n. a complementary (free) ticket; "the star got passes for his family"

n. (military) a written leave of absence; "he had a pass for three days"

n. a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held

n. a permit to enter or leave a military installation; "he had to show his pass in order to get out"

n. a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions; "the media representatives had special passes"

n. any authorization to pass or go somewhere; "the pass to visit had a strict time limit"

n. you advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent; "he had a bye in the first round"

n. success in satisfying a test or requirement; "his future depended on his passing that test"; "he got a pass in introductory chemistry"

n. (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team; "the pass was fumbled"

n. (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls; "he worked the pitcher for a base on balls"

n. (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"

n. 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"

n. a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs

n. a usually brief attempt; "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it a whirl"

v. throw (a ball) to another player; "Smith passed"

v. pass a test or a screening, for example

v. meet by design; be present at the arrival of; "Can you meet me at the train station?"

v. undergo or suffer; "meet a violent death"; "suffer a terrible fate"

v. get together socially or for a specific purpose

v. throw (a ball) to another player; "Smith passed"

v. cause to pass; "She passed around the plates"

v. transfer to another; of rights or property; "Our house passed under his official control"

v. make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation; "They passed the amendment"; "We cannot legislate how people's spend their free time"

v. accept or judge as acceptable; "The teacher passed the student although he was weak"

v. pass (time) in a specific way; "How are you spending your summer vacation?"

v. contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle; "Princeton plays Yale this weekend"; "Charlie likes to play Mary"

v. be in direct physical contact with; make contact; "The two buildings touch"; "Their hands touched"; "The wire must not contact the metal cover"; "The surfaces contact at this point"

v. collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room"

v. satisfy or fulfill; "meet a need"; "this job doesn't match my dreams"

v. get to know; get acquainted with; "I met this really handsome guy at a bar last night!"; "we met in Singapore"

v. satisfy a condition or restriction; "Does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?"

v. be adjacent or come together; "The lines converge at this point"

v. experience as a reaction; "My proposal met with much opposition"

v. fill or meet a want or need

v. collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room"

v. eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone"

v. as through a barrier; "Registrations cracked through the 30,000 mark in the county"

v. 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"

v. pass into a specified state or condition; "He sank into Nirvana"

v. travel past; "The sports car passed all the trucks"

v. go successfully through a test or a selection process; "She passed the new Jersey Bar Exam and can practice law now"

v. go unchallenged; be approved; "The bill cleared the House"

v. 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"

v. move towards; "We were approaching our destination"; "They are drawing near"; "The enemy army came nearer and nearer"

v. grant authorization or clearance for; "Clear the manuscript for publication"; "The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography"

v. go across or through; "We passed the point where the police car had parked"; "A terrible thought went through his mind"

v. pass by; "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"

v. stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point; "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"

adj. being precisely fitting and right; "it is only meet that she should be seated first"

n. a formal contest in which two or more persons or teams compete

n. a series of jousts between knights contesting for a prize

n. a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner

n. something that happens at a given place and time

n. an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants

n. a single play of a sport or other contest; "the game lasted two hours"

n. a single distinct event

n. a significant event in your life (or in a project)

n. a remarkable development

n. a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others; "she rejected his advances"

n. a ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall

n. a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome; "grappling with financial difficulties"

n. a state of misfortune or affliction; "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship"

n. a condition of suffering or distress due to ill health

n. a state in which martial law applies; "the governor declared a state of emergency"

n. an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes

n. any carefree episode

n. gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement; "it was all done in play"; "their frolic in the surf threatened to become ugly"

n. a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement

n. activity characterized by good humor

n. the act of informing by verbal report; "he heard reports that they were causing trouble"; "by all accounts they were a happy couple"

n. activity by children that is guided more by imagination than by fixed rules; "Freud believed in the utility of play to a small child"

v. lose validity; "My passports expired last month"

v. resist doing something; "He refrained from hitting him back"; "she could not forbear weeping"

v. behave in a certain manner; "She carried herself well"; "he bore himself with dignity"; "They conducted themselves well during these difficult times"

v. be in some specified state or condition; "I stand corrected"

v. put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"

v. be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools"

v. convert the genetic information in (a strand of DNA) into a strand of RNA, especially messenger RNA

v. make less complex; "reduce a problem to a single question"

v. cause to become; "The shot rendered her immobile"

v. change from one form or medium into another; "Braque translated collage into oil"

v. issue commands or orders for

v. approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation; "All parties ratified the peace treaty"; "Have you signed your contract yet?"

