| dictionary | A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
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| Sounds | pae's |
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| Rhymes | alas, Alsace, amass, and 43 more rhymes in aes at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | Of advancing the ball by throwing it. |
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| Examples | "a team with a good passing attack"; "a pass play" |
| Synonyms | passing |
| Category | football, football game |
| Contrary | running |
| Meaning | (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls. |
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| Synonyms | base on balls, walk |
| Category | baseball, baseball game, ball |
| Broader | accomplishment, achievement |
| Meaning | (military) a written leave of absence. |
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| Examples | "he had a pass for three days" |
| Category | military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine |
| Broader | leave, leave of absence |
| Meaning | (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate. |
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| Examples | "the coach sent in a passing play on third and long" |
| Synonyms | passing play, passing game, passing |
| Category | American football, American football game |
| Narrower | forward pass, aerial; lateral pass, lateral; spot pass |
| Broader | football play |
| Verbs | pass |
| Meaning | The location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks. |
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| Examples | "we got through the pass before it started to snow" |
| Synonyms | mountain pass, notch |
| Part of | range, mountain range, range of mountains, chain, mountain chain, chain of mountains |
| Narrower | Brenner Pass; col, gap; Cumberland Gap; defile, gorge; Donner Pass; Khyber Pass; saddleback, saddle |
| Broader | location |
| Meaning | Any authorization to pass or go somewhere. |
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| Examples | "the pass to visit had a strict time limit" |
| Synonyms | passport |
| Narrower | safe-conduct, safeguard |
| Broader | permission |
| Verbs | pass |
| Meaning | A document indicating permission to do something without restrictions. |
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| Examples | "the media representatives had special passes" |
| Synonyms | laissez passer |
| Narrower | boarding card, boarding pass; hall pass; ticket-of-leave |
| Broader | permission |
| Meaning | A flight or run by an aircraft over a target. |
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| Examples | "the plane turned to make a second pass" |
| Broader | flight, flying |
| Meaning | A bad or difficult situation or state of affairs. |
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| Synonyms | strait, straits |
| Narrower | desperate straits, dire straits |
| Broader | situation |
| Meaning | A difficult juncture. |
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| Examples | "a pretty pass" |
| Synonyms | head, straits |
| Broader | juncture, occasion |
| Meaning | One complete cycle of operations (as by a computer). |
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| Examples | "it was not possible to complete the computation in a single pass" |
| Category | computer, computing machine, computing device, data processor, electronic computer, information processing system |
| Broader | cycle, oscillation |
| Meaning | You advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent. |
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| Synonyms | bye |
| Broader | concession, conceding, yielding |
| Verbs | pass |
| Meaning | A permit to enter or leave a military installation. |
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| Examples | "he had to show his pass in order to get out" |
| Synonyms | liberty chit |
| Category | military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine |
| Broader | license, licence, permit |
| Meaning | A complementary (free) ticket. |
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| Examples | "the start got passes for his family" |
| Broader | ticket |
| Meaning | A usually brief attempt. |
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| Synonyms | crack, fling, go, whirl, offer |
| Broader | attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try |
| Meaning | (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team. |
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| Examples | "the pass was fumbled" |
| Synonyms | toss, flip |
| Category | sport, athletics |
| Narrower | centering, snap |
| Broader | throw |
| Meaning | Success in satisfying a test or requirement. |
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| Examples | "his future depended on his passing that test"; "he got a pass in introductory chemistry" |
| Synonyms | passing, qualifying |
| Broader | success |
| Contrary | failing |
| Meaning | Go across or through. |
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| Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP |
| Examples | "We passed the point where the police car had parked" |
| Synonyms | go through, go across |
| Caused by | pass, make pass |
| Narrower | break through, crack; squeak by, squeak through; transit; traverse, track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across; infiltrate, pass through; run; transit, pass through, pass across, pass over; cut; crash; muscle; transgress, trespass, overstep; negociate; lock; make, work; cycle; fumble, blunder |
| Broader | travel, go, move, locomote |
| See also | pass over; pass over; pass over |
| Meaning | Pass by. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
| Model | These cars won't pass |
| 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" |
| Synonyms | travel by, pass by, surpass, go past, go by |
| Narrower | skirt; run by; fly by; zip by, fly by, whisk by |
| Broader | travel, go, move, locomote |
| Nouns | passer |
| Meaning | Make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something |
| Examples | "They passed the amendment" |
| Synonyms | legislate |
| Broader | ordain, enact |
| Nouns | passage |
| Meaning | Pass by. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP |
| Synonyms | elapse, lapse, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go along |
| Narrower | fly, fell, vanish |
| Broader | advance, progress, pass on, move on, march on, go on |
| Meaning | Place into the hands or custody of. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody something; Somebody ----s something to somebody |
| Model | They pass the food to the people; They pass the people the food |
| Synonyms | hand, reach, pass on, turn over, give |
| Narrower | give; slip, sneak; deal; hand over, fork over, fork out, fork up, turn in, get in, deliver, render; release, relinquish, resign, free, give up; entrust, intrust, trust, confide, commit; entrust, leave |
| Broader | transfer |
| See also | pass on; pass on; pass on; pass on |
