<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to move past; go by: Make sure to use your turn signal when you pass another car on the road.</li><li>to let go without notice, action, remark, etc.; leave unconsidered; disregard; overlook: Pass chapter two and go on to chapter three.</li><li>Synonyms: ignore</li><li>to omit the usual or regular payment of: The company decided to pass its dividend in the third quarter of the year.</li><li>to cause or allow to go through or beyond a gate, barrier, etc.: The guard checked the identification papers and then passed the visitor.</li><li>to go across or over (a stream, threshold, etc.); cross.</li><li>to endure or undergo: They passed the worst night of their lives.</li><li>to undergo or complete successfully: to pass an examination.</li><li>to cause or permit to complete successfully (an investigation, examination, course of study, etc.): I am passing the whole class this term.</li><li>to go beyond (a point, degree, stage, etc.); transcend; exceed; surpass.</li><li>Synonyms: excel</li><li>to cause to go or extend farther: to pass a rope through a hole.</li><li>to cause to go, move, or march by: to pass troops in review.</li><li>to allot to oneself (a portion of time); spend: He decided to pass a year abroad.</li><li>to live through, utilize, or fill; occupy oneself during: How to pass the time?</li><li>to cause to circulate or spread; disseminate: to pass rumors.</li><li>to cause to be accepted or received: to pass a worthless check.</li><li>to convey, transfer, or transmit; deliver (often followed by on): Pass this memo on after reading it.</li><li>to convey from one person, hand, etc., to another: Please pass the salt.</li><li>to pledge: to pass one's word of honor to remain loyal.</li><li>to utter, pronounce, or speak: She passed a remark about every passerby.</li><li>to cause to go through something, as a process or agency: to pass returning travelers through customs.</li><li>to discharge or void from the body, as excrement or a kidney stone.</li><li>to sanction or approve, especially by vote: Congress passed the bill.</li><li>Synonyms: enact</li><li>to obtain the approval or sanction of (a legislative body, committee, etc.), especially by a vote: The bill passed Congress on the second vote.</li><li>to express or pronounce an opinion, judgment, verdict, etc. (usually followed by on or upon): Will you pass on the authenticity of this drawing?</li><li>to be voided, as excrement or a kidney stone.</li><li>to be accepted as; be considered: material that passed for silk; The candidate could pass as Latino or Anglo, appealing to both constituencies.</li><li>to present or offer (something) under false pretenses; dispose of deceptively: to pass off a spurious de Kooning on a gullible buyer.</li><li>to cause to be accepted or received under a false identity: He passed himself off as a doctor.</li><li>to cease gradually; end: The headache passed off in the late afternoon.</li><li>to disregard or ignore.</li><li>to continue to completion; occur: The meeting passed off without incident.</li><li>to refuse or neglect to take advantage of; reject: The opportunity may not come again, so don't pass it up.</li><li>to die: He passed away during the night.</li><li>to cease; end: All this trouble will pass away.</li><li>to add (incurred extra costs or expenses) to the amount charged a client or customer: Airlines were passing along the sudden increase in fuel prices.</li><li>to disregard; ignore: Just pass over the first part of his letter.</li><li>to fail to take notice of, consider, or choose: He was passed over for the promotion.</li><li>to die: The patient passed on after a long illness.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an act of passing.</li><li>a narrow route across a relatively low notch or depression in a mountain barrier.</li><li>Synonyms: col, saddle</li><li>a road, channel, or other way providing a means of passage, as through an obstructed region or other barrier.</li><li>a navigable channel, as at the mouth or in the delta of a river.</li><li>a permission or license to pass, go, come, or enter.</li><li>Military: a military document granting the right to cross lines or to enter or leave a military or naval base or building.</li><li>written authority given a soldier to leave a station or duty for a specified period of time.</li><li>a free ticket or permit: two passes to a concert; a railroad pass.</li><li>Sports: the transfer of a ball or puck from one teammate to another.</li><li>Baseball: base on balls (def).</li><li>Fencing: a thrust or lunge.</li><li>a single movement, effort, maneuver, etc.: He made a pass at the control tower of the enemy airfield.</li><li>Informal: a gesture, action, or remark that is intended to be sexually inviting; amorous overture.</li><li>Informal: a jab or poke with the arm, especially one that misses its mark.</li><li>one passage of a tool over work or one passage of work through a machine.</li><li>Cards: the act or statement of not bidding or raising another bid: There have been two passes and now it's your bid.</li><li>(in feats of magic) a passing of the hand over, along, or before anything.</li><li>the transference or changing of objects by or as by sleight of hand; a manipulation, as of a juggler.</li><li>a particular stage or state of affairs: The economic situation had come to a dreadful pass.</li><li>Synonyms: condition, situation, juncture</li><li>Chiefly British: the act of passing a university or school examination or course without honors or distinction.</li><li>South African: reference book (def 2).</li><li>Bullfighting: a pase.</li><li>Archaic: a witty remark or thrust.</li><li>Mining: an opening for delivering coal or ore to a lower level underground.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb Phrase</strong></p><ul><li>to be accepted as; be considered: material that passed for silk; The candidate could pass as Latino or Anglo, appealing to both constituencies.</li><li>to present or offer (something) under false pretenses; dispose of deceptively: to pass off a spurious de Kooning on a gullible buyer.</li><li>to cause to be accepted or received under a false identity: He passed himself off as a doctor.</li><li>to cease gradually; end: The headache passed off in the late afternoon.</li><li>to disregard or ignore.</li><li>to continue to completion; occur: The meeting passed off without incident.</li><li>to refuse or neglect to take advantage of; reject: The opportunity may not come again, so don't pass it up.</li><li>to die: He passed away during the night.</li><li>to cease; end: All this trouble will pass away.</li><li>to add (incurred extra costs or expenses) to the amount charged a client or customer: Airlines were passing along the sudden increase in fuel prices.</li><li>to disregard; ignore: Just pass over the first part of his letter.</li><li>to fail to take notice of, consider, or choose: He was passed over for the promotion.</li><li>to die: The patient passed on after a long illness.</li></ul>