pass

You can only ride the vehicle if you have this pass.

jau⁵ ni¹ zoeng¹ pass sin¹ soeng⁵ dak¹ ce¹.

有呢張pass先上得車。

有呢张pass先上得车。

(Hong Kong Cantonese) pass (document granting permission to pass)

/pʰaː⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

/pʰaː⁵⁵ siː³⁵/


pass

Pass個波過嚟。

Pass个波过嚟。

Pass on the responsibility to the other side.

將個波pass畀對家。

将个波pass畀对家。

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to pass; to transfer

I passed all the subjects this semester.

gam¹ go³ hok⁶ kei⁴ ngo⁵ cyun⁴ bou⁶ fo¹ dou¹ pass saai³.

今個學期我全部科都pass嗮。

今个学期我全部科都pass嗮。

件貨pass唔pass？

件货pass唔pass？

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to pass; to achieve a certain benchmark or acceptance level

今鋪我pass，唔玩。

今铺我pass，唔玩。

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to pass; to decline in one's turn

/pʰaː⁵⁵ siː²¹/

/pʰaː⁵⁵ siː²¹/


pass

They passed from room to room.

(intransitive) To move or be moved from one place to another.

To move or be moved from one place to another.

You will pass a house on your right.

We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.

1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:

(transitive) To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.

The waiter passed biscuits and cheese.

John passed Suzie a note.

The torch was passed from hand to hand.

I had only time to pass my eye over the medals.

1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

Waller […] passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge.

1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:

(ditransitive) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.

He was passing blood in both his urine and his stool.

The poison had been passed by the time of the autopsy.

(intransitive, transitive, medicine) To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.

To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.

(transitive, nautical) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.

20 June 2010, The Guardian, Rob Smyth
Iaquinta passes it coolly into the right-hand corner as Paston dives the other way.

(sports) To make various kinds of movement.

(transitive, soccer) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.

To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.

Brady passed the ball to nine different receivers and handed it off to seven.

2017 September 18, Nicole Yang, “What you need to know about the Patriots’ big win — and their next opponent”, in Boston Globe:

(transitive) To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.

To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.

(intransitive, fencing) To make a lunge or swipe.

To change place.
To make various kinds of movement.
To make a lunge or swipe.

The Patriots passed on third and long.

(intransitive, American football) To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.

To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.

(intransitive) To go from one person to another.

To change place.
To go from one person to another.

pass counterfeit money

(transitive) To put in circulation; to give currency to.

To put in circulation; to give currency to.

pass a person into a theater or over a railroad

(transitive) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.

To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.

When it's finished cooking, you should pass the sauce to get rid of any lumps.

(transitive, cooking) To put through a sieve.

To change place.
To put through a sieve.

He passed from youth into old age.

(intransitive) To progress from one state to another; to advance.

To progress from one state to another; to advance.

At first, she was worried, but that feeling soon passed.

Beauty's a charm, but soon the charm will pass.

1697, Virgil, “Pastoral 2”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

The crisis passed as she'd prayed it would, but it remained to be seen just how much damage had been done.

1995, Penny Richards, The Greatest Gift of All:

(intransitive) To depart, to cease, to come to an end.

To change in state or status
To depart, to cease, to come to an end.

His grandmother passed yesterday.

To change in state or status
(intransitive) To die.

He attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.

Of the Ancient Wonders, only the pyramids have passed the test of time.

(intransitive, transitive) To achieve a successful outcome from.

To change in state or status
To achieve a successful outcome from.

Despite the efforts of the opposition, the bill passed.

The bill passed both houses of Congress.

The bill passed the Senate, but did not pass in the House.

But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.

2012 March 5, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87:

(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).

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.

(intransitive, law) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.

To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.

He passed the bill through the committee.

Pass the happy news.

1855, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page)”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:

(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.

And within three dayes twelve knyghtes passed uppon hem; and they founde Sir Palomydes gylty, and Sir Saphir nat gylty, of the lordis deth.

1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book X:

(intransitive, law) To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.

To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.

I may almost depend on your own justice, and leave it to yourself to pass sentence on your own conduct

1749, Henry Fielding, chapter XII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book XIX:

Father, thy word is passed.

1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

(transitive) To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.

To change in state or status
To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.

And rising out of the fourth stage of deep meditation he entered into the state of mind to which the infinity of space is alone present. And passing out of the mere consciousness of the infinity of space he entered into the state of mind to which the infinity of though is along present.

Rather, he argues that 'within the zero-stage, all special affections have passed over into a general undifferentiated affection; all special consciousnesses have passed over into the one, general, persistently available background-consciousness of our past, the consciousness of the completely unarticulated, completely indistinct horizon of the past, which brings to a close the living, moving retentional past.'

