pass

Thesaurus for pass
- adjective
  - synonyms
    - passing
  - antonyms
    - running
- noun
  - synonyms
    - base on balls, walk, passing play, passing game, passing, mountain pass, notch, passport, laissez passer, strait, straits, head, bye, liberty chit, crack, fling, go, whirl, offer, toss, flip, qualifying, accomplishment, achievement, attempt, conceding, concession, cycle, effort, endeavor, endeavour, flight, flying, football play, juncture, leave, leave of absence, licence, license, location, occasion, oscillation, permission, permit, situation, success, throw, ticket, try, yielding
  - antonyms
    - failing
- verb
  - synonyms
    - go through, go across, travel by, pass by, surpass, go past, go by, legislate, elapse, lapse, slip by, glide by, slip away, slide by, go along, hand, reach, pass on, turn over, give, run, go, lead, extend, overtake, overhaul, happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, fall out, come about, take place, clear, spend, guide, draw, communicate, pass along, put across, evanesce, fade, blow over, fleet, make it, exceed, transcend, overstep, top, sink, fall, return, devolve, make pass, authorize, authorise, die, decease, perish, exit, pass away, expire, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it, excrete, egest, eliminate, advance, allow, be, bring home the bacon, change, change hands, change owners, change state, come through, convey, countenance, deliver the goods, disappear, discharge, eject, enact, evaluate, excel, expel, go away, judge, let, locomote, march on, move, move on, ordain, pass judgment, permit, progress, release, stand out, succeed, throw, transfer, transmit, travel, turn, vanish, win
  - antonyms
    - be born, fail
  - related terms
    - pass on, die down, die off, die out, extend to, hand down, hand out, hand over, pass around, pass over, run along

Pronunciation of pass: P AE1 S (pæs)
Number of syllables of pass: 1

Definition of pass
- (n): success in satisfying a test or requirement; "his future depended on his passing that test"; "he got a pass in introductory chemistry"
- (n): (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team; "the pass was fumbled"
- (n): (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls; "he worked the pitcher for a base on balls"
- (n): a flight or run by an aircraft over a target; "the plane turned to make a second pass"
- (n): (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"
- (n): a usually brief attempt; "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it a whirl"
- (n): a complementary (free) ticket; "the start got passes for his family"
- (n): a permit to enter or leave a military installation; "he had to show his pass in order to get out"
- (n): a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions; "the media representatives had special passes"
- (n): any authorization to pass or go somewhere; "the pass to visit had a strict time limit"
- (n): you advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent; "he had a bye in the first round"
- (n): one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer); "it was not possible to complete the computation in a single pass"
- (n): a difficult juncture; "a pretty pass"; "matters came to a head yesterday"
- (n): 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"
- (n): a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
- (n): (military) a written leave of absence; "he had a pass for three days"
- (v): eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone"
- (v): come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"
- (v): 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"
- (v): disappear gradually; "The pain eventually passed off"
- (v): transmit information ; "Please communicate this message to all employees"
- (v): grant authorization or clearance for; "Clear the manuscript for publication"; "The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography"
- (v): 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"
- (v): pass into a specified state or condition; "He sank into Nirvana"
- (v): travel past; "The sports car passed all the trucks"
- (v): go across or through; "We passed the point where the police car had parked"; "A terrible thought went through his mind"
- (v): pass by; "A black limousine passed by when she looked out the window"; "He passed his professor in the hall"; "One line of soldiers surpassed the other"
- (v): cause to pass; "She passed around the plates"
- (v): pass by; "three years elapsed"
- (v): transfer to another; of rights or property; "Our house passed under his official control"
- (v): be inherited by; "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead"
- (v): 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"
- (v): throw (a ball) to another player; "Smith passed"
- (v): allow to go without comment or censure; "the insult passed as if unnoticed"
- (v): make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation; "They passed the amendment"; "We cannot legislate how people''s spend their free time"
- (v): go unchallenged; be approved; "The bill cleared the House"
- (v): accept or judge as acceptable; "The teacher passed the student although he was weak"
- (v): go successfully through a test or a selection process; "She passed the new Jersey Bar Exam and can practice law now"
- (v): go beyond; "She exceeded our expectations"; "She topped her performance of last year"
- (v): 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"; "The facts ex
- (v): pass (time) in a specific way; "How are you spending your summer vacation?"
- (v): 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"

Examples of pass
- The grasping forceps are passed through the snare loop.
- Along the waterfront north of the alley passes the quay Kanslikajen.
- Therefore, it passes through the zenith and the nadir.
- The lines pass through the centre of the village.
- The bridle passes through a hole.
- The eggs infiltrate through the tissues and are passed in the feces.
- The first steamboat to pass through was the Uncas.
- The fee is passed along to the retailer and to the consumer.
- The axis passes through the equator at the prime meridian.
- Fuel passes through the arm into the carburetor body.

Poems containing the word "pass"
- "The Passionate Shepherd To His Love" by author Christopher Marlowe
- "Bards of Passion and of Mirth, written on the Blank Page before Beaumont and Fletcher's Tragi-Comedy 'The Fair Maid of the Inn'" by author John Keats
- "Songs From Pippa Passes" by author Robert Browning
- "A Soliloquy Of The Full Moon, She Being In A Mad Passion" by author Samuel Coleridge
- "O Beauty, Passing Beauty!" by author Lord Alfred Tennyson
- "Passage of the Apennines" by author Percy Bysshe Shelley
- "Cancelled Passage of Mont Blanc" by author Percy Bysshe Shelley
- "La Passion Vaincue" by author Anne Kingsmill Finch
- "The Passion" by author John Milton
- "A Spirit Passed Before Me. From Job" by author George Gordon, Lord Byron
- "Passion" by author Charlotte Bronte
- "Stanzas Written in Passing the Ambracian Gulf" by author George Gordon, Lord Byron
- "Remember Him, Whom Passion's Power" by author George Gordon, Lord Byron
- "Passage to India." by author Walt Whitman
- "To lose one's faith -- surpass" by author Emily Dickinson
- "Cancelled Passage of the Ode to Liberty" by author Percy Bysshe Shelley
- "Said Death to Passion" by author Emily Dickinson

pass

Thesaurus for pass

Pronunciation of pass: P AE1 S (pæs)

Number of syllables of pass: 1

Definition of pass

Examples of pass

Poems containing the word "pass"

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