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单词 passed
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passedn.adj.

Brit. /pɑːst/, /past/, U.S. /pæst/
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: past adj.; pass v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: Originally a variant of past adj., now distinguished in form in the senses below. In later use also re-formed directly < pass v. + -ed suffix1.
A. n.
A person who has died; (with the) dead people collectively. Cf. pass v. 6b. Obsolete. rare.
ΚΠ
1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions i. v. 79 Ye kindesfolke of the deade signefie to..the friendes of this passed, ye day of ye burial.
1829 R. B. Sheridan Forty Thieves ii. i. 26 Has.: My comrades—Orc.: Peace! tell me not of the passed!
B. adj.
1. That has gone past a specified point.
a. Chess. passed pawn n. a pawn which may advance without obstruction from an enemy pawn on its own or adjacent files.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [noun] > positions or status of pawns
pawn errantc1369
fers1474
passed pawn1777
queen1797
promotion1799
isolated pawn1842
pawn skeleton1915
hanging pawn1927
pawn chain1937
1750 ‘A. D. Philidor’ Chess Analysed 124 One of his Pawns being then pass'd (that is to say, A pawn that can no more be stopp'd but by Pieces) will infallibly cost a Piece.]
1777 A. D. Philidor Anal. Game of Chess (new ed.) 163 The pawns of the black would re-unite in the centre, giving, equally to them as to the white, a pass'd pawn.
1797 Encycl. Brit. IV. 640/2 The advantage of a passed pawn is this: [etc.].
1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 51/2 A pawn is called passed when it is no longer obstructed by any adverse pawn on its own file, or either of the adjoining ones.
1913 Illustr. London News 22 Feb. 264/3 P to Kt 5th The winning stroke, as White gains a passed Pawn.
1966 J. R. Capablanca Last Chess Lect. (1967) i. 37 His Queen side majority of Pawns could be converted into a passed Pawn.
1994 Daily Tel. 19 Oct. 22/7 Karpov's pieces combined to support his own passed pawn while blockading his opponent's.
b. Baseball. passed ball n. a legally pitched ball which the catcher misses or allows to go past or behind him or her, allowing a base runner to advance.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [noun] > pitching > types of pitch
change of pace1650
slow ball1838
passed ball1860
ball1863
rib roaster1864
called ball1865
low ball1866
wild pitch1867
curveball1875
short pitch1877
grass cutter1879
fastball1883
downshoot1886
lob ball1888
pitchout1903
bean ballc1905
spitball1905
screwball1908
spitter1908
sinker ball1910
fallaway1912
meatball1912
fireball1913
roundhouse1913
forkball1923
sinker1926
knuckle ball1927
knuckler1928
gofer1932
slider1936
sailer1937
junk1941
change up1942
eephus1943
junkball1944
split-finger(ed) fastball1980
change1982
1860 Brooklyn Daily Eagle 30 Oct. 3/2 Only one player came home on a passed ball.
1889 Cent. Mag. Oct. 835/2 A ‘passed ball’ is a pitched ball which by an error of the catcher is allowed to go behind him so that a runner is advanced a base.
1900 G. Patten Rockspur Nine xxvii. 228 Then he got a safe hit, stole second and went to third on a passed ball.
1947 B. Feller Strikeout Story iii. 21 O'Neill, trying to grab the pitch for a hurried throw, allowed it to go through him for a passed ball.
2002 Christchurch (N.Z.) Press (Nexis) 28 Oct. iv. Sam Woodcock scored Papanui's winning run on a passed ball in the bottom of the 11th.
2. Originally Navy. That has passed a period of instruction; qualified by examination. In extended use: generally recognized as such. Cf. passed master n.
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society > education > educational administration > examination > [adjective] > passed
passed1829
1829 H. Howe Let. in G. Jones Sketches Naval Life II. 263 The examination will now take place at the end of five years from the date of appointment, three of which must have been spent at sea, in active duties: they are then to be styled ‘passed midshipmen’.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Passed boys, those who have gone through the round of instruction given in a training-ship.
1879 Spectator 31 May 680 Dr. Colenso, who is a passed expert in Zulu matters.
1905 J. A. Fairlie Nat. Admin. U.S.A. ix. 161 Surgeons in the [Navy] medical corps..are graded as assistant surgeons, passed assistant surgeons, surgeons, [etc.].
1994 G. M. Hall Fifth Star iii. 37 After graduation..Leahy spent two additional years as a ‘passed midshipman’ before commissioning as an ensign.
1998 Steam Railway July 69/1 I spent ten years firing for these enginemen, before I became a passed fireman, and was allowed to take charge of a steam engine.
3. That has been passed.
a. Finance. passed dividend n. a dividend that has not been paid on the expected date (cf. pass v. 30e).
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1901 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 15 523 Passed dividends would be made good before anything was paid on the common stock.
1957 New Eng. Q. 30 179 Even with sharply reduced profits and passed dividends (1895–1896), dividends still averaged 5.3 per cent during the trouble-filled nineties.
2003 Observer (Nexis) 12 Jan. (Cash section) 4 Shareholders are sharing the pain in the form of passed dividends and a slump in the company's share price.
b. Cards. passed hand n. a round of cards in which a player declines to make a bid (cf. pass v. 31a).
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [noun] > actions or tactics > specific
discarding1592
facing1635
pull1715
lead1742
return1742
discard1778
solo1814
underplay1850
convention1862
force1862
showdown1870
unblocking1885
false-carding1923
passed hand1924
exit1934
reverse1936
loser-on-loser1947
1924 C. Dobie in Harper's Mag. July 186/1 He couldn't horn in on a game he dropped out of;..a passed hand was a passed hand.
1983 T. Reese & D. Bird Bridge (1985) ix. 101 A 2NT overcall by a passed hand will be the Unusual Notrump convention, showing the minor suits.
2003 Standard (St. Catharines) (Nexis) 10 Jan. (News section) b7 West's passed-hand cuebid showed both majors and East preferred spades.

