Definitions for "Pass"
In football, hockey, and other team sports, a transfer of the ball, puck, etc., to another player of one's own team, usually at some distance. In American football, the pass is through the air by an act of throwing the ball.
The reception of the serve of first contact or the ball. It is an attempt to control the movement of the ball to another player.
A throw of the point or a natural.
Keywords:  redouble, trump, bid, declarer, turn
To decline to play in one's turn; in euchre, to decline to make the trump.
To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
call indicating that player declines to bid for that turn. The bidding ends after three successive passes provided all four players had at least one opportunity to make a bid. A hand is called "passed out" if the bidding sequence begins with four consecutive passes.
Keywords:  fold, bet, check, decline, wager
A synonym for Exchange (e.g., "pass 3 [tiles]"). Also, a player may Pass on a turn without exchanging tiles in the hopes that he or she will be able to capitalize on the opponent's next play (e.g., if the player has a bingo that requires a certain letter to be available on the board). A third use for Pass is in the end game, when a player is simply unable to make a play and must pass his or her turn. In all cases, a Pass scores zero points. See Exchange.
In CRAPS, a win on the Pass Line. Pass Line In CRAPS, front line, RIGHT WAY bet.
To check or decline to bet.
Keywords:  dice, bettors, shooter, wins, decision
When the shooter wins.
A winning decision on the dice; the 7 or 11 is rolled on a come out roll and/or the point is made.
A winning decision for the dice.
Keywords:  mountain, saddle, notch, ridge, valley
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; as, a mountain pass.
The lowest passage between two mountains. The french - but not just the french - know this as a col. The mathematicians would call this the saddle point.
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"
To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind or manner of motion; as, to pass on, by, out, in, etc.; to pass swiftly, directly, smoothly, etc.; to pass to the rear, under the yoke, over the bridge, across the field, beyond the border, etc.
To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.
To go by, beyond, over, through, or the like; to proceed from one side to the other of; as, to pass a house, a stream, a boundary, etc.
Keywords:  spf, spray, gun, substrate, foam
The term used to describe the application of one layer of Spray Polyurethane Foam (SPF). The speed of a pass will determine foam thickness.
Pass: A single progression of the Thermal Spray Gun across the surface of the substrate
Route of travel of engraving tool across or into substrate. Single pass is one trip; multiple pass along same route path can increase depth of cut and clean-up burrs, uneven surfaces, and create sharper edges.
Keywords:  thrust, punto, sally, stab, adversary
To make a lunge or pass; to thrust.
To make, as a thrust, punto, etc.
A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness; to be carried through a body that has power to sanction or reject; to receive legislative sanction; to be enacted; as, the resolution passed; the bill passed both houses of Congress.
To go successfully through, as an examination, trail, test, etc.; to obtain the formal sanction of, as a legislative body; as, he passed his examination; the bill passed the senate.
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; as, he passed the bill through the committee; the senate passed the law.
To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance; as, an estate passes by a certain clause in a deed.
To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance; as, to pass a person into a theater, or over a railroad.
Permission or license to pass, or to go and come; a psssport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission; as, a railroad or theater pass; a military pass.
Keywords:  refuse, opponent, fleche, bye, double
you advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent; "he had a bye in the first round"
Drop or refuse to accept a double.
When the opponent is making a double offer and you refuse to take it. In that case you loose the stake agreed for the game. Sometimes it is better to refuse for a double offer and lose the game than to accept the double and lose the double value.
To move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge; to pass away; hence, to disappear; to vanish; to depart; specifically, to depart from life; to die.
To move or to come into being or under notice; to come and go in consciousness; hence, to take place; to occur; to happen; to come; to occur progressively or in succession; to be present transitorily.
To go from one person to another; hence, to be given and taken freely; as, clipped coin will not pass; to obtain general acceptance; to be held or regarded; to circulate; to be current; -- followed by for before a word denoting value or estimation.
go across or through; "We passed the point where the police car had parked"; "A terrible thought went through his mind"
pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"
To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as, their vacation passed pleasantly.
To go from one limit to the other of; to spend; to live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
pass by; "three years elapsed"
an SSI work incentive that allows a person with a disability to set aside income and/or resources for a specified period of time to achieve a work goal
a plan that an individual formulates to achieve a particular employment or work-related goal
a Social Security work incentive that allows an SSI recipient to set aside income and/or resources for a specified time in order to achieve an employment goal
This is the Procurement Automated Source System managed by the Small Business Administration. Registering with this central referral system of small businesses interested in selling to the government can bring you business with almost no effort. Registration is free. Call 1 800 231 7277.
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To move or be transferred from one state or condition to another; to change possession, condition, or circumstances; to undergo transition; as, the business has passed into other hands.
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; as, the waiter passed bisquit and cheese; the torch was passed from hand to hand.
