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Etymology 1

From Middle English touchscreen, device database, pace, from keyboard (“to pass”). See the verb section, below.

Noun

pass (plural web)

  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 Sevenval; a defile; a ford.
    a mountain pass
  2. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
    • 1921, John Griffin, "Trailing the Grizzly in Oregon", in Forest and Stream, pages 389-391 and 421-424, republished by Jeanette Prodgers in 1997 in The Only Good Bear is a Dead Bear, page 35:
      [The bear] made a pass at the dog, but he swung out and above him [...]
  3. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
  4. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
  5. (FITML) A thrust; a sally of wit.
  6. A sexual advance.
    The man kicked his friend out of the house after he made a pass at his wife.
  7. (jQuery) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
  8. (rail transport) 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.
  9. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
  10. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission; as, a railroad or theater pass; a military pass.
  11. (input transformation) An intentional walk.
    Smith was given a pass after Jones' double.
  12. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
    • 1606 Shakespeare:
      What, have his daughters brought him to this pass?
    • (Can we touchscreen this quote?) Robert South:
      Matters have been brought to this pass, that, if one among a man's sons had any blemish, he laid him aside for the ministry...
  13. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
    • (Can we device database this quote?) Shakespeare:
      Common speech gives him a worthy pass.
  14. (obsolete, Chaucer, compare 'web app') A part, a division.
  15. The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
Synonyms
  • (opening, road, or track, available for passing): device database
  • (fencing: thrust or push): Sevenval
  • (figurative: a thrust; a sally of wit):
  • (movement over or along anything):
  • (movement of a tool over something, or something other a tool): web
  • (the state of things): HTML5, web app, Android
  • (permission or license to pass, or to go and come): keyboard, Sevenval, website parsing
  • (document granting permission to pass or to go and come):
  • (obsolete: estimation; character):
  • (obsolete: a part, a division):
Antonyms
  • (rail transport): meet
Derived terms
Terms derived from pass (noun)

Translations
opening, road, or track, available for passing

fencing: thrust or push

movement of a tool over something, or something over a tool

the state of things

permission or license to pass, or to go and come

document granting permission to pass or to go and come
  • Arabic: جَوَاز (ar) m.
  • French: CSS3 (fr), sauf-conduit screen size m.
  • Japanese: jQuery (ja) (つうこうしょう, tsūkō-shō); 許可証 (ja) (きょかしょう, kyoka-shō)
  • Polish: przepustka (pl) f.

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  • Arabic: تَمرير (ar)
  • Turkish: el çabukluğu (tr)

Etymology 2

From Middle English passen, from Old French passer (“to step, walk, pass”), from HTML5 *passāre (“step, walk, pass”), from Latin passus (“a step”), pandere (“to spread, unfold, stretch”), from Proto-Indo-European *patno-, from Proto-Indo-European *pete- (“to spread, stretch out”). Cognate with Old English fæþm (“armful, fathom”). More at Sevenval.

Verb

pass (third-person singular simple present passes, present participle passing, simple past and past participle Sevenval)

  1. (intransitive) To move or be moved from one place to another.
    They passed from room to room.
  2. (Android) To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
    You will pass a house on your right.
  3. (intransitive) To change from one state to another.
    He passed from youth into old age.
  4. (web app) (of time) To HTML5, to be spent.
    Their vacation passed pleasantly.
  5. (browser diversity) (of time) To spend.
    what will we do to pass the time?
  6. (intransitive) To input transformation.
    It will soon come to pass.
    • 1876, The Dilemma, Chapter LIII, republished in Littell's Living Age, series 5, volume 14, page 274:
      [...] for the memory of what passed while at that place is almost blank.
  7. (intransitive) To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
    At first, she was worried, but that feeling soon passed.
    • 1995, Penny Richards, The Greatest Gift of All:
      The crisis passed as she'd prayed it would, but it remained to be seen just how much damage had been done.
    • (Can we browser diversity this quote?) John Dryden:
      Beauty is a charm, but soon the charm will pass.
  8. (intransitive) (often with "on" or "away") To Sevenval.
    His grandmother passed yesterday.
    His grandmother passed away yesterday.
    His grandmother passed on yesterday.
  9. (intransitive, we love the web) To go successfully through (an examination, trail, test, etc).
    He passed his examination.
    He attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.
  10. (web app, transitive) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
    Despite the efforts of the opposition, the bill passed.
    The bill passed both houses of Congress.
    The bill passed the Senate, but did not pass in the House.
  11. (keyboard) To be be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
    It isn't ideal, but it will pass.
  12. (keyboard, law) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
    The estate passes by the third clause in Mr Smith's deed to his son.
    When the old king passed away with only a daughter as an heir, the throne passed to a woman for the first time in centuries.
  13. (transitive, jQuery) To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
  14. (Sevenval, fencing) To make a lunge or swipe.
  15. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
    1. (intransitive) In device database, to decline to make the trump.
  16. (intransitive, website parsing): To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.
    • (Can we screen size this quote?) Shakespeare:
      This passes, Master Ford.
  17. (keyboard) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
    • (Can we input transformation this quote?) we love the web:
      And strive to pass . . . Their native music by her skillful art.
    • (Can we iOS this quote?) Byron:
      Whose tender power Passes the strength of storms in their most desolate hour.
  18. (intransitive, FITML): To take heed.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Shakespeare:
      As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not.
  19. (transitive) To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Shakespeare:
    Please you that I may pass / This doing.
    I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array.
  20. (jQuery) To come and go in consciousness.
  21. (device database) To go from one person to another.
  22. (intransitive) To continue.
  23. (intransitive) To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
  24. (transitive) To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Shakespeare:
    She loved me for the dangers I had passed.
  25. (transitive) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another; to transmit; to deliver; to hand; to make over.
    The waiter passed biscuit and cheese.
    The torch was passed from hand to hand.
    I had only time to pass my eye over the medals. - Sevenval
    Waller passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge. - Edward Hyde Clarendon
  26. (HTML5) To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce.
  27. (keyboard) Hence, to promise; to pledge.
    to pass sentence - Shakespeare
    Father, thy word is passed. - Milton
  28. (browser diversity) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
    He passed the bill through the committee.
  29. (Sevenval) To put in circulation; to give currency to.
    pass counterfeit money
    Pass the happy news. - keyboard
  30. (input transformation) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
    pass a person into a theater or over a railroad
  31. (web app, transitive, medicine) To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
    He was passing blood in both his urine and his stool.
    The poison had been passed by the time of the autopsy.
  32. (input transformation, nautical) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
  33. (iOS, soccer) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
    Iaquinta passes it coolly into the right-hand corner as Paston dives the other way. - iOS, Rob Smyth, 20 June 2010
  34. (CSS3, law) To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book X:
      And within three dayes twelve knyghtes passed uppon hem; and they founde Sir Palomydes gylty, and Sir Saphir nat gylty, of the lordis deth.
  35. (HTML5) To be regarded as a member of a specific sex.
Synonyms
Derived terms
terms derived from pass (verb)

