English-Thai Dictionary
Passover
N วันหยุด เพื่อ ระลึกถึง การอพยพ ของ ชาว ยิว จาก อียิปต์ wan-yud-puea-ra-ruek-tuang-kan-aob-pa-yob-kong-chow-e-yib
pass
N การผ่า น การผ่าน ไป การ เดินผ่าน การ พ้นไป entrance kan-pan
pass
N การ ล่วงเกิน (ทางเพศ การฉวยโอกาส การ ล่วงละเมิด kan-luang-koen
pass
N การ สละสิทธิ์ kan-sa-la-sid
pass
N การ สอบผ่าน kan-sob-pan
pass
N การโยน การ เหวี่ยง การ สะบัด kan-yon
pass
N ช่องเขา ช่องแคบ ช่องทาง route chong-kao
pass
N ใบอนุญาต บัตร ผ่าน บัตรผ่านทาง หนังสือเดินทาง admittance bai-ar0nu-yad
pass
VI ตาย เสียชีวิต สิ้นชีวิต ถึงแก่กรรม die depart be born live survive tai
pass
VI สิ้นสุด หมดเวลา ยุติ ผ่าน ไป จบสิ้น sin-sud
pass
VI อนุมัติ อนุญาต ยอมรับ ar-nu-mad
pass
VI เปลี่ยน จาก เปลี่ยนแปลง จาก plian-jak
pass
VT กลายเป็น เปลี่ยนเป็น klai-pen
pass
VT ตัดสิน พิพากษา tad-sin
pass
VT ถ่ายทอด บอกต่อ อธิบาย tai-tod
pass
VT ผ่าน ไป ผ่าน เดินผ่าน พ้นไป pan-pai
pass
VT พูด กล่าว ออกเสียง พูดจา communicate phud
pass
VT สอบผ่าน สอบไล่ ได้ achieve accomplish fail funk sob-pan
pass
VT ส่งต่อ ไป ส่งผ่าน ,ยื่น ให้ ส่ง ให้ carry song-tor-pai
pass
VT ใช้เวลา spend devote chai-we-la
pass along
PHRV บอกข่าว ต่อกัน ไป บอกต่อ กัน ไป ทีละ คน hand on pass down bok-kao-tor-kan-pai
pass around
PHRV ส่ง เวียน ไป รอบๆ hand round song-wian-pai-rob-rob
pass as
IDM ได้รับ การ ยอมรับ ว่า เป็น (บางคน หรือ บางสิ่ง dai-rab-kan-yom-rub-wa-pen
pass away
PHRV หาย ไป เลิก ยุติ go away go off hai-jai
pass away
PHRV เสีย จากไป (ตาย ,เสียชีวิต conk out kick off pass on sia
pass away
PHRV ใช้ (เวลาเย็น chai
pass back
PHRV ส่ง (ข้อมูล กลับ ไป song-kab-pai
pass back
PHRV ส่งกลับ ส่งคืน song-kab
pass back
PHRV ส่ง ลูกบอล กลับ pass forward song-luk-bon-kab
pass between
PHRV คุย กัน สอง คน kui-kan-song-kon
pass by
PHRV(เวลา ผ่าน ไป fly by go by go on pan-pai
pass by
PHRV มองข้าม ไม่สน ใจ ไม่แยแส pass over mong-kam
pass by
PHRV รู้จัก กัน ในนามของ go by ru-jak-kan-nai-nam-kong
pass by
PHRV เดินผ่าน เคลื่อน ผ่าน doen-pan
pass down
PHRV ชิด ใน ขยับ เข้า ด้านใน (รถเมล์ หรือ รถยนต์ move down chid-nai
pass down
PHRV ชิด ใน เคลื่อน เข้า ด้านใน move down pass along chid-nai
pass down
PHRV ตกทอด มา ยัง สืบทอด มา ยัง hand down tok-tod-ma-yang
pass down
PHRV ยื่น (มือ )ส่ง ลงมา หรือ ลง ไป hand down hand up yuen-song-long-ma-rue-long-pai
pass down
PHRV ส่งข่าว ต่อ (คนต่อคน ส่งต่อ ไป ทีละ คน song-kao-tor
pass down
PHRV ส่งข่าว หรือ บอกต่อ กัน ไป ทีละ คน song-kao-rue-bok-tor-kan-pai-te-la-kon
pass for
PHRV สอบผ่าน sob-pan
pass forward
PHRV ส่ง ไป ข้างหน้า song-pai-kang-na
pass from
PHRV ออกจาก ละทิ้ง ook-jak
pass from
PHRV เปลี่ยน จาก pass into pian-jak
pass go
