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English

Etymology

pass +? -er

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??s?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?pæs??/
• Rhymes: -æs?(?)

Noun

passer (plural passers)

1. One who succeeds in passing a test, etc.
   • 2008, David L. Streiner, Geoffrey R. Norman, Health Measurement Scales

     The distributions of scores on the exam for passers and failers are plotted […]

2. One who passes something along; a distributor.

   a passer of counterfeit banknotes

3. (sports) Someone who passes, someone who makes a pass.
   1. (American football) A football player who makes a forward pass, who may be (but not limited to) the quarterback.
4. (chess) A passed pawn.
5. (archaic) One who passes; a passer-by.
   • 1904, National Magazine (volume 20, page 147)

     Passers stopped and began to stare. A policeman was approaching up the street. Dave dodged back into the cab and banged the door.

6. (sociology) One who is able to "pass", or be accepted as a member of a race, sex or other group to which society would not otherwise regard them as belonging.

Translations

See also

• passer-by

Anagrams

• Arpses, Aspers, Spears, Speras, aspers, parses, prases, presas, repass, sarpes, spares, sparse, spaser, spears

Danish

Etymology 1

From German Passer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pas?r/, [?p?as?]

Noun

passer c (singular definite passeren, plural indefinite passere)

1. compass, pair of compasses
2. dividers
3. calipers

Inflection

See also

• passer on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Etymology 2

See passere (“to pass”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pase?r/, [p?a?se???]

Verb

passer or passér

1. imperative of passere

Dutch

Etymology

From passen (“to measure a size”) +? -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?s?r

Noun

passer m (plural passers, diminutive passertje n)

1. compass (device used with a pencil to draw an arc or circle on paper)

French

Etymology

From Middle French passer, from Old French passer, from Vulgar Latin *pass?, *pass?re, from Latin passus, past participle of pand? (“I stretch, I spread out”). Compare Italian passare, Spanish pasar, Portuguese passar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?.se/, /pa.se/

Verb

passer

1. to go past
2. to cross (a border)
3. (law) to pass

4. to spend (time)

5. to publish (a newspaper)
6. (transitive) to take, to sit (an exam or test)

7. (intransitive) to pass (an exam or test)

8. (dated) (transitive) to pass (an exam or test)

9. (public transportation) to run

10. to exceed (a limit)
11. to percolate
12. to hand down, to pass on
13. to be allowed
14. (intransitive) to pass, to go (between two entities)
15. (transitive) to show (a movie)
16. to go up (a grade)
17. to shift (change gear)
    1. to go down
    2. to go up
18. to stop by, to pop in

19. to pass away, to die
20. (music) to spin (e.g. a disk)
21. (television) to show (be on television)
22. (sports) to pass (kick, throw, hit etc. the ball to another player)
23. (athletics) to pass (the relay baton)
24. to pass on (infect someone else with a disease)
25. (transitive) to put, to place, to slip (move a part of one's body somewhere else)
    • 1908, Gaston Leroux, Le Mystère de la chambre jaune, 2009 edition, Wikisource, chapter 1:

      [...] et, par-dessus les volets, les barreaux intacts, des barreaux à travers lesquels vous n’auriez pas passé le bras…

      • 1908, anonymous, Margaret Jull Costa (editor), The Mystery of the Yellow Room, 2003 edition (Dedalus, ?ISBN:

        [...] and, as well as those shutters, there were iron bars so close together that you could not even have got your arm through them.

26. to wipe, rub

27. to skip a go
28. to put (make something undergo something)
29. (card games) to pass (not play upon one's turn)
30. (reflexive) to take place, to happen, to come to pass.

31. (reflexive, for time) to go by
32. (reflexive, with de) to do without

33. to don

Usage notes

• This verb uses the auxiliary verb avoir when used transitively (or with a transitive sense, even when the complement is omitted); otherwise (when it is intransitive), it uses être.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (reflexive, to happen): se produire, arriver

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Alemannic German: passiere
• ? German: passieren
• ? Romanian: pasa

Further reading

• “passer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• pressa

Ladin

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pass?, *pass?re, from Latin passus.

Verb

passer

1. to proceed

Conjugation

• Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *passros, from Proto-Indo-European *p(e)t-tro-s (“who flies, bird”), from *peth?- (“to fly”). Related to penna.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pas.ser/, [?päs???r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pas.ser/, [?p?s??r]

Noun

passer m (genitive passeris); third declension

1. sparrow
2. turbot

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

• passercula, passerculus
• passer?nus

Descendants

References

• passer in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• passer in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• passer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 449

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French passer.

Verb

passer

1. to pass; to go by

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Descendants

• French: passer
  • ? Alemannic German: passiere
  • ? German: passieren
  • ? Romanian: pasa

References

• passer on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

passer

1. imperative of passere
2. present of passe

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pass?, *pass?re, from Latin passus (“a step, pace, footstep, track”).

Verb

passer

1. to pass; to pass by

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ss, *-sss, *-sst are modified to s, s, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

• Middle French: passer
  • French: passer
    • ? Alemannic German: passiere
    • ? German: passieren
    • ? Romanian: pasa
• Norman: pâsser, pâssaïr
• ? Middle Dutch: passen
  • Dutch: passen
• ? Middle English: passen
  • English: pass
  • Scots: pass
• ? Middle High German: passen
  • German: passen

Further reading

• pass in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

gas +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æs?(r)

Noun

gasser (plural gassers)

1. One who gasses, or poisons with gas.
   • 1969, John Michael Hinton, Experiences: An Inquiry Into Some Ambiguities (page 292)

     Poison-gas fortunately proved to be a two-edged weapon when it was used on the battlefield. […] The wind could turn about to gas the gassers.

2. (slang) Something highly entertaining or remarkable.
3. A kind of hot rod based on production models from the 1930s to mid-1960s, stripped of extraneous weight and jacked up using a truck beam axle to provide better weight distribution on acceleration.
   1. More generally, any car or truck that runs on pump gas, as opposed to diesel fuel, racing fuel, or a car with an electric motor.

Derived terms

• half-gasser

Adjective

gasser

1. (rare) comparative form of gas: more gas
   • 2015 April 29, "ni_ni_niamh", Photo comment Instagram:

     This picture makes me miss seeing my friends every single day and thinking were [sic] gasser than we are ?? ? muchos lovos galpals

   • 2015 August 20, Kate Carr, Photo comment Instagram:

     A gasser night than oxygen [recte Oxegen] ???? #ASolidAgCrew #AMess

Anagrams

• Grasse, SEGRAs, gasers, sarges, segars

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

gasser m (definite singular gasseren, indefinite plural gassere, definite plural gasserne)

1. a Madagascan or Malagasy (person from Madagascar)

Synonyms

• madagasser

Related terms

• Madagaskar
• madagassisk, gassisk

Noun

gasser m

1. indefinite plural of gass
2. indefinite plural of gasse

Verb

gasser

1. present of gasse