1. Go across or through
   "We passed the point where the police car had parked"
    
2. Move past
   "A black limousine passed by when she looked out the window"; "He passed his professor in the hall";
   - travel by, pass by, go past, go by
    
3. Travel past
   "The sports car passed all the trucks";
   - overtake, overhaul
    
4. Place into the hands or custody of
   "pass me the spoon, please"; "She passed the wallet on to the police";
   - hand, reach, pass on, turn over, give
    
5. Become later by the passage of a given amount of time
   "three years passed";
   - elapse, lapse, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go along
    
6. Stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
   "Service passes all the way to Cranbury";
   - run, go, lead, extend
    
7. (of an event) come to pass in time, so that it is real and actual at some time
   "The ceremony passed off without incident";
   - happen, hap [archaic], go on, pass off, occur, fall out, come about, take place
    
8. Make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation
   "They passed the amendment";
   - legislate
    
9. Pass over, across, or through
   "He passed his eyes over her body";
   - guide, run, draw
    
10. Transfer or hand over something from one person or place to another
    "He passed around the plates"
     
11. Transfer to another; of rights or property
    "Our house passed under his official control"
     
12. Be inherited by
    "The estate passed to my sister";
    - fall, return, devolve
     
13. Throw (a ball) to another player
    "Smith passed"
     
14. Transmit information
    "pass along the good news"; "Please pass on this message to all employees";
    - communicate, pass on, pass along, put across
     
15. Go unchallenged; be approved
    "The bill passed the House";
    - clear
     
16. Accept or judge as acceptable
    "The teacher passed the student although he was weak"
     
17. Go successfully through a test or a selection process
    "She passed the new Jersey Bar Exam and can practice law now";
    - make it, make the grade [N. Amer]
     
18. Be superior or better than some standard
    "She passed our expectations";
    - exceed, transcend, go past, top
     
19. Allow to go without comment or censure
    "the insult passed as if unnoticed"
     
20. Use up a period of time in a specific way
    "how are you passing your summer vacation?";
    - spend
     
21. Pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
    "He passed into nirvana";
    - sink, lapse
     
22. Disappear gradually
    "The pain eventually passed off";
    - evanesce, fade, blow over, pass off, fleet
     
23. Grant authorization or clearance for
    "The committee passed the new regulation";
    - authorize, authorise [Brit], clear
     
24. Cease to live
    "Her grandfather passed away last night"; "She passed on from cancer";
    - die, decease [archaic], perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, kick the bucket [informal], cash in one's chips [informal], buy the farm [N. Amer, informal], conk [informal], give up the ghost [informal], drop dead [informal], pop off [informal], croak [informal], snuff it [informal], cash in [informal], cop it [Brit, informal], flatline [informal], pop one's clogs [informal], pass on
     
25. Expel from the body
    "Pass a kidney stone";
    - excrete, egest, eliminate

1. (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
   "he worked the pitcher for a pass";
   - base on balls, walk
    
2. Any authorization to go somewhere
   "the pass to visit had a strict time limit";
   - passport
    
3. A document indicating permission to do something without restrictions
   "the media representatives had special passes";
   - laissez passer
    
4. (military) a permit to enter or leave a military installation
   "he had to show his pass in order to get out";
   - liberty chit
    
5. A complimentary ticket
   "the star got passes for his family"
    
6. (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
   "the coach sent in a pass on third and long";
   - passing play, passing game, passing
    
7. (sport) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
   "the pass was fumbled";
   - toss, flip
    
8. 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";
   - mountain pass, notch
    
9. A flight or run by an aircraft over a target
   "the plane turned to make a second pass"
    
10. A usually brief attempt
    "he took a pass at it";
    - crack, fling, go, whirl [informal], bash [Brit, informal]
     
11. An automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent
    "he had a pass in the first round";
    - bye
     
12. One complete cycle of operations (as by a computer)
    "it was not possible to complete the computation in a single pass"
     
13. Success in satisfying a test or requirement
    "he got a pass in introductory chemistry";
    - passing, qualifying
     
14. A bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
    "They found themselves in a tight pass financially";
    - strait, straits
     
15. A difficult juncture
    "a pretty pass";
    - head, straits
     
16. (military) a written leave of absence
    "he had a pass for three days"

1. (football) of advancing the ball by throwing it
   "a pass play";
   - passing

Sounds like: pascal, pa, pass

Derived forms: passing, passes, passed

See also: get across, move through, pass over

Type of: accomplishment, achievement, advance, allow, attempt, be, bring home the bacon [informal], cause, change, change hands, change owners, change state, come through, come up trumps [Brit, informal], communicate, conceding, concession, consume, convey, countenance, cycle, deliver the goods, deplete, disappear, discharge, eat, eat up, effort, eject, enact, endeavor [US], endeavour [Brit, Cdn], evaluate, excel, exhaust, expel, expend, flight, flying, football play, get, go, go away, go on, have, induce, judge, juncture, leave, leave of absence, let, licence [Brit, Cdn], license [N. Amer], location, locomote, make, march on, move, move on, occasion, ordain, oscillation, pass judgment, pass on, permission, permit, progress, release, rule, run through, situation, stand out, stimulate, succeed, success, surpass, throw, ticket, transfer, transmit, travel, try, turn, turn up trumps [Brit, informal], use, use up, vanish, win, wing, wipe out, yielding

Antonym: fail, failing, running

Part of: chain, chain of mountains, mountain chain, mountain range, range, range of mountains

Encyclopedia: Pass, Patrick