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