- (v.t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
- (v.t.) To confound.
- (v.i.) To sin; especially, to be incontinent.
- (v.t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
- (v.t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
- (v.t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
- (v.t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin or fault.
Commit and Pass
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verb
- Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
- usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
- synonyms: perpetrate, pull
- Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
- usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
- synonyms: give, dedicate, consecrate, devote
- Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
- usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
- synonyms: institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge
- Confer a trust upon.
- usage: "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
- Make an investment.
- usage: "Put money into bonds"
- Engage in or perform.
- usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
- synonyms: practice
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(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.
noun
- Baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls. (
- usage: "he worked the pitcher for a base on balls"
- synonyms: base on balls, walk
- Military) a written leave of absence. (
- usage: "he had a pass for three days"
- American football. ( a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate)
- usage: "the coach sent in a passing play on third and long"
- synonyms: passing play, passing game, passing
- The location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks.
- usage: "we got through the pass before it started to snow"
- synonyms: mountain pass, notch
- Any authorization to pass or go somewhere.
- usage: "the pass to visit had a strict time limit"
- synonyms: passport
- A document indicating permission to do something without restrictions.
- usage: "the media representatives had special passes"
- synonyms: laissez passer
- A flight or run by an aircraft over a target.
- usage: "the plane turned to make a second pass"
- A bad or difficult situation or state of affairs.
- A difficult juncture.
- usage: "a pretty pass"; "matters came to a head yesterday"
- One complete cycle of operations (as by a computer. )
- usage: "it was not possible to complete the computation in a single pass"
- You advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent.
- usage: "he had a bye in the first round"
- synonyms: bye
- A permit to enter or leave a military installation.
- usage: "he had to show his pass in order to get out"
- synonyms: liberty chit
- A complimentary ticket.
- usage: "the star got passes for his family"
- A usually brief attempt.
- usage: "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it a whirl"
- Sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team. (
- usage: "the pass was fumbled"
- Success in satisfying a test or requirement.
- usage: "his future depended on his passing that test"; "he got a pass in introductory chemistry"
- synonyms: passing, qualifying
verb
- Go across or through.
- usage: "We passed the point where the police car had parked"; "A terrible thought went through his mind"
- synonyms: go through, go across
- Move past.
- usage: "A black limousine passed by when she looked out the window"; "He passed his professor in the hall"; "One line of soldiers surpassed the other"
- Make laws, bills, etc. Or bring into effect by legislation.
- usage: "They passed the amendment"; "We cannot legislate how people spend their free time"
- synonyms: legislate
- Pass by.
- usage: "three years elapsed"
- Place into the hands or custody of.
- usage: "hand me the spoon, please"; "Turn the files over to me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers"
- Stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point.
- usage: "Service runs all the way to Cranbury"; "His knowledge doesn't go very far"; "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life"; "The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets"
- Travel past.
- usage: "The sports car passed all the trucks"
- Come to pass.
- usage: "What is happening"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"
- synonyms: happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, fall out, come about, take place
- Go unchallenged; be approved.
- usage: "The bill cleared the House"
- synonyms: clear
- Pass time in a specific way.
- usage: "how are you spending your summer vacation"
- synonyms: spend
- Pass over, across, or through.
- usage: "He ran his eyes over her body"; "She ran her fingers along the carved figurine"; "He drew her hair through his fingers"
- Transmit information .
- usage: "Please communicate this message to all employees"; "pass along the good news"
- synonyms: communicate, pass on, pass along, put across
- Disappear gradually.
- usage: "The pain eventually passed off"
- Go successfully through a test or a selection process.
- usage: "She passed the new Jersey Bar Exam and can practice law now"
- synonyms: make it
- Be superior or better than some standard.
- usage: "She exceeded our expectations"; "She topped her performance of last year"
- Accept or judge as acceptable.
- usage: "The teacher passed the student although he was weak"
- Allow to go without comment or censure.
- usage: "the insult passed as if unnoticed"
- Transfer to another; of rights or property.
- usage: "Our house passed under his official control"
- Pass into a specified state or condition.
- usage: "He sank into nirvana"
- Throw (a ball) to another player.
- usage: "Smith passed"
- Be inherited by.
- usage: "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"
- Cause to pass.
- usage: "She passed around the plates"
- synonyms: make pass
- Grant authorization or clearance for.
- usage: "Clear the manuscript for publication"; "The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography"
- Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life.
- usage: "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"
- synonyms: die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it
- Eliminate from the body.
- usage: "Pass a kidney stone"
adjective
- Of advancing the ball by throwing it.
- usage: "a team with a good passing attack"; "a pass play"
- synonyms: passing
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) In football, hockey, etc., a transfer of the ball, etc., to another player of one's side, usually at some distance.
- (v.i.) In football, hockey, etc., to make pass; to transfer the ball, etc., to another player of one's own side.
- (v.i.) To make a lunge or pass; to thrust.
- (v.i.) In football, hockey, etc., to make a pass; to transfer the ball, etc., to another player of one's own side.
- (v.i.) State of things; condition; predicament.
- (v.i.) To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.
- (v.t.) To cause to obtain entrance, admission or conveyance; as, to pass a person into a theater or over a railroad.
- (v.t.) 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.
- (v.t.) To put in circulation; to give currency to; as, to pass counterfeit money.
- (v.t.) 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.
- (v.i.) A movement of the hand over or along anything; the manipulation of a mesmerist.
- (v.i.) 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.
- (v.i.) Estimation; character.
- (v.i.) 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.
- (v.i.) A single passage of a bar, rail, sheet, etc., between the rolls.
- (v.i.) 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.
- (v.i.) To go through any inspection or test successfully; to be approved or accepted; as, he attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.
- (v.i.) To go through the intestines.
- (v.i.) 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.
- (v.i.) To decline to take an optional action when it is one's turn, as to decline to bid or to bet or to play a card; in euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- (v.i.) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed or other instrument of conveyance; as, an estate passes by a certain clause in a deed.
- (v.t.) 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.
- (v.i.) To be suffered to go on; to be tolerated; hence, to continue; to live along.
- (v.i.) 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.
- (v.i.) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- (v.t.) To make, as a thrust, punto, etc.
- (v.t.) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- (v.i.) To take heed; to care.
- (v.t.) 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.
- (v.i.) A part; a division.
- (v.i.) 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.
- (v.i.) 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.
- (v.i.) Fig.: a thrust; a sally of wit.
- (v.t.) To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- (v.i.) 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.
- (v.i.) To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance or opposition; as, we let this act pass.
- (v.i.) To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as, their vacation passed pleasantly.
- (v.t.) To go from one limit to the other of; to spend; to live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- (v.t.) To emit from the bowels; to evacuate.
- (v.t.) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- (v.t.) To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce; hence, to promise; to pledge; as, to pass sentence.
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