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pass en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • [pʰɛəs] (Canada, General-American)
  • [pʰaːs] (Boston)
  • [pʰeə̯s] (New-York-City)
  • [pʰæs] (Ireland, Northern-England)
  • [pʰäs] (Scotland)
  • [pʰäːs] (Australia, New-Zealand)
  • /pæs/
  • (US) audio
  • [pʰɑːs] (General-South-African, Received-Pronunciation)
  • [pʰæs] (Canada, General-American)
  • [pʰɐːs] (Australia, New-Zealand)
  • [pʰas] (Ireland, Northern-England)
  • /pɑːs/
  • [pʰeəs] (Canada, General-American)

Etymology

From Middle English passen, from Old French passer (“to step, walk, pass”), from Vulgar Latin *passāre (“step, walk, pass”), derived from Latin passus (“a step”), from Proto-Italic *pat-s-tus, from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread, stretch out”). Cognate with Old English fæþm (“armful, fathom”). More at fathom. Displaced native Old English genġan.

Meanings

  1. (intransitive) To change place. ▸ To move or be moved from one place to another.
    • They passed from room to room.
  2. (transitive) To change place. ▸ To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
    • We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith. 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
    • The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green. 1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:
    • You will pass a house on your right.
  3. (ditransitive) To change place. ▸ To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
    • The torch was passed from hand to hand.
    • John passed Suzie a note.
    • The waiter passed biscuits and cheese.
    • Waller […] passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge. 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater:
    • I had only time to pass my eye over the medals. 1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
  4. (intransitive, transitive) To change place. ▸ To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
    • The poison had been passed by the time of the autopsy.
    • He was passing blood in both his urine and his stool.
  5. (transitive) To change place. ▸ To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
  6. (transitive) To change place. ▸ To make various kinds of movement. ▸ To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
    • 20 June 2010, The Guardian, Rob Smyth Iaquinta passes it coolly into the right-hand corner as Paston dives the other way.
  7. (transitive) To change place. ▸ To make various kinds of movement. ▸ To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
    • Brady passed the ball to nine different receivers and handed it off to seven. 2017 September 18, Nicole Yang, “What you need to know about the Patriots’ big win — and their next opponent”, in Boston Globe:
  8. (intransitive) To change place. ▸ To make various kinds of movement. ▸ To make a lunge or swipe.
  9. (intransitive) To change place. ▸ To make various kinds of movement. ▸ To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
    • The Patriots passed on third and long.
  10. (intransitive) To change place. ▸ To go from one person to another.
  11. (transitive) To change place. ▸ To put in circulation; to give currency to.
    • pass counterfeit money
  12. (transitive) To change place. ▸ To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
    • pass a person into a theater or over a railroad
  13. (transitive) To change place. ▸ To put through a sieve.
    • When it's finished cooking, you should pass the sauce to get rid of any lumps.
  14. (intransitive) To change in state or status ▸ To progress from one state to another; to advance.
    • He passed from youth into old age.
  15. (intransitive) To change in state or status ▸ To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
    • Beauty's a charm, but soon the charm will pass. 1697, Virgil, “Pastoral 2”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
    • The crisis passed as she'd prayed it would, but it remained to be seen just how much damage had been done. 1995, Penny Richards, The Greatest Gift of All:
    • The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking. 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
    • At first, she was worried, but that feeling soon passed.
  16. (euphemistic, intransitive) To change in state or status ▸ To die.
    • His grandmother passed yesterday.
  17. (intransitive, transitive) To change in state or status ▸ To achieve a successful outcome from.
    • Of the Ancient Wonders, only the pyramids have passed the test of time.
    • He attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.
  18. (intransitive, transitive) To change in state or status ▸ To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
    • But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea. 2012 March 14, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87:
    • The bill passed the Senate, but did not pass in the House.
    • The bill passed both houses of Congress.
    • Despite the efforts of the opposition, the bill passed.
  19. (intransitive) To change in state or status ▸ To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
    • The estate passes by the third clause in Mr Smith's deed to his son.
    • When the old king passed away with only a daughter as an heir, the throne passed to a woman for the first time in centuries.
  20. (transitive) To change in state or status ▸ To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
    • Pass the happy news. 1855, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page)”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
    • He passed the bill through the committee.
  21. (intransitive) To change in state or status ▸ To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
    • And within three dayes twelve knyghtes passed uppon hem; and they founde Sir Palomydes gylty, and Sir Saphir nat gylty, of the lordis deth. 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book X:
  22. (transitive) To change in state or status ▸ To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
    • I may almost depend on your own justice, and leave it to yourself to pass sentence on your own conduct 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter XII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book XIX:
    • Father, thy word is passed. 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
  23. (intransitive) To change in state or status ▸ To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
    • What we call 'our' minds are events beginning with birth and ending with death, each again broken up into other events or mental states, into and out of which we are perpetually passing. 2011, Thomas Hill Green, R. L. Nettleship, Works of Thomas Hill Green, →ISBN, page lxxviii:
    • Rather, he argues that 'within the zero-stage, all special affections have passed over into a general undifferentiated affection; all special consciousnesses have passed over into the one, general, persistently available background-consciousness of our past, the consciousness of the completely unarticulated, completely indistinct horizon of the past, which brings to a close the living, moving retentional past.' 2010, Joaquim Siles i Borràs, The Ethics of Husserl's Phenomenology, →ISBN, page 158:
    • And rising out of the fourth stage of deep meditation he entered into the state of mind to which the infinity of space is alone present. And passing out of the mere consciousness of the infinity of space he entered into the state of mind to which the infinity of though is along present. 1881, Buddhist Suttas, page 115:
  24. (intransitive, of time) To move through time. ▸ To elapse, to be spent.
    • Their vacation passed pleasantly.
  25. (of time, transitive) To move through time. ▸ To spend.
    • To pass commodiously this life. 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
    • For, although Allan had passed his fiftieth year,[…], one had continued to think of him as a man of whipcord and iron, a natural source of untiring energy, a mechanism that would not wear out. 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
    • What will we do to pass the time?
    • Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen. 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0056:
  26. (transitive) To move through time. ▸ To allow to go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
    • I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array. 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
    • Please you that I may pass / This doing. c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
  27. (intransitive) To move through time. ▸ To continue.
  28. (intransitive) To move through time. ▸ To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
    • You're late, but I'll let it pass.
  29. (transitive) To move through time. ▸ To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
    • Please you that I may pass / This doing. c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
  30. (intransitive) To move through time. ▸ To happen.
    • It will soon come to pass.
    • […] for the memory of what passed while at that place is almost blank. 1876, The Dilemma, Chapter LIII, republished in Littell's Living Age, series 5, volume 14, page 274
  31. (intransitive, stative) To be accepted. ▸ To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
    • It isn't ideal, but it will pass.
  32. (intransitive, stative) To be accepted. ▸ To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
    • Chinese sometimes pass for Europeans, but Japs more often approach Western types. 1941 December 22, “How to Tell Japs from the Chinese”, in LIFE, page 81:
    • Like Olivia's aunts (described above), many Americans passed as white to resist the racially restrictive one-drop rule and the racial status quo of the Jim Crow era (Daniel 2002; Williamson 1980). 2010 December, Nikki Khanna, Cathryn Johnson, “Passing as Black: Racial Identity Work among Biracial Americans”, in Social Psychology Quarterly, volume 73, number 4, →DOI:
    • […] a situation where I had to know whether I could pass as a woman, and not tell anyone, and not be asked what I was doing dressed as a woman. 1999, Irene Preiss, Fixed for Life: The True Saga of How Tom Became Sally, page 249:
  33. (intransitive) To refrain from doing something. ▸ To decline something that is offered or available.
    • He asked me to go to the cinema with him, but I think I'll pass.
  34. (transitive) To refrain from doing something. ▸ To reject; to pass up.
    • Instead, the board voted to suspend the dividend, giving Orton his way at last. They passed the dividend again in June 1870 […] 2013, Joshua D. Wolff, Western Union and the Creation of the American Corporate Order, 1845-1893, page 187:
  35. (intransitive) To refrain from doing something. ▸ To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
    • I haven't any idea of the answer, so I'll have to pass.
  36. (intransitive) To refrain from doing something. ▸ In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
  37. (intransitive) To refrain from doing something. ▸ In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
  38. (intransitive, obsolete) To do or be better. ▸ To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.
    • This passes, Master Ford. c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
  39. (transitive) To do or be better. ▸ To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
    • And striue to passe[…]Their natiue musicke by her skilfull art: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 25:
    • Whose tender power Passes the strength of storms in their most desolate hour. 1812–1818, Lord Byron, “(please specify |canto=I to IV)”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. , London: John Murray,, (please specify the stanza number):
  40. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed, to have an interest, to care.
    • As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not. 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
    • Mena[phon]. How now my Lord, what mated and amazd’ To heare the king thus threaten like himſelfe? Coſ[roe]. Ah Menaphon, I paſſe not for his threates, […] c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene i:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
passeth Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres archaic lexicographic
passe alternative, obsolete lexicographic
passes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
passest Number=Sing, Person=2, Tense=Pres archaic lexicographic
passing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
pass Number=Plur, Tense=Pres lexicographic
pass VerbForm=Inf lexicographic
pass Mood=Sub, Tense=Pres lexicographic
pass Number=Sing, Person=1, Tense=Pres lexicographic
pass Mood=Imp, Tense=Pres lexicographic
pass Number=Sing, Person=2, Tense=Pres lexicographic
passedst Number=Sing, Person=2, Tense=Past archaic lexicographic
passed Number=Plur, Tense=Past lexicographic
passed Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Past lexicographic
passed Number=Sing, Person=2, Tense=Past lexicographic
passed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
passed Mood=Sub, Tense=Past lexicographic
passed Number=Sing, Person=1, Tense=Past lexicographic
passed Tense=Past lexicographic

