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Pass can be a noun or a verb.

pass used as a 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"
  2. A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary. (Shakespeare)
  3. A movement 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; impasse.
    "Have his daughters brought him to this pass. - Shakespeare"
  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?"

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

pass used as a 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"
  25. To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
    "And strive to pass . . . Their native music by her skillful art. - Edmund Spenser"
  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."
  29. To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce.
  30. Hence, to promise; to pledge.
    "to pass sentence - Shakespeare"
  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."
  32. To put in circulation; to give currency to.
    "pass counterfeit money"
  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.

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

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As detailed above, 'pass' can be a noun or a verb. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Noun usage: a mountain pass
  2. Noun usage: "Try not the pass!" the old man said. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  3. Noun usage: Have his daughters brought him to this pass. - Shakespeare
  4. Noun usage: Matters have been brought to this pass. - Robert South
  5. Noun usage: A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy. - James Kent
  6. Noun usage: Smith was given a pass after Jones' double.
  7. Noun usage: The man kicked his friend out of the house after he made a pass at his wife.
  8. Noun usage: Common speech gives him a worthy pass. - Shakespeare
  9. Noun usage: Anyone want to trade passes?
  10. Verb usage: Beauty is a charm, but soon the charm will pass. - John Dryden
  11. Verb usage: Their vacation passed pleasantly.
  12. Verb usage: The bill passed both houses of Congress.
  13. Verb usage: He attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.
  14. Verb usage: This passes, Master Ford. - Shakespeare
  15. Verb usage: As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not. - Shakespeare
  16. Verb usage: An estate passes by a certain clause in a deed.
  17. Verb usage: pass a house
  18. Verb usage: To pass commodiously this life. - John Milton
  19. Verb usage: She loved me for the dangers I had passed. - Shakespeare
  20. Verb usage: Please you that I may pass This doing. - Shakespeare
  21. Verb usage: I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array. - John Dryden
  22. Verb usage: And strive to pass . . . Their native music by her skillful art. - Edmund Spenser
  23. Verb usage: Whose tender power Passes the strength of storms in their most desolate hour. - Byron
  24. Verb usage: He passed his examination.
  25. Verb usage: The bill passed the senate.
  26. Verb usage: The waiter passed biscuit and cheese.
  27. Verb usage: The torch was passed from hand to hand.
  28. Verb usage: I had only time to pass my eye over the medals. - Joseph Addison
  29. Verb usage: Waller passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge. - Edward Hyde Clarendon
  30. Verb usage: to pass sentence - Shakespeare
  31. Verb usage: Father, thy word is passed. - Milton
  32. Verb usage: He passed the bill through the committee.
  33. Verb usage: The senate passed the law.
  34. Verb usage: pass counterfeit money
  35. Verb usage: Pass the happy news. - Alfred Tennyson
  36. Verb usage: pass a person into a theater or over a railroad

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of pass are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of pass, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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