A movement of the hand over or along anything; the manipulation of a mesmerist.
Keywords:  strainer
To put through a strainer.
(military) a written leave of absence; "he had a pass for three days"
a permit to enter or leave a military installation; "he had to show his pass in order to get out"
a nonchargeable (to leave account) absence from duty for a
The first of three offensive side contacts which can be overhead or forearm.
see "Forearm Pass"
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"
a convention if, by special agreement, it promises more than a specified amount of strength, or if it artificially promises or denies values other than in the last suit named
allow to go without comment or censure; "the insult passed as if unnoticed"
a block whose running time is (at least) linear in the size of the "meaningful" input - that is, the input less comments, for most languages
a bloodcurdling spot up which one's horse climbs like a goat and down the other side of which it slides as you lead it, trampling ever and anon on a tender part of your foot
Keywords:  practally, duncan, jeff, mystery, town
a mystery/suspense book set in a small town that is practally owned by one man, Jeff Duncan
Keywords:  pnr, arnk, tahiti, lieu, substituted
a closed circuit, but any sector can be substituted by another mean of transportation than Air Tahiti (show ARNK in the PNR in lieu of the missing Air Tahiti sector)
Keywords:  trip, grade, excavating, advisor, earn
You may choose the Pass/No Pass grade option for up to 16 credits in subjects that are not in your academic major. Credits earned Pass/No Pass are not computed in your grade point average. To earn a grade of Pass, your work must be equivalent to what would earn a grade of C- or higher. For more information, see the current Lane Catalog
Pass/No Pass is a way of taking classes without fear of failure. Students who do "A," "B," or "C" work in the class are given a "P;" students who do "D" or "F" work receive a "NP." It is intended to encourage students to explore courses outside of their major and minor programs. There is no affect on Grade Point Average; however, credit is earned toward graduation. Students must indicate the P/NP Option at the time they register for classes.
Grade option that is available with electives. Your advisor can make you aware of any restrictions of its use.
Français : Abonnement Deutsch : Zeitfahrausweis
success in satisfying a test or requirement; "his future depended on his passing that test"; "he got a pass in introductory chemistry"
guide or pass over something; "He ran his eyes over her body"; "She ran her fingers along the carved figurine"; "He drew her hair through his fingers"
transfer to another; of rights or property; "Our house passed under his official control"
Keywords:  took, whirl, nothing, seemed, brief
a usually brief attempt; "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it a whirl"
come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"
a complementary (free) ticket; "the start got passes for his family"
a special ticket, representing some subscription , in particular for unlimited use of a service or collection of services, e
(1) One run of the paper through the printing press; (2) to clear a page for a subscription.
the time when the Red Star is close enough to drop Thread on Pern. Usually about 50 years in length.
grant authorization or clearance for; "Clear the manuscript for publication"; "The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography"
Believably and successfully posing as a member of the opposite gender.
This] means to be in [one,s] preferred gender image, and to be able to do so convincingly.
Keywords:  devolved, everybody, sister, fell, heir
be inherited by; "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead"
Keywords:  pat, pause
To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance or opposition; as, we let this act pass.
Throughs The real estate taxes and operating expenses of a property that are passed on to and paid by the tenant pursuant to the terms of the lease. In a net rent lease, the tenant pays for its entire pro rata share of the aforementioned taxes and expenses. In a gross rent lease, the tenant only pays for the pro rata share of future increases in the taxes and expenses subsequent to the year of tenant’s lease commencement.
a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
a difficult juncture; "a pretty pass"; "matters came to a head yesterday"
a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based company that specializes in providing turnkey computer systems, process control services,engineering and management services to a variety of process and manufacturing industries
pass into a specified state or condition; "He sank into Nirvana"
a rejection from a studio, company, agent, etc. It can also refer to a writer rewriting certain elements of script including dialogue, character, action, etc.
A rejection of a property by a potential producer or an agent.
what you do when the professor calls on you and you have no idea what he's talking about.
a privilege, and you violated that privilege
a thing which you try to forget at the time and which you boast about when you get back home
any authorization to pass or go somewhere; "the pass to visit had a strict time limit"
an exciting new way to visit Philadelphia
State of things; condition; predicament.
The reception of satellite data from the time it comes over the horizon of the receiving station to the time it disappears over the opposite horizon. The pass can refer to that particular part of the satellite's orbit or to the image received during that time.
disappear gradually; "The pain eventually passed off"
in timber harvesting, one of a planned sequence of harvesting operations designed to harvest a management unit over an extended period of time in discrete phases, so that the size of individual cutblocks and the total area harvested in any one pass does not exceed prescribed limits.
A movement of a plate through the mill. A movement of a plate through a leveller is also a pass...
a structure allowing movement of livestock, vehicles or products underneath the roadway
A passing position or movement.