Coordinates

pass up · roleplay · pass on

Deriveds

please pass the salt (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · transpass (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · forpass (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · stab yourself and pass the dagger (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass off as (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass round (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass-time (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass around (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · this too shall pass (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pussy pass (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · passthrough (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · bypass (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass round the hat (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass across (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · puff, puff, pass (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass gas (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass urine (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · Passover (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass a stool (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · don't pass go (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass away (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · onpass (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · circumpass (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · passer (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass-by-future (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · passed ball (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass the time of day (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · let this cup pass from me (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass under the yoke (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass oneself off as (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · password (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass motion (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · unpass (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass along (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · push-to-pass (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass muster (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass the baton (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass the bar (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass the phone (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass off (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass a good time (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass with flying colors (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass out (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass into (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · this too shall pass away (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass upon (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass-by-name (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pick and pass (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · may I pass through (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · I'll pass (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass shot (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass down (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass the river (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass through (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · impassable (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass over (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass stool (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass-out (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass time (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass on (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass the pikes (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass-by-need (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass one's way (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · passable (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass the parcel (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass the time (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass the buck (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · ships that passed in the night (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass as (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass the book (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass through the pikes (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass up (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · repass (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass through the hands (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass-and-play (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass for (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · outpass (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass by (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass wind (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass the parcler (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass the hat (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass judgment (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · ships that pass in the night (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · signal passed at danger (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · passee (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · passing loop (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass in one's checks (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass up like a white chip (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass the bottle of smoke (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass the trash (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass sentence (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass a sponge over the slate (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · forthpass (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass back (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass the torch (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · let pass (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · parade passed someone by (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass one's word (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass water (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass-parole (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass the mantle (Terms derived from pass (verb)) · pass unnoticed (Terms derived from pass (verb))

