pass

See also: Pass, Paß, and pass.

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɑːs/, /pæs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pæs/

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• Rhymes: -æs, -ɑːs

Etymology 1

From Middle English pas, pase, pace, from passen ‎(“to pass”). See the verb section, below.

Noun

pass ‎(plural passes)

1. 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.

   a mountain pass

   • (Can we date this quote?) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

     "Try not the pass!" the old man said.

2. 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

3. 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 [...]

4. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
5. An attempt.

   My pass at a career of writing proved unsuccessful.

6. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
7. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
8. A sexual advance.

   The man kicked his friend out of the house after he made a pass at his wife.

9. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
10. (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.
11. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
    • (Can we date this quote?) James Kent:

      A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy.

12. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission; as, a railroad or theater pass; a military pass.
13. (baseball) An intentional walk.

    Smith was given a pass after Jones' double.

14. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
    • 1606 Shakespeare:

      What, have his daughters brought him to this pass?

    • (Can we date this quote?) Robert South:

      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...

15. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Shakespeare:

      Common speech gives him a worthy pass.

16. (obsolete, Chaucer, compare 'passus') A part, a division.
17. The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.

Synonyms

• (opening, road, or track, available for passing): gap
• (fencing: thrust or push): thrust
• (figurative: a thrust; a sally of wit):
• (movement over or along anything):
• (movement of a tool over something, or something other a tool): transit
• (the state of things): condition, predicament, state
• (permission or license to pass, or to go and come): access, admission, entry
• (document granting permission to pass or to go and come):
• (obsolete: estimation; character):
• (obsolete: a part, a division):

Antonyms

• (rail transport): meet

Derived terms

Terms derived from pass (noun)

back pass/back-pass/backpass backstage pass backward pass bandpass boarding pass bring to pass bypass chest pass come to pass coupon pass drop pass dry 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 mountain pass outlet pass passband pass boat pass book pass box pass check

pass-fail passkey pass law pass-remarkable pass rush penalty pass pretty pass saucer pass screen pass short pass side pass snap pass spiral pass spot pass two-line pass underpass userpass wet pass

Translations

opening, road, or track, available for passing

• Arabic: طَريق m
• Dutch: passage (nl) f
• Finnish: sola (fi), reitti (fi)
• French: passe (fr) f, passage (fr) m
• Georgian: უღელტეხილი ‎(uɣelṭexili)
• German: Pass (de) m
• Greek: πέρασμα (el) n ‎(pérasma), διάβαση (el) f ‎(diávasi), στενό (el) n ‎(stenó)
• Japanese: 小道 ‎(こみち, komichi), 細道 ‎(ほそみち, hosomichi), 山道 ‎(さんどう, sandō)
• Navajo: dziłgiizh

• Portuguese: passagem (pt) f
• Russian: перева́л (ru) ‎(perevál)
• Serbo-Croatian: prolaz (sh)
• Slovene: prehod, prelaz m
• Spanish: paso (es) m, pasaje (es) m
• Swedish: passage (sv)
• Tagalog: silang
• Turkish: geçit (tr), boğaz (tr), dar yol
• Vietnamese: đèo (vi) (mountain pass), đèo núi (vi) (mountain pass)
• Zulu: isikhala class 7/8

fencing: thrust or push

• Japanese: 突き ‎(つき, tsuki)

movement of a tool over something, or something over a tool

• Finnish: pyyhkäisy

• Polish: przebieg (pl) m

the state of things

• Finnish: tila (fi), asiaintila (fi)
• Japanese: 事態 (ja) ‎(じたい, jitai), 段階 (ja) ‎(だんかい, dankai)

• Turkish: durum (tr), vaziyet (tr)

permission or license to pass, or to go and come

• Arabic: جَوَاز m ‎(jawāz)
• Finnish: kulkulupa (fi)
• Scottish Gaelic: pas m

• Slovene: prepustnica (sl)
• Turkish: geçiş izni, giriş-çıkış izni

document granting permission to pass or to go and come

• Arabic: جَوَاز m ‎(jawāz)
• Finnish: passi (fi), kulkulupa (fi), lippu (fi)
• French: laissez-passer (fr), sauf-conduit (fr) m
• Greek: άδεια (el) f ‎(ádeia), πάσο (el) n ‎(páso)
• Japanese: 通行証 ‎(つうこうしょう, tsūkō-shō), 許可証 ‎(きょかしょう, kyoka-shō)
• Polish: przepustka f

• Portuguese: passe (pt) m
• Scottish Gaelic: pas m
• Slovene: prepustnica (sl)
• Swedish: pass (sv) n
• Turkish: giriş kartı (tr), paso (tr), ruhsat (tr), pasaport (tr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} تَمرير
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} el çabukluğu (tr)

Etymology 2

From Middle English passen, 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 *patno-, from Proto-Indo-European *pete- ‎(“to spread, stretch out”). Cognate with Old English fæþm ‎(“armful, fathom”). More at fathom.

