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pass through en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (US) A framed, window-like aperture in the interior wall of a house, usually between a kitchen and dining room, through which items (especially food) can be passed. A serving hatch.

Forms

Translations (5)

pl okno podawcze (aperture) · es pasaplatos (aperture) · fi tarjoiluluukku (aperture) · fi tarjoiluaukko (aperture) · bg шубер (aperture)

pass through en · VERB

Meanings

1. To go through, to travel through, to transit or lie across a place or from one place to another.
   • We passed through the checkpoint on the road that passes through Freedonia.
   • At length, the two schemes were amalgamated to form the Manchester & Birmingham, which was to pass through the Potteries and join the Grand Junction at Chebsey, a few miles north of Stafford. 1957 September 14, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 617:
   • Beginning where the road crosses the Sino-Soviet frontier at Man-chou-li, it passes through Hailar and Ha-erh-pin (Harbin) and ends when it crosses back into Soviet territory at Sui-fen-ho (Pogranichnaia). During its history it has been known as the Trans-Manchurian Railway, the North Manchurian Railway, the Chinese Changchun Railway and the Harbin Railway. The main line from Man-chou-li to Sui-fen-ho is 950 miles in length. 1978, “CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY”, in Joseph L. Wieczynski, editor, The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History, volume 7, Academic International Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 49:
2. To make something move through something else.
   • The dough is passed through the pasta machine several times.
3. To undergo; to experience.
   • We all passed through those phases.
4. Synonym of infiltrate.
   • We passed through enemy lines in the fog.

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Relateds

may I pass through · talk through · work through · passer-through

Synonyms

traverse · lustrate · infiltrate · go through

Translations (20)

es atravesar (to go through) · pl przejechać (to go through) · la peragrō (to go through) · bg пресичам (to go through) · pl przesuwać (to make something move through something else) · tl dumaan (to go through) · pl przesunąć (to make something move through something else) · fr traverser (to go through) · bg прокарвам (to make something move through something else) · nl doorlopen (to go through) · ar اِخْتَرَقَ (to go through) · fi mennä läpi (to make something move through something else) · eo trapasi (to go through) · grc ἀμείβομαι (to go through) · ar نَفَذَ (to go through) · cho hlopulli (to go through) · it trapassare (to go through) · ny kupítira (to go through) · cho hlopullichi (to make something move through something else) · pl przejeżdżać (to go through)