pass
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: passes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: passing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: passed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: passed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: pass
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: pass
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: passed
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: pass
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: passest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: passed
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: passedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: passes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: passeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: passed
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: pass
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: passed
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: pass
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: passed
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: pass
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: passing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: passed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: passe
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: passes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To change place.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: They passed from room to room.
gloss: To change place.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You will pass a house on your right.
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.
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.
gloss: To change place.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
examples: The waiter passed biscuits and cheese.
John passed Suzie a note.
The torch was passed from hand to hand.
I had only time to pass my eye over the medals.
Waller […] passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge.
gloss: To change place.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: He was passing blood in both his urine and his stool.
The poison had been passed by the time of the autopsy.
gloss: To change place.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To change place.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 20 June 2010, The Guardian, Rob Smyth
Iaquinta passes it coolly into the right-hand corner as Paston dives the other way.
gloss: To change place.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Brady passed the ball to nine different receivers and handed it off to seven.
gloss: To change place.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To change place.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The Patriots passed on third and long.
gloss: To change place.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To change place.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: pass counterfeit money
gloss: To change place.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: pass a person into a theater or over a railroad
gloss: To change place.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: When it's finished cooking, you should pass the sauce to get rid of any lumps.
gloss: To change in state or status
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He passed from youth into old age.
gloss: To change in state or status
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: At first, she was worried, but that feeling soon passed.
Beauty's a charm, but soon the charm will pass.
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.
The crisis passed as she'd prayed it would, but it remained to be seen just how much damage had been done.
gloss: To change in state or status
pos: verb
tags: euphemistic
intransitive
examples: His grandmother passed yesterday.
gloss: To change in state or status
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: He attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.
Of the Ancient Wonders, only the pyramids have passed the test of time.
gloss: To change in state or status
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Despite the efforts of the opposition, the bill passed.
The bill passed both houses of Congress.
The bill passed the Senate, but did not pass in the House.
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.
gloss: To change in state or status
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To change in state or status
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He passed the bill through the committee.
Pass the happy news.
gloss: To change in state or status
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: And within three dayes twelve knyghtes passed uppon hem; and they founde Sir Palomydes gylty, and Sir Saphir nat gylty, of the lordis deth.
gloss: To change in state or status
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I may almost depend on your own justice, and leave it to yourself to pass sentence on your own conduct
Father, thy word is passed.
gloss: To change in state or status
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
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.'
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.
gloss: To move through time.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Their vacation passed pleasantly.
gloss: To move through time.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: What will we do to pass the time?
To pass commodiously this life.
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.
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.
gloss: To move through time.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Please you that I may pass / This doing.
I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array.
gloss: To move through time.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To move through time.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: You're late, but I'll let it pass.
gloss: To move through time.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Please you that I may pass / This doing.
gloss: To move through time.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: It will soon come to pass.
[…] for the memory of what passed while at that place is almost blank.
gloss: To be accepted.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
stative
examples: It isn't ideal, but it will pass.
gloss: To be accepted.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
stative
examples: Chinese sometimes pass for Europeans, but Japs more often approach Western types.
[…] 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.
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).
gloss: To refrain from doing something.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He asked me to go to the cinema with him, but I think I'll pass.
gloss: To refrain from doing something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Instead, the board voted to suspend the dividend, giving Orton his way at last. They passed the dividend again in June 1870 […]
gloss: To refrain from doing something.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I haven't any idea of the answer, so I'll have to pass.
gloss: To refrain from doing something.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To refrain from doing something.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To do or be better.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: This passes, Master Ford.
gloss: To do or be better.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And striue to passe[…]Their natiue musicke by her skilfull art:
Whose tender power Passes the strength of storms in their most desolate hour.
gloss: To take heed, to have an interest, to care.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: 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, […]
As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: mountain pass
"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!
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.
gloss: A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
pos: noun
examples: the passes of the Mississippi
gloss: A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
pos: noun
examples: [The bear] made a pass at the dog, but he swung out and above him […]
gloss: A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
pos: noun
gloss: An attempt.
pos: noun
examples: My first pass at a career of writing proved unsuccessful.
gloss: An attempt.
pos: noun
examples: The man kicked his friend out of the house after he made a pass at his wife.
gloss: Success in an examination or similar test.
pos: noun
examples: I gained three passes at A-level, in mathematics, French, and English literature.
gloss: A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
pos: noun
gloss: A thrust; a sally of wit.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
pos: noun
examples: Everyone in the football stadium expected a pass play on third down.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
pos: noun
examples: A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy.
gloss: A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
pos: noun
examples: a railroad pass; a theater pass; a military pass
gloss: An intentional walk.
pos: noun
examples: Smith was given a pass after Jones' double.
gloss: The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
pos: noun
examples: England is growne to ſuch a paſſe of late,
That rich men triumph to ſee the poore beg at their gate.
