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(baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls; "he worked the pitcher for a base on balls"

come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"

transmit information ; "Please communicate this message to all employees"

pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"

guide or pass over something; "He ran his eyes over her body"; "She ran her fingers along the carved figurine"; "He drew her hair through his fingers"

pass into a specified state or condition; "He sank into Nirvana"

make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation; "They passed the amendment"; "We cannot legislate how people's spend their free time"

a permit to enter or leave a military installation; "he had to show his pass in order to get out"

cause to pass; "She passed around the plates"

the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks; "we got through the pass before it started to snow"

be identified, regarded, accepted, or mistaken for someone or something else; as by denying one's own ancestry or background; "He could pass as his twin brother"; "She passed as a White woman even though her grandfather was Black"

a flight or run by an aircraft over a target; "the plane turned to make a second pass"

a complementary (free) ticket; "the start got passes for his family"

a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs

(American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate; "the coach sent in a passing play on third and long"

one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer); "it was not possible to complete the computation in a single pass"

(military) a written leave of absence; "he had a pass for three days"

disappear gradually; "The pain eventually passed off"

pass by; "three years elapsed"

transfer to another; of rights or property; "Our house passed under his official control"

place into the hands or custody of; "hand me the spoon, please"; "Turn the files over to me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers"

throw (a ball) to another player; "Smith passed"

allow to go without comment or censure; "the insult passed as if unnoticed"

go unchallenged; be approved; "The bill cleared the House"

accept or judge as acceptable; "The teacher passed the student although he was weak"

go beyond; "She exceeded our expectations"; "She topped her performance of last year"

stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point; "Service runs all the way to Cranbury"; "His knowledge doesn't go very far"; "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life".

pass (time) in a specific way; "How are you spending your summer vacation?"

of advancing the ball by throwing it; "a team with a good passing attack"; "a pass play"

(baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls; "he worked the pitcher for a base on balls"

come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"

transmit information ; "Please communicate this message to all employees"

pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"

guide or pass over something; "He ran his eyes over her body"; "She ran her fingers along the carved figurine"; "He drew her hair through his fingers"

pass into a specified state or condition; "He sank into Nirvana"

make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation; "They passed the amendment"; "We cannot legislate how people's spend their free time"

a permit to enter or leave a military installation; "he had to show his pass in order to get out"

cause to pass; "She passed around the plates"

the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks; "we got through the pass before it started to snow"

be identified, regarded, accepted, or mistaken for someone or something else; as by denying one's own ancestry or background; "He could pass as his twin brother"; "She passed as a White woman even though her grandfather was Black"

a flight or run by an aircraft over a target; "the plane turned to make a second pass"

a football play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate; "the coach sent in a passing play on third and long"

a complementary (free) ticket; "the start got passes for his family"

a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs

In football, hockey, etc., a transfer of the ball, etc., to another player of one's side, usually at some distance.

In football, hockey, etc., to make pass; to transfer the ball, etc., to another player of one's own side.

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind or manner of motion; as, to pass on, by, out, in, etc.; to pass swiftly, directly, smoothly, etc.; to pass to the rear, under the yoke, over the bridge, across the field, beyond the border, etc.

To move or be transferred from one state or condition to another; to change possession, condition, or circumstances; to undergo transition; as, the business has passed into other hands.

To move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge; to pass away; hence, to disappear; to vanish; to depart; specifically, to depart from life; to die.

To move or to come into being or under notice; to come and go in consciousness; hence, to take place; to occur; to happen; to come; to occur progressively or in succession; to be present transitorily.

To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as, their vacation passed pleasantly.

To go through any inspection or test successfully; to be approved or accepted; as, he attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.

To be suffered to go on; to be tolerated; hence, to continue; to live along.

To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance or opposition; as, we let this act pass.

To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.

To take heed; to care.

To go through the intestines.

To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance; as, an estate passes by a certain clause in a deed.