Relateds

in the closet

Synonyms

continue · come to pass · go past · allow · stomach · take heed · be called home · ignore · bechance · elapse · take notice · outshine · mark · surpass · suffer · decease · bear away the bell · conk out · overshadow · pay the debt of nature · go by · outdo · pass around · befall · betime · meet one's doom · say · suffer · trump · buy the farm · pass over · pass by · outmatch · evacuate · surpass · sink · pass away · pass by · move · happen · pass the river · pass · overtake · thrust · disregard · brook · pass · ratify · go by · be with Jesus · assume room temperature · pay nature's debt · slip away · go the way of the dinosaurs · elapse · tolerate · go on · prevail · dissemble · behap · pop one's clogs · turn up one's toes · knock off · approve · swallow · deliver · tolerate · eclipse · tune out · put to shame · thole · yield up the ghost · beworth · attend · take sitting down · be with the Lord · let in on · hand in one's dinner pail · pass · accept · dwarf · hold the cards · ignore · run away with · peg out · exceed · outdo · sleep with one's fathers · top · give heed · brush off · be no more · go out · stand · hop the twig · excel · endure · exit · cash in one's chips · croak · put up with · cross the Styx · pass · enact · keel over · flatline · despise · bear · speak · pay no heed · transmit · pick up what someone is putting down · pass · cross the Great Divide · go the way of all flesh · transpire · put aside · perish · take note · outvie · liquidate · cash in · auger in · exceed · hap · be gathered to one's fathers · take · set at nought · chance · outstrip · go to glory · upstage · take no notice of · close one's eyes for the last time · expire · abear · take heed · buy it · circulate · overtake · discount · surpass · slough · push up daisies · heed · snuff it · bite the dust · pouch · go the way of the dodo · shuffle off this mortal coil · pass away · pass by · mind · join the choir invisible · exceed · disincarnate · pass · hold · go the way of the dodo bird · go · go over to the majority · outrun · privy · cark it · misheed · draw one's last breath · outclass · let past · betide · check out · pocket · regard · occur · darken · take notice · go for a burton · utter · come about · let in · bite the big one · unmind · give · evene · tide · endure · go along with · excel · meet one's maker · pass over · decompose · give up the ghost · hand · undergo · outperform · clock · kick the bucket · roll on · pass in one's marble · dematerialize · admit · bite the biscuit · eventuate · bear · best · succumb · go · make over · undergang · transcend · be like the the One · shrug off · forbear · drop off the hooks · kick off · transcend · better · notice · lose the number of one's mess · pop off · neglect · misregard · take a dirt nap · pass · pass over · stick · cross over · go west · transfer · pass on · outshadow · unheed · aby · abide · consider · occur · meet one's end · go to one's reward · fall off the twig · undergo · overbear · intervene · pass in one's checks · depart · pronounce · pay attention · outrival · void · take place · give one's all · send · live with · code · be accepted by · crop up · dree · disregard · belimp · take no notice of · pass on · pay heed · better · hand in one's checks · go on · forfare · bide · happen · overmatch

Translations (488)