A pass refers to the contact made between a shaving device and the scalp of a person being shaved. Ideally, a perfect head shave would consist of one pass over the entire scalp. The number of passes executed during a head shave can be directly correlated to the look and feel of a shaved head.
Keywords:  evacuate, bowels, emit
To emit from the bowels; to evacuate.
To take heed; to care.
To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
a device that is attached to or is an integral part of self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA)
Keywords:  sports, fencing, trucks, tried, travel
travel past; "The sports car passed all the trucks"
All those other sports you tried before fencing
Keywords:  heater, inlet, outlet, coil, parallel
A coil, which carries the process fluid from heater inlet and outlet. One can transport the total process fluid through the heater using parallel passes.
Keywords:  jersey, bar, exam, rail, rolls
A single passage of a bar, rail, sheet, etc., between the rolls.
go successfully through a test or a selection process; "She passed the new Jersey Bar Exam and can practice law now"
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The number of times that the source text has to be scanned or rescanned in order to compile the program. Due to limited main memory, some early compilers had a large number of passes (about 60).
1. Single layer of a many layered application, such as in welding, painting stucco, etc. where drying time is needed between application. 2. An opening through a barrier.
1) An attack that passes the target without hitting it. 2) A cross.
Precision Attack and Surveillance Systems
The Partnership for the Assessment of Standards-based Science - a large-scale, criterion-referenced science test.
This is a result code where the assertion was found to be true based on the execution of its assertion test.
Keywords:  toolstring, log, sequence, tool, speeds
A sequence during a log, where the toolstring is moved either up or down, and data collected. A production log may consist of many passes at different tool speeds and/or flow rates.
Keywords:  foreward, fully, foot, step, back
A step foreward or back where one foot fully passes the other
Keywords:  argos, modify, command, center, owner
On-line command to an Argos processing center. Allows a program owner to modify a Program Password on line.
To put in circulation; to give currency to; as, to pass counterfeit money.
A student will be deemed to have passed a module if he/she has demonstrated achievement of the learning outcomes of the module. A student will be deemed to have passed a programme of study, or a stage of a programme of study, if he/she has obtained all the required credits required for the programme or stage.
accept or judge as acceptable; "The teacher passed the student although he was weak"
a permit allowing the student to be out of a teaching area
Keywords:  purge, supply, air, system
Purge Air Supply System
Keywords:  poverty, survey, assessment, study
Poverty Assessment Study Survey
French word for past, has a slightly different connotation in English.
To go through any inspection or test successfully; to be approved or accepted; as, he attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.
Satisfactory mark in examination or course
one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer); "it was not possible to complete the computation in a single pass"
A complete traversal of the source program.
One time that the scene is drawn in the renderer. A scene can require several Passes by the renderer before it is drawn to the screen. In other words, if a triangle is requires 3 passes, it is being drawn 3 times by the renderer.
Keywords:  alike, locks, key, operates, one
a key that operates a lock is said to 'pass' the lock. If locks are made 'keyed alike' then one key will 'pass' all the locks.
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transmit information ; "Please communicate this message to all employees"
In digital filters this refers to the spatial frequency of data transmitted by the filter. High-pass filters transmit high-frequency data; low-pass filters transmit low-frequency data.
Keywords:  intestines
To go through the intestines.
Plan For Self Sufficiency (Social Security Administration term)
Plan for Achieving Self-Support
Keywords:  alert, safety, system, personal
Personal Alert Safety System
a private answering service that primary focuses on coordinating appointments with real estate agents and you for the best times to show your property
A confined passageway, containing heating surface, through which fluid flows essentially one direction.
Inputting to a function during a function call, e.g. an argument is passed to a function.
Keywords:  sorting, port, entry, advanced, system
Port of Entry Advanced Sorting System
Keywords:  mine, delivered, higher, lower, opening
An opening in a mine through which ore is delivered from a higher to a lower level.
a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions; "the media representatives had special passes"
Keywords:  paper, press, travels, machine, time
When paper runs through a paper machine one complete time.
The number of times paper travels through a press.
place precisely principal provided
Keywords:  eliminate, kidney, stone, body
eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone"
Keywords:  auctioneer, lot, comes, item, interest
If an item does not have any interest when it comes up for auction the auctioneer may pass the lot.
a process that Crystal Reports uses each time the data is read and manipulated
Keywords:  boundaries, raised, strong, side, place
Place where the Boundary is not as strong, allowing one to pass though to the other side. All boundaries raised have one.
Keywords:  division, part
A part; a division.
an efficient, low cost, computer based electronic monitoring system
Keywords:  estimation, character
Estimation; character.
Keywords:  plates, around, cause
cause to pass; "She passed around the plates"
Keywords:  short
Short for password
Keywords:  return, value, call
a call that does not return a value
passive
Passenger