To make a lunge or pass; to thrust.

To decline to take an optional action when it is one's turn, as to decline to bid, or to bet, or to play a card; in euchre, to decline to make the trump.

In football, hockey, etc., to make a pass; to transfer the ball, etc., to another player of one's own side.

To go by, beyond, over, through, or the like; to proceed from one side to the other of; as, to pass a house, a stream, a boundary, etc.

To go from one limit to the other of; to spend; to live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.

To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.

To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.

To go successfully through, as an examination, trail, test, etc.; to obtain the formal sanction of, as a legislative body; as, he passed his examination; the bill passed the senate.

To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another; to transmit; to deliver; to hand; to make over; as, the waiter passed bisquit and cheese; the torch was passed from hand to hand.

To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce; hence, to promise; to pledge; as, to pass sentence.

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; as, he passed the bill through the committee; the senate passed the law.

To put in circulation; to give currency to; as, to pass counterfeit money.

To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance; as, to pass a person into a theater, or over a railroad.

To emit from the bowels; to evacuate.

To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.

To make, as a thrust, punto, etc.

An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier; a passageway; a defile; a ford; as, a mountain pass.

A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.

A movement of the hand over or along anything; the manipulation of a mesmerist.

A single passage of a bar, rail, sheet, etc., between the rolls.

State of things; condition; predicament.

Permission or license to pass, or to go and come; a psssport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission; as, a railroad or theater pass; a military pass.

Fig.: a thrust; a sally of wit.

Estimation; character.

A part; a division.

To go from one person to another; hence, to be given and taken freely; as, clipped coin will not pass; to obtain general acceptance; to be held or regarded; to circulate; to be current; - followed by for before a word denoting value or estimation.

In football, hockey, etc., a transfer of the ball, etc., to another player of one's side, usually at some distance.

In football, hockey, etc., to make pass; to transfer the ball, etc., to another player of one's own side.

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind or manner of motion; as, to pass on, by, out, in, etc.; to pass swiftly, directly, smoothly, etc.; to pass to the rear, under the yoke, over the bridge, across the field, beyond the border, etc.

To move or be transferred from one state or condition to another; to change possession, condition, or circumstances; to undergo transition; as, the business has passed into other hands.

To move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge; to pass away; hence, to disappear; to vanish; to depart; specifically, to depart from life; to die.

To move or to come into being or under notice; to come and go in consciousness; hence, to take place; to occur; to happen; to come; to occur progressively or in succession; to be present transitorily.

To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as, their vacation passed pleasantly.

To go through any inspection or test successfully; to be approved or accepted; as, he attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.

To be suffered to go on; to be tolerated; hence, to continue; to live along.

To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance or opposition; as, we let this act pass.

To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.

To take heed; to care.

To go through the intestines.

To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance; as, an estate passes by a certain clause in a deed.

To make a lunge or pass; to thrust.

To decline to take an optional action when it is one's turn, as to decline to bid, or to bet, or to play a card; in euchre, to decline to make the trump.

In football, hockey, etc., to make a pass; to transfer the ball, etc., to another player of one's own side.

To go by, beyond, over, through, or the like; to proceed from one side to the other of; as, to pass a house, a stream, a boundary, etc.

To go from one limit to the other of; to spend; to live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.

To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.

To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.

To go successfully through, as an examination, trail, test, etc.; to obtain the formal sanction of, as a legislative body; as, he passed his examination; the bill passed the senate.

To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another; to transmit; to deliver; to hand; to make over; as, the waiter passed bisquit and cheese; the torch was passed from hand to hand.

To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce; hence, to promise; to pledge; as, to pass sentence.

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; as, he passed the bill through the committee; the senate passed the law.

To put in circulation; to give currency to; as, to pass counterfeit money.

To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance; as, to pass a person into a theater, or over a railroad.

To emit from the bowels; to evacuate.

To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.

To make, as a thrust, punto, etc.

