verb
Meaning 1
To go forward.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: proceed
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
pass on
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verb
Meaning 2
To convey or communicate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- Can you pass on the information next time you see him?
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To transfer (something) to someone, especially by handing or bequeathing it to the next person in a series.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To skip or decline.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- I'll pass on dessert, thanks.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To die.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: euphemistic, idiomatic, intransitive
Examples
- His uncle passed on last year.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: assume room temperature, auger in, be called home, be gathered to one's fathers, be like the the One, be no more, be with Jesus, be with the Lord, bite the big one, bite the biscuit, bite the dust, buy the farm, buy it, cark it, cash in, cash in one's chips, check out, close one's eyes for the last time, code, conk out, croak, cross over, cross the Great Divide, cross the Styx, darken, decease, decompose, dematerialize, depart, disincarnate, draw one's last breath, drop off the hooks, exit, expire, fall off the twig, flatline, forfare, give one's all, give up the ghost, go for a burton, go out, go over to the majority, go the way of all flesh, go the way of the dinosaurs, go the way of the dodo, go the way of the dodo bird, go to glory, go to one's reward, go west, hand in one's checks, hand in one's dinner pail, hop the twig, join the choir invisible, keel over, kick the bucket, kick off, knock off, liquidate, lose the number of one's mess, meet one's doom, meet one's end, meet one's maker, pass, pass away, pass in one's checks, pass in one's marble, pass on, pass over, pass the river, pay nature's debt, pay the debt of nature, peg out, perish, pop off, pop one's clogs, push up daisies, shuffle off this mortal coil, sink, sleep with one's fathers, slip away, snuff it, succumb, take a dirt nap, turn up one's toes, yield up the ghost
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
transmit information
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Please communicate this message to all employees
- pass along the good news
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: communicate, pass, pass along, put across
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: convey, transmit, communicate
Narrower terms: plant, implant, send a message, relay, get across, put over, request, bespeak, call for, quest, acknowledge, receipt, carry, render, deliver, return, message
verb
Meaning 7
move forward, also in the metaphorical sense
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Time marches on
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: advance, progress, move on, march on, go on
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: travel, go, move, locomote
Narrower terms: forge, penetrate, creep up, sneak up, encroach, infringe, impinge, press on, push on, plough on, string, string along, pass, overtake, overhaul, close in, draw in, edge, inch, ratchet, rachet up, ratchet down, elapse, lapse, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go along
verb
Meaning 8
cause be distributed
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- This letter is being circulated among the faculty
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: circulate, pass around, distribute
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: move, displace
Narrower terms: send around, utter, spread, scatter, spread out
verb
Meaning 9
give to or transfer possession of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- She passed the family jewels on to her daughter-in-law
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bequeath, will, leave
Narrower terms: propagate, hand down
verb
Meaning 10
place into the hands or custody of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- hand me the spoon, please
- Turn the files over to me, please
- He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pass, hand, reach, turn over, give
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: transfer
Narrower terms: give, slip, sneak, deal, hand over, fork over, fork out, fork up, turn in, deliver, render, release, relinquish, resign, free, give up, entrust, intrust, trust, confide, commit, leave
verb
Meaning 11
transmit (knowledge or skills)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- give a secret to the Russians
- leave your name and address here
- impart a new skill to the students
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: impart, leave, give
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: tell
Narrower terms: convey
verb
Meaning 12
refer to another person for decision or judgment
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: relegate, submit
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: submit, subject
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
26 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: предавам (predavam) — to convey or communicate
- Chinese Mandarin: 傳達 /传达 (chuándá) — to convey or communicate
- Dutch: doorgeven — to convey or communicate
- Dutch: doorvertellen — to convey or communicate
- Estonian: edasi andma — to convey or communicate
- French: transmettre — to convey or communicate
- French: faire passer — to convey or communicate
- German: weitergeben — to convey or communicate
- German: übertragen — to convey or communicate
- Irish: iompair — to convey or communicate
- Japanese: 伝える (tsutaeru) — to convey or communicate
- Māori: whakahoro — to convey or communicate
- Māori: tuku — to convey or communicate
- Russian: передава́ть (peredavátʹ) — to convey or communicate
- Russian: переда́ть (peredátʹ) — to convey or communicate
- Spanish: pasar — to convey or communicate
- Danish: give videre — to transfer or bequeath to the next person in a series
- Greek: κληροδοτώ (klirodotó) — to transfer or bequeath to the next person in a series
- Māori: whakahoro — to transfer or bequeath to the next person in a series
- Māori: whakaheke — to transfer or bequeath to the next person in a series
- Greek: αρνούμαι (arnoúmai) — to skip or decline
- Greek: αποποιούμαι (apopoioúmai) — to skip or decline
- Russian: пропуска́ть (propuskátʹ) — to skip or decline
- Russian: пропусти́ть (propustítʹ) — to skip or decline
- Russian: отказа́ться (otkazátʹsja) — to skip or decline
- Swedish: stå över — to skip or decline