SL ทำงาน ยาก ได้ ลุล่วง tam-nang-yak-dai-lu-luang
pass in
PHRV ทำให้ เข้ามา ทำให้ ผ่าน เข้าไป tam-hai-kao-ma
pass in
PHRV น่าพึงพอใจ น่าเอ็นดู น่าสนใจ na-puang-por-jai
pass in
PHRV ส่งต่อ กัน ไป ทีละ คน (ให้ กับ ผู้ มี หน้าที่ หรือ ผู้ ที่ ต้อง ได้รับ give in give into song-tor-kan-pai-te-la-kon
pass into
PHRV กลายเป็น ส่วนหนึ่ง ของ klai-pen-suan-nuang-kong
pass into
PHRV ค่อยๆ เปลี่ยนเป็น (บางสิ่ง ทีละน้อย pass from koi-koi-pian-pen
pass into
PHRV สอบ เข้า สอบผ่าน sob-kao
pass into
PHRV เข้าสู่ สภาพ หรือ สภาวะ get into kao-su-sa-pab-rue-sa-pa-wa
pass into
PHRV เข้าไป ใน เข้ามา ใน เข้า kao-pai-nai
pass judgment / an opinion
IDM เสนอ ความคิดเห็น เกี่ยวกับ sa-nor-kwam-kid-hen-kiao-kab
pass muster
IDM เข้าเกณ ฑ์ มาตรฐาน ได้มาตรฐาน kao-ken-mad-ta-tan
pass off
PHRV ดึง ความสนใจ ไป จาก dung-kwam-son-jai-pai-jak
pass off
PHRV สิ้นสุด ยุติ เลิก go away go off sin-sud
pass off
PHRV หลอก ให้ ยอมรับ palm off lok-hai-yom-rab
pass off
PHRV เกิดขึ้น (อย่าง ประสบความสำเร็จ bring off carry off koed-kuan
pass off as
PHRV ประสบความสำเร็จ ใน การ แสร้ง เป็น palm off as pra-sob-kwam-sam-red-nai-kan-sang-pen
pass on
PHRV จากไป ตาย เสียชีวิต pass away jak-pai
pass on
PHRV ดำเนินต่อไป move on dam-noen-tor-pai
pass on
PHRV ตกทอด ไป สู่ สืบทอด จาก .ไป สู่ tok-tod-pai-su
pass on
PHRV ส่งต่อ หรือ บอกต่อ กัน ไป pass along pass down song-tor-rue-bok-tor-kan-pai
pass on
PHRV เดิน ต่อไป เคลื่อน ต่อไป doen-tor-pai
pass on
PHRV ให้ ประโยชน์ กับ hai-pra-yod-kab
pass out
PHRV สอบผ่าน sob-pan
pass out
PHRV หมดสติ ไม่รู้สึกตัว black out mod-sa-ti
pass out
PHRV แจกจ่าย แจก dish out give out jak-jai
pass out of
PHRV ละทิ้ง ออก ไป จาก la-ting
pass over
PHRV ข้าม ผ่าน fly over kam
pass over
PHRV ตาย เสียชีวิต จากไป pass away tai
pass over
PHRV บิน ผ่าน เคลื่อน ผ่าน (เหนือศีรษะ bin-pan
pass over
PHRV มองผ่าน มอง ลวกๆ cast over mong-pan
pass over
PHRV อ่าน อย่างเร็ว จัดการ อย่างเร็ว an-yang-reo
pass over
PHRV ไม่สน ใจ ไม่ เอ่ยถึง ไม่แยแส pass by pass up mai-son-jai
pass over
PHRV ไม่ได้ รับ เลือก mai-dai-rub-lueak
pass round the hat
IDM รวบรวม เงิน (เพื่อ ช่วยเหลือ take round rub-rum-ngen
pass sentence on
IDM ตัดสิน ลงโทษ pronounce on tad-sin-long-tod
pass the buck
IDM ตำหนิ หรือ โทษ คนอื่น ปัด ความรับผิดชอบ ให้ ผู้อื่น tam-ni-rue-tod-kon-uen
pass the hat round
IDM ขอ บริจาค รวบรวม เงิน หาเงิน kor-bo-ri-jak
pass the time
IDM ฆ่าเวลา ด้วย การ ทำ บางสิ่ง ka-we-la-duai-kan-tam-bang-sing
pass the time of day (with)
IDM พูดคุย หรือ สนทนา อย่าง ไม่เป็นทางการ phud-kuai-rue-son-ta-na-yang-mai-pen-tang-kan
pass through
PHRV ทำให้ เคลื่อน ผ่าน tam-hai-kluan-pan
pass through
