pass
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /pɑːs/
- (Received Pronunciation, General South African) IPA(key): [pʰɑːs]
- (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA(key): [pʰäːs], [pʰɐːs]
- (Boston) IPA(key): [pʰaːs]
- IPA(key): /pæs/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -æs, -ɑːs
- Hyphenation: pass
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English passen, borrowed from Old French passer (“to step, walk, pass”), from *Vulgar Latin passāre (“step, walk, pass”), from Latin passus (“a step”), pandere (“to spread, unfold, stretch”), from Proto-Indo-European *pth₂noh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread, stretch out”). Cognate with Old English fæþm (“armful, fathom”). More at fathom.
Alternative forms[edit]
- passe (obsolete)
Verb[edit]
pass (third-person singular simple present passes, present participle passing, simple past and past participle passed)
- To change place.
- (intransitive) To move or be moved from one place to another.
- (transitive) To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
- You will pass a house on your right.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:
- 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.
- 1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:
- 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.
- (ditransitive) 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.
- The waiter passed biscuits and cheese.
- John passed Suzie a note.
- The torch was passed from hand to hand.
- 1705 (revised 1718), Joseph Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy
- I had only time to pass my eye over the medals.
- 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, OCLC 937919305:
- Waller […] passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge.
- (intransitive, transitive, medicine) To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- (transitive, nautical) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- (sports) to make a movement
- (transitive, soccer) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- 20 June 2010, The Guardian, Rob Smyth
- Iaquinta passes it coolly into the right-hand corner as Paston dives the other way.
- 20 June 2010, The Guardian, Rob Smyth
- (transitive) To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- 2017 September 18, Nicole Yang, “What you need to know about the Patriots’ big win — and their next opponent”, in Boston Globe[1]:
- Brady passed the ball to nine different receivers and handed it off to seven.
- (intransitive, fencing) To make a lunge or swipe.
- Synonym: thrust
- (intransitive, American football) To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- The Patriots passed on third and long.
- (transitive, soccer) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- (intransitive) To go from one person to another.
- (transitive) To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- pass counterfeit money
- Synonyms: circulate, pass around
- (transitive) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- (transitive, cooking) To put through a sieve.
- When it's finished cooking, you should pass the sauce to get rid of any lumps.
- To change in state or status
- (intransitive) To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- He passed from youth into old age.
- (intransitive) To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- At first, she was worried, but that feeling soon passed.
- 1697, “Pastoral 2”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:
- Beauty's a charm, but soon the charm will pass.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 23, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- 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.
- 1995, Penny Richards, The Greatest Gift of All:
- The crisis passed as she'd prayed it would, but it remained to be seen just how much damage had been done.
- (intransitive) To die.
- His grandmother passed yesterday.
- Synonyms: pass away, pass on, pass over; see also Thesaurus:die
- (intransitive, transitive) To achieve a successful outcome from.
- He passed his examination.
- He attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.
- (intransitive, transitive) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- 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.
- 2012 March 1, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87:
- 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.
- Synonyms: be accepted by, be passed by
- (intransitive, law) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- 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.
- (transitive) 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.
- He passed the bill through the committee.
- 1855, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number(s))”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 1013215631:
- Pass the happy news.
- (intransitive, law) To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book X:
- And within three dayes twelve knyghtes passed uppon hem; and they founde Sir Palomydes gylty, and Sir Saphir nat gylty, of the lordis deth.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book X:
- (transitive) To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter XII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar […], OCLC 928184292, book XIX:
- I may almost depend on your own justice, and leave it to yourself to pass sentence on your own conduct
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
- Father, thy word is passed.
- (intransitive) To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- 1881, Buddhist Suttas, page 115:
- 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.
- 2010, Joaquim Siles i Borràs, The Ethics of Husserl's Phenomenology, →ISBN, page 158:
- 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.'
