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Definition pass

Etymology 1

From Middle English passen, borrowed from Old French passer (“to step, walk, pass”), from *Vulgar Latin pass?re (“step, walk, pass”), from Latin passus (“a step”), pandere (“to spread, unfold, stretch”), from Proto-Indo-European *patno-, from Proto-Indo-European *pete- (“to spread, stretch out”). Cognate with Old English fæþm (“armful, fathom”). More at fathom.

Verb

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

1. To change place.
   1. (intransitive) To move or be moved from one place to another.
   2. (transitive) To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
   3. (ditransitive) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another; to transmit; to deliver; to hand; to make over.
   4. (intransitive, transitive, medicine) To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
   5. (transitive, nautical) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
   6. (sports) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
      1. (transitive, soccer) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
      2. (transitive) To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
      3. (intransitive, fencing) To make a lunge or swipe.
   7. (intransitive) To go from one person to another.
   8. (transitive) To put in circulation; to give currency to.
   9. (transitive) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
2. To change in state or status
   1. (intransitive) To progress from one state to another; to advance.
   2. (intransitive) To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
   3. (intransitive) To die.
   4. (intransitive, transitive) To achieve a successful outcome from.
   5. (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).
   6. (intransitive, law) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
   7. (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.
   8. (intransitive, law) To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
   9. (transitive) To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
   10. (intransitive) To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
3. To move through time.
   1. (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to be spent.
   2. (transitive, of time) To spend.
   3. (transitive) To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
   4. (intransitive) To continue.
   5. (intransitive) To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
   6. (transitive) To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
   7. (intransitive) To happen.
4. To be accepted.
   1. (intransitive) To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
   2. (sociology) To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex or other group to which they would not otherwise regard one as belonging (or belonging fully, without qualifier); especially to live and be known as white although one has black ancestry, or to live and be known as female although one was assigned male or vice versa.
5. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
   1. (intransitive) In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
6. To do or be better.
   1. (intransitive, obsolete) To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.
   2. (transitive) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
7. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.

Etymology 2

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

Noun

pass (plural passes)

1. 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.
2. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
3. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
4. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
5. An attempt.
6. Success in an examination or similar test.
7. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
8. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
9. A sexual advance.
10. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
11. (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.
12. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
13. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
14. (baseball) An intentional walk.
15. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
16. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
17. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
18. (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
19. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
20. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.

Etymology 3

Short for password.

Noun

pass (plural passes)

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

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