pass

verb

to hand something to someone
push through a passage (like a clot)
to die
act of one vehicle going past another slower moving vehicle
bill becomes law
go by
pass a class, pass a test
overtake
to move through something
suffice, get away

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noun

opening or path allowing passage through an otherwise difficult to cross barrier
bill becomes law
give
ignore or forgive an offense
(semi-idiomatic) make an attempt or scrutiny of
make a pass at, attempt something (esp flirtation)

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adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /pɑːs/ / [pʰɑːs] / [pʰäːs]

name

Etymology: * As an English surname, from a pet form of the medieval name Passe, itself probably a pet form of Pascal. * As a German surname, from the noun Pass (“pass, passageway”). * As a Jewish surname, from Polish pas (“belt, girdle”). * Also as an English surname, from Middle English passe, referring to passages. Compare Passage.

A surname.

noun

Etymology: Clipping of password.

A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
“Anyone want to trade passes?”
“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.”

verb

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.

To change place.
“They passed from room to room.”
To change place.
“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.”
To change place.
“The waiter passed biscuits and cheese.”
“John passed Suzie a note.”
To change place.
“He was passing blood in both his urine and his stool.”
“The poison had been passed by the time of the autopsy.”
To change place.
To change place.
“20 June 2010, The Guardian, Rob Smyth Iaquinta passes it coolly into the right-hand corner as Paston dives the other way.”
To change place.
“Brady passed the ball to nine different receivers and handed it off to seven.”
To change place.
To change place.
“The Patriots passed on third and long.”
To change place.
To change place.
“pass counterfeit money”
To change place.
“pass a person into a theater or over a railroad”
To change place.
“When it's finished cooking, you should pass the sauce to get rid of any lumps.”
To change in state or status
“He passed from youth into old age.”
To change in state or status
“At first, she was worried, but that feeling soon passed.”
“Beauty's a charm, but soon the charm will pass.”
To change in state or status
“His grandmother passed yesterday.”
To change in state or status
“He attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.”
“Of the Ancient Wonders, only the pyramids have passed the test of time.”
To change in state or status
“Despite the efforts of the opposition, the bill passed.”
“The bill passed both houses of Congress.”
To change in state or status
“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.”
To change in state or status
“He passed the bill through the committee.”
“Pass the happy news.”
To change in state or status
“And within three dayes twelve knyghtes passed uppon hem; and they founde Sir Palomydes gylty, and Sir Saphir nat gylty, of the lordis deth.”
To change in state or status
“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.”
To change in state or status
“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.'”
To move through time.
“Their vacation passed pleasantly.”
To move through time.
“What will we do to pass the time?”
“To pass commodiously this life.”
To move through time.
“Please you that I may pass / This doing.”
“I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array.”
To move through time.
To move through time.
“You're late, but I'll let it pass.”
To move through time.
“Please you that I may pass / This doing.”
To move through time.
“It will soon come to pass.”
“[…] for the memory of what passed while at that place is almost blank.”
To be accepted.
“It isn't ideal, but it will pass.”
To be accepted.
“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.”
To refrain from doing something.
“He asked me to go to the cinema with him, but I think I'll pass.”
To refrain from doing something.
“Instead, the board voted to suspend the dividend, giving Orton his way at last. They passed the dividend again in June 1870 […]”
To refrain from doing something.
“I haven't any idea of the answer, so I'll have to pass.”
To refrain from doing something.
To refrain from doing something.
To do or be better.
“This passes, Master Ford.”
To do or be better.
“And striue to passe[…]Their natiue musicke by her skilfull art:”
“Whose tender power Passes the strength of storms in their most desolate hour.”
To take heed, to have an interest, to care.
“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.”