pass
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(noun) (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team; "the pass was fumbled" |
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Synonyms: flip, toss |
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Related Words: centering, snap, throw |
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(noun) a flight or run by an aircraft over a target; "the plane turned to make a second pass" |
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Related Words: flight, flying |
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(noun) a football play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate; "the coach sent in a passing play on third and long" |
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Synonyms: passing, passing game, passing play |
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Related Words: aerial, football play, forward pass, lateral, lateral pass |
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(verb) travel past, as of a vehicle; "The sports car passed all the trucks" " |
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Synonyms: overhaul, overtake |
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Related Words: advance, clear, get by, go on, march on, move on, pass on, progress, top |
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(verb) go across or through; "We passed the point where the police car had parked"; "A terrible thought went through his mind" |
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Synonyms: go across, go through |
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Related Words: airt, break through, cover, crack, crash, cross, cut, cut across, cut through, cycle, fumble, get across, get over, go, infiltrate, locomote, make one's way, move, muscle, overstep, pass across, pass over, pass through, run, squeak by, squeak through, track, transgress, transit, travel, traverse, trespass, work, work one's way |
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(verb) cause to pass: "She passed around the plates" |
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Synonyms: make pass |
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Related Words: cycle, lead, pass off, pass through, run |
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(verb) transfer to another; of rights or property; "Our house passed under his official control" |
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Related Words: change |
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(verb) place into the hands or custody of; "Turn the files over to me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers" |
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Synonyms: give, hand, pass on, reach, turn over |
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Related Words: commit, confide, deal, deliver, entrust, free, get in, give, give up, hand over, intrust, leave, release, relinquish, render, slip, sneak, transfer, trust, turn in |
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(verb) throw (a ball) to another player; "Smith passed" |
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Related Words: throw |
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(verb) allow to go without comment or censure: "the insult passed as if unnoticed" |
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Related Words: allow, let, permit |
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(verb) get a passing grade in an exams |
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Synonyms: make it, nail |
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Related Words: ace, breeze through, come through, pass easily, pass with flying colors, sail through, succeed, sweep through |
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Antonyms: fail |
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(verb) go unchallenged; be approved; "The bill cleared the House" |
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Synonyms: clear |
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Related Words: clear, come through, succeed |
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(verb) accept or judge as acceptable; "The teacher passed the student although we was weak" |
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Related Words: judge |
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Antonyms: fail |
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(verb) pass a test or a screening, for example |
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Related Words: come through, succeed |
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(noun) a complementary (free) ticket; "the start got passes for his family" |
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Related Words: ticket |
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(noun) a permit to enter or leave a military installation; "he had to show his pass in order to get out" |
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Synonyms: liberty chit |
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Related Words: license, permit |
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(noun) a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions; "the media representatives had special passes" |
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Synonyms: laissez passer |
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Related Words: boarding card, boarding pass, hall pass, permission, ticket-of-leave |
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(noun) any authorization to pass or go somewhere; "the pass to visit had a strict time limit" |
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Synonyms: passport |
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Related Words: permission, safe-conduct |
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(noun) one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer); "it was not possible to complete the computation in a single pass" |
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Related Words: cycle |
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(noun) a difficult juncture; "a pretty pass"; "matters came to a head yesterday" |
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Synonyms: head, straits |
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Related Words: juncture, occasion |
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(noun) the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks; "we got through the pass before it started to snow" |
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Synonyms: mountain pass, notch |
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Related Words: Cumberland Gap, col, defile, gap, gorge, location, saddle, saddleback |
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(noun) a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs |
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Synonyms: strait, straits |
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Related Words: desperate straits, dire straits, situation, state of affairs |
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(noun) (military) a written leave of absence; "he had a pass for three days" |
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Related Words: leave, leave of absence |
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(noun) success in satisfying a test or requirement; "his future depended on his passing that test"; "he got a pass in introductory chemistry" |
