PASS

I. verb see: pace Date: 13th century intransitive verb move , proceed , go , 2. to go away ; depart , die , 3. to move in a path so as to approach and continue beyond something ; move past, to run the normal course, 4. to go or make one's way through , to go uncensured, unchallenged, or seemingly unnoticed , to go from one quality, state, or form to another , 6. to sit in inquest or judgment, b. to render a decision, verdict, or opinion , to become legally rendered , to go from the control, ownership, or possession of one person or group to that of another , 8. happen , occur , to take place or be exchanged as or in a social, personal, or business interaction , 9. to become approved by a legislature or body empowered to sanction or reject , to undergo an inspection, test, or course of study successfully, 10. to serve as a medium of exchange, to be accepted or regarded , to identify oneself or be identified as something one is not , 11. to make a ~ in fencing, to throw or hit a ball or puck to a teammate, 12. a. to decline to bid, double, or redouble in a card game, to withdraw from the current poker pot, to let something go by without accepting or taking advantage of it, transitive verb to go beyond: as, sur~ , exceed , to advance or develop beyond, to go past (one moving in the same direction), 2. to go by ; proceed or extend beyond , b. obsolete ; neglect , omit (2), 3. to go across, over, or through ; cross , to live through (as an experience or peril) ; undergo , to go through (as a test) successfully, 4. to secure the approval of , to cause or permit to win approval or legal or official sanction , to give approval or a ~ing grade to , 5. to let (as time or a period of time) go by especially while involved in a leisure activity , to let go unnoticed ; overlook , disregard , 6. pledge , to transfer the right to or property in , 7. to put in circulation , b. to transfer or transmit from one to another , to relay or communicate (as information) to another, to cause or enable to go ; transport , to throw or hit (a ball or puck) especially to a teammate, 8. to pronounce (as a sentence or opinion) especially judicially, utter , 9. to cause or permit to go past or through a barrier, to move or cause to move in a particular manner or direction , to cause to march or go by in order , to emit or discharge from a bodily part and especially the bowels, 11. to give a base on balls to, to hit a ball past (an opponent) in a game (as tennis), ~er noun II. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French pas, from Latin ~us Date: 14th century a means (as an opening, road, or channel) by which a barrier may be ~ed or access to a place may be gained, a position to be held usually against odds, III. noun Etymology: 1~ Date: 1523 realization , the act or an instance of ~ing ; ~age , a usually distressing or bad state of affairs , 4. a written permission to move about freely in a place or to leave or enter it, a written leave of absence from a military post or station for a brief period, a permit or ticket allowing free transportation or free admission, a thrust or lunge in fencing, 6. a transference of objects by sleight of hand or other deceptive means, a moving of the hands over or along something, an ingenious sally (as of wit), the ~ing of an examination or course of study, a single complete mechanical operation, 10. a. a transfer of a ball or a puck from one player to another on the same team, a ball or puck so transferred, ~ing shot , base on balls , an election not to bid, bet, or draw an additional card in a card game, a throw of dice in the game of craps that wins the bet for the shooter, a single ~age or movement (as of an airplane) over a place or toward a target, 15. effort , try , a sexually inviting gesture or approach, pase , IV. abbreviation ~enger