v. give sanction to; "I approve of his educational policies"

v. support a person for a position; "The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense"

v. give sanction to; "I approve of his educational policies"

v. be behind; approve of; "He plumped for the Labor Party"; "I backed Kennedy in 1960"

v. make legal; "Marijuana should be legalized"

v. grant authorization or clearance for; "Clear the manuscript for publication"; "The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography"

v. establish the authenticity of something

v. experience as a reaction; "My proposal met with much opposition"

v. come together; "I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How nice to see you again!"

v. be equal to in quality or ability; "Nothing can rival cotton for durability"; "Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues"; "Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents"

v. be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight; "the tribesmen fought each other"; "Siblings are always fighting"; "Militant groups are contending for control of the country"

v. face or endure with courage; "She braved the elements"

v. be located near or adjacent to; "Pakistan neighbors India"

v. connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces; "Can you connect the two loudspeakers?"; "Tie the ropes together"; "Link arms"

v. make contact or come together; "The two roads join here"

v. have or possess in combination; "she unites charm with a good business sense"

v. speak to someone

v. deal with (something unpleasant) head on; "You must confront your problems"; "He faced the terrible consequences of his mistakes"

v. begin to deal with; "approach a task"; "go about a difficult problem"; "approach a new project"

v. behave well or properly; "The children must learn to behave"

v. behave in a certain manner; "She carried herself well"; "he bore himself with dignity"; "They conducted themselves well during these difficult times"

v. be identical or equivalent to; "One dollar equals 1,000 rubles these days!"

v. be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity; "A few words would answer"; "This car suits my purpose well"; "Will $100 do?"; "A 'B' grade doesn't suffice to get me into medical school"; "Nothing else will serve"

v. contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle; "Princeton plays Yale this weekend"; "Charlie likes to play Mary"

v. come together; "I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How nice to see you again!"

v. go or live through; "We had many trials to go through"; "he saw action in Viet Nam"

v. fulfil the requirements or expectations of

v. provide or furnish with; "We provided the room with an electrical heater"

v. cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer"

v. fill to satisfaction; "I am sated"

v. bring to a head or to the highest point; "Seurat culminated pointillism"

v. finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table; "She polished off the remaining potatoes"

v. convert into cash; of goods and property

v. pay off (loans or promissory notes)

v. look after; be the keeper of; have charge of; "He keeps the shop when I am gone"

v. claim back

v. regain or make up for; "recuperate one's losses"

v. come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost; "Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!"

v. regain possession of something

v. make less rigid or softer

v. supply or feed to surfeit

v. assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together"

v. cease to operate or cause to cease operating; "The owners decided to move and to close the factory"; "My business closes every night at 8 P.M."; "close up the shop"

v. be in session; "When does the court of law sit?"

v. collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room"

v. harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie"

v. ask to come; "summon a lawyer"

v. give off (water) through the skin

v. separate or cause to separate abruptly; "The rope snapped"; "tear the paper"

v. ruin completely; "He busted my radio!"

v. part

v. go or travel along with; "The nurse accompanied the old lady everywhere"

v. move ahead (of others) in time or space

v. show (someone) to their seats, as in theaters or auditoriums; "The usher showed us to our seats"

v. teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports; "He is training our Olympic team"; "She is coaching the crew"

v. make understand; "Can you enlighten me--I don't understand this proposal"

v. accompany as an escort; "She asked her older brother to escort her to the ball"

v. cause to go somewhere; "The explosion sent the car flying in the air"; "She sent her children to camp"; "He directed all his energies into his dissertation"

v. send via a specific route

v. send away towards a designated goal

v. take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of; "Catch the ball!"; "Grab the elevator door!"

v. hold firmly

v. move towards; "We were approaching our destination"; "They are drawing near"; "The enemy army came nearer and nearer"

v. be struck or affected by; "catch fire"; "catch the mood"

v. travel or be transported in a vehicle; "We drove to the university every morning"; "They motored to London for the theater"

v. move heavily or clumsily; "The heavy man lumbered across the room"

v. free (the throat) by making a rasping sound; "Clear the throat"

v. grant authorization or clearance for; "Clear the manuscript for publication"; "The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography"

v. use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"

v. flow, run or fall out and become lost; "The milk spilled across the floor"; "The wine spilled onto the table"

v. cut a female screw thread with a tap

v. draw from or dip into to get something; "tap one's memory"; "tap a source of money"

v. advance or converge on; "The police were closing in on him"

v. be close or similar; "Her results approximate my own"

v. reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress; "She arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight"

v. express greetings upon meeting someone

v. move or draw together at a certain location; "The crowd converged on the movie star"

v. move with a low humming noise

v. be struck or affected by; "catch fire"; "catch the mood"

v. travel past; "The sports car passed all the trucks"

v. grant credentials to; "The Regents officially recognized the new educational institution"; "recognize an academic degree"

v. support a person for a position; "The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense"

v. approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation; "All parties ratified the peace treaty"; "Have you signed your contract yet?"

