English Dictionary

pass

/pɑːs/

verb

(intransitive) To move or be moved from one place to another. / (transitive) To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.

I need to pass the exam.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To move or be moved from one place to another.

They passed from room to room.

意味（2）

(transitive) 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.

意味（3）

(ditransitive) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.

The waiter passed biscuits and cheese.

意味（4）

(intransitive, transitive, medicine) To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.

He was passing blood in both his urine and his stool.

意味（5）

(transitive, nautical) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.

意味（6）

(sports) To make various kinds of movement.

意味（7）

(intransitive) To go from one person to another.

意味（8）

(transitive) To put in circulation; to give currency to.

pass counterfeit money

意味（9）

(transitive) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.

pass a person into a theater or over a railroad

意味（10）

(transitive, cooking) To put through a sieve.

When it's finished cooking, you should pass the sauce to get rid of any lumps.

意味（11）

(intransitive) To progress from one state to another; to advance.

He passed from youth into old age.

意味（12）

(intransitive) To depart, to cease, to come to an end.

At first, she was worried, but that feeling soon passed.

意味（13）

(intransitive) To die.

His grandmother passed yesterday.

意味（14）

(intransitive, transitive) To achieve a successful outcome from.

He attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.

意味（15）

(intransitive, transitive) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).

Despite the efforts of the opposition, the bill passed.

意味（16）

(intransitive, law) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.

The estate passes by the third clause in Mr Smith's deed to his son.

意味（17）

(transitive) 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.

He passed the bill through the committee.

意味（18）

(intransitive, law) 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.

意味（19）

(transitive) To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.

I may almost depend on your own justice, and leave it to yourself to pass sentence on your own conduct

意味（20）

(intransitive) To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).

And rising out of the fourth stage of deep meditation he entered into the state of mind to which the infinity of space is alone present. And passing out of the mere consciousness of the infinity of space he entered into the state of mind to which the infinity of though is along present.

意味（21）

(intransitive, of time) To elapse, to be spent.

Their vacation passed pleasantly.

意味（22）

(transitive, of time) To spend.

What will we do to pass the time?

意味（23）

(transitive) To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.

Please you that I may pass / This doing.

意味（24）

(intransitive) To continue.

意味（25）

(intransitive) To proceed without hindrance or opposition.

You're late, but I'll let it pass.

意味（26）

(transitive) To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.

Please you that I may pass / This doing.

意味（27）

(intransitive) To happen.

It will soon come to pass.

意味（28）

(intransitive) To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".

It isn't ideal, but it will pass.

意味（29）

(sociology) To present oneself as and be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex or other group to which one does not belong or would not be regarded as belonging ; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one is male or vice versa.

Chinese sometimes pass for Europeans, but Japs more often approach Western types.

意味（30）

(intransitive) To decline something that is offered or available.

He asked me to go to the cinema with him, but I think I'll pass.

意味（31）

(transitive) To reject; to pass up.

Instead, the board voted to suspend the dividend, giving Orton his way at last. They passed the dividend again in June 1870 […]

意味（32）

(intransitive) To decline or not attempt to answer a question.

I haven't any idea of the answer, so I'll have to pass.

意味（33）

(intransitive) In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.

意味（34）

(intransitive, card games) In euchre, to decline to make the trump.

意味（35）

(intransitive, obsolete) To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.

This passes, Master Ford.

意味（36）

(transitive) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.

And striue to passe[…]Their natiue musicke by her skilfull art:

意味（37）

(intransitive, obsolete) To take heed, to have an interest, to care.

Mena[phon]. How now my Lord, what mated and amazd’

To heare the king thus threaten like himſelfe?

Mena[phon]. How now my Lord, what mated and amazd’ To heare the king thus threaten like himſelfe? Coſ[roe]. Ah Menaphon, I paſſe not for his threates, […]