pass

pass1 [ pæs ] verb ***

▸ 1 go past something

▸ 2 move somewhere

▸ 3 be successful on test

▸ 4 give/let someone have something

▸ 5 spend time or be spent

▸ 6 kick/hit/throw ball to someone

▸ 7 make law, etc. official

▸ 8 be unable to answer

▸ 9 about words/looks

▸ 10 stop happening

▸ 11 go above amount

▸ 12 (be allowed to) happen

▸ 13 give opinion

▸ 14 make waste leave body

▸ 15 change owner

▸ 16 change state

▸ 17 in card games

▸ + PHRASES

1. ) intransitive or transitive to go past something:

They stopped at the crossing, waiting for the train to pass.

The procession slowly passed us.

We sometimes pass each other on the street.

a ) to go past another vehicle

2. ) intransitive pass through/along/over etc. to move in a particular direction or to a particular place or position:

We passed through the gates of the old city.

Two large birds passed over our heads.

The signal passes through a device called a router.

a ) transitive pass around/across/through etc. to move something in a particular direction or to a particular place or position:

He passed his hand across his forehead.

They managed to pass a message under the doorway.

b ) intransitive if a road, river, or stream passes through, across, etc. a place, its path follows that direction:

The railroad line passes through Richmond, Columbia, and Savannah.

3. ) intransitive or transitive to be successful in an examination or test by achieving a satisfactory standard:

Did you pass?

She passed her driver's test.

He'll be in the team if he passes the fitness test today.

pass something with flying colors (=with a very high mark): He passed his final exams with flying colors.

a ) transitive to officially judge that someone has been successful in an examination or test because they have achieved a satisfactory standard:

The examiners passed only 40% of the candidates.

4. ) transitive to put something into someone's hand or into a position where they can take it:

Pass the salt, please.

pass someone something: Could you pass me that newspaper?

pass something to someone: He passed the camera to her so she could take a photograph.

a ) to give information, especially to the police or to an enemy:

Saunders was a paid informer, passing information to the secret police.

b ) to give someone false money as payment for something

5. ) intransitive if time or a period of time passes, it happens and comes to an end:

Time passes slowly when you're waiting for something.

The summer vacation passed quickly, as usual.

with every day that passes/with every passing day: She grew less hopeful with every passing day.

hardly/not a day passes without: Hardly a day passed without a reporter calling or knocking at our door.

a ) transitive to spend time doing something:

We passed the day swimming and lying in the sun.

b ) pass the time to do something that makes a period of time seem shorter and end more quickly, especially when you are bored:

They watched videos to pass the time.

6. ) pass or pass off intransitive or transitive to kick, hit, or throw the ball to another player in a sports team

7. ) transitive to make a law, proposal, etc. become official, usually by voting to accept it:

one of the worst laws ever passed

a ) intransitive or transitive if a law, proposal, etc. passes, or passes a particular group, it becomes official as the result of a vote:

The legislation finally passed the Senate.

If the bill passes, it will fundamentally affect people's employment rights.

8. ) intransitive to be unable to answer a question, especially in a test:

He passed on three questions.

a ) SPOKEN used for saying that you do not know the answer to a question:

What is the capital of Sierra Leone? Pass.

9. ) intransitive if words or looks pass between people, they speak to each other or look at each other in a particular way:

No one really knows what passed between them that day.

10. ) intransitive to come to an end:

Children can be very difficult at this age. Don't worry it'll soon pass.

I felt a sharp pain, but it soon passed.

11. ) transitive to become more than a particular amount:

The death toll has already passed 200.

The three production sites will pass the 100,000 mark this quarter.

12. ) intransitive to happen or be allowed to happen:

pass without incident (=without anything unpleasant happening): The rest of the meeting passed without incident.

pass without comment (=without someone saying something about it): This innocent remark did not, however, pass without comment.

pass unnoticed: Her mistake seemed to have passed unnoticed.

let something pass (=not react to something that annoys you): Carol could see Andrew was furious and wasn't going to let this one pass.

13. ) transitive to make a comment or give an opinion, especially in order to criticize someone or something:

pass judgment (on): She was furious that he should have the nerve to pass judgment on her.

pass (a) comment (on/about): He was asked for his opinion but refused to pass comment.

14. ) transitive FORMAL to make something leave your body as a waste product or in a waste product:

I think he's passing blood in his urine.

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a ) pass water FORMAL to make liquid waste leave your BLADDER

15. ) intransitive to stop being owned or controlled by one person and start being owned or controlled by another:

pass to: Under the will, ownership of the business will pass to my daughter.

pass from someone to someone: The estate has passed from father to son for generations.

16. ) intransitive to change from one state to another:

pass from something to something: At this temperature, the mixture passes from a solid to a liquid state.