An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier; a passageway; a defile; a ford; as, a mountain pass.

A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.

A movement of the hand over or along anything; the manipulation of a mesmerist.

A single passage of a bar, rail, sheet, etc., between the rolls.

State of things; condition; predicament.

Permission or license to pass, or to go and come; a psssport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission; as, a railroad or theater pass; a military pass.

Fig.: a thrust; a sally of wit.

Estimation; character.

A part; a division.

To go from one person to another; hence, to be given and taken freely; as, clipped coin will not pass; to obtain general acceptance; to be held or regarded; to circulate; to be current; - followed by for before a word denoting value or estimation.

To go or move from one place, state, or condition to another; to move along; as, the parade passes down the street; to be exchanged; as, money passed between them; to go by; as, the night passed; to make one's way; to go unnoticed; as, his action passed without rebuke; to go from person to person; circulate; to be enacted; as, the law finally passed; depart; die.

To go by, through, beyond, etc.; as, to pass the house; to pass an examination; to pass the age of twenty-one; to cause or allow to go; to hand; as, to pass the butter; to spend; to exceed; to give as a judgment; utter.

A narrow passage; defile; as, a pass in the mountains; permission; as, a railway pass; state of extremity; as, to come to a dreadful pass; a thrust, as in fencing.

To pace or walk onward: to move from one place to another: to travel: to go from one state to another: to change: to circulate: to be regarded: to go by: to go unheeded or neglected: to elapse, as time: to be finished: to move away: to disappear: (B.) to pass away: to go through inspection: to be approved: to happen: to fall, as by inheritance: to flow through: to thrust, as with a sword: to run, as a road:-pa.p. passed and past.

To go by, over, beyond, through, etc.: to spend: to omit, to disregard: to surpass: to enact, or to be enacted by: to cause to move: to send: to transfer: to give forth: to cause to go by: to approve: to give circulation to: (fencing) to thrust.

That through which one passes: a narrow passage: a narrow defile: a passport: state or condition: (fencing) a thrust.

A passage; passport; thrust.

To go by, over, beyond, &c.; spend; omit; enact; cause to go by.

To go by; move; elapse; circulate.

To go by, over, through, or beyond; spend, as time; undergo; endure; surpass.

To move; transfer; convey; put in circulation.

To pronounce, as a judgment; adopt or enact, as a law.

To move or glide by; elapse.

To circulate.

To occur.

To go through a course successfully.

A way or opening; defile; waterway.

Permission to pass; a passport.

A state of affairs; crisis.

A lunge.

A narrow passage, entrance, or avenue; a passage; a road; a permission to pass; extreme state; a thrust.

To go beyond, through, or over; to spend; to cause to move hastily; to transfer; to strain; to utter; to pronounce; to cause to go; to omit; to approve; to enact.

To move from one place to another, or from one state to another; to change; to disappear; to elapse; to be enacted; to be current; to be regarded; to take place; to thrust; to let go unheeded; to go through inspection; to be approved; to be transferred; to go through; to run, To come to pass, to happen. See Pacs.

A narrow passage or entrance; permission or licence; an order by which vagrants or paupers are sent to their native place; a free journey-ticket on a railway; an unpaid admission to a place of amusement; a push or thrust in fencing; state or condition.

To cause to move onward; to move or proceed from one place, state, &c., to another; to go; to live through; to utter or pronounce, as an opinion; to neglect or omit; to enact or be enacted; to go through the necessary stages and receive sanction, as a bill in Parliament; to determine finally; to thrust, as in fencing; to undergo; to be at an end; to go beyond; to go through; to be generally received; to run or extend; to vanish; to circulate, as to pass bad money; to admit or allow, as to pass the accounts.

n. [Latin] A passage; a way; especially, a narrow and difficult way;—a passport; a ticket of free transit or free admission;—a thrust; a push;—a movement of the hand over or along any thing;—state of things; condition; conjuncture; extreme case.