Main entry: qualifying, pass, passing
Definition: success in satisfying a test or requirement
Usage: his future depended on his passing that test; he got a pass in introductory chemistry
Definition: (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
Usage: the pass was fumbled
Main entry: walk, base on balls, pass
Definition: (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
Usage: he worked the pitcher for a base on balls
Main entry: pass
Definition: a flight or run by an aircraft over a target
Usage: the plane turned to make a second pass
Main entry: pass, passing, passing game, passing play
Definition: (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
Usage: the coach sent in a passing play on third and long
Main entry: whirl, crack, offer, pass, fling, go
Definition: a usually brief attempt
Usage: he took a crack at it; I gave it a whirl
Main entry: pass
Definition: a complimentary ticket
Usage: the star got passes for his family
Main entry: liberty chit, pass
Definition: a permit to enter or leave a military installation
Usage: he had to show his pass in order to get out
Main entry: pass, laissez passer
Definition: a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions
Usage: the media representatives had special passes
Definition: any authorization to pass or go somewhere
Usage: the pass to visit had a strict time limit
Definition: you advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent
Usage: he had a bye in the first round
Main entry: pass
Definition: one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer)
Usage: it was not possible to complete the computation in a single pass
Main entry: pass, straits, head
Definition: a difficult juncture
Usage: a pretty pass; matters came to a head yesterday
Main entry: pass, mountain pass, notch
Definition: the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks
Usage: we got through the pass before it started to snow
Main entry: pass, strait, straits
Definition: a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
Main entry: pass
Definition: (military) a written leave of absence
Usage: he had a pass for three days
Main entry: pass, egest, excrete, eliminate
Definition: eliminate from the body
Usage: Pass a kidney stone
Main entry: come about, take place, go on, hap, happen, fall out, pass, pass off, occur
Definition: come to pass
Usage: What is happening?; The meeting took place off without an incidence; Nothing occurred that seemed important
Main entry: snuff it, buy the farm, choke, cash in one's chips, pop off, kick the bucket, give-up the ghost, go, pass, pass away, perish, die, decease, conk, drop dead, croak, exit, expire
Definition: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
Usage: She died from cancer; The children perished in the fire; The patient went peacefully; The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102
Main entry: pass, pass off, blow over, fleet, evanesce, fade
Definition: disappear gradually
Usage: The pain eventually passed off
Main entry: put across, pass, pass along, pass on, communicate
Definition: transmit information
Usage: Please communicate this message to all employees; pass along the good news
Main entry: pass, authorise, authorize, clear
Definition: grant authorization or clearance for
Usage: Clear the manuscript for publication; The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography
Main entry: pass, draw, run, guide
Definition: pass over, across, or through
Usage: He ran his eyes over her body; She ran her fingers along the carved figurine; He drew her hair through his fingers
Definition: pass into a specified state or condition
Usage: He sank into nirvana
Main entry: overhaul, overtake, pass
Definition: travel past
Usage: The sports car passed all the trucks
Main entry: go across, go through, pass
Definition: go across or through
Usage: We passed the point where the police car had parked; A terrible thought went through his mind
Main entry: go by, go past, surpass, travel by, pass, pass by
Definition: move past
Usage: A black limousine passed by when she looked out the window; He passed his professor in the hall; One line of soldiers surpassed the other
Definition: cause to pass
Usage: She passed around the plates
Main entry: elapse, glide by, go along, go by, pass, slide by, slip away, slip by, lapse
Definition: pass by
Usage: three years elapsed
Main entry: pass
Definition: transfer to another; of rights or property
Usage: Our house passed under his official control
Main entry: devolve, return, fall, pass
Definition: be inherited by
Usage: The estate fell to my sister; The land returned to the family; The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead
Main entry: hand, give, reach, pass, pass on, turn over
Definition: place into the hands or custody of
Usage: hand me the spoon, please; Turn the files over to me, please; He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers
Main entry: pass
Definition: throw (a ball) to another player
Usage: Smith passed
Main entry: pass
Definition: allow to go without comment or censure
Usage: the insult passed as if unnoticed
Definition: make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation
Usage: They passed the amendment; We cannot legislate how people spend their free time
Definition: go unchallenged; be approved
Usage: The bill cleared the House
Main entry: pass
Definition: accept or judge as acceptable
Usage: The teacher passed the student although he was weak
Definition: go successfully through a test or a selection process
Usage: She passed the new Jersey Bar Exam and can practice law now
Main entry: exceed, overstep, pass, top, transcend, go past
Definition: be superior or better than some standard
Usage: She exceeded our expectations; She topped her performance of last year
Main entry: extend, run, lead, go, pass
Definition: stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
Usage: Service runs all the way to Cranbury; His knowledge doesn't go very far; My memory extends back to my fourth year of life; The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets
Definition: pass time in a specific way
Usage: how are you spending your summer vacation?
Definition: of advancing the ball by throwing it
Usage: a team with a good passing attack; a pass play