| Nouns | passage |
| Meaning | Stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope. Run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point. |
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| Pattern | Something is ----ing PP |
| Synonyms | run, go, lead, extend |
| Narrower | come; radiate, ray; go far, go deep |
| Broader | be |
| Similar to | range, run |
| Meaning | Travel past. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
| Model | These cars won't pass |
| Examples | "The sports car passed all the trucks" |
| Synonyms | overtake, overhaul |
| Narrower | get by; clear, top |
| Broader | advance, progress, pass on, move on, march on, go on |
| Nouns | passing, passage; passing |
| Meaning | Come to pass. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP; It ----s that CLAUSE |
| Synonyms | happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, fall out, come about, take place |
| Caused by | effect, effectuate, bring about, set up; trip, actuate, trigger, activate, set off, spark off, spark, trigger off, touch off |
| Narrower | break, recrudesce, develop; arise, come up; intervene; transpire; give; operate; supervene; proceed, go; come; fall; anticipate; develop; recur, repeat; go off, come off, go over; come around, roll around; happen, materialize, materialise; happen, befall, bechance; befall, bechance, betide; concur, coincide; chance; break; fall, shine, strike; turn out; synchronize, synchronise, contemporize, contemporise |
| Meaning | Go unchallenged. Be approved. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
| Synonyms | clear |
| Narrower | clear |
| Broader | succeed, win, come through, bring home the bacon, deliver the goods |
| Meaning | Pass (time) in a specific way. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Synonyms | spend |
| Narrower | soldier; lead; sunday; christmas; put in; weekend; piddle, wanton, wanton away, piddle away, trifle; misspend; vacation, holiday; serve, do; while away, get through; sojourn; winter; summer |
| Meaning | Guide or pass over something. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something PP |
| Synonyms | guide, run, draw |
| Narrower | rub; thread; thread |
| Similar to | string, thread, draw; run, lead |
| See also | pass around; pass over |
| Meaning | Transmit information . |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something to somebody |
| Synonyms | communicate, pass on, put across |
| Narrower | plant, implant; send a message; relay; get across, put over; request, bespeak, call for, quest; acknowledge, receipt; carry; render, deliver, return; message; message; reveal, display, show |
| Broader | convey, transmit, communicate |
| Meaning | Disappear gradually. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP |
| Examples | "The pain eventually passed off" |
| Synonyms | evanesce, fade, blow over, pass off, fleet |
| Broader | disappear, vanish, go away |
| Nouns | passing |
| Meaning | Go successfully through a test or a selection process. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s |
| Examples | "She passed the new Jersey Bar Exam and can practice law now" |
| Synonyms | make it |
| Caused by | pass |
| Narrower | breeze through, ace, pass with flying colors, sweep through, sail through, nail |
| Broader | succeed, win, come through, bring home the bacon, deliver the goods |
| Contrary | fail, flunk, bomb, flush it |
| Nouns | passing; passer |
| Meaning | Go beyond. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Synonyms | exceed, transcend, overstep, go past, top |
| Broader | excel, stand out, surpass |
| Meaning | Accept or judge as acceptable. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody |
| Examples | "The teacher passed the student although he was weak" |
| Cause to | pass, make it |
| Broader | judge |
| Contrary | fail |
| Nouns | passing; pass |
| Meaning | Allow to go without comment or censure. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Examples | "the insult passed as if unnoticed" |
| Broader | let, allow, permit |
| Meaning | Transfer to another. Of rights or property. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP |
| Examples | "Our house passed under his official control" |
| Broader | change |
| Meaning | Pass into a specified state or condition. |
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| Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP |
| Synonyms | sink, lapse |
| Broader | move |
| Nouns | passage |
| Meaning | Be identified, regarded, accepted, or mistaken for someone or something else. As by denying one's own ancestry or background. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP |
| Examples | "He could pass as his twin brother"; "She passed as a White woman even though her grandfather was Black" |
| Broader | be |
| Nouns | passer |
| Meaning | Throw (a ball) to another player. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody something; Somebody ----s something to somebody |
| Examples | "Smith passed" |
| Broader | throw |
| Nouns | passer; pass, passing |
| Meaning | Be inherited by. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s somebody |
| Synonyms | fall, return, devolve |
| Narrower | fall, light |
| Broader | change hands |
| Similar to | accrue, fall |
| Meaning | Cause to pass. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Examples | "She passed around the plates" |
| Synonyms | make pass |
| Cause to | pass, go through, go across |
| Narrower | cycle; pass off; pass through; run, lead |
| Meaning | Grant authorization or clearance for. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE |
| Synonyms | authorize, authorise, clear |
| Narrower | approbate; certificate; approve, O.K., okay, sanction; declare; license, licence, certify; commission; validate, formalize, formalise |
| Broader | permit, allow, let, countenance |
| Nouns | pass |
| Meaning | Pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s |
| Synonyms | die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire |
| Caused by | kill |
| Entailed by | leave, leave behind |
| Narrower | suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate; buy it, pip out; drown; kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it; predecease; starve, famish; fall; succumb, yield |
| Broader | change state, turn |
| Contrary | be born |
| Similar to | fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down; die |
| Nouns | passing |
| Meaning | Eliminate from the body. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Examples | "Pass a kidney stone" |
| Synonyms | excrete, egest, eliminate |
| Narrower | sweat, sudate, perspire; exude, exudate, transude, ooze out, ooze; make, urinate, piddle, puddle, micturate, piss, pee, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee, wee-wee, pass water; urinate; evacuate, void, empty; stool, defecate, shit, take a shit, take a crap, ca-ca, crap, make; vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up |
| Broader | discharge, expel, eject, release |
| Nouns | passing |