Past

Past [past]
Adjective
Similar to: Present, Future
==Origin==
#English: Pass
#Middle English: Passed
#Then: Past
==Meanings==
#Gone by in time and no longer existing.
##Belonging to a former time.
## Occurring before and leading up to the time of speaking or writing.
#[Grammar] Expressing an action that has happened or a state that previously existed.
##Having existed or taken place in a period before the present.
##Of, relating to, or constituting a verb tense that is expressive of elapsed time and that in English is usually formed by internal vowel change (as in sang) or by the addition of a suffix.
##Having served as a specified officer in an organization
#So as to reach and go beyond a point near at hand.
##Time gone by.
##More than.
## The past tense of a language.
##A verb form in the past tense.
==Examples ==
# The danger is now past.
#They made a study of the reasons why past attempts had failed.
# The band has changed over the past twelve months.
# 12 years past.
#Started working on this project 10 years past.
#For the past few months.
#I spoke with him this past weekend.
#In past winters, we have had much more snow.
#Past president.
#Past champions.
#She was hired based on her past experience in sales.
#A past editor of the newspaper.
#Of Paredes' four homers, three have occurred in his past five games.
#The second-year guard/forward has missed five of the past six games, including three in a row counting Tuesday’s game, with a right quad contusion.
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