- 2011, Thomas Hill Green & R. L. Nettleship, Works of Thomas Hill Green, →ISBN, page lxxviii:
- 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.
- (intransitive) To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- To move through time.
- (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to be spent.
- Their vacation passed pleasantly.
- Synonyms: elapse, go by; see also Thesaurus:elapse
- (transitive, of time) To spend.
- What will we do to pass the time?
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
- To pass commodiously this life.
- 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, OCLC 7780546; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], OCLC 2666860, page 0056:
- 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.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 23, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- 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.
- (transitive) To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- c. 1608–1609, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii]:
- Please you that I may pass
This doing.
- 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 228732415:
- I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array.
- Synonyms: disregard, ignore, take no notice of; see also Thesaurus:ignore
- (intransitive) To continue.
- (intransitive) To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- You're late, but I'll let it pass.
- (transitive) To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii]:
- Please you that I may pass
This doing.
- (intransitive) To happen.
- It will soon come to pass.
- 1876, The Dilemma, Chapter LIII, republished in Littell's Living Age, series 5, volume 14, page 274:
- […] for the memory of what passed while at that place is almost blank.
- Synonyms: happen, occur; see also Thesaurus:happen
- (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to be spent.
- To be accepted.
- (intransitive) To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- It isn't ideal, but it will pass.
- (sociology) To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex or other group to which they would not otherwise regard one as belonging (or belonging fully, without qualifier); especially to live and be known as white although one has black ancestry, or to live and be known as female although one was assigned male or vice versa.
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- Chinese sometimes pass for Europeans, but Japs more often approach Western types.
- 1999, Irene Preiss, Fixed for Life: The True Saga of How Tom Became Sally, page 249:
- [...] 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.
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- (intransitive) To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- To refrain from doing something.
- (intransitive) To decline something that is offered or available. See also pass on and pass up.
- He asked me to go to the cinema with him, but I think I'll pass.
- (intransitive) To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- I haven't any idea of the answer, so I'll have to pass.
- (intransitive) In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- (intransitive) In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- (intransitive) To decline something that is offered or available. See also pass on and pass up.
- To do or be better.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The Merry VViues of VVindsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene ii]:
- This passes, Master Ford.
- (transitive) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto VI, stanza 25:
- And striue to passe […] Their natiue musicke by her skilfull art:
- 181, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. , London: John Murray,, canto C(please specify the stanza number):
- Whose tender power Passes the strength of storms in their most desolate hour.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
- 1591, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene ii]:
- As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not.
- Synonyms: take heed, take notice; see also Thesaurus:pay attention
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Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle English pas, pase, pace, from passen (“to pass”).
Noun[edit]
pass (plural passes)
- 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.
- 1841, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Excelsior
- "Try not the pass!" the old man said.
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- the passes of the Mississippi
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- 1921, John Griffin, "Trailing the Grizzly in Oregon", in Forest and Stream, pages 389-391 and 421-424, republished by Jeanette Prodgers in 1997 in The Only Good Bear is a Dead Bear, page 35:
- [The bear] made a pass at the dog, but he swung out and above him […]
- 1921, John Griffin, "Trailing the Grizzly in Oregon", in Forest and Stream, pages 389-391 and 421-424, republished by Jeanette Prodgers in 1997 in The Only Good Bear is a Dead Bear, page 35:
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- Synonym: transit
- An attempt.
- My first pass at a career of writing proved unsuccessful.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- I gained three passes at A-level, in mathematics, French, and English literature.
- (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- Synonym: thrust
- (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
- A sexual advance.
- The man kicked his friend out of the house after he made a pass at his wife.
- (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- (rail transport) 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.
- Antonym: meet
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- 1826, James Kent, Commentaries on American Law
- A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy.
- 1826, James Kent, Commentaries on American Law
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- a railroad pass; a theater pass; a military pass
- (baseball) An intentional walk.
- Smith was given a pass after Jones' double.