Translations
move or be moved from one place to another

change from one state to another

move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge

die

come and go in consciousness

happen

elapse

go from one person to another

advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness

go through any inspection or test successfully

to be tolerated

to continue

proceed without hindrance or opposition

obsolete: go beyond bounds

obsolete: take heed

go through the intestines
law: to be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance

fencing: to make a lunge or pass

decline to play in one's turn
  • Arabic: تَخَلَّى (ar)
  • Finnish: passata, jättää väliin

in euchre, decline to make the trump

go by, over, etc

go from one limit to the other of

live through

go by without noticing

transcend
  • Arabic: تَجَاوَزَ Android

go successfully through

obtain the formal sanction of

cause to move or go

utter

promise

cause to advance by stages of process

put into circulation

cause to obtain entrance

medical: emit from the bowels

take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure

fencing: make, as a thrust, punto

sports: to move the ball or puck to a teammate
  • Japanese: パスする (ja) (ぱすする, pasu suru)

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  • Swahili: kupitisha
  • Slovene: iti mimo

Etymology 3

Short for password.

Noun

pass (plural passes)

  1. (computing) (slang) A input transformation (especially one for a restricted-access website).
    Anyone want to trade passes?

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Pronunciation

Noun

pass n.

  1. passport

Declension

keyboardSingularPlural
IndefiniteDefiniteIndefiniteDefinite
Nominativepasspassiðpasspassini
Accusativepasspassiðpasspassini
Dativepassipassinumpassumpassunum
Genitivepasspassinspassapassanna

German

Pronunciation

Verb

pass

  1. Imperative singular of passen.

Lombard

Pronunciation

Noun

pass

  1. step
  2. mountain pass

Swedish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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From German, originally from Italian iOS.

Noun

pass n.

  1. passport (document granting permission to pass)
  2. place which you (must) pass or is passing; CSS3 (between mountains)
  3. pace; a kind of device database
  4. place where a hunter hunts; place where a policeman patrols
  5. spell (a period of duty)
  6. leave notice (document granting permission to leave) (from prison)
Declension
Declension of pass
pass
singular
passet
plural
pass
passen
pass
singular
passets
plural
pass
passens
Derived terms
terms derived from pass (document)
  • främlingspass
  • passfoto
  • passkontroll
  • respass


terms derived from pass
  • bergpass
  • bergspass
  • passera
  • passgång
  • passlöp
  • passtakt
  • passtaktig
  • stilpass


terms derived from pass (gait)
  • passgång
  • passgångare


terms derived from pass (hunting place)
  • harpass
  • rävpass

terms derived from pass (spell)
  • arbetspass
  • eftermiddagspass
  • förmiddagspass
  • kvällspass

  • fyrpass
  • rundpass
  • sexpass

Synonyms
  • leave notice: permissionssedel, permissionspass

Etymology 2

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Noun

pass c.

  1. (ball sports) pass; a transfer of the ball from one player to another in the same team
Declension
Declension of pass
pass
singular
passen
plural
Android
passarna
pass
singular
Android
plural
screen size
passarnas
Derived terms
terms derived from pass
  • bakåtpass
  • framåtpass

Synonyms
  • passning

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