pass /päs/

1. To proceed
2. To go or be transferred from one place to another
3. To transfer the ball to another player (football, etc)
4. To make one's way
5. To reach, extend, or have a course
6. To undergo change from one state to another
7. To be transmitted, communicated or transacted
8. To change ownership
9. To change
10. To shade off (obsolete)
11. To be astir
12. To circulate
13. To be accepted or reputed or known
14. To go by
15. To go unheeded or neglected
16. To elapse, to go away
17. To disappear, come to an end, fade out
18. To die
19. To move over, through or onwards
20. To go or get through an obstacle, difficulty, test, ordeal, examination, etc
21. To get through an examination without honours
22. To be approved
23. To meet with acceptance
24. To be sanctioned
25. To be made law
26. To be talented
27. To come through
28. To be voided
29. To happen
30. To sit or serve (upon a jury)
31. To adjudicate
32. To be pronounced
33. To care, reck (with of or for; obsolete)
34. To surpass or beat everything (obsolete)
35. To exceed bounds
36. To perform a pass (see n below)
37. To abstain from making a call or declaration (cards)
38. To choose not to answer a question in a quiz, etc

1. To go or get by, over, beyond, through, etc
2. To undergo, experience
3. To undergo successfully
4. To spend (time)
5. To omit
6. To disregard
7. To exceed
8. To surpass
9. To cause or allow to pass
10. To transfer, transmit
11. To transfer (the ball) to another player (football, etc)
12. To hand
13. To utter, pronounce
14. To circulate
15. To pledge (as one's word)
16. To emit, discharge
17. To perform a pass with or upon
18. To perform as a pass
19. To esteem (obsolete)

1. A way by which one may pass or cross
2. A narrow passage, esp through or over a range of mountains or other difficult region
3. A narrow defile
4. An act of passing
5. The passing of an examination, esp without honours at degree level
6. Currency (obsolete)
7. Reputation (Shakespeare)
8. Event, issue, fulfilment, consummation
9. A state or condition (as in pretty or sad pass)
10. A predicament, critical position
11. A passport
12. A written permission to go somewhere or do something, authorization, a permit
13. Permission to be in a certain area (S Afr hist)
14. A free ticket
15. A ticket or similar document paid for or received as a concession, allowing free or cheaper use of a facility, eg a bus pass
16. A thrust (fencing)
17. Transference of the ball to another team member (football, etc)
18. Transference in a juggling trick
19. An amorous advance (informal)
20. An act of examining or reading data
21. A movement of the hand over anything, eg by a magician or mesmerist
22. Perhaps trick, perhaps conduct (Shakespeare, Measure for Measure V.1.368)

Expressing the decision not to answer a question in a quiz, etc

passˈable adjective

1. That may be passed, travelled over, or navigated
2. That may bear inspection
3. That may be accepted or allowed to pass
4. Tolerable

passˈableness noun

passˈably adverb

passˈer noun

passimeter /pas-imˈi-tər/ noun

An automatic ticket-issuing machine

passing /päsˈing/ adjective

1. Going by, through, or away
2. Transient, fleeting
3. Happening now
4. Incidental
5. Casual
6. Surpassing (archaic)

1. Exceedingly
2. Very

1. The action of the verb to pass
2. A place of passing
3. A coming to an end
4. Death
5. Gold or silver thread with a silk core

passˈless adjective

1. Having no pass
2. Impassable

pass-backˈ noun

An act of passing (a ball, etc) to a member of one's own team nearer one's own goal

pass band noun (radio)

A frequency band in which there is negligible attenuation

passˈbook noun

1. A book that passes between a trader and a customer, in which credit purchases are entered
2. A bank book
3. A booklet containing permission to be in a certain area, and other documents (S Afr hist)

passˈ-check noun

A passout ticket

pass degree noun

A university or college degree without honours

passed pawn noun

In chess, a pawn having no opposing pawn before it on its own or an adjacent file

passˈer-by noun (pl passˈers-by)

Someone who passes by or near

passing bell noun

A bell tolled immediately after a death, orig to invite prayers for the soul passing into eternity

passing note noun (music)

1. A note inserted to allow a smooth passage between other notes, but itself forming no essential part of the harmony
2. A note forming an unprepared discord in an unaccented place in the measure (also (N American) passing tone)

passing shot noun (tennis)

A shot hit past and beyond the reach of an opponent

passˈkey noun

1. A key enabling one to enter a house
2. A key for opening several locks

pass laws plural noun (S Afr hist)

Laws restricting the movements of black people

passˈman noun (archaic)

1. A person who gains a degree without honours
2. A prisoner who is permitted to leave his cell in order to carry out certain duties (slang)

passˈout noun and adjective

(a ticket, etc) entitling someone who goes out to return

passˈword noun (orig military)

1. A secret word by which a friend may pass or enter (a camp, etc)
2. A set of characters which a user inputs to a computer to gain access (computing)

bring to pass

To bring about, cause to happen

come to pass

To happen (appar orig a noun in these expressions)

in passing

While doing, talking about, etc something else

make a pass at

1. To aim a short blow at, especially ineffectually (informal)
2. To make an amorous advance to (informal)

pass as or for

To be mistaken for or accepted as

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• cutinize
• cutinized
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• cutinizing
• cut-ins
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• cutis
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• cut it
• cut it fine
• cut it out
• cut it too fat
• cutlass
• cutlasses
• cutlass fish
• cutlass fishes
• cut-leaved
• cutler
• cutleries
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