Etimology
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 pandere (“spread, unfold, stretch”), from Proto-Italic *patnō, from Proto-Indo-European *pth₂noh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“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)
To change place.
To change in state or status
To move through time.
To be accepted.
To refrain from doing something.
To do or be better.
(intransitive, obsolete) To take heed, to have an interest, to care.
Examples
They passed from room to room.
Synonyms: go, move
Synonyms: overtake, pass by, pass over
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.
Synonyms: deliver, give, hand, make over, send, transfer, transmit
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.
Synonyms: evacuate, void
He was passing blood in both his urine and his stool.
The poison had been passed by the time of the autopsy.
Iaquinta passes it coolly into the right-hand corner as Paston dives the other way.
Brady passed the ball to nine different receivers and handed it off to seven.
Synonym: thrust
The Patriots passed on third and long.
Synonyms: circulate, pass around
pass counterfeit money
Synonyms: admit, let in, let past
pass a person into a theater or over a railroad
When it's finished cooking, you should pass the sauce to get rid of any lumps.
He passed from youth into old age.
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.
Synonyms: pass away, pass on, pass over; see also Thesaurus:die
His grandmother passed yesterday.
He attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.
Of the Ancient Wonders, only the pyramids have passed the test of time.
Synonym: be accepted by
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.
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.
Synonyms: approve, enact, ratify
He passed the bill through the committee.
Pass the happy news.
And within three dayes twelve knyghtes passed uppon hem; and they founde Sir Palomydes gylty, and Sir Saphir nat gylty, of the lordis deth.
Synonyms: pronounce, say, speak, utter
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.
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.
Synonyms: elapse, go by; see also Thesaurus:elapse
Their vacation passed pleasantly.
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.
Synonyms: disregard, ignore, take no notice of; see also Thesaurus:ignore
Please you that I may pass / This doing.
I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array.
Synonyms: continue, go on
You're late, but I'll let it pass.
Synonyms: bear, endure, suffer, tolerate, undergo; see also Thesaurus:tolerate
Please you that I may pass / This doing.
Synonyms: happen, occur; see also Thesaurus:happen
It will soon come to pass.
[…] for the memory of what passed while at that place is almost blank.
It isn't ideal, but it will pass.
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 , many Americans passed as white to resist the racially restrictive one-drop rule and the racial status quo of the Jim Crow era .
Coordinate terms: pass on, pass up
He asked me to go to the cinema with him, but I think I'll pass.
Instead, the board voted to suspend the dividend, giving Orton his way at last. They passed the dividend again in June 1870 […]
I haven't any idea of the answer, so I'll have to pass.
This passes, Master Ford.
Synonyms: exceed, surpass
Synonyms: better, exceed, excel, outdo, surpass, transcend; see also Thesaurus:exceed
And striue to passe […] Their natiue musicke by her skilfull art:
Whose tender power Passes the strength of storms in their most desolate hour.
Synonyms: take heed, take notice; see also Thesaurus:pay attention
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.
Etimology
From Middle English pas, pase, pace, from passen (“to pass”).
noun
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.
A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
An attempt.
Success in an examination or similar test.
(fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
(figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
A sexual advance.
(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.
Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
(baseball) An intentional walk.
(sports) The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
(obsolete) Estimation; character.
(cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
(computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
Examples
Synonyms: gap, notch
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!
the passes of the Mississippi
[The bear] made a pass at the dog, but he swung out and above him […]
Synonym: transit
My first pass at a career of writing proved unsuccessful.
I gained three passes at A-level, in mathematics, French, and English literature.
Synonym: thrust
Synonyms: proposition, come on, hit on
The man kicked his friend out of the house after he made a pass at his wife.
Antonym: meet
A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy.
Synonyms: access, admission, entry
a railroad pass; a theater pass; a military pass
Smith was given a pass after Jones' double.
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.
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."
Synonyms: condition, predicament, state
This passes, Master Ford.
The finished dishes are placed on the pass ready to be collected by the waiter.
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.
Most Pascal compilers process source code in a single pass.
Etimology
Short for password.
noun
pass (plural passes)
(computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
Examples
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.