Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word PASS

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Definitions of PASS

1. To change place.
2. To change in state or status
3. To move through time.
4. To be accepted.
5. To refrain from doing something.
6. To do or be better.
7. 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.
8. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
9. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over or along anything.
10. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
11. An attempt.
12. Success in an examination or similar test.
13. A sexual advance.
14. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
15. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
16. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
17. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
18. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed, to have an interest, to care.
19. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
20. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
21. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
22. (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.
23. (baseball) An intentional walk.
24. (sports) The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
25. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
26. (cookery) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
27. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
28. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
29. A surname.
30. (education) Initialism of positive alternative to school suspension.

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Examples of Using PASS in a Sentence

• Algol is a three-star system, consisting of Beta Persei Aa1, Aa2, and Ab – in which the hot luminous primary β Persei Aa1 and the larger, but cooler and fainter, β Persei Aa2 regularly pass in front of each other, causing eclipses.
• The Aare rises in the great Aargletschers (Aare Glaciers) of the Bernese Alps, in the canton of Bern and west of the Grimsel Pass.
• Bowel contents that pass through the anus include the gaseous flatus and the semi-solid feces, which (depending on the type of animal) include: indigestible matter such as bones, hair pellets, endozoochorous seeds and digestive rocks; residual food material after the digestible nutrients have been extracted, for example cellulose or lignin; ingested matter which would be toxic if it remained in the digestive tract; excreted metabolites like bilirubin-containing bile; and dead mucosal epithelia or excess gut bacteria and other endosymbionts.
• The adversarial system or adversary system or accusatorial system or accusatory system is a legal system used in the common law countries where two advocates represent their parties' case or position before an impartial person or group of people, usually a judge or jury, who attempt to determine the truth and pass judgment accordingly.
• Since 1885, when the Duke of Montrose constructed a road over the eastern shoulder of Craigmore to join the older road at the entrance of the Trossachs pass, Aberfoyle has become the alternative route to the Trossachs and Loch Katrine; this road, known as the Duke's Road or Duke's Pass, was opened to the public in 1931 when the Forestry Commission acquired the land.
• The rock unit is a black shale and crops out at a number of localities near the town of Field in Yoho National Park and the Kicking Horse Pass.
• Cumberland Gap, a pass through the Appalachian Mountains near junction of Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee.
• The first Europeans to see Deception Pass were members of the 1790 expedition of Manuel Quimper on the Princesa Real.
• The ladies pass each other by right hand and turn with the gentlemen by left hand, approximately once around, to end with the ladies in each other's place and the gentlemen where they began.
• An eclipse is an astronomical event which occurs when an astronomical object or spacecraft is temporarily obscured, by passing into the shadow of another body or by having another body pass between it and the viewer.
• In gridiron football, not all players on offense are entitled to receive a forward pass: only an eligible pass receiver may legally catch a forward pass, and only an eligible receiver may advance beyond the neutral zone if a forward pass crosses into the neutral zone.
• In several forms of football, a forward pass is the throwing of the ball in the direction in which the offensive team is trying to move, towards the defensive team's goal line.
• Filter (chemistry), a device which separates solids from fluids (liquids or gases) by adding a medium through which only the fluid can pass.
• A snap (colloquially called a "hike", "snapback", or "pass from center") is the backward passing of the ball in gridiron football at the start of play from scrimmage.
• Filtration is a physical separation process that separates solid matter and fluid from a mixture using a filter medium that has a complex structure through which only the fluid can pass.
• They pass into a junior secondary school system for three years of academic training combined with technical and vocational training.
• It was first introduced in the board game White Bear and Red Moon (1975) by Chaosium and then in a number of other board, roleplaying and computer games, including RuneQuest and HeroQuest, as well as several works of fiction and the computer strategy game King of Dragon Pass.
• Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the opposing team.
• Joe Pass (born Joseph Anthony Jacobi Passalacqua; January 13, 1929 – May 23, 1994) was an American jazz guitarist.
• It is linked by the Kabul-Jalalabad Road to the west and Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, to the east through Torkham and the Khyber Pass.

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