When the world is ready for a new and better life all this will some day come to pass in God’s good time.”
—Earl Felton, and Richard Fleischer. Captain Nemo (James Mason)

“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)