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pass
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p??s/
- (Received Pronunciation, General South African) IPA(key): [p???s]
- (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA(key): [p?ä?s], [p???s]
- (Boston) IPA(key): [p?a?s]
- IPA(key): /pæs/
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): [p?æs], [p???s], [p?e?s]
- (Ireland, Northern England) IPA(key): [p?as], [p?æs]
- (Scotland) IPA(key): [p?äs]
- (NYC) IPA(key): [p?e??s]
- Rhymes: -æs, -??s
- Hyphenation: pass
Etymology 1
From Middle English passen, from Old French passer (“to step, walk, pass”), from *Vulgar Latin pass?re (“step, walk, pass”), from Latin passus (“a step”), pandere (“to spread, unfold, stretch”), from Proto-Indo-European *pth?noh?, from Proto-Indo-European *peth?- (“to spread, stretch out”). Cognate with Old English fæþm (“armful, fathom”). More at fathom.
Alternative forms
- passe (obsolete)
Verb
pass (third-person singular simple present passes, present participle passing, simple past and past participle passed)
- To change place.
- (intransitive) To move or be moved from one place to another.
- Synonyms: go, move
- (transitive) To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
- Synonyms: overtake, pass by, pass over
- (ditransitive) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- Synonyms: deliver, give, hand, make over, send, transfer, transmit
- I had only time to pass my eye over the medals.
- (intransitive, transitive, medicine) To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- Synonyms: evacuate, void
- (transitive, nautical) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- (sports) to make a movement
- (transitive, soccer) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- 20 June 2010, The Guardian, Rob Smyth
- Iaquinta passes it coolly into the right-hand corner as Paston dives the other way.
- 20 June 2010, The Guardian, Rob Smyth
- (transitive) To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- (intransitive, fencing) To make a lunge or swipe.
- Synonym: thrust
- (intransitive, American football) To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- (transitive, soccer) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- (intransitive) To go from one person to another.
- (transitive) To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- Synonyms: circulate, pass around
- (transitive) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- Synonyms: admit, let in, let past
- (transitive, cooking) To put through a sieve.
- (intransitive) To move or be moved from one place to another.
- To change in state or status
- (intransitive) To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- (intransitive) To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- Beauty's a charm, but soon the charm will pass.
- 1995, Penny Richards, The Greatest Gift of All:
- The crisis passed as she'd prayed it would, but it remained to be seen just how much damage had been done.
- (intransitive) To die.
- Synonyms: pass away, pass on, pass over; see also Thesaurus:die
- (intransitive, transitive) To achieve a successful outcome from.
- (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).
- Synonyms: be accepted by, be passed by
- (intransitive, law) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- (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.
- Synonyms: approve, enact, ratify
- (intransitive, law) To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book X:
- And within three dayes twelve knyghtes passed uppon hem; and they founde Sir Palomydes gylty, and Sir Saphir nat gylty, of the lordis deth.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book X:
- (transitive) To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- Synonyms: pronounce, say, speak, utter
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
- Father, thy word is passed.
- (intransitive) To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- (intransitive) To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- To move through time.
- (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to be spent.
- Synonyms: elapse, go by; see also Thesaurus:elapse
- (transitive, of time) To spend.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
- To pass commodiously this life.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
- (transitive) To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- Synonyms: disregard, ignore, take no notice of; see also Thesaurus:ignore
- I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array.
- (intransitive) To continue.
- Synonyms: continue, go on
- (intransitive) To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- (transitive) To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- Synonyms: bear, endure, suffer, tolerate, undergo; see also Thesaurus:tolerate
- (intransitive) To happen.
- Synonyms: happen, occur; see also Thesaurus:happen
- 1876, The Dilemma, Chapter LIII, republished in Littell's Living Age, series 5, volume 14, page 274:
- […] for the memory of what passed while at that place is almost blank.
- (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to be spent.
- To be accepted.
- (intransitive) To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- (sociology) To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex or other group to which they would not otherwise regard one as belonging (or belonging fully, without qualifier); especially to live and be known as white although one has black ancestry, or to live and be known as female although one was assigned male or vice versa.
- (intransitive) To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- To refrain from doing something.
- (intransitive) To decline something that is offered or available.
- Coordinate terms: pass on, pass up
- (intransitive) To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- (intransitive) In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- (intransitive, card games) In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- (intransitive) To decline something that is offered or available.
- To do or be better.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.
- Synonyms: exceed, surpass
- (transitive) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- Synonyms: better, exceed, excel, outdo, surpass, transcend; see also Thesaurus:exceed
- (intransitive, obsolete) To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
- Synonyms: take heed, take notice; see also Thesaurus:pay attention
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English pas, pase, pace, from passen (“to pass”).
Noun
pass (plural passes)
- 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.
- Synonyms: gap, notch
- 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.