What, have his daughters brought him to this pass?
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...
"What with Robert strolling out with publicans' daughters, and you having affairs with bicycle-shop keepers, the family is coming to a pretty pass."
gloss: Estimation; character.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: This passes, Master Ford.
gloss: The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
pos: noun
examples: The finished dishes are placed on the pass ready to be collected by the waiter.
gloss: An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
pos: noun
examples: Most Pascal compilers process source code in a single pass.
Related words: in the closet
Derived words: bypass
circumpass
don't pass go
forpass
forthpass
I'll pass
impassable
let pass
let this cup pass from me
may I pass through
onpass
outpass
parade passed someone by
passable
pass across
pass a good time
pass along
pass-and-play
pass around
pass as
pass a sponge over the slate
pass a stool
pass away
pass back
pass by
pass-by-future
pass-by-name
pass-by-need
pass down
passed ball
passee
passer
pass for
pass gas
passing loop
pass in one's checks
pass into
pass judgment
pass motion
pass muster
pass off
pass off as
pass on
pass oneself off as
pass one's way
pass one's word
pass-out
pass out
pass over
Passover
pass-parole
pass round
pass round the hat
pass sentence
pass shot
pass stool
pass the bar
pass the baton
pass the bottle of smoke
pass the buck
pass the hat
pass the mantle
pass the parcel
pass the parcler
pass the phone
pass the pikes
pass the river
pass the time
pass the time of day
pass the torch
pass the trash
pass through
passthrough
pass through the hands
pass through the pikes
pass time
pass-time
pass under the yoke
pass unnoticed
pass up
pass up like a white chip
pass upon
pass urine
pass water
pass wind
pass with flying colors
password
pick and pass
please pass the salt
puff, puff, pass
push-to-pass
pussy pass
repass
ships that passed in the night
ships that pass in the night
signal passed at danger
stab yourself and pass the dagger
this too shall pass
this too shall pass away
transpass
unpass
Aarons Pass
Arthur's Pass
back-pass
back pass
backpass
backstage pass
backward pass
bandpass
band-pass
battle pass
Bernina Pass
boarding pass
bring to pass
bus pass
by-pass
Charlotte Pass
Chavez Pass
chest pass
come to pass
coupon pass
Crowsnest Pass
cut off at the pass
drop pass
dry pass
Eagle Pass
fish pass
flare pass
flat pass
footpass
forward pass
Freds Pass
free pass
ghetto pass
green pass
Hail Mary pass
half-pass
hallpass
hall pass
handpass
hand pass
hard pass
head off at the pass
hey pass
high-pass
highpass
hospital pass
inbounds pass
incomplete pass
Independence Pass
intentional pass
jump pass
Kicking Horse Pass
kitchen pass
Ladys Pass
late pass
lateral pass
lead pass
lift pass
Light Pass
lowpass
low-pass
Macquarie Pass
make a pass
make the passes
mountain pass
multi-pass
N-word pass
Oberalp Pass
outlet pass
overpass
pass/no pass
passband
pass boat
passbook
pass book
pass box
pass by reference
pass by value
passcard
pass check
passcode
pass current
pass degree
pass-fail
pass grip
passgrip
passholder
passholding
passimeter
passkey
pass law
passless
passman
Pass of Brander
passoid
passphrase
pass-remarkable
passroll
pass rush
pass rusher
passthought
pass transistor
passwall
passway
penalty pass
play-action pass
Point Pass
portpass
Poyntzpass
prepass
press pass
pretty pass
punishment pass
Raton Pass
return pass
reverse pass
ride pass
saucer pass
screen pass
sea pass
season pass
sell the pass
short pass
side pass
Snake Pass
snap pass
spiral pass
spot pass
stab pass
star pass
subpass
suicide pass
thoroughpass
touchdown pass
two-line pass
underpass
userpass
wet pass
Yellowhead Pass
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: kaloj
lang: Southern Altai
word: ӧдӧр
roman: ödör
lang: Ao
word: süi (Chungli)
lang: Arabic
word: مَرَّ
roman: marra
lang: Armenian
word: անցնել
roman: ancʻnel
lang: Bashkir
word: үтеү
