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pass: (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team; "the pass was fumbled"; a flight or run by an aircraft over a target; "the plane turned to make a second pass"; (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate; "the coach sent in a passing play on third and long"; a complementary (free) ticket; "the star got passes for his family"; a permit to enter or leave a military installation; "he had to show his pass in order to get out"; a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions; "the media representatives had special passes"; any authorization to pass or go somewhere; "the pass to visit had a strict time limit"; one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer); "it was not possible to complete the computation in a single pass"; a difficult juncture; "a pretty pass"; "matters came to a head yesterday"; 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"; a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs; (military) a written leave of absence; "he had a pass for three days"; travel past; "The sports car passed all the trucks"; go across or through; "We passed the point where the police car had parked"; "A terrible thought went through his mind"; cause to pass; "She passed around the plates"; transfer to another; of rights or property; "Our house passed under his official control"; place into the hands or custody of; "hand me the spoon, please"; "Turn the files over to me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers"; throw (a ball) to another player; "Smith passed"; allow to go without comment or censure; "the insult passed as if unnoticed"; go unchallenged; be approved; "The bill cleared the House"; accept or judge as acceptable; "The teacher passed the student although he was weak"; go successfully through a test or a selection process; "She passed the new Jersey Bar Exam and can practice law now"; be identified, regarded, accepted, or mistaken for someone or something else; as by denying one's own ancestry or background; "He could pass as his twin brother"; "She passed as a White woman even though her grandfather was Black"

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take place collapse

come true collapse

come to pass collapse

pop off collapse: leave quickly

befall collapse: become of; happen to; "He promised that no harm would befall her"; "What has become of my children?"

betide collapse

hand in collapse

elapse collapse: pass by; "three years elapsed"

spitball collapse: an illegal pitch in which a foreign substance (spit or Vaseline) is applied to the ball by the pitcher before he throws it; a projectile made by chewing a piece of paper and shaping it into a sphere

shot put collapse: an athletic competition in which a heavy metal ball is hurled as far as possible

fastball collapse: (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity; "he swung late on the fastball"; "he showed batters nothing but smoke"

forward pass collapse: a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer

fork over collapse

perfuse collapse: force a fluid through (a body part or tissue); "perfuse a liver with a salt solution"

let pass collapse

sign over collapse

give in collapse

pass the buck collapse

carry over collapse: transfer or persist from one stage or sphere of activity to another; transfer from one time period to the next; transport from one place or state to another; "Adam would have been carried over into the life eternal"; hold over goods to be sold for the next season

happen collapse: come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"; come into being; become reality; "Her dream really materialized"; 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); chance to be or do something, without intention or causation; "I happen to have just what you need!"

notarize collapse: authenticate as a notary; "We had to have the signature notarized"

not listen collapse

pay no attention to collapse

leave word collapse

check out collapse: try to learn someone's opinions and intentions; "I have to sound out the new professor"; announce one's departure from a hotel; record, add up, and receive payment for items purchased; "She was checking out the apples that the customer had put on the conveyer belt"

translate collapse: change from one form or medium into another; "Braque translated collage into oil"; change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation; determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA; restate (words) from one language into another language; "I have to translate when my in-laws from Austria visit the U.S."; "Can you interpret the speech of the visiting dignitaries?"; "She rendered the French poem into English"; "He translates for the U.N."; express, as in simple and less technical language; "Can you translate the instructions in this manual for a layman?"; "Is there a need to translate the psychiatrist's remarks?"; bring to a certain spiritual state; subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body; be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way; "poetry often does not translate"; "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English"; be equivalent in effect; "the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power"

look the other way collapse

extradite collapse: hand over to the authorities of another country; "They extradited the fugitive to his native country so he could be tried there"

let slide collapse

let ride collapse

shoot ahead collapse

hand down collapse: passed on, as by inheritance; "This ring was handed down through many generations"

hand on collapse

bequeath collapse: leave or give by will after one's death; "My aunt bequeathed me all her jewelry"; "My grandfather left me his entire estate"

make light of collapse

make known collapse

transpire collapse: give off (water) through the skin; come about, happen, or occur; "Several important events transpired last week"; come to light; become known; "It transpired that she had worked as spy in East Germany"; exude water vapor; "plants transpire"; pass through the tissue or substance or its pores or interstices, as of gas

go out collapse: become extinguished; "The lights suddenly went out and we were in the dark"; leave the house to go somewhere; "We never went out when our children were small"; take the field; "The soldiers went out on missions"; go out of fashion; become unfashionable

be gone collapse

put across collapse

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