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1. Go across or through
   "We passed the point where the police car had parked"
   - go through, go across
    
2. Move past
   "A black limousine passed by when she looked out the window"; "He passed his professor in the hall"
   - travel by, pass by, surpass, go past, go by
    
3. Make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation
   "They passed the amendment"
   - legislate
    
4. Pass by
   - elapse, lapse, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go along
    
5. Place into the hands or custody of
   - hand, reach, pass on, turn over, give
    
6. Stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
   - run, go, lead, extend
    
7. Travel past
   "The sports car passed all the trucks"
   - overtake, overhaul
    
8. Come to pass
   - happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, fall out, come about, take place
    
9. Go unchallenged; be approved
   - clear
    
10. Pass time in a specific way
    - spend
     
11. Pass over, across, or through
    - guide, run, draw
     
12. Transmit information
    "pass along the good news"
    - communicate, pass on, pass along, put across
     
13. Disappear gradually
    "The pain eventually passed off"
    - evanesce, fade, blow over, pass off, fleet
     
14. Go successfully through a test or a selection process
    "She passed the new Jersey Bar Exam and can practice law now"
    - make it, make the grade [N. Amer]
     
15. Be superior or better than some standard
    - exceed, transcend, overstep, go past, top
     
16. Accept or judge as acceptable
    "The teacher passed the student although he was weak"
     
17. Allow to go without comment or censure
    "the insult passed as if unnoticed"
     
18. Transfer to another; of rights or property
    "Our house passed under his official control"
     
19. Pass into a specified state or condition
    - sink, lapse
     
20. Throw (a ball) to another player
    "Smith passed"
     
21. Be inherited by
    - fall, return, devolve
     
22. Cause to pass
    "She passed around the plates"
    - make pass
     
23. Grant authorization or clearance for
    - authorize, authorise [Brit], clear
     
24. Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
    - die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm [N. Amer], conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it, pop one's clogs
     
25. Eliminate from the body
    "Pass a kidney stone"
    - excrete, egest, eliminate

1. (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
   - base on balls, walk
    
2. (military) a written leave of absence
   "he had a pass for three days"
    
3. (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
   - passing play, passing game, passing
    
4. The location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks
   "we got through the pass before it started to snow"
   - mountain pass, notch
    
5. Any authorization to pass or go somewhere
   "the pass to visit had a strict time limit"
   - passport
    
6. A document indicating permission to do something without restrictions
   "the media representatives had special passes"
   - laissez passer
    
7. A flight or run by an aircraft over a target
   "the plane turned to make a second pass"
    
8. A bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
   - strait, straits
    
9. A difficult juncture
   "a pretty pass"
   - head, straits
    
10. One complete cycle of operations (as by a computer)
    "it was not possible to complete the computation in a single pass"
     
11. You advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent
    - bye
     
12. A permit to enter or leave a military installation
    "he had to show his pass in order to get out"
    - liberty chit
     
13. A complimentary ticket
    "the star got passes for his family"
     
14. A usually brief attempt
    - crack, fling, go, whirl, offer
     
15. (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
    "the pass was fumbled"
    - toss, flip
     
16. Success in satisfying a test or requirement
    "he got a pass in introductory chemistry"
    - passing, qualifying

1. Of advancing the ball by throwing it
   "a pass play"
   - passing

Sounds like: parse

Derived forms: passing, passed, passes

See also: pass around, pass on, pass over, passage, passer, passing

Type of: accomplishment, achievement, advance, allow, attempt, be, bring home the bacon, change, change hands, change owners, change state, come through, communicate, conceding, concession, convey, countenance, cycle, deliver the goods, disappear, discharge, effort, eject, enact, endeavor [US], endeavour [Brit, Cdn], evaluate, excel, exhaust, expel, flight, flying, football play, go, go away, go on, judge, juncture, leave, leave of absence, let, licence [Brit, Cdn], license [N. Amer], location, locomote, march on, move, move on, occasion, ordain, oscillation, pass judgment, pass on, permission, permit, progress, release, situation, stand out, succeed, success, surpass, throw, ticket, transfer, transmit, travel, try, turn, vanish, win, yielding

Antonym: fail

Part of: chain, chain of mountains, mountain chain, mountain range, range, range of mountains

Encyclopedia: Pass