Definition of a-pass in English English dictionary
- Khunjerab Pass
- a mountain pass that connects Xinjiang region of China with Northern Areas of Pakistan. It is the highest point on Karakoram Highway at an altitude of 4,693 metres (15,397 feet), which makes it by far the highest paved international border crossing in the world
- back pass
- The handling of the ball by the goalkeeper
- backward pass
- A pass thrown backwards instead of forward, equivalent in the rules to a hand-off
- band-pass
- Letting through only a specific range of electromagnetic frequencies
- boarding pass
- A document or card, similar to a ticket, needed in order to board an airplane or other mode of transport
- chest pass
- A pass played with the ball at chest-height
- come to pass
- To happen; to occur
And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
- don't pass go
- To say that somebody is obliged to do something without question
As usual, this information was imparted to me with a blank stare, and dumped in my lap with an expression that said, Don't pass Go, don't collect 200 dollars, go straight to jail!.
- don't pass go
- To say that somebody is not do anything without receiving further instructions
Don't come back, don't see Taylor, don't pass Go. Don't do anything in this town again, Miss Grey, ever.
- fish pass
- fish ladder
- forward pass
- A pass in the forward direction, advancing toward the goal, generally illegal except in American football, once per play, from behind the line of scrimmage
- free pass
- safe passage
- free pass
- An exemption from normal processes
- free pass
- An intentional walk
Smith was issued a free pass after Jones' double.
- free pass
- A document entitling the bearer to free transportation
- hospital pass
- A throw that stays in the air long enough that it allows too many people to get underneath it, increasing the risk of injury and a trip to the hospital. Thus, a hospital pass
- hospital pass
- A poorly executed pass to a team-mate causing the receiver to present an easy target for a defender, and thus be tackled hard
- hospital pass
- A pass (for schools, military, etc.) exempting one from regular activities, to instead visit a hospital
- hospital pass
- An unwinnable case, often passed to a newly-qualified member of the firm
- intentional pass
- An intentional walk
Jones was issued an intentional pass in order to face Smith.
- lateral pass
- a pass thrown laterally and that counts as a hand-off
- lateral pass
- any hand-off, whether lateral or backward
- pass
- To emit from the bowels
- pass
- To go through the intestines. (John Arbuthnot)
- pass
- To change from one state to another
- pass
- To go successfully through, as an examination, trail, test, etc
He passed his examination.
- pass
- The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff
- pass
- A part, a division
- pass
- To make a judgment on or upon a person or case
And within three dayes twelve knyghtes passed uppon hem; and they founde Sir Palomydes gylty, and Sir Saphir nat gylty, of the lordis deth.
- pass
- To go through any inspection or test successfully
He attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.
- pass
- To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate
- pass
- To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure
- pass
- To happen
- pass
- : To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess
This passes, Master Ford. - Shakespeare.
- pass
- 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
Waller passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge. - Edward Hyde Clarendon.
- pass
- To obtain the formal sanction of, as a legislative body
The bill passed the senate.
- pass
- 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. (Antonym: a meet.)
- pass
- A sexual advance
The man kicked his friend out of the house after he made a pass at his wife.
- pass
- To continue
- pass
- To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce
- pass
- To be tolerated
- pass
- To go from one person to another
- pass
- In euchre, to decline to make the trump
- pass
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse
Matters have been brought to this pass. - Robert South.
- pass
- 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
The senate passed the law.
- pass
- To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard
I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array. - John Dryden.
- pass
- An intentional walk
Smith was given a pass after Jones' double.
- pass
- To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance
An estate passes by a certain clause in a deed.
- pass
- To move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge
Beauty is a charm, but soon the charm will pass. - John Dryden.
- pass
- To go from one limit to the other of; to spend
To pass commodiously this life. - John Milton.
- pass
- : To die
- pass
- A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary. (Shakespeare)
- pass
- A password (especially one for a restricted-access website)
Anyone want to trade passes?.
- pass
- To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed
Whose tender power Passes the strength of storms in their most desolate hour. - Byron.
- pass
- To put in circulation; to give currency to
Pass the happy news. - Alfred Tennyson.
- pass
- A single passage of a bar, rail, sheet, etc., between the rolls
- pass
- To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness
The bill passed both houses of Congress.
- pass
- 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
- pass
- Of time, to elapse, to be spent
Their vacation passed pleasantly.
- pass
- To make, as a thrust, punto, etc
- pass
- : To take heed
As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not. - Shakespeare.
- pass
- A thrust; a sally of wit. (Shakespeare)
- pass
- To go by, over, through, or the like; to proceed from one side to the other of
pass a house.
- pass
- To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer
She loved me for the dangers I had passed. - Shakespeare.
- pass
- To come and go in consciousness
- pass
- A movement over or along anything; the manipulation of a mesmerist
- pass
- Hence, to promise; to pledge
Father, thy word is passed. - Milton.
- pass
- 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. - , Rob Smyth, 20 June 2010.
- pass
- To make a lunge or swipe
- pass
- In any game, to decline to play in one's turn
- pass
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come
A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy. - James Kent.
- pass
- Estimation; character
Common speech gives him a worthy pass. - Shakespeare.
