- verbpass (verb) · passes (third person present) · passed (past tense) · passed (past participle) · passing (present participle)
- move or cause to move in a specified direction:"he passed through towns and villages" · "he passed a weary hand across his forehead" · "pass an electric current through it" · "the shells from the Allied guns were passing very low overhead"
- change from one state or condition to another:"homes that have passed from public to private ownership"
- euphemisticdie (used euphemistically):"his father had passed to the afterlife"Similar:draw one's last breathmeet one's endmeet one's deathbe no morebe lostgo the way of the fleshgo to one's last resting placego to meet one's makercross the great dividecross the Styxpush up the daisiesbe six feet under
- go past or across; leave behind or on one side in proceeding:"the two vehicles had no room to pass each other" · "we will not let you pass" · "she passed a rest area with a pay phone"
- go beyond the limits of; surpass or exceed:"this item has passed its sell-by date"
- tennishit a winning shot past (an opponent).
- transfer (something) to someone, especially by handing or bequeathing it to the next person in a series:"your letter has been passed to Mr. Rich for action" · "he passed her a cup" · "please pass the fish"
- be transferred from one person or place to another, especially by inheritance:"if Ann remarried the estate would pass to her new husband" · "infections can pass from mother to child at birth"Similar:be transferredbe made overbe turned overbe signed overbe leftbe bequeathedbe handed down/onbe givenbe consignedbe passed on
- (in football, soccer, hockey, and other games) throw, kick, or hit (the ball or puck) to another player on one's own team:"his intent was to pass the ball forward rather than knock it back"
- put (something, especially money) into circulation:"persons who have passed bad checks"
- (especially of money) circulate; be current:"cash was passing briskly"
- (of a candidate) be successful in (an examination, test, or course):"she passed her driving test"Similar:be successful insucceed ingain a pass inmeet the requirements ofpass muster inOpposite:
- judge the performance or standard of (someone or something) to be satisfactory:"he was passed fit by army doctors"
- be accepted as adequate; go uncensured:"she couldn't agree, but let it pass" · "her rather revealing dress passed without comment"
- (of a legislative or other official body) approve or put into effect (a proposal or law) by voting on it:"the bill was passed despite fierce opposition"
- pronounce (a judgment or judicial sentence):"passing judgment on these crucial issues" · "it is now my duty to pass sentence upon you"
- utter (something, especially criticism):"she would pass remarks about the Paxtons in their own house"
- archaicadjudicate or give a judgment on a matter:"a jury could not be trusted to pass upon the question of Endicott's good faith"
- forgo one's turn in a game or an offered opportunity:"we pass on dessert and have coffee"
- (of a company) not declare or pay (a dividend):"the company has already passed its interim dividend"
- bridgemake no bid when it is one's turn during an auction:"South bids 1NT. North passes"
nounpass (noun) · passes (plural noun)- an act or instance of moving past or through something:"repeated passes with the swipe card" · "an unmarked plane had been making passes over his house"
- an act of passing the hands over anything, as in conjuring or hypnotism.
- a thrust in fencing.
- a juggling trick.
- bridgean act of refraining from bidding during the auction.
- computinga single scan through a set of data or a program.
- a successful completion of an examination or course:"a 100 percent pass rate"
- US ENGLISHthe grade indicating the successful completion of an examination or course.
- BRITISH ENGLISHan achievement of a university degree without honors:"a pass degree"
- a card, ticket, or permit giving authorization for the holder to enter or have access to a place, form of transportation, or event:"a bus pass" · "you could only get in with a pass"Similar:
- toleration of bad behavior or poor performance:"businesses should not get a pass to be reckless" · "that doesn't give him a pass to say things without reproach"
- historical(in South Africa) an identity book that Black people had to carry between 1952 and 1986, used to limit the movement of Black people to urban areas.
- US ENGLISHinformala rejection or dismissal:"those who don't like oily food may want to give this a pass" · "I took a pass on his request for help"
- a state or situation of a specified, usually bad or difficult, nature:"things came to such a pass that these gentlemen sat coldly at the meetings not daring to speak out freely and honestly" · "this is a sad pass for a fixture that used to crackle with excitement"Similar:reach a regrettable/bad state (of affairs)be in a worrying statebe in a sad plightbe in troubled circumstancesbe in dire straits
- bridgean act of refraining from bidding during the auction.
exclamation- said when one does not know the answer to a question, for example in a quizzing game:"to the enigmatic question we answered “Pass.”"
- US ENGLISHinformalused to express rejection or dismissal:"the shepherd's pie looks gross. Pass!"
OriginMiddle English: from Old French passer, based on Latin passus ‘pace’.nounpass (noun) · passes (plural noun)- a route over or through mountains:"the pass over the mountain was open again after the snows" · "the Khyber Pass"
- a passage for fish over or past a weir or dam:"a program to build salmon passes at weirs and other obstacles"
- US ENGLISHa navigable channel, especially at the mouth of a river:"Sabine Pass"
OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘division of a text, passage through’): variant of pace, influenced by pass and French pas. - People also ask
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