roman: ütew
lang: Belarusian
word: прахо́дзіць
roman: praxódzicʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: прайсці́
roman: prajscí
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 過 /过
roman: guò
lang: Czech
word: jít kolem
lang: Czech
word: minout
lang: Dutch
word: voorbijgaan
lang: Finnish
word: kulkea
lang: French
word: passer
lang: German
word: hinüberkommen
lang: Greek
word: περνάω
roman: pernáo
lang: Mbya Guarani
word: axa
lang: White Hmong
word: dhau
lang: Hungarian
word: elmegy mellette
lang: Hungarian
word: elhalad mellette
lang: Italian
word: passare
lang: Japanese
word: 通る
roman: tōru
lang: Japanese
word: 過ぎる
roman: sugiru
lang: Japanese
word: 通過する
roman: tsūka suru
lang: Korean
word: 지나가다
roman: jinagada
lang: Latin
word: praeterire
lang: Latin
word: praetereo
lang: Persian
word: گذشتن
roman: gozaštan
lang: Portuguese
word: passar
lang: Russian
word: проходи́ть
roman: proxodítʹ
lang: Russian
word: пройти́
roman: projtí
lang: Spanish
word: pasar
lang: Swedish
word: förflytta
lang: Tamil
word: தாண்டு
roman: tāṇṭu
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: آشمق
roman: aşmak
lang: Ukrainian
word: прохо́дити
roman: proxódyty
lang: Ukrainian
word: пройти́
roman: projtý
lang: ǃXóõ
word: ǃkxʻáa
lang: Arabic
word: مَرَّ
roman: marra
lang: Bashkir
word: үтеү
roman: ütew
lang: Finnish
word: ohittaa
lang: French
word: passer
lang: White Hmong
word: dhau
lang: Hungarian
word: ürül
lang: Hungarian
word: kiürül
lang: Hungarian
word: ürít
lang: Hungarian
word: kiürít
lang: Latin
word: praetereo
lang: Spanish
word: pasar
lang: Tamil
word: கழி
roman: kaḻi
lang: Bashkir
word: күсеү
roman: küsew
lang: Dutch
word: overgaan
lang: Finnish
word: muuttua
lang: Finnish
word: vaihtua
lang: French
word: passer
lang: Hungarian
word: változik
lang: Hungarian
word: válik
lang: Latin
word: praetereo
lang: Norman
word: pâsser
lang: Portuguese
word: passar
lang: Russian
word: переезжа́ть
roman: perejezžátʹ
lang: Russian
word: перее́хать
roman: perejéxatʹ
lang: Slovene
word: preiti
lang: Spanish
word: pasar
lang: Tamil
word: மாறு
roman: māṟu
lang: Tamil
word: தாண்டு
roman: tāṇṭu
lang: Albanian
word: kaloj
lang: Arabic
word: اِجْتَازَ
roman: ijtāza
lang: Dutch
word: slagen
lang: Finnish
word: päästä läpi
lang: French
word: passer
lang: White Hmong
word: dhau
lang: Hungarian
word: átmegy
lang: Hungarian
word: átjut
lang: Polish
word: przebrnąć
lang: Polish
word: przejść
lang: Russian
word: проходи́ть
roman: proxodítʹ
lang: Russian
word: пройти́
roman: projtí
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: pasaig
lang: Tamil
word: கட
roman: kaṭa
lang: Telugu
word: పాసగు
roman: pāsagu
lang: Albanian
word: kaloj
lang: Arabic
word: اِجْتَازَ
roman: ijtāza
lang: Armenian
word: անցնել
roman: ancʻnel
lang: Burmese
word: အောင်
roman: aung
lang: Catalan
word: aprovar
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 及格
roman: jígé
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 通過 /通过
roman: tōngguò
lang: Dutch
word: slagen
lang: Finnish
word: mennä läpi
lang: Finnish
word: läpäistä
lang: Finnish
word: päästä läpi
lang: French
word: réussir
lang: French
word: passer
lang: German
word: bestehen
lang: Greek
word: περνάω
roman: pernáo
lang: Hebrew
word: עבר
roman: avár
lang: White Hmong
word: dhau
lang: Hungarian
word: megfelel
lang: Hungarian
word: átmegy
lang: Hungarian
word: elfogadják
lang: Japanese
word: 合格する
roman: gōkaku suru
lang: Khmer
word: ជាប់
roman: cŏəp
lang: Korean
word: 합격하다
roman: hapgyeokhada
lang: Korean
word: 붙다
roman: butda
lang: Latin
word: praetereo
lang: Lithuanian
word: išlaikyti
lang: Malay
word: lulus
lang: Polish
word: zdawać
lang: Polish
word: zdać
lang: Portuguese
word: passar
lang: Romanian
word: trece
lang: Russian
word: сдава́ть
roman: sdavátʹ
lang: Russian
word: сдать
roman: sdatʹ
lang: Spanish
word: pasar
lang: Spanish
word: aprobar
lang: Tamil
word: கட
roman: kaṭa
lang: Tamil
word: தேர்ச்சி பெறு
roman: tērcci peṟu
lang: Vietnamese
word: qua được
lang: Vietnamese
word: đỗ