pass

  1. Noun.  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.
  2. Noun.  A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over(,) or along anything.
  3. Noun.  A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
  4. Noun.  (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary. .
  5. Noun.  (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit. .
  6. Noun.  A sexual advance.
  7. Noun.  (sport) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
  8. Noun.  (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.
  9. Noun.  Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
  10. Noun.  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.
  11. Noun.  (baseball) An intentional walk.
  12. Noun.  The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
  13. Noun.  (obsolete) Estimation; character.
  14. Noun.  (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division.
  15. Noun.  The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
  16. Verb.  (intransitive) To move or be moved from one place to another.
  17. Verb.  (transitive) To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
  18. Verb.  (intransitive) To change from one state to another.
  19. Verb.  (intransitive) (context, of time) To elapse, to be spent.
  20. Verb.  (transitive) (context, of time) To spend.
  21. Verb.  (intransitive) To happen.
  22. Verb.  (intransitive) To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
  23. Verb.  (intransitive) (context, often with "on" or "away") To die.
  24. Verb.  (intransitive, transitive) To go successfully through (an examination, trail, test, etc).
  25. Verb.  (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).
  26. Verb.  (intransitive) To be be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
  27. Verb.  (intransitive, legal) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
  28. Verb.  (transitive, sport) To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
  29. Verb.  (intransitive, fencing) To make a lunge or swipe.
  30. Verb.  (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
  31. Verb.  (intransitive, obsolete) : To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.
  32. Verb.  (transitive) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
  33. Verb.  (intransitive, obsolete) : To take heed.
  34. Verb.  (transitive) To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
  35. Verb.  (intransitive) To come and go in consciousness.
  36. Verb.  (intransitive) To go from one person to another.
  37. Verb.  (intransitive) To continue.
  38. Verb.  (intransitive) To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
  39. Verb.  (transitive) To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
  40. Verb.  (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.
  41. Verb.  (transitive) To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce.
  42. Verb.  (transitive) Hence, to promise; to pledge.
  43. Verb.  (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.
  44. Verb.  (transitive) To put in circulation; to give currency to.
  45. Verb.  (transitive) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
  46. Verb.  (intransitive, transitive) To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
  47. Verb.  (transitive, nautical) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
  48. Verb.  (transitive, football) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
  49. Verb.  (intransitive, legal) To make a judgment ''on'' or ''upon'' a person or case.
  50. Verb.  (LGBT) To be regarded as a member of a specific sex.
  51. Noun.  (computing) (slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

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