hu átél (to live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer) · fr passer (to go by, over, or through) · pl umierać (to die) · nl doodgaan (to die) · de verbringen (to spend (time)) · ja 譲渡する (law: to be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance) · mww dhau (to go past) · hu meghal (to die) · grc διάγω (to spend (time)) · el περνάω (to go by, over, or through) · hu átmegy (to advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness) · hu eltelik (to elapse) · hu eltölt (to spend (time)) · hu történik (to happen) · hu megtapasztal (to live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer) · grc διαγίνομαι (to elapse) · uk пройти́ (to go past) · ta கடந்து (to cease, to come to an end) · ta தாண்டு (to change from one state to another) · kmr bihurtin (to move or be moved from one place to another) · la praetereo (to change from one state to another) · alt ӧдӧр (to go by, over, or through) · vi giao (to cause to move or go) · ru минова́ть (to elapse) · fi mennä läpi (to advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness) · de bringen (to cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance) · fr passer (to change from one state to another) · nmn ǃkxʻáa (to go by, over, or through) · uk вмира́ти (to die) · la praetereo (to go from one person to another) · hu meghalad (to transcend, to surpass) · hu megelőz (to go past) · hu átmegy (to go successfully through) · de passen (to be tolerated) · ba үтеү (to go by, over, or through) · lt išlaikyti (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · es pasar (to continue) · sv(to elapse) · ru пройти́ (to move or be moved from one place to another) · he עבר (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · ta உள்விடு (to cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance) · ru перее́хать (to change from one state to another) · da melde pas (game: to decline to play in one's turn) · hu ürít (medicine: to eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes; to go through the intestines) · de genügen (to be tolerated) · ca passar (to continue) · cs minout (to go by, over, or through) · la praetereo (to go by, over, or through) · ta அனுப்பு (to cause to move or go) · ja 可決する (to advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness) · hu megszavazzák (to advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness) · fi siirtyä (law: to be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance) · sq kaloj (to go by, over, or through) · tr geçmek (to go past) · fa سپری شدن (to elapse) · ru проходи́ть (to move or be moved from one place to another) · ta கட (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · sk podať (to move or be moved from one place to another) · sc passare (to move or be moved from one place to another) · ru проходи́ть (to go successfully through) · la praetereo (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · hu átjuttat (to cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance) · rm passer (to move or be moved from one place to another) · mww dhau (to move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge) · la praetereo (to be tolerated) · tr pas geçmek (game: to decline to play in one's turn) · no passere (to move or be moved from one place to another) · ba күсеү (to change from one state to another) · mww dhau (to proceed without hindrance or opposition) · hu elmúlik (to cease, to come to an end) · ta பொறுக்கப்படு (to be tolerated) · uk прохо́дити (to go by, over, or through) · de vorbeigehen (to go past) · hu szemet huny (to proceed without hindrance or opposition) · hu tölt (to spend (time)) · sq kaloj (to go successfully through) · ru сдава́ть (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · ca ser aprovat (to advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness) · hu válik (to change from one state to another) · vi qua được (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · ru пасова́ть (sports: to move the ball or puck to a teammate) · km ជាប់ (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · hu elmúlik (to elapse) · ru пройти́ (to go by, over, or through) · nl slagen (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · sl preiti (to change from one state to another) · ar اِنْقَضَى (to elapse) · pt passar (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · el περνάω (to advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness) · fr avaler son extrait de naissance (to die) · njo-jgl süi (to go by, over, or through) · ta தா (to cause to move or go) · fr réussir (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · pl przejść (to go successfully through) · pt passar (to change from one state to another) · el περνάω (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · ca passar (to happen) · pl umrzeć (to die) · ru истека́ть (to elapse) · ja 通る (to cause to advance by stages of process) · ta செல் (law: to be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance) · fr mourir (to die) · hy անցնել (to go by, over, or through) · hu átmegy (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · uk прохо́дити (to move or be moved from one place to another) · ja 通過する (to advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness) · cmn 過 /过 (to elapse) · es pasar (to cause to move or go) · hu megszűnik (to cease, to come to an end) · ba үтеү (medicine: to eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes; to go through the intestines) · zza vêrden (to move or be moved from one place to another) · fr passer (to go successfully through) · be прахо́дзіць (to go past) · fr passer son tour (game: to decline to play in one's turn) · pl zdawać (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · fi syöttää (sports: to move the ball or puck to a teammate) · cmn 過 /过 (to go by, over, or through) · nl overlijden (to die) · ang weorþan (to happen) · sid saʼa (to move or be moved from one place to another) · de reichen (to move or be moved from one place to another) · hy անցնել (to elapse) · ba үтеү (to go past) · hu múlik (to elapse) · de gehen (to be tolerated) · pt passar (to go by, over, or through) · ar اِجْتَازَ (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · fr casser sa pipe (to die) · vi đỗ (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · it passare (to move or be moved from one place to another) · fr continuer (to continue) · de durchgehen (to proceed without hindrance or opposition) · ta மாற்று (to go from one person to another) · de passieren (to happen) · nrf pâsser (to change from one state to another) · hu tapasztal (to live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer) · mww dhau (to cease, to come to an end) · oc passar (to move or be moved from one place to another) · sc passae (to move or be moved from one place to another) · hu továbbad (to cause to move or go) · el περνάω (sports: to move the ball or puck to a teammate) · nl gebeuren (to happen) · gd pasaig (to go successfully through) · ja 通過する (to go by, over, or through) · sv passa (sports: to move the ball or puck to a teammate) · hu passzol (to cause to move or go) · ru проходи́ть (to go past) · pl odchodzić (to die) · ja 承認する (to cause to advance by stages of process) · mww dhau (medicine: to eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes; to go through the intestines) · uk переда́ти (to move or be moved from one place to another) · fr survenir (to happen) · ta விடு (to move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge) · hu odaad (to cause to move or go) · el πάω πάσο (game: to decline to play in one's turn) · hu ürül (medicine: to eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes; to go through the intestines) · mww dhau (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · hu háramlik (law: to be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance) · fi päästä läpi (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · cs jít kolem (to go by, over, or through) · ru ми́нуть (to elapse) · ta நட (to happen) · ga meil (to spend (time)) · cmn 通过 (to move or be moved from one place to another) · it approvare (law: to be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance) · cmn 通過 /通过 (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · la praetereo (to advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness) · sv förflytta (to go by, over, or through) · fr passer (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · fr passer (medicine: to eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes; to go through the intestines) · ru исте́чь (to elapse) · he עָבַר (to move or be moved from one place to another) · hu áthalad (to move or be moved from one place to another) · mww dhau (to advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness) · ja 通り過ぎる (to go past) · ang gesellan (to go from one person to another) · ta தாண்டு (to move or be moved from one place to another) · hu jóváhagyják (to advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness) · hu megfelel (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · de hinübergehen (to die) · fr passer (to be tolerated) · ang bīdan (to continue) · mww dhau (to go successfully through) · es aprobar (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · fr se passer (to elapse) · cmn 過去 /过去 (to elapse) · ar مَرَّ (medicine: to eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes; to go through the intestines) · pl podać (to move or be moved from one place to another) · es pasar (to spend (time)) · ar تَغَاضَى (to be tolerated) · cs podávat (to move or be moved from one place to another) · ca passar (to move or be moved from one place to another) · ru проходи́ть (to elapse) · ru сойти за (to go by without noticing) · la praetereo (to move or be moved from one place to another) · gun axa (to go by, over, or through) · pt passar (to move or be moved from one place to another) · ta கட (to advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness) · hu változik (to change from one state to another) · ar تَجَاوَزَ (to transcend, to surpass) · ta தேர்ச்சி பெறு (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · uk пройти́ (to move or be moved from one place to another) · de weitergeben (to move or be moved from one place to another) · ang lēoran (to go past) · es pasar (to move or be moved from one place to another) · hy անցնել (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · fi vaihtua (to change from one state to another) · ang lēoran (to move or be moved from one place to another) · de weitergeben (sports: to move the ball or puck to a teammate) · lmo passà (to move or be moved from one place to another) · uk прохо́дити (to go past) · ckb بوردن (to move or be moved from one place to another) · es pasar (to go past) · ga cuir isteach (to spend (time)) · scn passari (to move or be moved from one place to another) · uk минати (to elapse) · fi ohittaa (to go by without noticing) · hy փոխանցել (sports: to move the ball or puck to a teammate) · de vorübergehen (to go past) · fi hyväksyttää (to cause to advance by stages of process) · es pasar (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · nl doorgaan (to continue) · ckb عمری خوا (to die) · ja 通過する (to cause to advance by stages of process) · es pasar (sports: to move the ball or puck to a teammate) · ba үтеү (to move or be moved from one place to another) · it passare (to go by, over, or through) · el πασάρω (sports: to move the ball or puck to a teammate) · fi kulkea (to go by, over, or through) · zza merden (to die) · ota آشمق (to go past) · ru пройти́ (to go successfully through) · ja 批准する (to cause to advance by stages of process) · ru передава́ть (to move or be moved from one place to another) · hu kihagy (game: to decline to play in one's turn) · ru спасова́ть (game: to decline to play in one's turn) · fi passata (game: to decline to play in one's turn) · sl preminiti (to die) · es pasar (to go from one person to another) · fr passer (to go from one person to another) · ta கழி (to spend (time)) · hu megtörténik (to happen) · es pasar (to move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge) · el φεύγω (to die) · ro pasa (to move or be moved from one place to another) · la transeo (to move or be moved from one place to another) · sv passera (to move or be moved from one place to another) · el περνάω (to move or be moved from one place to another) · ta கழி (to elapse) · la praetereo (medicine: to eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes; to go through the intestines) · de hinüberkommen (to go by, over, or through) · ta சா (to die) · lut ʔəƛ̕ačiʔ (to move or be moved from one place to another) · ru переходи́ть (to go from one person to another) · hu átkerül (law: to be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance) · fi tapahtua (to happen) · ta தாண்டு (to go past) · de geleiten (to cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance) · vec pasar (to move or be moved from one place to another) · ta கட (to go past) · fi muuttua (to change from one state to another) · pl odejść (to die) · eo cedi (game: to decline to play in one's turn) · be прайсці́ (to go past) · sh otići (to die) · es pasar (to advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness) · ta கடத்து (to cause to move or go) · mww dhau (to move or be moved from one place to another) · ta கொடு (to cause to move or go) · gl pasar (to move or be moved from one place to another) · hu végigvisz (to cause to advance by stages of process) · ja 批准する (to advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness) · ru переда́ть (to move or be moved from one place to another) · fr décéder (to die) · fi käydä (to happen) · de passen (game: to decline to play in one's turn) · fi pistää (fencing: to make, as a thrust, punto) · hu bejuttat (to cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance) · fi ylittää (to transcend, to surpass) · pl umrzeć (to die) · ko 합격하다 (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · de abgeben (sports: to move the ball or puck to a teammate) · ro trece (to move or be moved from one place to another) · fr dépasser (to go past) · fi sietää (to be tolerated) · hu átjut (to go successfully through) · hu átlép (to transcend, to surpass) · sl umreti (to die) · nrf pâsser (to move or be moved from one place to another) · fi läpäistä (to advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness) · ang gelēoran (to die) · ckb مردن (to die) · hu elfogadják (to advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness) · de bestehen (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · eo pasi (to go past) · es suceder (to happen) · de vergehen (to elapse) · hu átírják (law: to be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance) · hu átvisz (to cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance) · cmn 及格 (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · uk перейти́ (to go from one person to another) · sq kaloj (to spend (time)) · ta தாண்டு (to go by, over, or through) · ta கழி (to die) · pt passar (sports: to move the ball or puck to a teammate) · ta கடக்கு (to cause to advance by stages of process) · ar مَرَّرَ (to go from one person to another) · fi jatkua (to continue) · ta கட (to cease, to come to an end) · hu jóváhagyat (to cause to advance by stages of process) · fi ohittaa (to go past) · ru пройти́ (to go past) · es pasar (to go by, over, or through) · ota آشمق (to go by, over, or through) · ta தாண்டு (to transcend, to surpass) · pl podawać (to move or be moved from one place to another) · ro transmite (to move or be moved from one place to another) · ru пройти́ (to elapse) · ja 過ぎる (to elapse) · be прахо́дзіць (to go by, over, or through) · ja 経つ (to move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge) · es pasar de largo (to go past) · hu átruházzák (law: to be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance) · fur passâ (to move or be moved from one place to another) · de passen (sports: to move the ball or puck to a teammate) · ca passar (to