PASS ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pass on mean? 

• PASS ON (verb)
  The verb PASS ON has 7 senses:

1. place into the hands or custody of
2. tell or deposit (information) knowledge
3. move forward, also in the metaphorical sense
4. give to or transfer possession of
5. refer to another person for decision or judgment
6. cause to be distributed
7. transmit information

  Familiarity information: PASS ON used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASS ON (verb)

Meaning:

Place into the hands or custody of

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

hand; pass on; turn over; 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 on" is one way to...):

transfer (cause to change ownership)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass on"):

give (leave with; give temporarily)

slip; sneak (pass on stealthily)

deal (give (a specific card) to a player)

deliver; fork out; fork over; fork up; get in; hand over; render; turn in (to surrender someone or something to another)

free; give up; release; relinquish; resign (part with a possession or right)

commit; confide; entrust; intrust; trust (confer a trust upon)

entrust; leave (put into the care or protection of someone)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sentence example:

They pass on the parcel to their parents

Meaning:

Tell or deposit (information) knowledge

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

impart; pass on; give; leave

Context examples:

give a secret to the Russians / leave your name and address here

Hypernyms (to "pass on" is one way to...):

tell (let something be known)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sentence example:

They won't pass on the story

Meaning:

Move forward, also in the metaphorical sense

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

move on; march on; advance; progress; go on; pass on

Context example:

Time marches on

Hypernyms (to "pass on" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass on"):

close in; draw in (advance or converge on)

edge; inch (advance slowly, as if by inches)

rachet up; ratchet; ratchet down (move by degrees in one direction only)

elapse; glide by; go along; go by; lapse; pass; slide by; slip away; slip by (pass by)

overhaul; overtake; pass (travel past)

string; string along (move or come along)

plough on; press on; push on (continue moving forward)

encroach; impinge; infringe (advance beyond the usual limit)

creep up; sneak up (advance stealthily or unnoticed)

penetrate (make one's way deeper into or through)

forge (move ahead steadily)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Meaning:

Give to or transfer possession of

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

I am passing on my genes to my children

Hypernyms (to "pass on" is one way to...):

bequeath; leave; will (leave or give by will after one's death)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass on"):

hand down (passed on, as by inheritance)

propagate (transmit from one generation to the next)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Meaning:

Refer to another person for decision or judgment

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

relegate; pass on; submit

Context example:

She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues

Hypernyms (to "pass on" is one way to...):

subject; submit (refer for judgment or consideration)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something to somebody

Meaning:

Cause to be distributed

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

pass around; circulate; distribute; pass on

Context example:

This letter is circulating among the faculty

Hypernyms (to "pass on" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass on"):

send around (forward to others)

utter (put into circulation)

scatter; spread; spread out (strew or distribute over an area)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

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 on" is one way to...):

communicate; convey; transmit (transfer to another)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass on"):

implant; plant (put firmly in the mind)

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)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody