pass
/pɑːs/ verb A2- To move or be moved from one place to another. · They passed from room to room.
- 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.
- To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another. · The waiter passed biscuits and cheese.· John passed Suzie a note.
- 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.
- To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force. · 20 June 2010, The Guardian, Rob Smyth Iaquinta passes it coolly into the right-hand corner as Paston dives the other way.
- To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- To make a lunge or swipe.
Plural pass · He/she/it passes · Past passed · Past participle passed · -ing form passing
Verb forms
- Base form
- pass
- He/she/it
- passes
- Past
- passed
- Past participle
- passed
- -ing form
- passing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- pass along To deliver a message or item to its intended recipient.
- pass around To distribute something through a group by giving several...
- pass away To die.
- pass by To travel past without stopping.
- pass down To hand over, pass through or transfer to a lower level, ...
- pass off To happen.
- pass on To go forward.
- pass out To faint; to become unconscious.
- pass over Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pass, ...
- pass through To go through, to travel through, to transit or lie acros...
- pass up To refuse (not accept); forgo.
From the library
Then, as they were just passing the Round Tower, the young man shouted: “Stand by there to lower the topsails and jib; brail up the spanker!”
The ship drew on and had safely passed the strait, which some volcanic shock has made between the Calasareigne and Jaros islands; had doubled Pomègue, and approached the harbor under topsails, jib, and spanker, but so slowly and sedately that the idlers, with that instinct which is the forerunner of evil, asked one another what misfortune could have happened on board.
A cloud passed over Danglars’ brow.
“I was passing close to the door of the captain’s cabin, which was half open, and I saw him give the packet and letter to Dantès.”
Other matches
- pass An opening, road, or track, available for passing A2
- pass A password C2
- PASS Used to remember how to use a fire extinguisher... C2
- pass along To deliver a message or item to its intended re...
- pass around To distribute something through a group by givi...
- pass away To die.
- pass by To travel past without stopping.
- pass down To hand over, pass through or transfer to a low...
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