v. be behind; approve of; "He plumped for the Labor Party"; "I backed Kennedy in 1960"

v. protect by insurance; "The insurance won't cover this"

v. render capable or able for some task; "This skill will enable you to find a job on Wall Street"; "The rope enables you to secure yourself when you climb the mountain"

v. give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to; "I cannot accept your invitation"; "I go for this resolution"

v. assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to; "He was appointed deputy manager"; "She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance"

v. give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)

v. confer a trust upon; "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"

v. make fit or prepared; "Your education qualifies you for this job"

v. cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"

v. make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation; "They passed the amendment"; "We cannot legislate how people's spend their free time"

v. establish the authenticity of something

v. stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of; "The dealer warrants all the cars he sells"; "I warrant this information"

v. free (the throat) by making a rasping sound; "Clear the throat"

v. go unchallenged; be approved; "The bill cleared the House"

v. use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"

v. flow, run or fall out and become lost; "The milk spilled across the floor"; "The wine spilled onto the table"

v. cut a female screw thread with a tap

v. draw from or dip into to get something; "tap one's memory"; "tap a source of money"

v. pass by; "three years elapsed"

v. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"

v. pass by; "three years elapsed"

v. range or extend over; occupy a certain area; "The plants straddle the entire state"

v. include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory; "This group encompasses a wide range of people from different backgrounds"; "this should cover everyone in the group"

v. spread across or over; "A big oil spot spread across the water"

v. move ahead; travel onward in time or space; "We proceeded towards Washington"; "She continued in the direction of the hills"; "We are moving ahead in time now"

v. become longer by being stretched and pulled; "The fabric stretches"

v. move forward or upward in order to touch; also in a metaphorical sense; "Government reaches out to the people"

v. extend in scope or range or area; "The law was extended to all citizens"; "widen the range of applications"; "broaden your horizon"; "Extend your backyard"

v. look down on; "The villa dominates the town"

v. have sovereign power; "Henry VIII reigned for a long time"

v. exercise authority over; as of nations; "Who is governing the country now?"

adj. appropriate to; "behavior befitting a father"

adj. of an appropriate or pertinent nature

adj. according with custom or propriety; "her becoming modesty"; "comely behavior"; "it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money"; "a decent burial"; "seemly behavior"

adj. characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct; "the tete-a-tete was decorous in the extreme"

adj. having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified; "good news from the hospital"; "a good report card"; "when she was good she was very very good"; "a good knife is one good for cutting"; "this stump will make a good picnic table"; "a good check"; "a good joke"; "a good exterior paint"; "a good secretary"; "a good dress for the office"

v. move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody; "He came singing down the road"; "Come with me to the Casbah"; "come down here!"; "come out of the closet!"; "come into the room"

v. be similar, be in line with

v. rub with a circular motion; "wipe the blackboard"; "He passed his hands over the soft cloth"

v. cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news"

v. bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible"

v. pass by, over, or under without making contact; "the balloon cleared the tree tops"

v. to extend as far as; "The sunlight reached the wall"; "Can he reach?" "The chair must not touch the wall"

v. be in line with; form a line along; "trees line the riverbank"

adj. acceptable to your conscience

adj. given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts; "retributive justice"

adj. legally valid; "a rightful inheritance"

n. failure to reach a minimum required performance; "his failing the course led to his disqualification"; "he got two flunks on his report"

v. stay the same; remain in a certain state; "The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "rest assured"; "stay alone"; "He remained unmoved by her tears"; "The bad weather continued for another week"

v. judge unacceptable; "The teacher failed six students"

v. extend in a different direction; "The lines start to diverge here"; "Their interests diverged"

v. have no limits as a mathematical series

v. stay the same; remain in a certain state; "The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "rest assured"; "stay alone"; "He remained unmoved by her tears"; "The bad weather continued for another week"

v. fail to get a passing grade; "She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?"

v. command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"

v. declare invalid; "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea"

v. prevent from doing something or being in a certain state; "We must prevent the cancer from spreading"; "His snoring kept me from falling asleep"; "Keep the child from eating the marbles"

v. prevent from entering; keep out; "He was barred from membership in the club"

v. cast off or disown; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son"

v. pull back or move away or backward; "The enemy withdrew"; "The limo pulled away from the curb"

v. move or seem to move quickly, lightly, or irregularly; "The spotlights played on the politicians"

v. pull back or move away or backward; "The enemy withdrew"; "The limo pulled away from the curb"

adj. lacking in value or merit; "dispel a student whose conduct is deemed unworthy"; "unworthy of forgiveness"