in full control of your faculties; "the witness remained collected throughout the cross-examination"; "perfectly poised and sure of himself"; "more self-contained and more dependable than many of the early frontiersmen"; "strong and self-possessed in the face of trouble"
brought together in one place; "the collected works of Milton"; "the gathered folds of the skirt"
capable of adapting (of becoming or being made suitable) to a particular situation or use; "to succeed one must be adaptable"; "the frame was adaptable to cloth bolts of different widths"
(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"
an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit
a sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings) used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock) in various games
the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not
the state that exists when one person or group has power over another; "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her"
an elastic material obtained from the latex sap of trees (especially trees of the genera Hevea and Ficus) that can be vulcanized and finished into a variety of products
any of various synthetic elastic materials whose properties resemble natural rubber
returned for lack of funds; "a rubber check"; "a no-good check"
a notable achievement; "he performed a great deed"; "the book was her finest effort"
a legal document signed and sealed and delivered to effect a transfer of property and to show the legal right to possess it; "he signed the deed"; "he kept the title to his car in the glove compartment"