To change place. To move or be moved from one place to another.
pass — Definition and meaning
• To move or be moved from one place to another.
• To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
• To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
• To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
• To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
• To make various kinds of movement. To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force. To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate. To make a lunge or swipe.
• To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
• To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
• To make a lunge or swipe.
• To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
• To go from one person to another.
• To put in circulation; to give currency to.
• To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
• To put through a sieve.
• To change in state or status To progress from one state to another; to advance.
• To progress from one state to another; to advance.
• To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
• To die.
• To achieve a successful outcome from.
• To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
• To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
• 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.
• To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
• To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
• To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
• To move through time. To elapse, to be spent.
• To elapse, to be spent.
• To spend.
• To allow to go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
• To continue.
• To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
• To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
• To happen.
• To be accepted. To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
• To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
• To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
• To refrain from doing something. To decline something that is offered or available.
• To decline something that is offered or available.
• To reject; to pass up.
• To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
• In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
• In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
• To do or be better. To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.
• To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.
• To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
• To take heed, to have an interest, to care.
(Noun) An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
• A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
• A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
• A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
• An attempt.
• A sexual advance (often in the phrase make a pass).
• Success in an examination or similar test.
• A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
• A thrust; a sally of wit.
• The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
• 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 it.
• Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
• A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
• An intentional walk.
• The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
• The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
• Estimation; character.
• The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
• An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
• A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
(Noun) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
The importance of pass
pass appears in U.S. legal practice across multiple practice areas. Knowing what it means — and when it applies — can determine the outcome of motions, filings, and negotiations. For non-lawyers, the value of looking up a precise definition is that legal terms often carry meanings that differ from everyday usage; relying on the common meaning can lead to costly missteps.
How pass is applied
In practice, pass is invoked when parties, judges, or attorneys need to identify the legal status of an issue, the rights of those involved, or the procedural step required next. The definition shown above is sourced from Wiktionary , which is widely cited in U.S. legal practice. Because U.S. law is jurisdictionally layered — federal, state, and sometimes local — the precise application of the term can vary by court, so check the controlling authority for your specific case.