Dictionary entry details
• PASS (noun)
Meaning:
(baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
base on balls; pass; walk
Context example:
he worked the pitcher for a base on balls
Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):
accomplishment; achievement (the action of accomplishing something)
Domain category:
baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)
Meaning:
(military) a written leave of absence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Context example:
he had a pass for three days
Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):
leave; leave of absence (the period of time during which you are absent from work or duty)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Meaning:
(American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
passing; passing game; passing play; pass
Context example:
the coach sent in a passing play on third and long
Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):
football play ((American football) a play by the offensive team)
Domain category:
American football; American football game (a game played by two teams of 11 players on a rectangular field 100 yards long; teams try to get possession of the ball and advance it across the opponents goal line in a series of (running or passing) plays)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pass"):
aerial; forward pass (a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer)
lateral; lateral pass (a pass to a receiver upfield from the passer)
spot pass (a pass to a designated spot on the field; the receiver should arrive at that spot the same time the ball does)
Meaning:
The location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
mountain pass; notch; pass
Context example:
we got through the pass before it started to snow
Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):
location (a point or extent in space)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pass"):
saddle; saddleback (a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle))
col; gap (a pass between mountain peaks)
defile; gorge (a narrow pass (especially one between mountains))
Instance hyponyms:
Khyber Pass (a mountain pass of great strategic and commercial value in the Hindu Kush on the border between northern Pakistan and western Afghanistan; a route by which invaders entered India)
Donner Pass (a mountain pass in northeastern California near Lake Tahoe; site where in 1844 some members of an emigrant party survived by eating those who had died)
Cumberland Gap (a pass through the Cumberland Mountains between Virginia and Kentucky that early settlers used in order to move west)
Brenner Pass (an Alpine mountain pass connecting Innsbruck in Austria with Bolzano in Italy that has long been a route for trade and for invasions)
Holonyms ("pass" is a part of...):
chain; chain of mountains; mountain chain; mountain range; range; range of mountains (a series of hills or mountains)
Meaning:
Any authorization to pass or go somewhere
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
passport; pass
Context example:
the pass to visit had a strict time limit
Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):
permission (approval to do something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pass"):
safe-conduct; safeguard (a document or escort providing safe passage through a region especially in time of war)
Meaning:
A document indicating permission to do something without restrictions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
laissez passer; pass
Context example:
the media representatives had special passes
Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):
permission (approval to do something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pass"):
ticket-of-leave (a permit formerly given to convicts allowing them to leave prison under specific restrictions)
hall pass (written permission from a teacher for a student to be out the classroom and in the halls of the school)
boarding card; boarding pass (a pass that allows you to board a ship or plane)
Meaning:
A flight or run by an aircraft over a target
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Context example:
the plane turned to make a second pass
Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):
flight; flying (an instance of traveling by air)
Meaning:
A bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
straits; strait; pass
Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):
situation (a complex or critical or unusual difficulty)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pass"):
desperate straits; dire straits (a state of extreme distress)
Meaning:
A difficult juncture
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
straits; pass; head
Context examples:
a pretty pass / matters came to a head yesterday
Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):
juncture; occasion (an event that occurs at a critical time)
Meaning:
One complete cycle of operations (as by a computer)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Context example:
it was not possible to complete the computation in a single pass
Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):
cycle; oscillation (a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon)
Domain category:
computer; computing device; computing machine; data processor; electronic computer; information processing system (a machine for performing calculations automatically)
Meaning:
You advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
bye; pass
Context example:
he had a bye in the first round
Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):
conceding; concession; yielding (the act of conceding or yielding)
Meaning:
A permit to enter or leave a military installation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
liberty chit; pass
Context example:
he had to show his pass in order to get out
Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):
licence; license; permit (a legal document giving official permission to do something)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Meaning:
A complementary (free) ticket
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Context example:
the star got passes for his family
Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):
ticket (a commercial document showing that the holder is entitled to something (as to ride on public transportation or to enter a public entertainment))
Meaning:
A usually brief attempt
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
fling; go; offer; whirl; crack; pass
Context examples:
he took a crack at it / I gave it a whirl
Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):
attempt; effort; endeavor; endeavour; try (earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something)
Meaning:
(sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
toss; flip; pass
Context example:
the pass was fumbled
Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):
throw (the act of throwing (propelling something through the air with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist))
Domain category:
athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pass"):
centering; snap ((American football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back)
Meaning:
Success in satisfying a test or requirement
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
qualifying; passing; pass
Context examples:
his future depended on his passing that test / he got a pass in introductory chemistry
Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):
success (an attainment that is successful)
• PASS (adjective)
Meaning:
Of advancing the ball by throwing it
Synonyms:
pass; passing
Context examples:
a team with a good passing attack / a pass play
Domain category:
football; football game (any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal)
• PASS (verb)
Meaning:
Go across or through
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
go across; pass; go through
Context examples:
We passed the point where the police car had parked / A terrible thought went through his mind
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):
muscle (make one's way by force)
overstep; transgress; trespass (pass beyond (limits or boundaries))
negotiate (succeed in passing through, around, or over)
lock (pass by means through a lock in a waterway)
make; work (proceed along a path)
cycle (pass through a cycle)
blunder; fumble (make one's way clumsily or blindly)
crash (move violently as through a barrier)
cut (pass directly and often in haste)
break through; crack (pass through (a barrier))
squeak by; squeak through (escape)
transit (pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place))
cover; cross; cut across; cut through; get across; get over; pass over; track; traverse (travel across or pass over)
infiltrate; pass through (pass through an enemy line; in a military conflict)
run (cover by running; run a certain distance)
move through; pass across; pass over; pass through; transit (make a passage or journey from one place to another)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Also:
pass over (bypass)
pass over (travel across or pass over)
pass over (make a passage or journey from one place to another)
Meaning:
Pass by
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
travel by; pass by; go past; pass; go by; surpass
Context examples:
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
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):
fly by; whisk by; zip by (move by very quickly)
fly by (pass by while flying)
run by (pass by while running)
skirt (pass around or about; move along the border)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
These cars won't pass
Meaning:
Make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
legislate; pass
Context examples:
They passed the amendment / We cannot legislate how people's spend their free time
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
enact; ordain (order by virtue of superior authority; decree)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Pass by
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
go by; slip by; glide by; elapse; slide by; slip away; go along; pass; lapse
Context example:
three years elapsed
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
advance; go on; march on; move on; pass on; progress (move forward, also in the metaphorical sense)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):
fell; fly; vanish (pass away rapidly)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Meaning:
Place into the hands or custody of
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
turn over; pass on; hand; pass; reach; give
Context examples:
hand me the spoon, please / Turn the files over to me, please / He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
transfer (cause to change ownership)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):
entrust; leave (put into the care or protection of someone)
commit; confide; entrust; intrust; trust (confer a trust upon)
free; give up; release; relinquish; resign (part with a possession or right)
deliver; fork out; fork over; fork up; get in; hand over; render; turn in (to surrender someone or something to another)
deal (give (a specific card) to a player)
slip; sneak (pass on stealthily)
give (leave with; give temporarily)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Sentence examples:
They pass the food to the people
They pass the people the food
Also:
pass on (refer to another person for decision or judgment)
pass on (tell or deposit (information) knowledge)
pass on (give to or transfer possession of)
pass on (transmit information)
Meaning:
Stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
extend; run; lead; pass; go
Context examples:
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
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
be (occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):
go deep; go far (extend in importance or range)
radiate; ray (extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center)
come (extend or reach)
Sentence frame:
Something is ----ing PP
Meaning:
Travel past
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
overhaul; overtake; pass
Context example:
The sports car passed all the trucks
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
advance; go on; march on; move on; pass on; progress (move forward, also in the metaphorical sense)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):
get by (pass or move in front of)
clear; top (pass by, over, or under without making contact)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
These cars won't pass
Meaning:
Come to pass
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
occur; happen; hap; take place; come about; go on; pass off; fall out; pass
Context examples:
What is happening? / The meeting took place off without an incidence / Nothing occurred that seemed important
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):
come around; roll around (happen regularly)
happen; materialise; materialize (come into being; become reality)
bechance; befall; happen (happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance)
bechance; befall; betide (become of; happen to)
coincide; concur (happen simultaneously)
backfire; backlash; recoil (come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect)
chance (be the case by chance)
break (happen or take place)
fall; shine; strike (touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly)
turn out (prove to be in the result or end)
contemporise; contemporize; synchronise; synchronize (happen at the same time)
come off; go off; go over (happen in a particular manner)
recur; repeat (happen or occur again)
develop (be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest)
break; develop; recrudesce (happen)
arise; come up (result or issue)
intervene (occur between other event or between certain points of time)
transpire (come about, happen, or occur)
give (occur)
operate (happen)
supervene (take place as an additional or unexpected development)
go; proceed (follow a certain course)
come (come to pass; arrive, as in due course)
fall (occur at a specified time or place)
anticipate (be a forerunner of or occur earlier than)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
It ----s that CLAUSE
Meaning:
Go unchallenged; be approved
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
clear; pass
Context example:
The bill cleared the House
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
bring home the bacon; come through; deliver the goods; succeed; win (attain success or reach a desired goal)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):
clear (pass an inspection or receive authorization)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Pass (time) in a specific way
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
spend; pass
Context example:
How are you spending your summer vacation?
