English Explanatory Dictionary

pass

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To change place.
  2. To move or be moved from one place to another.
  3. To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
  4. To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
  5. To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
  6. To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
  7. To make various kinds of movement.
  8. To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
  9. To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
  10. To make a lunge or swipe.
  11. To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
  12. To go from one person to another.
noun
  1. 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. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
  3. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
  4. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
  5. An attempt.
  6. A sexual advance (often in the phrase make a pass).
  7. Success in an examination or similar test.
  8. A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
  9. A thrust; a sally of wit.
  10. The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
  11. 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.
  12. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
noun
  1. A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
name
  1. A surname.
noun
  1. Initialism of positive alternative to school suspension.
  2. Initialism of penile artery shunt syndrome.
  3. Initialism of personal alert safety system.
  4. Used to remember how to use a fire extinguisher: pull the pin, aim at the base (of the fire), squeeze the handle/trigger, sweep from side to side.

Pronunciation

/pɑːs/ [pʰɑːs] [pʰäːs] [pʰɐːs] [pʰaːs] /pæs/ [pʰæs] [pʰɛəs] [pʰeəs] en-us-pass.ogg [pʰas] [pʰäs]

Word forms

pass passes passing passed no-table-tags glossary passest passedst passeth passe

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.

Synonyms

go move overtake pass by pass over deliver give hand make over send transfer transmit evacuate void thrust circulate pass around admit let in let past pass away pass on assume room temperature auger in be called home be gathered to one's fathers be like the the One be no more be with Jesus be with the Lord bite the big one bite the biscuit bite the dust buy the farm buy it cark it cash in cash in one's chips check out close one's eyes for the last time code conk out croak cross over cross rainbow bridge cross the Great Divide cross the Styx darken decease decompose dematerialize depart disincarnate draw one's last breath drop off the hooks exit expire flatline forfare give one's all

Antonyms

meet

Related words

in the closet pass-agg pass-dice

Derived words

bypass circumpass don't pass go forpass forthpass I'll pass impassable let pass let this cup pass from me may I pass through onpass outpass parade passed someone by passable pass across pass a good time pass along pass-and-play pass around pass as pass a sponge over the slate pass a stool pass away pass back pass by pass-by-future pass-by-name pass-by-need pass down passed ball passee passer pass for pass gas passing loop pass in one's checks pass into pass judgment pass motion pass muster pass off pass off as pass on pass oneself off as pass one's way pass one's word pass-out pass out Passover pass over pass-parole pass round pass round the hat pass sentence pass shot pass stool pass the bar pass the baton pass the bottle of smoke pass the buck

Translations

Albanian: kaloj Southern Altai: ӧдӧр Ao: süi (Chungli) Arabic: مَرَّ Arabic: اِجْتَازَ Armenian: անցնել Bashkir: үтеү Bashkir: күсеү Belarusian: прахо́дзіць Belarusian: прайсці́ Chinese Mandarin: 過 /过 Chinese Mandarin: 及格 Chinese Mandarin: 通過 /通过 Czech: jít kolem Czech: minout Dutch: voorbijgaan Dutch: overgaan Dutch: slagen Finnish: kulkea Finnish: ohittaa Finnish: muuttua Finnish: vaihtua Finnish: päästä läpi Finnish: mennä läpi Finnish: läpäistä French: passer French: réussir German: hinüberkommen German: bestehen Greek: περνάω Mbya Guarani: axa White Hmong: dhau Hungarian: elmegy mellette Hungarian: elhalad mellette Hungarian: ürül Hungarian: kiürül Hungarian: ürít Hungarian: kiürít Hungarian: változik Hungarian: válik Hungarian: átmegy Hungarian: átjut Hungarian: megfelel Hungarian: elfogadják Italian: passare Japanese: 通る Japanese: 過ぎる Japanese: 通過する Japanese: 合格する Korean: 지나가다 Korean: 합격하다 Korean: 붙다 Latin: praeterire Latin: praetereo Persian: گذشتن Portuguese: passar Russian: проходи́ть Russian: пройти́ Russian: переезжа́ть Russian: перее́хать Russian: сдава́ть Russian: сдать Spanish: pasar Spanish: aprobar Swedish: förflytta Tamil: தாண்டு Tamil: கழி Tamil: மாறு Tamil: கட Tamil: தேர்ச்சி பெறு Ottoman Turkish: آشمق Ukrainian: прохо́дити Ukrainian: пройти́ ǃXóõ: ǃkxʻáa Norman: pâsser Slovene: preiti Polish: przebrnąć Polish: przejść Polish: zdawać Polish: zdać Scottish Gaelic: pasaig Telugu: పాసగు Burmese: အောင် Catalan: aprovar Hebrew: עבר Khmer: ជាប់ Lithuanian: išlaikyti
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