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Meaning:

Noun:

  • 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.
  • A movement over or along anything; the manipulation of a mesmerist.
  • 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.
  • A sexual advance.
  • baseball An intentional walk
  • computing slang A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
  • fencing A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary. (Shakespeare)
  • figurative A thrust; a sally of wit. (Shakespeare)
  • Chaucer|compare passus A part, a division.
  • obsolete Estimation; character.
  • Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
  • 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. (Antonym: a meet.)
  • (''rolling metals'') A single passage of a bar, rail, sheet, etc., between the rolls.
  • sport The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
  • The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.

Source: Wiktionary | Src Info »

Verb:

  • fencing To make a lunge or swipe.
  • intransitive In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
  • intransitive In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
  • legal To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
  • obsolete: To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.
  • obsolete: To take heed.
  • intransitive Of time, to elapse, to be spent.
  • intransitive To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness.
  • intransitive To be tolerated.
  • intransitive To change from one state to another.
  • intransitive To come and go in consciousness.
  • intransitive To continue.
  • intransitive To go from one person to another.
  • intransitive To go through any inspection or test successfully.
  • intransitive To go through the John Arbuthnot)
  • intransitive To happen.
  • intransitive To move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge.
  • intransitive To move or be moved from one place to another.
  • intransitive To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
  • intransitive ''(with "on" or "away"):'' To die.
  • fencing To make, as a thrust, punto, etc.
  • transitive Hence, to promise; to pledge.
  • medical To emit from the bowels.
  • nautical To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
  • sport To move the ball or puck to a teammate.
  • 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.
  • transitive 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.
  • transitive To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
  • transitive To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce.
  • transitive To go by, over, through, or the like; to proceed from one side to the other of.
  • transitive To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
  • transitive To go from one limit to the other of; to spend.
  • transitive To go successfully through, as an examination, trail, test, etc.
  • transitive To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
  • transitive To obtain the formal sanction of, as a legislative body.
  • transitive To put in circulation; to give currency to.
  • transitive To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.

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