Verb

pass ‎(third-person singular simple present passes, present participle passing, simple past and past participle passed)

1. (heading) Physical movement.
   1. (intransitive) To move or be moved from one place to another.

      They passed from room to room.‎

   2. (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.

   3. (transitive) 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.‎

      The torch was passed from hand to hand.‎

      • Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

        I had only time to pass my eye over the medals.

      • Edward Hyde Clarendon (1609-1674)

        Waller passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge.

   4. (intransitive, transitive, medicine) To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.

      He was passing blood in both his urine and his stool.‎

      The poison had been passed by the time of the autopsy.‎

   5. (transitive, nautical) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
   6. (sports) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
      1. (transitive, soccer) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
         • The Guardian, Rob Smyth, 20 June 2010

           Iaquinta passes it coolly into the right-hand corner as Paston dives the other way.

      2. (transitive) To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
      3. (intransitive, fencing) To make a lunge or swipe.
   7. (intransitive) To go from one person to another.
   8. (transitive) To put in circulation; to give currency to.

      pass counterfeit money‎

   9. (transitive) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.

      pass a person into a theater or over a railroad‎

2. (heading) To change in state or status, to advance.
   1. (intransitive) To change from one state to another.

      He passed from youth into old age.‎

   2. (intransitive) To depart, to cease, to come to an end.

      At first, she was worried, but that feeling soon passed.‎

      • (Can we date this quote?) John Dryden (1631-1700)

        Beauty is 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.

   3. (intransitive, often with "on" or "away") To die.

      His grandmother passed yesterday.‎

      His grandmother passed away yesterday.‎

      His grandmother passed on yesterday.‎

   4. (intransitive, transitive) To go successfully through (an examination, trail, test, etc.).

      He passed his examination.‎

      He attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.‎

   5. (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.

   6. (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.‎

   7. (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.‎

      • Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)

        Pass the happy news.

   8. (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.

   9. (transitive) To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
      • William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

        to pass sentence

      • John Milton (1608-1674)

        Father, thy word is passed.

3. (heading) To move through time.
   1. (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to be spent.

      Their vacation passed pleasantly.‎

   2. (transitive, of time) To spend.

      What will we do to pass the time?‎

      • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton (1608-1674)

        To pass commodiously this life.

      • 1915, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, The Lodger, chapter I:

        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.

   3. (transitive) To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
      • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

        Please you that I may pass / This doing.

      • (Can we date this quote?) John Dryden (1631-1700)

        I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array.

   4. (intransitive) To continue.
   5. (intransitive) To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
   6. (transitive) To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
      • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

      She loved me for the dangers I had passed.

   7. To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance or opposition.

      You're late, but I'll let it pass.‎

4. (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.

5. (heading) To be accepted.
   1. (intransitive) To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".

      It isn't ideal, but it will pass.‎

   2. (sociology) To present oneself as, and therefore be accepted by society as, a member of a race, sex or other group to which society would not otherwise regard one as belonging; especially to live and be known as white although one has black ancestry, or to live and be known as female although one was born male (or vice versa).

      Some male-to-female transsexuals can pass as female.‎

6. (heading, intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
   1. (intransitive) In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
7. (heading) To do or be better.
   1. (intransitive, obsolete) To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.
      • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

        This passes, Master Ford.

   2. (transitive) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
      • (Can we date this quote?) Edmund Spenser (c.1552–1599)

        And strive to pass […] Their native music by her skillful art.

      • (Can we date this quote?) George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

        Whose tender power Passes the strength of storms in their most desolate hour.

8. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

     As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not.

9. (intransitive) To come and go in consciousness.
10. (computing) To partially process a document for translation, compiling or reformatting.

    The original 1959 Fortran Compiler made more than 20 passes over the source code.

    Most Pascal compilers process source code in a single pass.'

