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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pass \Pass\, n. In football, hockey, etc., a transfer of the ball, etc., to another player of one's side usually at some distance. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pass \Pass\, v. i. In football, hockey, etc., to make pass; to transfer the ball, etc., to another player of one's own side From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pass \Pass\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Passed}; p. pr & vb n. {Passing}.] [F. passer, LL passare, fr L. passus step, or from pandere, passum, to spread out lay open See {Pace}.] 1. To go to move to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind or manner of motion; as to pass on by out in etc.; to pass swiftly, directly, smoothly, etc.; to pass to the rear, under the yoke, over the bridge, across the field, beyond the border, etc ``But now pass over [i. e., pass on].'' --Chaucer. On high behests his angels to and fro Passed frequent. --Milton. Sweet sounds rose slowly through their mouths, And from their bodies passed. --Coleridge. 2. To move or be transferred from one state or condition to another; to change possession, condition, or circumstances; to undergo transition; as the business has passed into other hands. Others dissatisfied with what they have . . . pass from just to unjust. --Sir W. Temple. 3. To move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge; to pass away hence to disappear; to vanish; to depart; specifically, to depart from life; to die. Disturb him not let him pass paceably. --Shak. Beauty is a charm, but soon the charm will pass. --Dryden. The passing of the sweetest soul That ever looked with human eyes. --Tennyson. 4. To move or to come into being or under notice; to come and go in consciousness; hence to take place to occur; to happen; to come to occur progressively or in succession; to be present transitorily. So death passed upon all men. --Rom. v. 12. Our own consciousness of what passes within our own mind. --I. Watts. 5. To go by or glide by as time; to elapse; to be spent; as their vacation passed pleasantly. Now the time is far passed. --Mark vi 35 6. To go from one person to another; hence to be given and taken freely; as clipped coin will not pass; to obtain general acceptance; to be held or regarded; to circulate; to be current; -- followed by for before a word denoting value or estimation. ``Let him pass for a man.'' --Shak. False eloquence passeth only where true is not understood. --Felton. This will not pass for a fault in him --Atterbury. 7. To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness; to be carried through a body that has power to sanction or reject; to receive legislative sanction; to be enacted; as the resolution passed; the bill passed both houses of Congress. 8. To go through any inspection or test successfully; to be approved or accepted; as he attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass. 9. To be suffered to go on to be tolerated; hence to continue; to live along ``The play may pass.'' --Shak. 10. To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance or opposition; as we let this act pass. 11. To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess. [Obs.] ``This passes, Master Ford.'' --Shak. 12. To take heed; to care [Obs.] As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not --Shak. 13. To go through the intestines. --Arbuthnot. 14. (Law) To be conveyed or transferred by will deed, or other instrument of conveyance; as an estate passes by a certain clause in a deed. --Mozley & W. 15. (Fencing) To make a lunge or pass; to thrust. 16. (Card Playing & other games) To decline to take an optional action when it is one's turn, as to decline to bid, or to bet, or to play a card; in euchre, to decline to make the trump. She would not play, yet must not pass. --Prior. 17. In football, hockey, etc., to make a pass; to transfer the ball, etc., to another player of one's own side [Webster 1913 Suppl.] {To bring to pass}, {To come to pass}. See under {Bring}, and {Come}. {To pass away}, to disappear; to die; to vanish. ``The heavens shall pass away.'' --2 Pet. iii. 10. ``I thought to pass away before but yet alive I am.'' --Tennyson. {To pass by}, to go near and beyond a certain person or place as he passed by as we stood there {To pass into}, to change by a gradual transmission; to blend or unite with {To pass on}, to proceed. {To pass on} or {upon}. a To happen to to come upon to affect. ``So death passed upon all men.'' --Rom. v. 12. ``Provided no indirect act pass upon our prayers to define them.'' --Jer. Taylor. b To determine concerning; to give judgment or sentence upon ``We may not pass upon his life.'' --Shak. {To pass off}, to go away to cease; to disappear; as an agitation passes off {To pass over}, to go from one side or end to the other to cross, as a river, road, or bridge. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pass \Pass\, v. t. 1. In simple, transitive senses as: a To go by beyond, over through or the like to proceed from one side to the other of as to pass a house, a stream, a boundary, etc b Hence: To go from one limit to the other of to spend; to live through to have experience of to undergo; to suffer. ``To pass commodiously this life.'' --Milton. She loved me for the dangers I had passed. --Shak. c To go by without noticing; to omit attention to to take no note of to disregard. Please you that I may pass This doing --Shak. I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array. --Dryden. d To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed. And strive to pass . . . Their native music by her skillful art. --Spenser. Whose tender power Passes the strength of storms in their most desolate hour. --Byron. e To go successfully through as an examination, trail, test, etc.; to obtain the formal sanction of as a legislative body; as he passed his examination; the bill passed the senate. 2. In causative senses: as: a 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 as the waiter passed bisquit and cheese; the torch was passed from hand to hand. I had only time to pass my eye over the medals. --Addison. Waller passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge --Clarendon. b To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce; hence to promise; to pledge; as to pass sentence. --Shak. Father, thy word is passed. --Milton. c 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 as he passed the bill through the committee; the senate passed the law. e To put in circulation; to give currency to as to pass counterfeit money. ``Pass the happy news.'' --Tennyson. f To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance; as to pass a person into a theater, or over a railroad. 