Noun

1. 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 mountain pass

   "Try not the pass!" the old man said. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2. A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary. (Shakespeare)
3. A movement of the hand over or along anything; the manipulation of a mesmerist.
4. (rolling metals) A single passage of a bar, rail, sheet, etc., between the rolls.
5. The state of things; condition; predicament.

   Have his daughters brought him to this pass. - Shakespeare

   Matters have been brought to this pass. - Robert South

6. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.

   A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy. - James Kent

7. An intentional walk

   Smith was given a pass after Jones' double.

8. 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.
9. A thrust; a sally of wit. (Shakespeare)
10. A sexual advance.

    The man kicked his friend out of the house after he made a pass at his wife.

11. Estimation; character.

    Common speech gives him a worthy pass. - Shakespeare

12. A part, a division.
13. 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.)
14. The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
15. A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

    Anyone want to trade passes?

Synonyms

gap thrust transit condition, predicament, state access, admission, entry

Verb

1. To move or be moved from one place to another.
2. To change from one state to another.
3. To move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge.

   Beauty is a charm, but soon the charm will pass. - John Dryden

4. (with "on" or "away"): To die.
5. To come and go in consciousness.
6. To happen.
7. Of time, to elapse, to be spent.

   Their vacation passed pleasantly.

8. To go from one person to another.
9. To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness.

   The bill passed both houses of Congress.

10. To go through any inspection or test successfully.

    He attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.

11. To be tolerated.
12. To continue.
13. To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
14. : To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.

    This passes, Master Ford. - Shakespeare

15. : To take heed.

    As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not. - Shakespeare

16. To go through the intestines. (John Arbuthnot)
17. To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.

    An estate passes by a certain clause in a deed.

18. To make a lunge or swipe.
19. In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
20. In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
21. To go by, over, through, or the like; to proceed from one side to the other of.

    pass a house

22. To go from one limit to the other of; to spend.

    To pass commodiously this life. - John Milton

23. To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.

    She loved me for the dangers I had passed. - Shakespeare

24. To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.

    Please you that I may pass This doing. - Shakespeare

    I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array. - John Dryden

25. To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.

    And strive to pass . . . Their native music by her skillful art. - Edmund Spenser

    Whose tender power Passes the strength of storms in their most desolate hour. - Byron

26. To go successfully through, as an examination, trail, test, etc.

    He passed his examination.

27. To obtain the formal sanction of, as a legislative body.

    The bill passed the senate.

28. 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.

    The waiter passed biscuit and cheese.

    The torch was passed from hand to hand.

    I had only time to pass my eye over the medals. - Joseph Addison

    Waller passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge. - Edward Hyde Clarendon

29. To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce.
30. Hence, to promise; to pledge.

    to pass sentence - Shakespeare

    Father, thy word is passed. - Milton

31. 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.

    He passed the bill through the committee.

    The senate passed the law.

32. To put in circulation; to give currency to.

    pass counterfeit money

    Pass the happy news. - Alfred Tennyson

33. To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.

    pass a person into a theater or over a railroad

34. To emit from the bowels.
35. To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
36. To make, as a thrust, punto, etc.
37. To move the ball or puck or a teammate.

Synonyms

pass by, pass over, etc. spend bear, endure, suffer, tolerate, undergo disregard, ignore, take no notice of better, exceed, excel, outdo, surpass, transcend be accepted by, be passed by deliver, give, hand, make over, send, transfer, transmit pronounce, say, speak, utter pledge, promise, vow approve, enact, ratify circulate, pass around admit, let in, let past evacuate, void

• (nautical: take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure) make go, move pass away, pass over happen, occur elapse, go by continue, go on exceed, surpass take heed, take notice thrust
• (decline to play in one's turn):