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5 definitions found 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]: Passing \Pass"ing\, adv Exceedingly; excessively; surpassingly; as passing fair; passing strange. ``You apprehend passing shrewdly.'' --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Passing \Pass"ing\, n. The act of one who or that which passes; the act of going by or away {Passing bell}, a tolling of a bell to announce that a soul is passing, or has passed, from its body (formerly done to invoke prayers for the dying); also a tolling during the passing of a funeral procession to the grave, or during funeral ceremonies. --Sir W. Scott. --Longfellow. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Passing \Pass"ing\, a. 1. Relating to the act of passing or going; going by beyond, through or away departing. 2. Exceeding; surpassing, eminent. --Chaucer. ``Her passing deformity.'' --Shak. {Passing note} (Mus.), a character including a passing tone. {Passing tone} (Mus.), a tone introduced between two other tones, on an unaccented portion of a measure, for the sake of smoother melody, but forming no essential part of the harmony. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: passing adj 1: enduring a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but at is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms" [syn: {ephemeral}, {short-lived}, {transient}, {transitory}, {fugacious}] 2: moving by or going past; "the passing cars" [syn: {passing(a)}] 3: (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)}] 4: allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily; "a passing grade" [syn: {passing(a)}] 5: hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy" [syn: {casual}, {cursory}, {passing(a)}, {perfunctory}] n 1: 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: {pass}, {passing play}, {passing game}] 2: euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing" [syn: {loss}, {departure}, {exit}, {expiration}, {going}, {release}] 3: the motion of one object relative to another; "stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets" [syn: {passage}] 4: a bodily process of passing from one place or stage to another; "the passage of air from the lungs"; "the passing of flatus" [syn: {passage}] 5: going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it "she drove but well but her reckless passing of every car on the road frightened me" [syn: {overtaking}] 6: success in satisfying a test or requirement; "his future depended on his passing that test"; "he got a pass in introductory chemistry" [syn: {pass}, {qualifying}] [ant: {failing}] adv : to an extreme degree or extent; "his eyesight was exceedingly defective" [syn: {exceedingly}, {extremely}]
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