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):
overwinter; winter (spend the winter)
sojourn (spend a certain length of time; reside temporarily)
get through; while away (spend or pass, as with boredom or in a pleasant manner; of time)
do; serve (spend time in prison or in a labor camp)
holiday; vacation (spend or take a vacation)
misspend (spend time badly or unwisely)
piddle; piddle away; trifle; wanton; wanton away (waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently)
weekend (spend the weekend)
put in (devote (time, effort, etc.) to a task)
christmas (spend Christmas)
sunday (spend Sunday)
lead (pass or spend)
soldier (serve as a soldier in the military)
summer (spend the summer)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Guide or pass over something
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
guide; pass; run; draw
Context examples:
He ran his eyes over her body / She ran her fingers along the carved figurine / He drew her hair through his fingers
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):
thread (pass a thread through)
thread (pass through or into)
rub (move over something with pressure)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something PP
Also:
pass around (cause to become widely known)
pass over (rub with a circular motion)
Meaning:
Transmit information
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
communicate; pass along; put across; pass on; pass
Context examples:
Please communicate this message to all employees / pass along the good news
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
communicate; convey; transmit (transfer to another)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):
display; reveal; show (make clear and visible)
message (send a message to)
message (send as a message)
deliver; render; return (pass down)
carry (pass on a communication)
acknowledge; receipt (report the receipt of)
bespeak; call for; quest; request (express the need or desire for; ask for)
get across; put over (communicate successfully)
relay (pass along)
send a message (give or constitute a signal, not necessarily verbally)
implant; plant (put firmly in the mind)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Meaning:
Disappear gradually
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
evanesce; blow over; fleet; fade; pass off; pass
Context example:
The pain eventually passed off
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
disappear; go away; vanish (get lost, as without warning or explanation)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Meaning:
Go successfully through a test or a selection process
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
make it; pass
Context example:
She passed the new Jersey Bar Exam and can practice law now
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
bring home the bacon; come through; deliver the goods; succeed; win (attain success or reach a desired goal)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):
ace; breeze through; nail; pass with flying colors; sail through; sweep through (succeed at easily)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
fail (fail to get a passing grade)
Meaning:
Go beyond
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
top; exceed; go past; overstep; transcend; pass
Context examples:
She exceeded our expectations / She topped her performance of last year
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
excel; stand out; surpass (distinguish oneself)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Accept or judge as acceptable
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Context example:
The teacher passed the student although he was weak
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
evaluate; judge; pass judgment (form a critical opinion of)
Cause:
make it; pass (go successfully through a test or a selection process)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Antonym:
fail (judge unacceptable)
Meaning:
Allow to go without comment or censure
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Context example:
the insult passed as if unnoticed
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
allow; let; permit (make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Transfer to another; of rights or property
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Context example:
Our house passed under his official control
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Meaning:
Pass into a specified state or condition
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
lapse; sink; pass
Context example:
He sank into Nirvana
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
move (go or proceed from one point to another)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Meaning:
Be identified, regarded, accepted, or mistaken for someone or something else; as by denying one's own ancestry or background
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Context examples:
He could pass as his twin brother / She passed as a White woman even though her grandfather was Black
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Meaning:
Throw (a ball) to another player
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Context example:
Smith passed
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
throw (project through the air)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Meaning:
Be inherited by
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
devolve; return; fall; pass
Context examples:
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
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
change hands; change owners (be transferred to another owner)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):
fall; light (fall to somebody by assignment or lot)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s somebody
Meaning:
Cause to pass
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
make pass; pass
Context example:
She passed around the plates
Cause:
go across; go through; pass (go across or through)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):
lead; run (cause something to pass or lead somewhere)
pass through (cause to move through)
pass off (cause to be circulated and accepted in a false character or identity)
cycle (cause to go through a recurring sequence)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Grant authorization or clearance for
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
authorize; authorise; clear; pass
Context examples:
Clear the manuscript for publication / The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
allow; countenance; let; permit (consent to, give permission)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):
formalise; formalize; validate (declare or make legally valid)
commission (charge with a task)
certify; licence; license (authorize officially)
declare (authorize payments of)
approve; O.K.; okay; sanction (give sanction to)
certificate (authorize by certificate)
approbate (approve or sanction officially)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
Meaning:
Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
pass away; give-up the ghost; perish; drop dead; die; decease; croak; snuff it; cash in one's chips; buy the farm; kick the bucket; pop off; expire; exit; conk; choke; go; pass
Context examples:
She died from cancer / They children perished in the fire / The patient went peacefully / The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):
succumb; yield (be fatally overwhelmed)
fall (die, as in battle or in a hunt)
famish; starve (die of food deprivation)
predecease (die before; die earlier than)
drown (die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating)
buy it; pip out (be killed or die)
asphyxiate; stifle; suffocate (be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen)
abort (cease development, die, and be aborted)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Meaning:
Eliminate from the body
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
excrete; egest; eliminate; pass
Context example:
Pass a kidney stone
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
discharge; eject; expel; release (eliminate (substances) from the body)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):
barf; be sick; cast; cat; chuck; disgorge; honk; puke; purge; regorge; regurgitate; retch; sick; spew; spue; throw up; upchuck; vomit; vomit up (eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth)
ca-ca; crap; defecate; make; shit; stool; take a crap; take a shit (have a bowel movement)
empty; evacuate; void (excrete or discharge from the body)
urinate (pass after the manner of urine)
make; make water; micturate; pass water; pee; pee-pee; piddle; piss; puddle; relieve oneself; spend a penny; take a leak; urinate; wee; wee-wee (eliminate urine)
exudate; exude; ooze; ooze out; transude (release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities)
perspire; sudate; sweat (excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
