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P0095200 (păs)v. passed, pass·ing, pass·es v.intr.1. To move on or ahead; proceed: The train passed through fields of wheat.2. To extend; run: The river passes through our land.3. a. To move by or in front of something: The band passed and the crowd cheered.b. To move past another vehicle: The sports car passed on the right.4. To gain passage despite obstacles: pass through difficult years.5. To move past in time; elapse: The days passed quickly.6. a. To be transferred from one to another; circulate: The wine passed around the table.b. Sports To transfer a ball or puck to a teammate.7. To be communicated or exchanged between persons: Loud words passed in the corridor.8. To be transferred or conveyed to another by will or deed: The title passed to the older heir.9. To undergo transition from one condition, form, quality, or characteristic to another: Daylight passed into darkness.10. To come to an end: My anger suddenly passed. The headache finally passed.11. To cease to exist; die. Often used with on: The patient passed on during the night.12. To happen; take place: wanted to know what had passed at the meeting.13. a. To be allowed to happen without notice or challenge: Let their rude remarks pass.b. Sports & Games To decline one's turn to bid, draw, bet, compete, or play.c. To decline an offer: When we offered him dessert, he passed.14. To undergo an examination or a trial with favorable results.15. a. To serve as a barely acceptable substitute: The spare tire was nearly bald but would pass until we bought a new one.b. To be accepted as a member of a group by denying one's own ancestry or background.16. To be approved or adopted: The motion to adjourn passed.17. Law a. To make a decision: to pass upon a legal question.b. To convey property to an heir or heirs: to pass according to the terms of the will.18. Medicine To be discharged from a bodily part: The patient had a lot of pain when the kidney stone passed.19. Sports To thrust or lunge in fencing.v.tr.1. a. To go by without stopping; proceed beyond or leave behind: The bus passed a gas station.b. To go across; go through: We passed the border into Mexico.2. To allow to go by or elapse; spend: He passed his winter in Vermont.3. a. To go by without paying attention to; disregard or ignore: If you pass the new photographs in the collection, you'll miss some outstanding ones.b. To fail to pay (a dividend).4. To go beyond; surpass: The inheritance passed my wildest dreams.5. a. To undergo (a trial or examination) with favorable results: She passed every test.b. To cause or allow to go through a trial, test, or examination successfully: The instructor passed all the candidates.6. a. To cause to move: We passed our hands over the fabric.b. To cause to move into a certain position: pass a ribbon around a package.c. To cause to move as part of a process: pass liquid through a filter.d. To cause to go by: The sergeant passed his troops before the grandstand.e. To allow to cross a barrier: The border guard passed the tourists.f. Baseball To walk (a batter).g. To maneuver (the bull) by means of a pase in bullfighting.7. a. To cause to be transferred from one to another; circulate: They passed the news quickly.b. To hand over to someone else: Please pass the bread.c. Sports To transfer (a ball, for example) to a teammate, as by throwing.d. To cause to be accepted; circulate fraudulently: pass counterfeit money.e. Law To convey (property) to an heir or heirs: to pass an estate.8. Medicine To discharge (a waste product, for example) from a bodily part.9. Medicine To introduce (an instrument) into a bodily cavity.10. a. To approve; adopt: The legislature passed the bill.b. To be sanctioned, ratified, or approved by: The bill passed the House of Representatives.11. To pronounce; utter: pass judgment; pass sentence on an offender.n.1. The act of passing; passage.2. A way, such as a narrow gap between mountains, that affords passage around, over, or through a barrier.3. a. A permit, ticket, or authorization to come and go at will.b. A free ticket entitling one to transportation or admission.c. Written leave of absence from military duty.d. A passing grade, especially when graded using a pass-fail grading system.4. a. A sweep or run, as by an aircraft, over or toward an area or target.b. A single complete cycle of operations, as by a machine or computer program.5. A condition or situation, often critical in nature; a predicament: contract negotiations that had come to an emotional pass.6. A sexual invitation or overture: Was he making a pass at her?7. A motion of the hand or the waving of a wand: The magician made a pass over the hat.8. a. Sports A transfer of a ball or puck between teammates.b. Sports A lunge or thrust in fencing.c. Baseball A base on balls.9. Sports & Games A refusal to bid, draw, bet, compete, or play.10. Games A winning throw of the dice in craps.11. A pase in bullfighting.Phrasal Verbs: pass away1. To pass out of existence; end.2. To die. pass for To be accepted as or believed to be: You could pass for a teenager. The fake painting passed for an original. pass off1. To offer, sell, or put into circulation (an imitation) as genuine: pass off glass as a gemstone.2. To present (one's self) as other than what one is: tried to pass himself off as a banker. pass out To lose consciousness. pass over To leave out; disregard. pass up Informal To let go by; reject: pass up a chance for promotion; an opportunity too good to pass up.Idioms: bring to pass To cause to happen. come to pass To occur. pass muster To pass an examination or inspection; measure up to a given standard. pass (one's) lips1. To be eaten or drunk.2. To issue or be spoken: Rumors never passed her lips. pass the hat To take up a collection of money. pass the time of day To exchange greetings or engage in pleasantries. pass the torch To relinquish (responsibilities, for example) to another or others.