Synonyms

Synonyms

(go by, over, etc): pass by, pass over, etc. (go from one limit to the other of): spend (live through): bear, endure, suffer, tolerate, undergo (go by without noticing): disregard, ignore, take no notice of (transcend): better, exceed, excel, outdo, surpass, transcend (go successfully through): (obtain the formal sanction of): be accepted by, be passed by (cause to move or go): deliver, give, hand, make over, send, transfer, transmit (utter): pronounce, say, speak, utter (promise): pledge, promise, vow

(cause to advance by stages of process): approve, enact, ratify (put into circulation): circulate, pass around (cause to obtain entrance): admit, let in, let past (medical: emit from the bowels): evacuate, void (nautical: take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure) (fencing: make, as a thrust, punto): make (move or be moved from one place to another): go, move

(change from one state to another): (move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge): (die): pass away, pass over (come and go in consciousness): (happen): happen, occur (elapse): elapse, go by (go from one person to another): (advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness): (go through any inspection or test successfully): (to be tolerated):

(to continue): continue, go on (proceed without hindrance or opposition): (obsolete: go beyond bounds): exceed, surpass (obsolete: take heed): take heed, take notice (go through the intestines): (be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance): (fencing: to make a lunge or pass): thrust (decline to play in one's turn): (in euchre, decline to make the trump): (automotive: to move past): overtake

Derived terms

Terms derived from pass (verb)

bypass don't pass go let pass pass across pass along pass around pass away pass back pass by pass down passer pass for

pass gas passing loop pass into pass muster pass off pass on pass out pass over Passover pass-parole pass the baton pass the buck

pass the hat pass the parcler pass the time/pass time pass through pass up pass upon pass under the yoke pass water pass wind pass with flying colors password ships that pass in the night

Translations

move or be moved from one place to another

• Belarusian: (to give) перадава́ць impf ‎(pjeradavácʹ), перада́ць pf ‎(pjeradácʹ)
• Catalan: passar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: (to give) podávat (cs) impf, podat (cs) pf
• Finnish: liikkua (intransitive), liikuttaa (transitive)
• French: passer (fr)
• Friulian: passâ
• Greek: περνάω (el) ‎(pernáo)
• Hindi: गुज़र करना ‎(guzar karna)
• Istriot: passà
• Italian: passare (it)
• Norman: pâsser
• Ladin: passer

• Latin: praetereo
• Occitan: passar (oc)
• Polish: (to give) podawać (pl) impf, podać (pl) pf
• Portuguese: passar (pt)
• Romanian: trece (ro), pasa (ro), transmite (ro)
• Romansch: passar, passer
• Russian: проходи́ть (ru) impf ‎(proxodítʹ), пройти́ (ru) pf ‎(projtí) (intransitive), передава́ть (ru) impf ‎(peredavátʹ), переда́ть (ru) pf ‎(peredátʹ) (transitive)
• Sardinian: passae, passai, passare
• Serbo-Croatian: proći (sh)
• Sicilian: passari (scn)
• Spanish: pasar (es)
• Swahili: kupita
• Swedish: passera (sv)
• Venetian: pasar (vec)

to go past

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• French: please add this translation if you can
• German: please add this translation if you can

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: pasar (es)
• Turkish: geçmek (tr)

change from one state to another

• Dutch: overgaan (nl)
• Finnish: muuttua (fi), vaihtua (fi)
• French: passer (fr)
• Norman: pâsser

• Latin: praetereo
• Portuguese: passar (pt)
• Slovene: preiti
• Spanish: pasar (es)

move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge

• Catalan: passar (ca)
• Finnish: kadota (fi)
• Japanese: 過ぎる ‎(すぎる, sugiru), 経つ (ja) ‎(たつ, tatsu)

• Latin: praetereo
• Spanish: pasar (es)

die

• Dutch: doodgaan (nl)
• Finnish: poistua (fi), kuolla (fi)
• French: mourir (fr)
• Greek: φεύγω (el) ‎(févgo)
• Japanese: (to die) 死ぬ (ja) ‎(しぬ, shinu), 死亡する (ja) ‎(しぼうする, shibō suru); (formal, to pass away) 逝去する (ja) ‎(せいきょする, sēkyo suru)
• Norman: pâsser l'pas
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: مردن (ku), عمری خوا

