pass

Meanings

Verb

• To change place.
• To change in state or status
• To move through time.
• To be accepted.
• To refrain from doing something.
• To do or be better.
• To take heed, to have an interest, to care.

Noun

• 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.
• A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
• A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over or along anything.
• A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
• An attempt.
• Success in an examination or similar test.
• A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
• A thrust; a sally of wit.
• A sexual advance.
• The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
• 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.
• Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
• A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
• An intentional walk.
• The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
• The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
• Estimation; character.
• A part, a division. Compare passus.
• The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
• An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
• A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
• A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

Origin

• From Middle English passen, from Old French passer ("to step, walk, pass"), from *Vulgar Latin ("step, walk, pass"), from Latin passus ("a step"), pandere, from Proto-Indo-European *pth₂noh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- ("to spread, stretch out"). Cognate with Old English fæþm ("armful, fathom"). More at fathom.
• From Middle English pas, pase, pace, from passen.
• Short for password.