3. To emit from the bowels; to evacuate. 4. (Naut.) To take a turn with (a line gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure. 5. (Fencing) To make as a thrust, punto, etc --Shak. {Passed midshipman}. See under Midshipman. {To pass a dividend}, to omit the declaration and payment of a dividend at the time when due. {To pass away}, to spend; to waste. ``Lest she pass away the flower of her age.'' --Ecclus. xlii 9. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pass \Pass\, n. [Cf. F. pas (for sense 1), and passe, fr passer to pass. See {Pass}, v. i.] 1. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier; a passageway; a defile; a ford; as a mountain pass. ``Try not the pass!'' the old man said --Longfellow. 2. (Fencing) A thrust or push an attempt to stab or strike an adversary. --Shak. 3. A movement of the hand over or along anything the manipulation of a mesmerist. 4. (Rolling Metals) A single passage of a bar, rail, sheet, etc., between the rolls. 5. State of things condition; predicament. Have his daughters brought him to this pass. --Shak. Matters have been brought to this pass. --South. 6. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come a psssport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission; as a railroad or theater pass; a military pass. A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy. --Kent. 7. Fig.: a thrust; a sally of wit. --Shak. 8. Estimation; character. [Obs.] Common speech gives him a worthy pass. --Shak. 9. [Cf. {Passus}.] A part a division. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {Pass boat} (Naut.), a punt, or similar boat. {Pass book}. a A book in which a trader enters articles bought on credit, and then passes or sends it to the purchaser. b See {Bank book}. {Pass box} (Mil.), a wooden or metallic box, used to carry cartridges from the service magazine to the piece. {Pass check}, a ticket of admission to a place of entertainment, or of readmission for one who goes away in expectation of returning. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: pass adj : (football) of advancing the ball by throwing it "a team with a good passing attack"; "a pass play" [syn: {passing(a)}, {pass(a)}] [ant: {running(a)}] n 1: (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls; "he worked the picher for a base on balls" [syn: {base on balls}, {walk}] 2: (military) a written leave of absence; "he had a pass for three days" 3: a football play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate; "the coach sent in a passing play on third and long" [syn: {passing play}, {passing game}, {passing}] 4: 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" [syn: {mountain pass}, {notch}] 5: any authorization to pass or go somewhere; "the pass to visit had a strict time limit" [syn: {passport}] 6: a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions; "the media representatives had special passes" [syn: {laissez passer}] 7: a flight or run by an aircraft over a target; "the plane turned to make a second pass" 8: a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs [syn: {strait}, {straits}] 9: a difficult juncture; "a pretty pass"; "matters came to a head yesterday" [syn: {head}, {straits}] 10: one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer); "it was not possible to complete the computation in a single pass" 11: you advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent; "he had a bye in the first round" [syn: {bye}] 12: a permit to enter or leave a military installation; "he had to show his pass in order to get out" [syn: {liberty chit}] 13: a complementary free ticket; "the start got passes for his family" 14: a usually brief attempt; "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it a whirl" [syn: {crack}, {fling}, {go}, {whirl}, {offer}] 15: (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team; "the pass was fumbled" [syn: {toss}, {flip}] 16: success in satisfying a test or requirement; "his future depended on his passing that test"; "he got a pass in introductory chemistry" [syn: {passing}, {qualifying}] [ant: {failing}] v 1: go across or through "We passed the point where the police car had parked"; "A terrible thought went through his mind" [syn: {go through}, {go across}] 2: 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" [syn: {travel by}, {pass by}, {surpass}, {go past}, {go by}] 3: make laws, bills, etc.: "They passed the amendment" [syn: {legislate}] 4: pass by as of time [syn: {elapse}, {lapse}, {slip by}, {glide by}, {slip away}, {go by}, {slide by}, {go along}] 5: place into the hands or custody of "Turn the files over to me please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers" [syn: {hand}, {reach}, {pass on}, {turn over}, {give}] 6: 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 extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets" [syn: {run}, {go}, {lead}, {extend}] 7: travel past, as of a vehicle; "The sports car passed all the trucks" " [syn: {overtake}, {overhaul}] 8: come to pass; occur: "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important" [syn: {happen}, {hap}, {go on}, {pass off}, {occur}, {come about}, {take place}] 9: go unchallenged; be approved; "The bill cleared the House" [syn: {clear}] 10: pass in a specific way as of time [syn: {spend}] 11: guide or pass over something "He ran his eyes over her naked body." "She ran her fingers along the carved figurine." [syn: {guide}, {run}] 12: let know pass information on (to someone); "Please communicate this message to all employees" [syn: {communicate}, {pass on}, {put across}] 13: disappear gradually; as of emotions, for example; "The pain eventually passed off" [syn: {evanesce}, {fade}, {blow over}, {pass off}, {fleet}] 14: pass a test or a screening, for example 15: go beyond; "She exceeded out expectations" [syn: {exceed}, {transcend}, {overstep}, {go past}, {top}] 16: accept or judge as acceptable; "The teacher passed the student although we was weak" [ant: {fail}] 17: allow to go without comment or censure: "the insult passed as if unnoticed" 18: transfer to another; of rights or property; "Our house passed under his official control" 19: pass into a specified state or condition: "He sank into Nirvana" [syn: {sink}, {lapse}] 20: get a passing grade in an exams [syn: {nail}, {make it}] [ant: {fail}] 21: throw (a ball) to another player; "Smith passed" 22: 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" [syn: {fall}, {return}, {devolve}] 23: cause to pass: "She passed around the plates" [syn: {make pass}] 24: grant authorization or clearance for "Clear the manuscript fpr publication" [syn: {authorize}, {authorise}, {clear}] 25: eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone" [syn: {excrete}, {egest}, {eliminate}]
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