- (sports) The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
- 2020 September 13, Andrew Benson, “Tuscan Grand Prix: Lewis Hamilton claims 90th win after incredible race”, in BBC Sport[2]:
- 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.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene iv]:
- What, have his daughters brought him to this pass?
- 1698, Robert South, Twelve Sermons upon Several Subjects and Occasions
- 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...
- 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1965, page 187:
- "What with Robert strolling out with publicans' daughters, and you having affairs with bicycle-shop keepers, the family is coming to a pretty pass."
- Synonyms: condition, predicament, state
- (obsolete) Estimation; character.
- c. 1604–1605, William Shakespeare, “All’s VVell, that Ends VVell”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene v]:
- This passes, Master Ford.
- (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
- (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- 2017, Fred Sirieix, Secret Service: Lifting the lid on the restaurant world:
- The finished dishes are placed on the pass ready to be collected by the waiter.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
- 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.
- (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- Most Pascal compilers process source code in a single pass.
Derived terms[edit]
- Arthur's Pass
- back pass, back-pass, backpass
- backstage pass
- backward pass
- bandpass
- boarding pass
- bring to pass
- bypass, by-pass
- chest pass
- come to pass
- coupon pass
- drop pass
- dry pass
- Eagle Pass
- fish pass
- flare pass
- flat pass
- forward pass
- free pass
- Hail Mary pass
- half-pass
- hall pass
- hand pass
- highpass
- hospital pass
- inbounds pass
- incomplete pass
- intentional pass
- lateral pass
- lead pass
- lowpass
- make the passes
- mountain pass
- outlet pass
- passband
- pass boat
- pass book
- pass box
- pass check
- pass-fail
- passkey
- pass law
- passless
- pass-remarkable
- pass rush
- penalty pass
- Poyntzpass
- pretty pass
- saucer pass
- screen pass
- short pass
- side pass
- snap pass
- spiral pass
- spot pass
- two-line pass
- underpass
- userpass
- wet pass
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Etymology 3[edit]
Short for password.
Noun[edit]
pass (plural passes)
- (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- Anyone want to trade passes?
- 1999, "Jonny Durango", IMPORTANT NEWS FOR AHM IRC CHAN!!! (on newsgroup alt.hackers.malicious)
- If you don't have your password set within a week I'll remove you from the userlist and I'll add you again next time I see you in the chan and make sure you set a pass.
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Further reading[edit]
- pass in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- pass in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.
- pass at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams[edit]
Faroese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pass n (genitive singular pass, plural pass)
Declension[edit]
n11 | Singular | Plural | ||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | pass | passið | pass | passini |
Accusative | pass | passið | pass | passini |
Dative | passi | passinum | passum | passunum |
Genitive | pass | passins | passa | passanna |
German[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
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pass
Lombard[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pass ?
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Noun[edit]
pass n (definite singular passet, indefinite plural pass, definite plural passa or passene)
Derived terms[edit]
Verb[edit]
pass
- imperative of passe
References[edit]
- “pass” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Noun[edit]
pass n (definite singular passet, indefinite plural pass, definite plural passa)
- a passport (travel document)
- a pass, mountain pass
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “pass” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
audio (file)
Etymology 1[edit]
From German, originally from Italian passo
Noun[edit]
pass n
- passport (document granting permission to pass)
- place which you (must) pass or is passing; mountain pass
- pace; a kind of gait
- place where a hunter hunts; place where a policeman patrols
- spell (a period of duty); shift
- leave notice (document granting permission to leave) (from prison)
Declension[edit]
Declension of pass | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | pass | passet | pass | passen |
Genitive | pass | passets | pass | passens |
Synonyms[edit]
- leave notice: permissionssedel, permissionspass
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun[edit]
pass c
- (ball sports) pass; a transfer of the ball from one player to another in the same team
Declension[edit]
Declension of pass | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | pass | passen | passar | passarna |
Genitive | pass | passens | passars | passarnas |
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