1. n. A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
2. n. A course taken.
the path of a meteor, of a caravan, or of a storm
3. n. (paganism) A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.
4. n. A metaphorical course.
5. n. A method or direction of proceeding.
6. n. (computing) A human-readable specification for a location within a hierarchical or tree-like structure, such as a file system or as part of a URL
7. n. (graph theory) A sequence of vertices from one vertex to another using the arcs (edges). A path does not visit the same vertex more than once (unless it is a closed path, where only the first and the
8. n. (topology) A continuous mapf from the unit intervalI = 0,1 to a topological spaceX.
9. v. To make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone).
2. v. (intransitive) To move or be moved from one place to another.
They passed from room to room.
3. v. To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
You will pass a house on your right.
4. v. (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
The waiter passed biscuits and cheese.
John passed Suzie a note.
The torch was passed from hand to hand.
5. v. (intransitive, transitive, medicine) To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
He was passing blood in both his urine and his stool.
The poison had been passed by the time of the autopsy.
6. v. (transitive, nautical) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
7. v. (sport) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
8. v. # (transitive, football) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
9. v. # To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
10. v. # (intransitive, fencing) To make a lunge or swipe.
11. v. (intransitive) To go from one person to another.
12. v. To put in circulation; to give currency to.
pass counterfeit money
13. v. (lbl, en, transitive) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
pass a person into a theater or over a railroad
14. v. To change in state or status
15. v. (intransitive) To progress from one state to another; to advance.
He passed from youth into old age.
16. v. (intransitive) To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
At first, she was worried, but that feeling soon passed.
17. v. (intransitive) To die.
His grandmother passed yesterday.
18. v. (intransitive, transitive) To achieve a successful outcome from.
He passed his examination.
He attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.
19. v. (intransitive, transitive) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legis
Despite the efforts of the opposition, the bill passed.
The bill passed both houses of Congress.
The bill passed the Senate, but did not pass in the House.
20. v. (intransitive, legal) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
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.
21. v. To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal
He passed the bill through the committee.
22. v. (intransitive, legal) To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
23. v. To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
24. v. (intransitive) To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
25. v. To move through time.
26. v. (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to be spent.
Their vacation passed pleasantly.
27. v. (transitive, of time) To spend.
What will we do to pass the time?
28. v. To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
29. v. (intransitive) To continue.
30. v. (intransitive) To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
You're late, but I'll let it pass.
31. v. To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
She loved me for the dangers I had passed.
32. v. (intransitive) To happen.
It will soon come to pass.
33. v. To be accepted.
34. v. (intransitive) To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
It isn't ideal, but it will pass.
35. v. (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
36. v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
37. v. (intransitive) In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
38. v. To do or be better.
39. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.
40. v. To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
41. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
42. n. 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.
a mountain pass
43. n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
the passes of the Mississippi
44. n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over or along anything.
45. n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
46. n. An attempt.
My pass at a career of writing proved unsuccessful.
47. n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
48. n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
49. n. A sexual advance.
The man kicked his friend out of the house after he made a pass at his wife.
50. n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
51. n. (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.
52. n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
53. n. 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
54. n. (baseball) An intentional walk.
Smith was given a pass after Jones' double.
55. n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
56. n. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
57. n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
58. n. (cookery) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
59. n. 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.
60. n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
Most Pascal compilers process source code in a single pass.
61. n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
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