Bible Dictionaries
Pass

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(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.

(2):

(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.

(3):

(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.

(4):

(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.

(5):

(v. i.) To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as, their vacation passed pleasantly.

(6):

(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.

(7):

(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.

(8):

(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.

(9):

(v. i.) To be suffered to go on; to be tolerated; hence, to continue; to live along.

(10):

(v. i.) To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance or opposition; as, we let this act pass.

(11):

(v. i.) In football, hockey, etc., to make pass; to transfer the ball, etc., to another player of one's own side.

(12):

(n.) In football, hockey, etc., a transfer of the ball, etc., to another player of one's side, usually at some distance.

(13):

(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.

(14):

(v. t.) To emit from the bowels; to evacuate.

(15):

(v. t.) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance; as, to pass a person into a theater, or over a railroad.

(16):

(v. t.) To put in circulation; to give currency to; as, to pass counterfeit money.

(17):

(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.

(18):

(v. t.) To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce; hence, to promise; to pledge; as, to pass sentence.

(19):

(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.

(20):

(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.

(21):

(v. t.) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.

(22):

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

(23):

(v. t.) To go from one limit to the other of; to spend; to live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.

(24):

(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.

(25):

(v. i.) In football, hockey, etc., to make a pass; to transfer the ball, etc., to another player of one's own side.

(26):

(v. i.) A movement of the hand over or along anything; the manipulation of a mesmerist.

(27):

(v. i.) To make a lunge or pass; to thrust.

(28):

(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.

(29):

(v. i.) To go through the intestines.

(30):

(v. i.) To take heed; to care.

(31):

(v. i.) To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.

(32):

(v. i.) Fig.: a thrust; a sally of wit.

(33):

(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.

(34):

(v. i.) State of things; condition; predicament.

(35):

(v. i.) A single passage of a bar, rail, sheet, etc., between the rolls.

(36):

(v. i.) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.

(37):

(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.

(38):

(v. t.) To make, as a thrust, punto, etc.

(39):

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

(40):

(v. i.) A part; a division.

(41):

(v. i.) Estimation; character.