(v. i.) To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred
from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a
following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind or manner of
motion; as, to pass on, by, out, in, etc.; to pass swiftly, directly,
smoothly, etc.; to pass to the rear, under the yoke, over the bridge,
across the field, beyond the border, etc.
(v. i.) To move or be transferred from one state or condition to
another; to change possession, condition, or circumstances; to undergo
transition; as, the business has passed into other hands.
(v. i.) To move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge; to
pass away; hence, to disappear; to vanish; to depart; specifically, to
depart from life; to die.
(v. i.) To move or to come into being or under notice; to come and
go in consciousness; hence, to take place; to occur; to happen; to
come; to occur progressively or in succession; to be present
transitorily.
(v. i.) To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as,
their vacation passed pleasantly.
(v. i.) To go from one person to another; hence, to be given and
taken freely; as, clipped coin will not pass; to obtain general
acceptance; to be held or regarded; to circulate; to be current; --
followed by for before a word denoting value or estimation.
(v. i.) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to
validity or effectiveness; to be carried through a body that has power
to sanction or reject; to receive legislative sanction; to be enacted;
as, the resolution passed; the bill passed both houses of Congress.
(v. i.) To go through any inspection or test successfully; to be
approved or accepted; as, he attempted the examination, but did not
expect to pass.
(v. i.) To be suffered to go on; to be tolerated; hence, to
continue; to live along.
(v. i.) To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance
or opposition; as, we let this act pass.
(v. i.) To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.
(v. i.) To take heed; to care.
(v. i.) To go through the intestines.
(v. i.) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other
instrument of conveyance; as, an estate passes by a certain clause in a
deed.
(v. i.) To make a lunge or pass; to thrust.
(v. i.) To decline to take an optional action when it is one's
turn, as to decline to bid, or to bet, or to play a card; in euchre, to
decline to make the trump.
(v. i.) In football, hockey, etc., to make a pass; to transfer the
ball, etc., to another player of one's own side.
(v. t.) To go by, beyond, over, through, or the like; to proceed
from one side to the other of; as, to pass a house, a stream, a
boundary, etc.
(v. t.) To go from one limit to the other of; to spend; to live
through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
(v. t.) To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take
no note of; to disregard.
(v. t.) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
(v. t.) To go successfully through, as an examination, trail,
test, etc.; to obtain the formal sanction of, as a legislative body;
as, he passed his examination; the bill passed the senate.
(v. t.) 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; as, the waiter passed bisquit and cheese; the torch
was passed from hand to hand.
(v. t.) To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce; hence,
to promise; to pledge; as, to pass sentence.
(v. t.) 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; as, he passed the bill through the committee; the
senate passed the law.
(v. t.) To put in circulation; to give currency to; as, to pass
counterfeit money.
(v. t.) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance; as,
to pass a person into a theater, or over a railroad.
(v. t.) To emit from the bowels; to evacuate.
(v. t.) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a
sail in furling, and make secure.
(v. t.) To make, as a thrust, punto, etc.
(v. i.) 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; as, a mountain
pass.
(v. i.) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an
adversary.
(v. i.) A movement of the hand over or along anything; the
manipulation of a mesmerist.
(v. i.) A single passage of a bar, rail, sheet, etc., between the
rolls.
(v. i.) State of things; condition; predicament.
(v. i.) Permission or license to pass, or to go and come; a
psssport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission; as, a railroad
or theater pass; a military pass.
(v. i.) Fig.: a thrust; a sally of wit.
(v. i.) Estimation; character.
(v. i.) A part; a division.