move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge) · es pasar (to change from one state to another) · pt tocar (sports: to move the ball or puck to a teammate) · fi liikuttaa (to move or be moved from one place to another) · la praeterire (to go by, over, or through) · uk проминати (to elapse) · ar مَرَّ (to elapse) · be прайсці́ (to go by, over, or through) · hu kiürül (medicine: to eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes; to go through the intestines) · fi mennä (to elapse) · ru проходи́ть (to go by, over, or through) · fi läpäistä (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · cim büarbàigan (to go past) · ba күсеү (to go from one person to another) · ja 起こる (to happen) · fa گذشتن (to go by, over, or through) · ta விடு (to put in circulation; to give currency to) · pt passar (game: to decline to play in one's turn) · hu idead (to cause to move or go) · sc passai (to move or be moved from one place to another) · ja 生じる (to happen) · uk передава́ти (to move or be moved from one place to another) · hu meghoz (to cause to advance by stages of process) · fi jättää väliin (game: to decline to play in one's turn) · ru сконча́ться (to die) · sh proći (to move or be moved from one place to another) · es pasar (to be tolerated) · ca passar (to elapse) · ta வழங்கு (to cause to move or go) · nl slagen (to go successfully through) · hu folytatódik (to continue) · hu megszavaztat (to cause to advance by stages of process) · mww dhau (to go by, over, or through) · vi giao (sports: to move the ball or puck to a teammate) · ja 突く (fencing: to make, as a thrust, punto) · ta கட (to go by without noticing) · hu bevisz (to cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance) · ja パスする (sports: to move the ball or puck to a teammate) · es pasar (to elapse) · hu figyelmen kívül hagy (to go by without noticing) · pt passar (to elapse) · fi päästä läpi (to go successfully through) · la praetereo (to move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge) · ja 合格する (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · es pasar (game: to decline to play in one's turn) · fi poistua (to die) · ja 過ぎる (to move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge) · hu elnéz (to proceed without hindrance or opposition) · el αφήνω (law: to be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance) · ta செல் (to die) · ja 死亡する (to die) · alt ӧдӧр (to move or be moved from one place to another) · ta மாறு (to change from one state to another) · hy անցնել (to move or be moved from one place to another) · pl zdychać (pejor.) (to die) · de begleiten (to cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance) · ca aprovar (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · ja 通る (to go by, over, or through) · ru перейти́ (to go from one person to another) · pms passé (to move or be moved from one place to another) · nl heengaan (to die) · hu elhalad (to move or be moved from one place to another) · fa درگذشتن (to die) · es pasar (medicine: to eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes; to go through the intestines) · ja 過ぎる (to go by, over, or through) · fi mennä läpi (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · be перада́ць (to move or be moved from one place to another) · hu átad (to cause to move or go) · ta கழி (medicine: to eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes; to go through the intestines) · hu elfogadják (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · ta கட (to go successfully through) · ar مَرَّ (to go by, over, or through) · mww dhau (to elapse) · hu eltűnik (to move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge) · nrf pâsser l'pas (to die) · ar اِجْتَازَ (to go successfully through) · lt slinkti (to elapse) · ar تَخَلَّى (game: to decline to play in one's turn) · ang āgān (to elapse) · ht pase (to move or be moved from one place to another) · hi गुज़र करना (to move or be moved from one place to another) · hu forgalomba hoz (to put in circulation; to give currency to) · ro trece (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · es ocurrir (to happen) · ja 死ぬ (to die) · ta சாகு (to die) · ja 経つ (to elapse) · hu telik (to elapse) · hu jut (to go from one person to another) · fi liikkua (to move or be moved from one place to another) · fa گذشتن (to elapse) · pt falecer (to die) · te పాసగు (to go successfully through) · ru переезжа́ть (to change from one state to another) · hu halad (to move or be moved from one place to another) · ta கைமாற்று (to go from one person to another) · cmn 傳球 /传球 (sports: to move the ball or puck to a teammate) · sq kaloj (to move or be moved from one place to another) · hu kiürít (medicine: to eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes; to go through the intestines) · fr passer (to advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness) · cs podat (to move or be moved from one place to another) · my အောင် (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · ja 逝去する (to die) · uk перехо́дити (to go from one person to another) · ta கட (to elapse) · rm passar (to move or be moved from one place to another) · hu keresztülmegy (to live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer) · ar أَهمَلَ (to go by without noticing) · ko 붙다 (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · be перадава́ць (to move or be moved from one place to another) · hu elenyészik (to move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge) · ar مَرَّ (to go from one person to another) · eu gertatu (to happen) · ms lulus (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · de passieren (to go past) · fr passer (to move or be moved from one place to another) · ang belimpan (to happen) · tr göndermek (sports: to move the ball or puck to a teammate) · ta கட (to transcend, to surpass) · fi kuolla (to die) · hu elmegy (to be tolerated) · hu elmegy mellette (to go by, over, or through) · uk пройти́ (to go by, over, or through) · cs přihrát (sports: to move the ball or puck to a teammate) · hu elhalad mellette (to go by, over, or through) · sw kupita (to move or be moved from one place to another) · hu elhuny (to die) · sl miniti (to elapse) · ja 承認する (to advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness) · fi siirtyä (to go from one person to another) · es pasar (to happen) · ru сдать (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · nl overgaan (to change from one state to another) · fi käydä (to be tolerated) · ist passà (to move or be moved from one place to another) · ko 지나가다 (to move or be moved from one place to another) · fi ohittaa (medicine: to eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes; to go through the intestines) · nl voorbijgaan (to go by, over, or through) · hu overtake) előz (to go past) · ta இற (to die) · fr passer (to move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge) · ota آشمق (to move or be moved from one place to another) · hu kerül (to go from one person to another) · ja 可決する (to cause to advance by stages of process) · pl zdechnąć (pejor.) (to die) · ta தொடர் (to continue) · gun axa (to move or be moved from one place to another) · pl przebrnąć (to go successfully through) · sq kaloj (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · kmr bihurîn (to move or be moved from one place to another) · ar اِحْتَازَ (to advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness) · fi kadota (to move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge) · sk podávať (to move or be moved from one place to another) · ru пасова́ть (game: to decline to play in one's turn) · hu megfelel (to be tolerated) · lld passer (to move or be moved from one place to another) · nl voorbijgaan (to elapse) · hu passzol (game: to decline to play in one's turn) · ja 通る (to advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness) · pl zdać (to go through any inspection or test successfully) · de verstreichen (to elapse) · fi kulua (to elapse) · ko 지나가다 (to go by, over, or through)

