pass

Meaning

Verb

1. To change place.
2. To change place.
3. To change place.
4. To change place.
5. To change place.
6. To change place.
7. To change place.
8. To change place.
9. To change place.
10. To change place.
11. To change place.
12. To change place.
13. To change place.
14. To change in state or status
15. To change in state or status
16. To change in state or status
17. To change in state or status
18. To change in state or status
19. To change in state or status
20. To change in state or status
21. To change in state or status
22. To change in state or status
23. To change in state or status
24. To move through time.
25. To move through time.
26. To move through time.
27. To move through time.
28. To move through time.
29. To move through time.
30. To move through time.
31. To be accepted.
32. To be accepted.
33. To refrain from doing something.
34. To refrain from doing something.
35. To refrain from doing something.
36. To refrain from doing something.
37. To refrain from doing something.
38. (obsolete) To do or be better.
39. To do or be better.
40. (obsolete) To take heed, to have an interest, to care.

Noun

1. 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.
2. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
3. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
4. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
5. An attempt.
6. Success in an examination or similar test.
7. A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
8. A thrust; a sally of wit.
9. A sexual advance.
10. The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
11. 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.
12. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
13. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
14. An intentional walk.
15. The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
16. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
17. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
18. The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
19. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
20. A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.

Noun

A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɑːs/

Etymology

From Middle English passen, from Old French passer (“to step, walk, pass”), from Vulgar Latin *passāre (“step, walk, pass”), derived from Latin passus (“a step”), from pandere (“spread, unfold, stretch”), from Proto-Italic *patnō, from Proto-Indo-European *pth₂noh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread, stretch out”). Cognate with Old English fæþm (“armful, fathom”). More at fathom.
Displaced native Old English gengan.