2010, Joaquim Siles i Borràs, The Ethics of Husserl's Phenomenology, →ISBN, page 158:

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, Thomas Hill Green, R. L. Nettleship, Works of Thomas Hill Green, →ISBN, page lxxviii:

(intransitive) To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).

To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).

Their vacation passed pleasantly.

(intransitive, of time) To elapse, to be spent.

To move through time.
To elapse, to be spent.

What will we do to pass the time?

To pass commodiously this life.

Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0056:

For, although Allan had passed his fiftieth year,[…], one had continued to think of him as a man of whipcord and iron, a natural source of untiring energy, a mechanism that would not wear out.

To move through time.
(transitive, of time) To spend.

Please you that I may pass / This doing.

c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array.

1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

(transitive) To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.

To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.

To move through time.
(intransitive) To continue.

You're late, but I'll let it pass.

(intransitive) To proceed without hindrance or opposition.

To proceed without hindrance or opposition.

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

(transitive) To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.

To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.

It will soon come to pass.

[…] for the memory of what passed while at that place is almost blank.

1876, The Dilemma, Chapter LIII, republished in Littell's Living Age, series 5, volume 14, page 274

To move through time.
(intransitive) To happen.

It isn't ideal, but it will pass.

(intransitive, stative) To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".

To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".

Coordinate term: roleplay (“act out a social role”)

Chinese sometimes pass for Europeans, but Japs more often approach Western types.

1941 December 22, “How to Tell Japs from the Chinese”, in LIFE, page 81:

[…] a situation where I had to know whether I could pass as a woman, and not tell anyone, and not be asked what I was doing dressed as a woman.

1999, Irene Preiss, Fixed for Life: The True Saga of How Tom Became Sally, page 249:

Like Olivia's aunts (described above), many Americans passed as white to resist the racially restrictive one-drop rule and the racial status quo of the Jim Crow era (Daniel 2002; Williamson 1980).

2010 December, Nikki Khanna, Cathryn Johnson, “Passing as Black: Racial Identity Work among Biracial Americans”, in Social Psychology Quarterly, volume 73, number 4, →DOI:

(intransitive, stative, sociology) 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.

He asked me to go to the cinema with him, but I think I'll pass.

(intransitive) To decline something that is offered or available.

To decline something that is offered or available.

Instead, the board voted to suspend the dividend, giving Orton his way at last. They passed the dividend again in June 1870 […]

2013, Joshua D. Wolff, Western Union and the Creation of the American Corporate Order, 1845-1893, page 187:

To refrain from doing something.
(transitive) To reject; to pass up.

To refrain from doing something.
To reject; to pass up.

I haven't any idea of the answer, so I'll have to pass.

(intransitive) To decline or not attempt to answer a question.

To decline or not attempt to answer a question.

(intransitive) In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.

In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.

(intransitive, card games) In euchre, to decline to make the trump.

In euchre, to decline to make the trump.

This passes, Master Ford.

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

(intransitive, obsolete) To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.

To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.

And striue to passe[…]Their natiue musicke by her skilfull art:

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 25:

Whose tender power Passes the strength of storms in their most desolate hour.

1812–1818, Lord Byron, “Canto C”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. , London: John Murray,, (please specify the stanza number):

(transitive) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.

To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.

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, […]

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene i:

As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not.

1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

(intransitive, obsolete) To take heed, to have an interest, to care.

To take heed, to have an interest, to care.

en-verb

pass (third-person singular simple present passes, present participle passing, simple past and past participle passed)

passes (present singular third-person)
passing (participle present)
passed (participle past)
passed (past)

jap

to move or be moved from one place to another

átad

to cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another; to transmit; to deliver; to hand

مَرَّ

medicine: to eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes; to go through the intestines

forgalomba hoz

to put in circulation; to give currency to

bringen

to cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance

passar

to move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge

اِجْتَازَ

to go through any inspection or test successfully

اِحْتَازَ

to advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness

siirtyä

law: to be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance

hyväksyttää

to cause to advance by stages of process

durchgehen

to proceed without hindrance or opposition

keresztülmegy

to live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer

փոխանցել

sports: to move the ball or puck to a teammate

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 pandere (“spread, unfold, stretch”), from Proto-Italic *patnō, from Proto-Indo-European *pth₂noh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread, stretch out”). Cognate with Old English fæþm (“armful, fathom”). More at fathom.
Displaced native Old English gengan.

der

Old French passer (“to step, walk, pass”)

Vulgar Latin *passāre (“step, walk, pass”)

Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread, stretch out”)


pass

mountain pass

"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 September 28, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “[Miscellaneous.] Excelsior.”, in Ballads and Other Poems, 2nd edition, Cambridge, Mass.: […] John Owen, published 1842, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 130:

Followed two more weeks of marching,—rougher marching this time,—through the core of the lofty mountains that divide India from Central Asia; across the terrible Depsang Plains, seventeen thousand feet up; and over four passes choked with snow; till they came upon a deserted fort, set in the midst of stark space, and knew that here, indeed, was the limit of human habitation. Next day the work of exploration had begun in earnest.

1910, Maud Diver, “The Valley of Decision”, in The Great Amulet, New York: John Lane Company, →OCLC, page 368:

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.

the passes of the Mississippi

A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.

[The bear] made a pass at the dog, but he swung out and above him […]

1921, John Griffin, "Trailing the Grizzly in Oregon", in Forest and Stream, pages 389-391 and 421-424, republished by Jeanette Prodgers in 1997 in The Only Good Bear is a Dead Bear, page 35

A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.

A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.

My first pass at a career of writing proved unsuccessful.

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

Success in an examination or similar test.

(fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.

(figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.

The man kicked his friend out of the house after he made a pass at his wife.

(sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.

(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.

A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy.

1826, James Kent, Commentaries on American Law:

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

a railroad pass; a theater pass; a military pass

A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission

Smith was given a pass after Jones' double.

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 September 13, Andrew Benson, “Tuscan Grand Prix: Lewis Hamilton claims 90th win after incredible race”, in BBC Sport:

(sports) The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.

England is growne to ſuch a paſſe of late,
That rich men triumph to ſee the poore beg at their gate.

1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:

What, have his daughters brought him to this pass?

c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

Matters have been brought to this pass, that, if one among a man's sons had any blemish, he laid him aside for the ministry...

1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:

"What with Robert strolling out with publicans' daughters, and you having affairs with bicycle-shop keepers, the family is coming to a pretty pass."

1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 187:

The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.

This passes, Master Ford.

c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:

The finished dishes are placed on the pass ready to be collected by the waiter.

2017, Fred Sirieix, Secret Service: Lifting the lid on the restaurant world:

(cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.

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.

An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".

Most Pascal compilers process source code in a single pass.

(computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.

→ Tibetan: སྤ་སེ (spa se)

طَريق

opening, road, or track, available for passing — see also mountain pass

pyyhkäisy

movement of a tool over something, or something over a tool

جَوَاز

permission or license to pass, or to go and come

جَوَاز

From Middle English pas, pase, pace, from passen (“to pass”).


pass

Anyone want to trade passes?

If you don't have your password set within a week I'll remove you from the userlist and I'll add you again next time I see you in the chan and make sure you set a pass.

1999, Jonny Durango, “IMPORTANT NEWS FOR AHM IRC CHAN!!!”, in alt.hackers.malicious (Usenet):

(computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).


pass

fo-noun

pass n (genitive singular pass, plural pass)

pass (genitive singular)
pass (plural)
pass (indefinite nominative singular)
passið (definite nominative singular)
pass (indefinite nominative plural)
passini (definite nominative plural)
pass (accusative indefinite singular)
passið (accusative definite singular)
pass (accusative indefinite plural)
passini (accusative definite plural)
passi (dative indefinite singular)
passinum (dative definite singular)
passum (dative indefinite plural)
passunum (dative definite plural)
pass (genitive indefinite singular)
passins (definite genitive singular)
passa (genitive indefinite plural)
passanna (definite genitive plural)

From German Pass, from Italian passaporto.


pass

passet (definite singular)
pass (indefinite plural)
passa (definite plural)
passene (definite plural)


pass

passet (definite singular)
pass (indefinite plural)
passa (definite plural)


pass

passport (document granting permission to pass)

place which you (must) pass or is passing; mountain pass

place where a hunter hunts; place where a policeman patrols

ett träningspass

ett löppass

a leave notice (document granting permission to leave) (from prison)

pass (indefinite nominative singular)
passet (definite nominative singular)
pass (indefinite nominative plural)
passen (definite nominative plural)
pass (genitive indefinite singular)
passets (definite genitive singular)
pass (genitive indefinite plural)
passens (definite genitive plural)

From German, originally from Italian passo.


pass

Hur pass noggrant är testet?

How accurate is the test? (Roughly, "To what degree is the test accurate?")

(in "så pass") (to such a) degree (see såpass)


pass

(ball games) pass; a transfer of the ball from one player to another in the same team

pass (indefinite nominative singular)
passen (definite nominative singular)
passar (indefinite nominative plural)
passarna (definite nominative plural)
pass (genitive indefinite singular)
passens (definite genitive singular)
passars (genitive indefinite plural)
passarnas (definite genitive plural)


pass

(games) pass (I refuse to bet or bid or play)

Borrowed from French passe, from passer.