Word: pass Part of Speech: verb 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. Pronunciation: /pɑːs/, [pʰɑːs], [pʰäːs], [pʰɐːs], [pʰaːs] 1. To change place. Labels: intransitive Example: They passed from room to room. 2. To change place. Labels: transitive Example: You will pass a house on your right. Example: 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. 3. To change place. Labels: ditransitive Example: The waiter passed biscuits and cheese. Example: John passed Suzie a note. 4. To change place. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: He was passing blood in both his urine and his stool. Example: The poison had been passed by the time of the autopsy. 5. To change place. Labels: transitive 6. To change place. Labels: transitive Example: 20 June 2010, The Guardian, Rob Smyth Iaquinta passes it coolly into the right-hand corner as Paston dives the other way. 7. To change place. Labels: transitive Example: Brady passed the ball to nine different receivers and handed it off to seven. 8. To change place. Labels: intransitive 9. To change place. Labels: intransitive Example: The Patriots passed on third and long. 10. To change place. Labels: intransitive 11. To change place. Labels: transitive Example: pass counterfeit money 12. To change place. Labels: transitive Example: pass a person into a theater or over a railroad 13. To change place. Labels: transitive Example: When it's finished cooking, you should pass the sauce to get rid of any lumps. 14. To change in state or status Labels: intransitive Example: He passed from youth into old age. 15. To change in state or status Labels: intransitive Example: At first, she was worried, but that feeling soon passed. Example: Beauty's a charm, but soon the charm will pass. 16. To change in state or status Labels: euphemistic, intransitive Example: His grandmother passed yesterday. 17. To change in state or status Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: He attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass. Example: Of the Ancient Wonders, only the pyramids have passed the test of time. 18. To change in state or status Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: Despite the efforts of the opposition, the bill passed. Example: The bill passed both houses of Congress. 19. To change in state or status Labels: intransitive Example: The estate passes by the third clause in Mr Smith's deed to his son. Example: 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. To change in state or status Labels: transitive Example: He passed the bill through the committee. Example: Pass the happy news. 21. To change in state or status Labels: intransitive Example: And within three dayes twelve knyghtes passed uppon hem; and they founde Sir Palomydes gylty, and Sir Saphir nat gylty, of the lordis deth. 22. To change in state or status Labels: transitive Example: I may almost depend on your own justice, and leave it to yourself to pass sentence on your own conduct Example: Father, thy word is passed. 23. To change in state or status Labels: intransitive Example: 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. Example: 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.' 24. To move through time. Labels: intransitive Example: Their vacation passed pleasantly. 25. To move through time. Labels: transitive Example: What will we do to pass the time? Example: To pass commodiously this life. 26. To move through time. Labels: transitive Example: Please you that I may pass / This doing. Example: I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array. 27. To move through time. Labels: intransitive 28. To move through time. Labels: intransitive Example: You're late, but I'll let it pass. 29. To move through time. Labels: transitive Example: Please you that I may pass / This doing. 30. To move through time. Labels: intransitive Example: It will soon come to pass. Example: […] for the memory of what passed while at that place is almost blank. 31. To be accepted. Labels: intransitive, stative Example: It isn't ideal, but it will pass. 32. To be accepted. Labels: intransitive, stative Example: Chinese sometimes pass for Europeans, but Japs more often approach Western types. Example: […] 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. 33. To refrain from doing something. Labels: intransitive Example: He asked me to go to the cinema with him, but I think I'll pass. 34. To refrain from doing something. Labels: transitive Example: Instead, the board voted to suspend the dividend, giving Orton his way at last. They passed the dividend again in June 1870 […] 35. To refrain from doing something. Labels: intransitive Example: I haven't any idea of the answer, so I'll have to pass. 36. To refrain from doing something. Labels: intransitive 37. To refrain from doing something. Labels: intransitive 38. To do or be better. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: This passes, Master Ford. 39. To do or be better. Labels: transitive Example: And striue to passe[…]Their natiue musicke by her skilfull art: Example: Whose tender power Passes the strength of storms in their most desolate hour. 40. To take heed, to have an interest, to care. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: 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, […] Example: As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not.