[Middle English passen, from Old French passer, from Vulgar Latin passāre, from Latin passus, step; see pace¹.]

pass′er n.Usage Note: The past tense and past participle of pass is passed: They passed (or have passed) our home. Time had passed slowly. Past is the corresponding adjective (in centuries past), adverb (drove past), preposition (past midnight), and noun (lived in the past).

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vb (adverb) 1. to be or cause to be accepted or circulated in a false character or identity: he passed the fake diamonds off as real. 2. (intr) to come to a gradual end; disappear: eventually the pain passed off. 3. (Chemistry) to emit (a substance) as a gas or vapour, or (of a substance) to be emitted in this way4. (intr) to take place: the meeting passed off without disturbance. 5. (tr) to set aside or disregard: I managed to pass off his insult.

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Verb	1.	pass off - be accepted as something or somebody in a false character or identity; "She passed off as a Russian agent"appear, seem, look - give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect; "She seems to be sleeping"; "This appears to be a very difficult problem"; "This project looks fishy"; "They appeared like people who had not eaten or slept for a long time"
	2.	pass off - disregard; "She passed off the insult"brush aside, brush off, discount, dismiss, disregard, ignore, push aside - bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his advances"
	3.	pass off - cause to be circulated and accepted in a false character or identity; "She passed the glass off as diamonds"; "He passed himself off as a secret agent"make pass, pass - cause to pass; "She passed around the plates"
	4.	pass off - disappear gradually; "The pain eventually passed off"blow over, evanesce, fleet, fade, passdisappear, vanish, go away - get lost, as without warning or explanation; "He disappeared without a trace"
	5.	pass off - come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"hap, happen, occur, come about, take place, go on, fall out, passrecrudesce, develop, break - happen; "Report the news as it develops"; "These political movements recrudesce from time to time"come up, arise - result or issue; "A slight unpleasantness arose from this discussion"result - come about or follow as a consequence; "nothing will result from this meeting"intervene - occur between other event or between certain points of time; "the war intervened between the birth of her two children"transpire - come about, happen, or occur; "Several important events transpired last week"give - occur; "what gives?"operate - happen; "What is going on in the minds of the people?"supervene - take place as an additional or unexpected developmentproceed, go - follow a certain course; "The inauguration went well"; "how did your interview go?"come - come to pass; arrive, as in due course; "The first success came three days later"; "It came as a shock"; "Dawn comes early in June"fall - occur at a specified time or place; "Christmas falls on a Monday this year"; "The accent falls on the first syllable"anticipate - be a forerunner of or occur earlier than; "This composition anticipates Impressionism"develop - be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest; "The plot developed slowly";recur, repeat - happen or occur again; "This is a recurring story"come off, go over, go off - happen in a particular manner; "how did your talk go over?"roll around, come around - happen regularly; "Christmas rolled around again"materialise, materialize, happen - come into being; become reality; "Her dream really materialized"bechance, befall, happen - happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance; "It happens that today is my birthday"; "These things befell" (Santayana)bechance, befall, betide - become of; happen to; "He promised that no harm would befall her"; "What has become of my children?"coincide, concur - happen simultaneously; "The two events coincided"backfire, backlash, recoil - come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; "Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble"chance - be the case by chance; "I chanced to meet my old friend in the street"break - happen or take place; "Things have been breaking pretty well for us in the past few months"fall, shine, strike - touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly; "Light fell on her face"; "The sun shone on the fields"; "The light struck the golden necklace"; "A strange sound struck my ears"turn out - prove to be in the result or end; "It turns out that he was right"contemporise, contemporize, synchronise, synchronize - happen at the same time
	6.	pass off - expel (gases or odors)emit, breathebelch, burp, eruct, bubble - expel gas from the stomach; "In China it is polite to burp at the table"force out - emit or cause to move with force of effort; "force out the air"; "force out the splinter"give forth, emanate, exhale - give out (breath or an odor); "The chimney exhales a thick smoke"eject, expel, release, exhaust, discharge - eliminate (a substance); "combustion products are exhausted in the engine"; "the plant releases a gas"radiate - send out real or metaphoric rays; "She radiates happiness"bubble - form, produce, or emit bubbles; "The soup was bubbling"