pass en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • [pʰɛəs] (Canada, General-American)
  • [pʰaːs] (Boston)
  • [pʰeə̯s] (New-York-City)
  • [pʰæs] (Ireland, Northern-England)
  • [pʰäs] (Scotland)
  • [pʰäːs] (Australia, New-Zealand)
  • /pæs/
  • (US) audio
  • [pʰɑːs] (General-South-African, Received-Pronunciation)
  • [pʰæs] (Canada, General-American)
  • [pʰɐːs] (Australia, New-Zealand)
  • [pʰas] (Ireland, Northern-England)
  • /pɑːs/
  • [pʰeəs] (Canada, General-American)

Etymology

From Middle English pas, pase, pace, from passen (“to pass”).

Meanings

  1. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
    • "Try not the Pass!" the old man said; / "Dark lowers the tempest overhead, / The roaring torrent is deep and wide!" / And loud that clarion voice replied / Excelsior! 1841 September 28 (date written), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “[Miscellaneous.] Excelsior.”, in Ballads and Other Poems, 2nd edition, Cambridge, Mass.: […] John Owen, published 1842, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 130:
    • mountain pass
    • Followed two more weeks of marching,—rougher marching this time,—through the core of the lofty mountains that divide India from Central Asia; across the terrible Depsang Plains, seventeen thousand feet up; and over four passes choked with snow; till they came upon a deserted fort, set in the midst of stark space, and knew that here, indeed, was the limit of human habitation. Next day the work of exploration had begun in earnest. 1910, Maud Diver, “The Valley of Decision”, in The Great Amulet, New York: John Lane Company, →OCLC, page 368:
  2. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
    • the passes of the Mississippi
  3. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
    • [The bear] made a pass at the dog, but he swung out and above him […] 1921, John Griffin, "Trailing the Grizzly in Oregon", in Forest and Stream, pages 389-391 and 421-424, republished by Jeanette Prodgers in 1997 in The Only Good Bear is a Dead Bear, page 35
  4. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
  5. An attempt.
    • My first pass at a career of writing proved unsuccessful.
  6. An attempt. ▸ A sexual advance (often in the phrase make a pass).
    • The man kicked his friend out of the house after he made a pass at his wife.
  7. Success in an examination or similar test.
    • I gained three passes at A-level, in mathematics, French, and English literature.
  8. A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
  9. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
  10. The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
    • Everyone in the football stadium expected a pass play on third down.
  11. A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
  12. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
    • A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy. 1826, James Kent, Commentaries on American Law:
  13. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
    • a railroad pass; a theater pass; a military pass
  14. An intentional walk.
    • Smith was given a pass after Jones' double.
  15. The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
    • Albon made hard work of the result. Starting fourth, he dropped back to seventh at the second start and had to fight his way back up, which he did with some excellent passes. 2020 September 13, Andrew Benson, “Tuscan Grand Prix: Lewis Hamilton claims 90th win after incredible race”, in BBC Sport:
  16. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
    • "What with Robert strolling out with publicans' daughters, and you having affairs with bicycle-shop keepers, the family is coming to a pretty pass." 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 187:
    • What, have his daughters brought him to this pass? c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
    • England is growne to ſuch a paſſe of late, That rich men triumph to ſee the poore beg at their gate. 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], →OCLC, Act I:
    • Matters have been brought to this pass, that, if one among a man's sons had any blemish, he laid him aside for the ministry... 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
  17. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
    • This passes, Master Ford. c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:
  18. The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
    • The finished dishes are placed on the pass ready to be collected by the waiter. 2017, Fred Sirieix, Secret Service: Lifting the lid on the restaurant world:
  19. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
    • A pass would have seen her win the game, but instead she gave a wrong answer and lost a point, putting her in second place.
  20. A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
    • Most Pascal compilers process source code in a single pass.

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Deriveds

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pass (noun)) · pass book (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · short pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · spot pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · portpass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · Kicking Horse Pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · make the passes (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · drop pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · chest pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · late pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · bypass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · play-action pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · sell the pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · forward pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · pass rush (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · flare pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · bathroom pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · multi-pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · Oberalp Pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · passthought (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · back pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · battle pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · 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(noun)) · backpass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · reverse pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · half-pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · passman (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · pass law (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · Aarons Pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · highpass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · passimeter (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · star pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · passcard (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · bandpass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · lead pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · hard pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · passholding (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · Point Pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · Pass of Brander (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · wrist pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · passcode (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · pass box (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · flat pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · pass rusher (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · userpass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · screen pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · fish pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · bring to pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · punishment pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · mountain pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · pass check (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · bus pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · backstage pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · press pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · Chavez Pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · two-line pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · pass grip (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · hallpass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · come to pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · hospital pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · coupon pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · season pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · wet pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · Hail Mary pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · saucer pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · Charlotte Pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · handpass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · head off at the pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · Eagle Pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · passgrip (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · free pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · Macquarie Pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · Arthur's Pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · kitchen pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · pass transistor (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · lowpass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · cut off at the pass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · footpass (Terms derived from pass (noun)) · Ladys Pass (Terms derived from pass (noun))

Descendants

སྤ་སེ

Synonyms

proposition · come-on · transit · admission · notch · state · condition · entry · thrust · predicament · access · gap

