American-footballball-gamesfootballTo change place.

• The Patriots passed on third and long.

To change place.

To change place.

• pass counterfeit money

To change place.

• pass a person into a theater or over a railroad

cookingfoodlifestyleTo change place.

• When it's finished cooking, you should pass the sauce to get rid of any lumps.

To change in state or status

• He passed from youth into old age.

To change in state or status

• At first, she was worried, but that feeling soon passed.
• Beauty's a charm, but soon the charm will pass.

To change in state or status

• His grandmother passed yesterday.

To change in state or status

• He attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.
• Of the Ancient Wonders, only the pyramids have passed the test of time.

To change in state or status

• Despite the efforts of the opposition, the bill passed.
• The bill passed both houses of Congress.

lawTo change in state or status

• The estate passes by the third clause in Mr Smith's deed to his son.
• When the old king passed away with only a daughter as an heir, the throne passed to a woman for the first time in centuries.

To change in state or status

• He passed the bill through the committee.
• Pass the happy news.

lawTo change in state or status

• And within three dayes twelve knyghtes passed uppon hem; and they founde Sir Palomydes gylty, and Sir Saphir nat gylty, of the lordis deth.

To change in state or status

• I may almost depend on your own justice, and leave it to yourself to pass sentence on your own conduct
• Father, thy word is passed.

To change in state or status

• And rising out of the fourth stage of deep meditation he entered into the state of mind to which the infinity of space is alone present. And passing out of the mere consciousness of the infinity of space he entered into the state of mind to which the infinity of though is along present.
• Rather, he argues that 'within the zero-stage, all special affections have passed over into a general undifferentiated affection; all special consciousnesses have passed over into the one, general, persistently available background-consciousness of our past, the consciousness of the completely unarticulated, completely indistinct horizon of the past, which brings to a close the living, moving retentional past.'

To move through time.

• Their vacation passed pleasantly.

To move through time.

• What will we do to pass the time?
• To pass commodiously this life.

To move through time.

• Please you that I may pass / This doing.
• I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array.

To move through time.

To move through time.

• You're late, but I'll let it pass.

To move through time.

• Please you that I may pass / This doing.

To move through time.

• It will soon come to pass.
• […] for the memory of what passed while at that place is almost blank.

To be accepted.

• It isn't ideal, but it will pass.

human-sciencessciencessocial-scienceTo be accepted.

• Chinese sometimes pass for Europeans, but Japs more often approach Western types.
• […] a situation where I had to know whether I could pass as a woman, and not tell anyone, and not be asked what I was doing dressed as a woman.

To refrain from doing something.

• He asked me to go to the cinema with him, but I think I'll pass.

To refrain from doing something.

• Instead, the board voted to suspend the dividend, giving Orton his way at last. They passed the dividend again in June 1870 […]

To refrain from doing something.

• I haven't any idea of the answer, so I'll have to pass.

To refrain from doing something.

card-gamesgamesTo refrain from doing something.

obsoleteTo do or be better.

• This passes, Master Ford.

To do or be better.

• And striue to passe[…]Their natiue musicke by her skilfull art:
• Whose tender power Passes the strength of storms in their most desolate hour.

obsoleteTo take heed, to have an interest, to care.

• Mena[phon]. How now my Lord, what mated and amazd’ To heare the king thus threaten like himſelfe? Coſ[roe]. Ah Menaphon, I paſſe not for his threates, […]
• As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not.

A thrust; a sally of wit.

hobbieslifestylesportsThe act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.

• Everyone in the football stadium expected a pass play on third down.

rail-transportrailwaystransportA 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.

Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.

• A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy.

A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission

• a railroad pass; a theater pass; a military pass

ball-gamesbaseballgamesAn intentional walk.

• Smith was given a pass after Jones' double.

hobbieslifestylesportsThe act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.

• Albon made hard work of the result. Starting fourth, he dropped back to seventh at the second start and had to fight his way back up, which he did with some excellent passes.

The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.

• England is growne to ſuch a paſſe of late, That rich men triumph to ſee the poore beg at their gate.
• What, have his daughters brought him to this pass?

obsoleteEstimation; character.

• This passes, Master Ford.

cookingfoodlifestyleThe area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.

• The finished dishes are placed on the pass ready to be collected by the waiter.

An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".

• A pass would have seen her win the game, but instead she gave a wrong answer and lost a point, putting her in second place.

computingengineeringmathematicsA run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.

• Most Pascal compilers process source code in a single pass.