- 1921, John Griffin, "Trailing the Grizzly in Oregon", in Forest and Stream, pages 389-391 and 421-424, republished by Jeanette Prodgers in 1997 in The Only Good Bear is a Dead Bear, page 35:
- [The bear] made a pass at the dog, but he swung out and above him […]
- 1921, John Griffin, "Trailing the Grizzly in Oregon", in Forest and Stream, pages 389-391 and 421-424, republished by Jeanette Prodgers in 1997 in The Only Good Bear is a Dead Bear, page 35:
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- Synonym: transit
- An attempt.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- Synonym: thrust
- (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
- A sexual advance.
- (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- (rail transport) 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.
- Antonym: meet
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- 1826, James Kent, Commentaries on American Law
- A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy.
- Synonyms: access, admission, entry
- 1826, James Kent, Commentaries on American Law
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- (baseball) An intentional walk.
- (sports) The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- Matters have been brought to this pass, that, if one among a man's sons had any blemish, he laid him aside for the ministry...
- Synonyms: condition, predicament, state
- (obsolete) Estimation; character.
- (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
- (cooking) 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".
- (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 3
Short for password.
Noun
pass (plural passes)
- (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- 1999, "Jonny Durango", IMPORTANT NEWS FOR AHM IRC CHAN!!! (on newsgroup alt.hackers.malicious)
- If you don't have your password set within a week I'll remove you from the userlist and I'll add you again next time I see you in the chan and make sure you set a pass.
- 1999, "Jonny Durango", IMPORTANT NEWS FOR AHM IRC CHAN!!! (on newsgroup alt.hackers.malicious)
Translations
Further reading
- pass in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- pass in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- pass at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- APSS, ASPs, PSAS, PSAs, SAPs, asps, saps, spas
Faroese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [p?as?]
Noun
pass n (genitive singular pass, plural pass)
- passport
Declension
German
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -as
Verb
pass
- singular imperative of passen
Lombard
Etymology
From Latin passus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [pas]
Noun
pass ?
- step
- mountain pass
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
pass n (definite singular passet, indefinite plural pass, definite plural passa or passene)
- a passport (travel document)
- a pass (fjellpass - mountain pass)
Derived terms
- barnepass (from the verb passe)
- fjellpass
- passbilde
- passfoto
Verb
pass
- imperative of passe
References
- “pass” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
pass n (definite singular passet, indefinite plural pass, definite plural passa)
- a passport (travel document)
- a pass, mountain pass
Derived terms
- barnepass (from the verb passe)
- fjellpass
- passbilde, passbilete
- passfoto
References
- “pass” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From German, originally from Italian passo
Noun
pass n
- passport (document granting permission to pass)
- place which you (must) pass or is passing; mountain pass
- pace; a kind of gait
- place where a hunter hunts; place where a policeman patrols
- spell (a period of duty); shift
- leave notice (document granting permission to leave) (from prison)
Declension
Synonyms
- genomfart, överfart, passage
- leave notice: permissionssedel, permissionspass
Derived terms
- passa
- passlig
- till pass
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
pass c
- (ball sports) pass; a transfer of the ball from one player to another in the same team
Declension
Synonyms
- passning
Derived terms
Anagrams
- asps
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history
English
Alternative forms
- historie (obsolete)
- hystory (nonstandard)
- hystorie (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English historie, from Old French estoire, estorie (“chronicle, history, story”) (French histoire), from Latin historia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (historí?, “learning through research”), from ??????? (historé?, “to research, inquire (and) record”), from ????? (híst?r, “the knowing, wise one”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”). Doublet of story and storey.
Attested in Middle English in 1393 by John Gower, Confessio Amantis, which was aimed at an educated audience familiar with French and Latin.
Pronunciation
- enPR: h?s?t(?)r?, h?s?tr?, IPA(key): /?h?st(?)?i/, /?h?st(?)??/
- Hyphenation: his?to?ry, hist?ory
Noun
history (countable and uncountable, plural histories)
- The aggregate of past events.
- Synonyms: background, past
- The branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events.
- (countable) A set of events involving an entity.
- (countable) A record or narrative description of past events.
- Synonyms: account, chronicle, story, tale
- (countable, medicine) A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.
- Synonym: medical history
- (countable, computing) A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.
- Synonym: log
- (informal) Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant.
- (uncountable) Shared experience or interaction.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: histrei
Translations
Verb
history (third-person singular simple present histories, present participle historying, simple past and past participle historied)
- (obsolete) To narrate or record.
References
Further reading
- history on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- history at OneLook Dictionary Search
- history in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "history" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 146.
- history in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Toryish, Troyish, roytish
Middle English
Noun
history
- Alternative form of historie
history From the web:
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- what history is taught in 10th grade
- what history is taught in 9th grade
- what history is taught in 12th grade
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