Translations (119)

sl prepustnica (document granting permission to pass or to go and come) · gd pas (permission or license to pass, or to go and come) · fr état (the state of things) · be перава́л (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · fr passage (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · ar طَريق (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · de Pass (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · gl paso (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · mi raihana (permission or license to pass, or to go and come) · tr boğaz (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · uk перевал (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · sv passage (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · fr sauf-conduit (document granting permission to pass or to go and come) · bg про́пуск (permission or license to pass, or to go and come) · el άδεια (document granting permission to pass or to go and come) · be про́пуск (permission or license to pass, or to go and come) · pl przełęcz (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · mi puka whakaaetanga (permission or license to pass, or to go and come) · fi pisto (fencing: thrust or push) · sw pasi (document granting permission to pass or to go and come) · ja 事態 (the state of things) · ta கணவாய் (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · fi tila (the state of things) · hu belépő (document granting permission to pass or to go and come) · pt passagem (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · hu szoros (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · tr giriş-çıkış izni (permission or license to pass, or to go and come) · fr passage (movement of a tool over something, or something over a tool) · la furculae (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · hu kitörés (fencing: thrust or push) · ar جَوَاز (permission or license to pass, or to go and come) · tr vaziyet (the state of things) · ar جَوَاز (document granting permission to pass or to go and come) · fr défilé (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · be про́пуск (document granting permission to pass or to go and come) · ro trecătoare (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · hu engedély (document granting permission to pass or to go and come) · tr paso (document granting permission to pass or to go and come) · gl porto (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · sw pasi (permission or license to pass, or to go and come) · mk пропусница (document granting permission to pass or to go and come) · pl przebieg (movement of a tool over something, or something over a tool) · el πάσο (document granting permission to pass or to go and come) · ka საშვი (document granting permission to pass or to go and come) · mi puka whakaaetanga (document granting permission to pass or to go and come) · ga bearnas (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · fi reitti (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · mk пропусница (permission or license to pass, or to go and come) · hu bérlet (permission or license to pass, or to go and come) · fi sola (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · sh prolaz (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · ja 突き (fencing: thrust or push) · ja 許可証 (document granting permission to pass or to go and come) · ja 山道 (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · ru про́пуск (permission or license to pass, or to go and come) · fr passe (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · pt passe (document granting permission to pass or to go and come) · tr pasaport (document granting permission to pass or to go and come) · uk пере́пустка (permission or license to pass, or to go and come) · fi lippu (document granting permission to pass or to go and come) · de Passierschein (permission or license to pass, or to go and come) · hu igazolvány (document granting permission to pass or to go and come) · sq kalim (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · uk пере́пустка (document granting permission to pass or to go and come) · he מַעֲבָר (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · tr geçit (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · pl przepustka (document granting permission to pass or to go and come) · vi đèo núi (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · ru перева́л (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · vi đèo (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · uk про́пуск (permission or license to pass, or to go and come) · tr durum (the state of things) · hu hágó (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · la saltus (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · ga mám (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · tr geçiş izni (permission or license to pass, or to go and come) · fi asiaintila (the state of things) · ja 細道 (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · nv dziłgiizh (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · es pase (permission or license to pass, or to go and come) · hu passz (fencing: thrust or push) · gd pas (document granting permission to pass or to go and come) · sl prepustnica (permission or license to pass, or to go and come) · de Zeitfahrkarte (permission or license to pass, or to go and come) · ta பாதை (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · sl prelaz (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · tr ruhsat (document granting permission to pass or to go and come) · sv pass (document granting permission to pass or to go and come) · uk про́пуск (document granting permission to pass or to go and come) · el πέρασμα (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · nl passage (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · fi passi (document granting permission to pass or to go and come) · de Dauerkarte (permission or license to pass, or to go and come) · fi kulkulupa (document granting permission to pass or to go and come) · bg пропуск (document granting permission to pass or to go and come) · tr dar yol (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · sl prehod (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · fr laissez-passer (document granting permission to pass or to go and come) · ja 小道 (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · tr giriş kartı (document granting permission to pass or to go and come) · ka უღელტეხილი (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · de Zeitkarte (permission or license to pass, or to go and come) · ja 段階 (the state of things) · nl pas (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · tl silang (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · es paso (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · fi pyyhkäisy (movement of a tool over something, or something over a tool) · fi kulkulupa (permission or license to pass, or to go and come) · hu helyzet (the state of things) · el στενό (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · es pase (document granting permission to pass or to go and come) · hu hegyszoros (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · gl portela (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · el διάβαση (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · zu isikhala (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · ru про́пуск (document granting permission to pass or to go and come) · ro pas (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · la angustiae (opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass, passage) · ja 通行証 (document granting permission to pass or to go and come)

pass en · NOUN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • [pʰɛəs] (Canada, General-American)
  • [pʰaːs] (Boston)
  • [pʰeə̯s] (New-York-City)
  • [pʰæs] (Ireland, Northern-England)
  • [pʰäs] (Scotland)
  • [pʰäːs] (Australia, New-Zealand)
  • /pæs/
  • (US) audio
  • [pʰɑːs] (General-South-African, Received-Pronunciation)
  • [pʰæs] (Canada, General-American)
  • [pʰɐːs] (Australia, New-Zealand)
  • [pʰas] (Ireland, Northern-England)
  • /pɑːs/
  • [pʰeəs] (Canada, General-American)

Etymology

Clipping of password.

Meanings

  1. (slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
    • Anyone want to trade passes?
    • If you don't have your password set within a week I'll remove you from the userlist and I'll add you again next time I see you in the chan and make sure you set a pass. 1999, Jonny Durango, “IMPORTANT NEWS FOR AHM IRC CHAN!!!”, in alt.hackers.malicious (Usenet):

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Relateds

pass-agg · pass-dice