- pass
- To move or be moved from one place to another
- pass
- The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another
- pass
- To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance
pass a person into a theater or over a railroad.
- pass
- To proceed without hindrance or opposition
- pass
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier; a passageway; a defile; a ford
Try not the pass! the old man said. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
- pass away
- To die
He was wise, for he had seen a long succession of mechanical toys arrive to boast and swagger, and by-and-by break their mainsprings and pass away.
- pass by
- to proceed past something
- pass by
- to pass over. disregard, overlook
- pass down
- To hand over, pass through or transfer to a lower level, next generation, etc
In poor families, solid cloths are passed down from elder children to kid siblings, who must wear them out or if they outgrow them pass them down to still younger relatives.
- pass for
- To be mistakenly seen as something that one is not
- pass gas
- to flatulate
- pass muster
- to adequately pass a formal or informal inspection
- pass muster
- to measure up to a particular standard
The new employees just aren't passing muster.
- pass off
- To misrepresent something
He tried to pass off the imitation Rolex as genuine.
- pass off
- To happen
The millennium passed off without any disasters.
- pass on
- To convey or communicate
Can you pass on the information next time you see him?.
- pass on
- To die
His uncle passed on last year.
- pass on
- To skip or decline
I'll pass on dessert, thanks.
- pass out
- To distribute, to hand out
We'll pass out copies of the agenda.
- pass out
- To graduate, usually marked by the ceremony at the end of their training
- pass out
- To faint; fall asleep
I pass out at the sight of blood.
- pass over
- to fly over (something)
- pass over
- to make a transit of; to pass through or across (something)
- pass over
- to die
- pass over
- to bypass (something); to skip (something)
- pass the buck
- To transfer responsibility or blame from oneself onto another; to absolve oneself of concern for a given matter by claiming to lack authority or jurisdiction
- pass the hat
- To ask for money, especially from a group of people; to solicit donations or contributions
The institutions are opening development offices, hiring professional fund raisers, investing in slick billion-dollar campaigns, and trotting out their presidents to pass the hat.
- pass the parcel
- a situation in which the ownership of something changes frequently
- pass the parcel
- A children's game in which a parcel having many layers of packaging is passed from person to person around a ring while music plays, the person holding the parcel when the music is temporarily stopped being allowed to remove a single layer, and the person removing the innermost layer winning the prize contained within; in a variation of the game, there is a prize under each layer that is awarded to the person removing that layer
- pass the time
- To occupy oneself during a time-interval
As the train was late, we passed the time looking at our fellow passengers and making up stories about them.
- pass through
- To make something move through something else
The dough is passed through the pasta machine several times.
- pass through
- To transit something
- pass through
- To infiltrate
We passed through enemy lines in the fog.
- pass under the yoke
- To be humiliated by the victors
- pass up
- To refuse (not accept); forgo
He passed up my invitation for dinner, saying he was too busy.
- pass up
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Can you pass up this box to the guy on the ladder?.
- pass water
- to urinate
- pass wind
- To fart
Did someone just pass wind?.
- pass-out
- A ticket (or similar) allowing a person to leave (a theatre etc) and subsequently re-enter
- pass-remarkable
- Of a person, making belittling or snide remarks
Those are gallant shoes, sir, if you'll excuse me being so pass-remarkable. Hand-made jobs.
- saucer pass
- A pass which stays flat through the air and lands flat, used to pass over an opponent's stick
The winger's perfect saucer pass over the defenseman's stick and onto the center's tape led to the goal.
- short pass
- A pass of the ball between teammates too close together to allow an opponent to get between them. There is no particular distance the ball must travel to qualify as a short pass. For instance, if the passing player drops the ball and retreats before her teammate takes possession, it is not a short pass. A short pass is against the rules and results in a penalty pass to the opposition
- spiral pass
- A long pass in American football or rugby in which the ball is given a brisk spin (about its longitudinal axis) as it is thrown so that it travels in a smooth arc without tumbling or wobbling
- stab pass
- A kick passing the ball to a teammate made so the ball travels low and fast through the air
- two-line pass
- A pass across two of the three lines dividing the rink, the center red line and the two blue lines. Under some rules such a pass is illegal
- pass on
- {f} continue on, proceed; transfer, bestow; hand over, place into the hands of
- pass on
- You can say that someone passed on to mean that they died, if you want to avoid using the word `die' because you think it might upset or offend people. He passed on at the age of
- pass on
- If you pass on costs or savings to someone else, you make them pay for your costs or allow them to benefit from your savings. They pass on their cost of borrowing and add to it their profit margin I found we could make some saving and it is right to pass the savings on to the customer
- pass on
- give to or transfer possession of; "I am passing on my genes to my children
- pass
- {v} to go, make way, proceed, spend, omit, vanish, excel, go beyond, transact, enact
- pass
- {n} a passage, road, license, push, condition
- Kitchen Pass
- (deyim) An imaginary pass or permission slip, granted by one's spouse, boyfriend, or girlfriend to go out socially with friends
- backstage pass
- A backstage pass is an employee pass which allows its bearer access to employees-only areas at a performance venue. They are most commonly associated with rock music groups