• Persian: درگذشتن (fa) ‎(dargozaštan)
• Polish: umrzeć (pl) impf
• Portuguese: falecer (pt)
• Russian: (formal) сконча́ться (ru) pf ‎(skončátʹsja)
• Serbo-Croatian: otići (sh)
• Slovene: umreti (sl), preminiti
• Spanish: fallecer (es)

happen

• Catalan: passar (ca)
• Dutch: gebeuren (nl)
• Finnish: tapahtua (fi), käydä (fi)

• German: passieren (de)
• Japanese: 起こる (ja) ‎(おこる, okoru), 生じる ‎(しょうじる, shōjiru)
• Spanish: pasar (es), ocurrir (es), suceder (es)

elapse

• Arabic: اِنْقَضَى ‎(inqaḍā), مَرَّ (ar) ‎(marra)
• Catalan: passar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 過去 (zh), 过去 (zh) ‎(guòqù), 過 (zh), 过 (zh) ‎(guò)

• Dutch: voorbijgaan (nl)
• Finnish: kulua (fi), mennä (fi)
• French: se passer (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can

• German: vergehen (de)
• Japanese: 過ぎる ‎(すぎる, sugiru), 経つ (ja) ‎(たつ, tatsu)
• Lithuanian: slinkti
• Persian: گذشتن (fa) ‎(gozaštan), سپری شدن ‎(separi šodan)
• Portuguese: passar (pt)
• Russian: проходи́ть (ru) impf ‎(proxodítʹ), пройти́ (ru) pf ‎(projtí), минова́ть (ru) impf ‎(minovátʹ), ми́нуть (ru) pf ‎(mínutʹ), истека́ть (ru) impf ‎(istekátʹ), исте́чь (ru) pf ‎(istéčʹ)
• Slovene: miniti
• Swedish: gå (sv)

go from one person to another

• Arabic: مَرَّرَ ‎(marrara), مَرَّ (ar) ‎(marra)
• Finnish: siirtyä (fi)
• Latin: praetereo

• Russian: переходи́ть (ru) impf ‎(perexodítʹ), перейти́ (ru) pf ‎(perejtí) (intransitive)
• Spanish: pasar (es)

advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness

• Arabic: اجتازَ
• Finnish: läpäistä (fi), mennä läpi
• Greek: περνάω (el) ‎(pernáo)

• Japanese: 通る (ja) ‎(とおる, tōru), 通過する ‎(つうかする, tsūka suru), 承認する (ja) ‎(しょうにんする, shōnin suru), 可決する ‎(かけつする, kaketsu suru), 批准する (ja) ‎(ひじゅんする, hijyun suru)
• Latin: praetereo
• Spanish: pasar (es)

go through any inspection or test successfully

• Arabic: اجتاز
• Burmese: အောင် (my) ‎(aung)
• Catalan: aprovar (ca)
• Dutch: slagen (nl)
• Finnish: mennä läpi, läpäistä (fi), päästä läpi
• French: réussir (fr)
• German: bestehen (de)

• Greek: περνάω (el) ‎(pernáo)
• Japanese: 合格する (ja) ‎(ごうかくする, gōkaku suru)
• Latin: praetereo
• Lithuanian: išlaikyti (lt)
• Portuguese: passar (pt)
• Russian: проходи́ть (ru) ‎(proxodítʹ)
• Spanish: pasar (es), (exam) aprobar

to be tolerated

• Arabic: تَغَاضَى ‎(taḡāḍā)
• Finnish: sietää (fi), käydä (fi)

• Latin: praetereo
• Spanish: pasar (es)

to continue

• Catalan: passar (ca)
• Dutch: doorgaan (nl)

• Finnish: jatkua (fi)
• Spanish: pasar (es)

go through the intestines

• Arabic: مَرَّ (ar) ‎(marra)
• Latin: praetereo

• Spanish: pasar (es)

law: to be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance

• Greek: αφήνω (el) ‎(afíno)
• Japanese: 譲渡する (ja) ‎(じょうとする, jōto suru)

decline to play in one's turn

• Arabic: تَخَلَّى ‎(taḵallā)

• Finnish: passata (fi), jättää väliin
• Greek: πάω πάσο ‎(páo páso)

go by, over, etc

• Arabic: مَرَّ (ar) ‎(marra)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 過 (zh), 过 (zh) ‎(guò)

• Czech: jít kolem, minout (cs)
• Dutch: voorbijgaan (nl)
• Finnish: kulkea (fi)
• French: passer (fr)
• German: vorbeigehen
• Greek: περνάω (el) ‎(pernáo)
• Hungarian: elmegy (hu)
• Italian: passare (it)

