pass

verb47

1. •
   to move by someone or something and go on beyond them

   • You will pass a house on your right.
2. •
   To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.

   • The waiter passed biscuits and cheese.
   • John passed Suzie a note.
3. •
   To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.

   • Brady passed the ball to nine different receivers and handed it off to seven. — 2017
4. •
   To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.

   • The Patriots passed on third and long.
5. •
   To go from one person to another.
6. •
   To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.

   • The estate passes by the third clause in Mr Smith's deed to his son.
   • When the old king passed away with only a daughter as an heir, the throne passed to a woman for the first time in centuries.
7. •
   To achieve a successful outcome from.

   • He attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.
   • Of the Ancient Wonders, only the pyramids have passed the test of time.
8. •
   To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).

   • Despite the efforts of the opposition, the bill passed.
   • The bill passed both houses of Congress.
9. •
   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.

   • He passed the bill through the committee.
10. •
    To move through time.
11. •
    To elapse, to be spent.

    • Their vacation passed pleasantly.
12. •
    To spend.

    • What will we do to pass the time?
13. •
    To depart, to cease, to come to an end.

    • At first, she was worried, but that feeling soon passed.
14. •
    (euphemistic) To die.

    • His grandmother passed yesterday.
15. •
    To refrain from doing something.
16. •
    To decline something that is offered or available.

    • He asked me to go to the cinema with him, but I think I'll pass.
17. •
    To reject; to pass up.

    • Instead, the board voted to suspend the dividend, giving Orton his way at last. They passed the dividend again in June 1870 […] — 2013
18. •
    To decline or not attempt to answer a question.

    • I haven't any idea of the answer, so I'll have to pass.
19. •
    In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
20. •
    In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
21. •
    To change place.
22. •
    To move or be moved from one place to another.

    • They passed from room to room.
23. •
    To change in state or status
24. •
    To progress from one state to another; to advance.

    • He passed from youth into old age.
25. •
    To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).

    • What we call 'our' minds are events beginning with birth and ending with death, each again broken up into other events or mental states, into and out of which we are perpetually passing. — 2011
26. •
    To be accepted.
27. •
    To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".

    • It isn't ideal, but it will pass.
28. •
    To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.

    • Chinese sometimes pass for Europeans, but Japs more often approach Western types. — 1941
29. •
    To allow to go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.

    • Please you that I may pass / This doing. — 1608
30. •
    To proceed without hindrance or opposition.

    • You're late, but I'll let it pass.
31. •
    To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.

    • He was passing blood in both his urine and his stool.
    • The poison had been passed by the time of the autopsy.
32. •
    To happen.

    • It will soon come to pass.
33. •
    To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
34. •
    To put in circulation; to give currency to.
35. •
    To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.

    • 20 June 2010, The Guardian, Rob Smyth Iaquinta passes it coolly into the right-hand corner as Paston dives the other way.
36. •
    To do or be better.
37. •
    To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.

    • Whose tender power Passes the strength of storms in their most desolate hour. — 1812
38. •
    To put through a sieve.

    • When it's finished cooking, you should pass the sauce to get rid of any lumps.
39. •
    To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.

    • Please you that I may pass / This doing. — 1603
40. •
    To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
41. •
    To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.

    • I may almost depend on your own justice, and leave it to yourself to pass sentence on your own conduct — 1749
42. •
    To continue.
43. •
    To make various kinds of movement.
44. •
    To make a lunge or swipe.
45. •
    To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
46. •
    (no longer used) To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.

    • This passes, Master Ford. — 1597
47. •
    (no longer used) To take heed, to have an interest, to care.

    • Mena[phon]. How now my Lord, what mated and amazd’ To heare the king thus threaten like himselfe? Cos[roe]. Ah Menaphon, I passe not for his threates, […] — 1587

noun21

1. •
   Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.

   • A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy. — 1826
2. •
   A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
3. •
   The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.

   • Everyone in the football stadium expected a pass play on third down.
4. •
   (informal) A sexual advance (often in the phrase make a pass).

   • The man kicked his friend out of the house after he made a pass at his wife.
5. •
   Success in an examination or similar test.

   • I gained three passes at A-level, in mathematics, French, and English literature.
6. •
   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.

   • "Try not the Pass!" the old man said; / "Dark lowers the tempest overhead, / The roaring torrent is deep and wide!" / And loud that clarion voice replied / Excelsior! — 1841
7. •
   A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
8. •
   An attempt.

   • My first pass at a career of writing proved unsuccessful.
9. •
   A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.

   • [The bear] made a pass at the dog, but he swung out and above him […] — 1921
10. •
    A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
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. •
    The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.

    • Albon made hard work of the result. Starting fourth, he dropped back to seventh at the second start and had to fight his way back up, which he did with some excellent passes. — 2020
13. •
    An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".

    • A pass would have seen her win the game, but instead she gave a wrong answer and lost a point, putting her in second place.
14. •
    A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.

    • Most Pascal compilers process source code in a single pass.
15. •
    An intentional walk.

    • Smith was given a pass after Jones' double.
16. •
    (slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

    • Anyone want to trade passes?
17. •
    The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.

    • The finished dishes are placed on the pass ready to be collected by the waiter. — 2017
18. •
    A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
19. •
    (figurative) A thrust; a sally of wit.
20. •
    The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.

    • England is growne to such a passe of late, That rich men triumph to see the poore beg at their gate. — 1593
21. •
    (no longer used) Estimation; character.

    • This passes, Master Ford. — 1604

adjective1

1. •
   Abbreviation of passive.

noun4

1. •
   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.
2. •
   Initialism of personal alert safety system.
3. •
   Initialism of positive alternative to school suspension.
4. •
   Initialism of penile artery shunt syndrome.