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verb1. To move along a particular course:fare, go, journey, proceed, push on, remove, travel, wend.Idiom: make one's way.2. To make or go on a journey:journey, peregrinate, travel, trek, trip.Idiom: hit the road.3. To catch up with and move past:overhaul, overtake.4. To be greater or better than:best, better, exceed, excel, outdo, outmatch, outrun, outshine, outstrip, surpass, top, transcend.Informal: beat.Idioms: go beyond, go one better.5. To go across:cross, track, transit, traverse.6. To move past in time:elapse, go (by), lapse.7. To cause to be transferred from one to another:convey, hand (over), transmit.8. To make known:break, carry, communicate, convey, disclose, get across, impart, report, tell, transmit.9. To cause (a disease) to pass to another or others:carry, communicate, convey, give, spread, transmit.10. To come as by lot or inheritance:devolve, fall.11. To convey (something) from one generation to the next.Along or on:bequeath, hand down, hand on, transmit.12. To move toward a termination:go, go away, pass away.13. To cease living.Also used with on:decease, demise, depart, die, drop, expire, go, pass away, perish, succumb.Informal: pop off.Slang: check out, croak, kick in, kick off.Idioms: bite the dust, breathe one's last, cash in, give up the ghost, go to one's grave, kick the bucket, meet one's end, pass on to the Great Beyond, turn up one's toes.14. To take place:befall, betide, come, come about, come off, develop, hap, happen, occur, transpire.Idiom: come to pass.15. To use time in a particular way:put in, spend.16. To go through (life) in a certain way:lead, live, pursue.17. To represent oneself in a given character or as other than what one is:attitudinize, impersonate, masquerade, pose, posture.Idiom: pass oneself off as.18. To be accepted or approved:carry, clear.19. To accept officially:adopt, affirm, approve, confirm, ratify, sanction.phrasal verb
pass away1. To move toward a termination:go, go away, pass.2. To cease living:decease, demise, depart, die, drop, expire, go, pass (on), perish, succumb.Informal: pop off.Slang: check out, croak, kick in, kick off.Idioms: bite the dust, breathe one's last, cash in, give up the ghost, go to one's grave, kick the bucket, meet one's end, pass on to the Great Beyond, turn up one's toes.phrasal verb
pass offTo offer or put into circulation (an inferior or spurious item):fob off, foist, palm off, put off.phrasal verb
pass outTo suffer temporary lack of consciousness:black out, faint, keel over, swoon.phrasal verb
pass overTo pretend not to see:blink (at), connive at, disregard, ignore, wink at.Idioms: be blind to, close one's eyes to, look the other way, turn a blind eye to.noun1. A free ticket entitling one to transportation or admission:Informal: comp.Slang: freebie.2. A decisive point:climacteric, crisis, crossroad (used in plural), exigence, exigency, head, juncture, turning point, zero hour.