17. ) intransitive to not play a card or make a BID in a card game

come to pass FORMAL

to happen:

How is it that this has come to pass?

pass belief/understanding etc. FORMAL

to be too strange or difficult to believe/understand etc.

pass (a) sentence (on someone)

to officially say in a court of law what a criminal's punishment will be:

Passing sentence, the judge told Kelly that the public needed protection from him.

pass the time of day (with someone)

to talk to someone for a short time, especially in order to be polite or friendly

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,pass a`round phrasal verb transitive

to give something to one person in a group, who gives it to someone else, who then gives it to someone else, etc.:

The photos were passed around for each of them to have a look at.

pass the hat around INFORMAL

to collect money from people in a group for a particular purpose

`pass as phrasal verb transitive

same as PASS FOR

,pass a`way or ,pass `on phrasal verb intransitive

to die. This word is used to avoid saying die when you think this might upset someone:

He passed away in his sleep at the age of eighty-four.

,pass `by phrasal verb

1. ) intransitive or transitive pass by someone/something to go past:

Three buses passed by, but none of them was the right one.

I was just passing by her house, so I thought I'd drop in and see her.

A car slowly passed by the front of the house.

2. ) transitive pass someone by if something passes you by, it happens, but you get no advantage from it:

Sometimes I feel that life is just passing me by.

3. ) transitive pass someone by MAINLY BRITISH if something passes you by, you do not notice it:

Did you tell me about that? Sorry, it completely passed me by.

,pass `down phrasal verb transitive

to give knowledge or teach skills to your children or to younger people:

These traditional stories have been passed down from parent to child over many generations.

`pass for or `pass as phrasal verb transitive

pass for someone/something to be accepted, wrongly, as being a particular type of person or thing:

He's nearly forty, but he could pass for twenty-five.

the slogans and name-calling that pass for political debate these days

,pass `off phrasal verb

1. ) transitive pass someone/something off as something to make people believe that a person or thing is something else:

He put on an old blue suit, intending to pass himself off as a businessman.

The watches are fakes, but they tried to pass them off as genuine Rolexes.

2. ) intransitive or transitive same as PASS1 6:

He faked a shot but passed off to Jordan instead.

3. ) intransitive BRITISH if an event passes off in a particular way, it happens in that way:

The protest march passed off without any serious trouble.

,pass `on phrasal verb

1. ) transitive to give someone something that someone else has given you:

When you've read this message, please pass it on.

pass something on to someone: I'll pass these clothes on to my nephew when my lads have outgrown them.

2. ) transitive to make someone who is buying something from you pay for the cost of something:

pass something on to someone: The retailer is forced to pass these extra costs on to the customer.

3. ) transitive to give someone an infectious illness:

I took the day off work because I didn't want to pass on my flu to everyone in the office.

a ) to give something such as a disease to your children through your genes

4. ) intransitive same as PASS AWAY

,pass `out phrasal verb

1. ) intransitive to suddenly become unconscious, for example because you are too hot: FAINT:

People everywhere were passing out from the heat.

2. ) transitive to give something to each member of a group: GIVE OUT:

The hall was silent as the examination was passed out.

3. ) intransitive BRITISH to officially complete a course at a military or a police college

,pass `over phrasal verb transitive

1. ) often passive pass someone over to not give someone a better job, choosing instead someone who is younger or has less experience:

be passed over for something: Bill was upset about being passed over for the marketing job.

2. ) pass over something to ignore or not mention a statement or subject:

I mentioned that you were unhappy with your salary, but it was passed over.

,pass `through phrasal verb intransitive or transitive

pass through something to go to a place for only a short period of time before continuing a trip

,pass `up phrasal verb transitive INFORMAL

pass up something to not take advantage of an opportunity:

I can't believe you passed up the chance to make a parachute jump.

pass

pass 2 [ pæs ] noun count **

▸ 1 document allowing something

▸ 2 kick/hit etc. ball to someone

▸ 3 path through mountains

▸ 4 check of information

▸ 5 successful test result

▸ 6 movement over place

▸ + PHRASES

1. ) an official document that gives you permission to enter a place:

You always have to show your pass before they'll let you in.

a backstage/boarding/security pass

a ) an official document that gives you permission to use a particular form of transportation without having to pay each time:

You can get a weekly pass that costs a little bit less than ten rides.

2. ) a kick, hit, or throw of the ball to another player in your sports team:

Parker intercepted a pass and ran sixty yards to score.

3. ) a path or road that goes through an area of mountains:

a mountain pass

the Brenner Pass

4. ) one of several stages in a process that involves checking and dealing with information, often using a computer, in order to improve it:

I finished my first pass on my transcript yesterday.

5. ) a successful result in an examination or test:

pass in: She got a pass in math.

6. ) a movement past, over, through, etc. a place:

From above came the fading noise of the helicopter completing its pass.

make a pass at someone

to try to start a sexual relationship with someone, for example by talking to them or touching them in a sexual way

things have come to a pretty pass OLD-FASHIONED

used for saying that a situation has become very unpleasant, difficult, or UNACCEPTABLE