Compounds

In compounds with adverbs used attributively (usually with hyphen).
C1.
passed-over n. and adj. (a) n. (with the and plural agreement) a group of people that have been passed over or overlooked as a class; (in plural) people who have been passed over; (b) adj. that has been passed over or overlooked.
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1846 Times 13 Nov. 6/4 Your obedient humble servant; and, in your own phrase, a subaltern of Picton's Division, and one of the passed over.
1909 Daily Chron. 5 May 9/1 As a single woman..I feel I can maintain an impartial standpoint, possible neither to the passed-over or those who have taken what they could get.
1997 A. Roberts in N. Ferguson Virtual Hist. (1998) v. 312 The usual pathetic collection of fascist fanatics, passed-over civil servants and ambitious malcontents.
2001 Kansas City (Missouri) Star (Nexis) 15 Apr. c6 Inexperienced players, has-beens and passed-overs tend to play beyond expectations when they become Yankees.
C2.
passed-on adj. and n. (a) adj. that has been passed on or handed on; also in extended use; (b) n. a thing, esp. a garment, which has been handed on.
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1902 P. H. Fitzgerald Recoll. Dublin Castle & Dublin Society 17 Another of these regularly ‘passed on’ veterans was Everard.
1937 E. Garnett Family from One End Street ix. 173 For once in her life, Kate was not wearing one of her sister's ‘passed ons’—her frock was indeed her own.
1955 M. A. Michael tr. H. Martinson Road iii. 41 Hearts were lacerated beneath those passed-on clothes.
1985 Aviation Week (Nexis) 12 Aug. 11 Survival..was a combination of..structural ruggedness, crew word-of-mouth passed-on wisdom..and the luck of the draw.
2002 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 24 May (News & Features section) 6 It's the kind of subject that needs professional training, not passed-on advice.
C3.
passed-out adj. that has passed out, esp. as a result of an excessive consumption of alcoholic drinks.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > insensibly drunk
dead drunk1599
to drink (a person) dead drunk1609
paralytic1843
sodden1850
paralysed1870
speechless1881
drunk and incapable1883
dead-oh1889
rumdum1891
passed-out1927
out to it1941
trashed1966
wiped1966
1927 Amer. Speech 2 277 Passed out, intoxicated.
1939 G. Greene Lawless Roads iii. 95 The blue soda-water bottles and the passed-out Mexican.
1990 M. Brave Bird & R. Erdoes Lakota Woman (1991) iv. 51 Also in Seattle I saw a white man kicking a passed-out Indian in the head.
C4.
passed-down adj. that has been passed down.
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1973 S. Rowbotham in M. Wandor Body Politic 4 Borrowed concepts are like passed-down clothes.
1997 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. (Nexis) 17 Aug. (News section) po8/3 Hard work and a father's passed-down advice sometimes were enough to harvest a lucrative crop.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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