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Synonyms: passing, qualifying |
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Related Words: success |
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(adjective) (football) of advancing the ball by throwing it; "a team with a good passing attack"; "a pass play" |
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Synonyms: passing |
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(verb) pass into a specified state or condition: "He sank into Nirvana" |
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Synonyms: lapse, sink |
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Related Words: move |
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(verb) make laws, bills, etc.: "They passed the amendment" |
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Synonyms: legislate |
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Related Words: enact, ordain |
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(verb) pass in a specific way; as of time |
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Synonyms: spend |
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Related Words: Christmas, Sunday, do, get through, holiday, lead, misspend, piddle, piddle away, put in, serve, sojourn, soldier, summer, trifle, vacation, wanton, wanton away, weekend, while away, winter |
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(noun) you advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent; "he had a bye in the first round" |
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Synonyms: bye |
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Related Words: conceding, concession, yielding |
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(noun) (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls; "he worked the picher for a base on balls" |
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Synonyms: base on balls, walk |
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Related Words: accomplishment, achievement |
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(verb) let know; pass information on (to someone); "Please communicate this message to all employees" |
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Synonyms: communicate, pass on, put across |
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Related Words: bespeak, call for, carry, communicate, convey, deliver, display, get across, implant, plant, put over, quest, relay, render, request, return, reveal, show, transmit |
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(verb) grant authorization or clearance for; "Clear the manuscript fpr publication" |
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Synonyms: authorise, authorize, clear |
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Related Words: allow, approbate, approve, certificate, certify, commission, countenance, declare, empower, entitle, formalize, let, licence, license, ok, okay, permit, sanction, validate |
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(verb) guide or pass over something; "He ran his eyes over her naked body." "She ran her fingers along the carved figurine." |
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Synonyms: guide, run |
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Related Words: rub, thread |
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(verb) pass by, as of time |
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Synonyms: elapse, glide by, go along, go by, lapse, slide by, slip away, slip by |
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Related Words: advance, fell, fly, go on, march on, move on, pass on, progress, vanish |
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(verb) be inherited by; "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead" |
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Synonyms: devolve, fall, return |
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Related Words: change hands, fall, light |
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(verb) stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point; "Service runs all the way to Cranbury"; "His knowledge doesn't go very far"; "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life"; "The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets" |
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Synonyms: extend, go, lead, run |
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Related Words: be, come, go deep, go far, radiate, ray |
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(verb) eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone" |
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Synonyms: egest, eliminate, excrete |
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Related Words: barf, be sick, ca-ca, cast, cat, chuck, crap, defecate, discharge, disgorge, eject, expel, exudate, exude, honk, make, make water, micturate, ooze, ooze out, pass water, pee, pee-pee, perspire, piddle, piss, puddle, puke, regorge, regurgitate, release, relieve oneself, retch, shit, sick, spend a penny, spew, spue, sweat, take a crap, take a leak, take a shit, throw up, transude, upchuck, urinate, vomit, vomit up, wee, wee-wee |
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(noun) a usually brief attempt; "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it a whirl" |
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Synonyms: crack, fling, go, offer, whirl |
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Related Words: attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try |
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(verb) go beyond; "She exceeded out expectations" |
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Synonyms: exceed, go past, overstep, top, transcend |
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Related Words: excel, stand out, surpass |
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(verb) come to pass; occur: "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important" |
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Synonyms: come about, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass off, take place |
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Related Words: arise, bechance, befall, betide, break, chance, coincide, come, come around, come off, come up, concur, contemporize, develop, fall, give, go, go off, go over, happen, materialize, operate, proceed, recur, repeat, roll around, supervene, synchronize, transpire, turn out, work |
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(verb) disappear gradually; as of emotions, for example; "The pain eventually passed off" |
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Synonyms: blow over, evanesce, fade, fleet, pass off |
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Related Words: disappear, go away, vanish |
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(verb) pass by; "A black limousine passed by when she looked out the window"; "He passed his professor in the hall"; "One line of soldiers surpassed the other" |
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Synonyms: go by, go past, pass by, surpass, travel by |
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Related Words: fly by, go, locomote, move, run by, skirt, travel, whisk by, zip by |
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