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(paːs) verb1. to move towards and then beyond (something, by going past, through, by, over etc). I pass the shops on my way to work; The procession passed along the corridor.经过2. to move, give etc from one person, state etc to another. They passed the photographs around; The tradition is passed (on/down) from father to son. 相传，传递 3. to go or be beyond. This passes my understanding.超出4. (of vehicles etc on a road) to overtake. The sports car passed me at a dangerous bend in the road.超过5. to spend (time). They passed several weeks in the country.度过6. (of an official group, government etc) to accept or approve. The government has passed a resolution.批准7. to give or announce (a judgement or sentence). The magistrate passed judgement on the prisoner.宣布8. to end or go away. His sickness soon passed.消失9. to (judge to) be successful in (an examination etc). I passed my driving test. 通过，及格 noun1. a narrow path between mountains. a mountain pass.要隘2. a ticket or card allowing a person to do something, eg to travel free or to get in to a building. You must show your pass before entering.通行证3. a successful result in an examination, especially when below a distinction, honours etc. There were ten passes and no fails.及格4. (in ball games) a throw, kick, hit etc of the ball from one player to another. The centre-forward made a pass towards the goal.传球ˈpassable adjective1. fairly good. a passable tennis player.合格的2. (of a river, road etc) able to be passed, travelled over etc. The mud has made the roads no longer passable.可通行的ˈpassing adjective1. going past. a passing car.经过的2. lasting only a short time. a passing interest. 一时的，短暂的 3. (of something said) casual and not made as part of a serious talk about the subject. a passing reference.顺便的ˌpasser-ˈby – plural ˌpassers-ˈby – noun a person who is going past a place when something happens. He asked the passers-by if they had seen the accident.过路人ˈpassword noun a secret word by which those who know it can recognize each other and be allowed to go past, enter etc. He was not allowed into the army camp because he did not know the password. 口令，暗号 in passing while doing or talking about something else; without explaining fully what one means. He told her the story, and said in passing that he did not completely believe it.顺便let (something) pass to ignore something rather than take the trouble to argue. I'll let that pass.放过pass as/for to be mistaken for or accepted as. Some man-made materials could pass as silk; His nasty remarks pass for wit among his admirers.被错认为pass away to die. Her grandmother passed away last night.去世pass the buck to give the responsibility or blame for something to someone else. She always passes the buck if she is asked to do anything.推卸责任给pass by to go past (a particular place). I was passing by when the bride arrived at the church; She passed by the hospital on the way to the library.从...旁而过pass off (of sickness, an emotion etc) to go away. By the evening, his sickness had passed off and he felt better.结束pass (something or someone) off as to pretend that (something or someone) is (something or someone else). He passed himself off as a journalist.冒充为...pass on1. to give to someone else (usually something which one has been given by a third person). I passed on his message.把...传给2. to die. His mother passed on yesterday.去世pass out1. to faint. I feel as though I'm going to pass out.昏倒2. to give to several different people. The teacher passed out books to her class.散发pass over to ignore or overlook. They passed him over for promotion. 不注意，忽视 pass up not to accept (a chance, opportunity etc). He passed up the offer of a good job. 放过（机会等）

passed is the past tense of to pass: He passed the scene of the accident .
past means up to and beyond: She walked past the shops .

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verb be accepted as something or somebody in a false character or identity

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