• Japanese: 通る (ja) ‎(とおる, tōru), 過ぎる ‎(すぎる, sugiru), 通過する ‎(つうかする, tsūka suru)
• Korean: 지나가다 (ko) ‎(jinagada)
• Latin: praeterire
• Persian: گذشتن (fa) ‎(gozaštan)
• Portuguese: passar (pt)
• Russian: проходи́ть (ru) impf ‎(proxodítʹ), пройти́ (ru) pf ‎(projtí)
• Spanish: pasar (es)
• Swedish: förflytta (sv)
• ǃXóõ: ǃkxʻáa

go by without noticing

• Arabic: أَهمَلَ

transcend

• Arabic: تَجَاوَزَ ‎(tajāwaza)

go successfully through

• Arabic: اجتازَ
• Dutch: Slagen

• Hungarian: átmegy (hu)
• Scottish Gaelic: pasaig

cause to advance by stages of process

• Japanese: 通る (ja) ‎(とおる, tōru), 通過する ‎(つうかする, tsūka suru), 承認する (ja) ‎(しょうにんする, shōnin suru), 可決する ‎(かけつする, kaketsu suru), 批准する (ja) ‎(ひじゅんする, hijyun suru)

fencing: make, as a thrust, punto

• Japanese: 突く (ja) ‎(つく, tsuku)

sports: to move the ball or puck to a teammate

• Finnish: syöttää (fi)
• Greek: περνάω (el) ‎(pernáo), πασάρω (el) ‎(pasáro)
• Japanese: パスする ‎(ぱすする, pasu suru)

• Portuguese: passar (pt)
• Swedish: passa (sv)

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Translations to be checked

• Dutch: aanreiken (8)
• German: ^{(please verify)} reichen
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} pasigi
• Ido: ^{(please verify)} pasigar

• Ottoman Turkish: ^{(please verify)} گچمك ‎(geçmek)
• Swahili: ^{(please verify)} kupitisha
• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} iti mimo
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} geçmek

Etymology 3

Short for password.

Noun

pass ‎(plural passes)

1. (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.

Translations

password — see password

Statistics

Most common English words before 1923: opened · purpose · fall · #545: pass · doing · note · pay

External links

• 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

• asps
• saps
• spas

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Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pʰasː]

Noun

pass n (genitive singular pass, plural pass)

1. passport

Declension

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

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German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -as

Verb

pass

1. Imperative singular of passen.

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Lombard

Etymology

From Latin passus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pas]

Noun

pass ?

1. step
2. mountain pass

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

pass n ‎(definite singular passet, indefinite plural pass, definite plural passa or passene)

1. a passport (travel document)
2. a pass (fjellpass - mountain pass)

Derived terms

• passbilde
• passfoto

Verb

pass

1. imperative of passe

References

• “pass” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

pass n ‎(definite singular passet, indefinite plural pass, definite plural passa)

1. a passport (travel document)
2. a pass (mountain pass)

Derived terms

• passbilde, passbilete
• passfoto

References

• “pass” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• audio

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Etymology 1

From German, originally from Italian passo.

Noun

pass n

1. passport (document granting permission to pass)
2. place which you (must) pass or is passing; pass (between mountains)
3. pace; a kind of gait
4. place where a hunter hunts; place where a policeman patrols
5. spell (a period of duty)
6. leave notice (document granting permission to leave) (from prison)

Declension

Inflection of pass
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	pass	passet	pass	passen
Genitive	pass	passets	pass	passens

Derived terms

terms derived from pass (document)

främlingspass

passfoto

passkontroll

respass

terms derived from pass

bergpass bergspass passera passgång passlöp passtakt passtaktig stilpass

terms derived from pass (gait)

passgång passgångare

terms derived from pass (hunting place)

harpass rävpass

terms derived from pass (spell)

arbetspass eftermiddagspass förmiddagspass kvällspass

vattenpass

fyrpass rundpass sexpass

• passa
• passlig
• till pass

Synonyms

• genomfart, överfart, passage

• leave notice: permissionssedel, permissionspass

Etymology 2

Noun

pass c

1. (ball sports) pass; a transfer of the ball from one player to another in the same team

Declension

Inflection of pass
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	pass	passen	passar	passarna
Genitive	pass	passens	passars	passarnas

Derived terms

terms derived from pass

bakåtpass

framåtpass

passa

Synonyms

• passning