PHRV ประสบ กับ ทุกข์ทรมาน กับ ยุ่งยากับ go through pra-sob-kab
pass through
PHRV เดิน ทางผ่าน doen-tang-pan
pass through
PHRV เรียน ครบ หลักสูตร (เช่น มหาวิทยาลัย rian-krob-lak-sud
pass under
PHRV รู้จัก กัน ในนามของ go by ru-jak-kan-nai-nam-kong
pass under
PHRV เดิน ทางผ่าน ใต้ เคลื่อน ผ่าน ใต้ doen-tang-pan-tai
pass up
PHRV ผ่าน ไป (เพราะ จำ ไม่ได้ pan-pai
pass up
PHRV พลาดโอกาส pass over plad-o-kad
pass up
PHRV ลอย สูง ขึ้น สูง ขึ้น loi-sung-kuan
pass up
PHRV ส่ง ขึ้นไป hand down hand up song-kuan-pai
passable
A หมุนเวียน ได้ ผ่าน ได้
passably
ADV โดยประมา ณ
passado
N การ ทิ่ม ดาบ ไป ข้างหน้า โดย สืบ เท้า ไป ข้างหน้า ก้าว หนึ่ง
passage
N การ เดินทาง ทางน้ำ kan-doen-tang-tang-nam
passage
N การ แลกเปลี่ยน ติดต่อ ระหว่าง บุคคล communication kan-leak-plin-tid-tor-ra-wang-buk-kon
passage
N ความเจริญก้าวหน้า progression regression kwam-ja-roen-kao-na
passage
N ค่าโดยสาร เรือ fare ka-doi-san-ruea
passage
N ตอน ส่วน (บทความ ข้อความ บทความ ท่อน (เพลง ton
passage
N ทางผ่าน ทางเดิน tang-pan
passage
N สิทธิ การผ่า น passport permission sid-kan-sob
passage
VI ผ่าน cross pass pan
passage
VT ผ่าน passing transference transmission pan
passageway
N ทางผ่าน เฉลียง access corridor hall passage tang-pan
passant
A ซึ่ง กำลัง เดิน และ ยก อุ้งเท้า หน้า ขึ้น
passbook
N สมุด ฝาก และ ถอนเงิน ของ ธนาคาร bankbook account book sa-mud-fak-lea-ton-ngen-kong-ta-na-ka
passe
ADJ ล้าสมัย หมดสมัย พ้นสมัย old ancient la-sa-mai
passed
ADJ ผ่านพ้น complete pan-pon
passed
ADJ สอบไล่ ได้ สอบผ่าน complete failed sob-lai-dai
passementerie
N การ ตัด หรือ เล็ม ผม
passenger
N ผู้โดยสาร ผู้เดินทาง คนโดยสาร rider traveller phu-doi-san
passepartout
N วิธีการ ทำ กรอบรูป ติด กระจก กุญแจผี ใบ ผ่าน
passer
N ผู้ ผ่าน ผู้ทำ ให้ ผ่าน คน เดินผ่าน passer-by phu-pan
passer-by
N คน เดินผ่าน คน เดิน ไปมา bystander onlooker kon-doen-pan
passerby
N คน ผ่าน ไปมา คน เดินผ่าน kon-pan-pai-ma
passerine
A เกี่ยวกับ นก ทั้งหลาย ที่ สามารถ เกาะ กิาง ไม้ ได้
passible
A มีความรู้สึก ได้ ประทับใจ
passim
ADV ที่นี่ และ ที่โน่น
passing
ADJ ผ่านพ้น ไป อย่างรวดเร็ว ชั่วแล่น brief fleeting pan-pon-yang-rued-reo
passing
ADJ ผ่าน ไป ล่วง พ้น past pan-pai
passion
N กิเลส ตัณ หา ราคะ emotion feeling apathy ki-red
passion
N ความหลง ใหล ความชอบ emotion feeling kwam-long-lai
passion
N ความโกรธ ความไม่พอใจ ความโมโห anger kwam-koed
passional
A เกี่ยวกับ กิเลส ตัณ หา
passionate
ADJ กระตือรือร้น keen eager calm cool kra-tue-rue-ron
passionate
ADJ ตัณ หาจัด เร่าร้อน ซึ่ง มี ความต้องการ ทางเพศ ardent tan-ha-jad
passionate
ADJ รุนแรง (อารมณ์ burning excited fervent glowing calm cool run-rang
passionate
ADJ ลึกซึ้ง ซาบซึ้ง ดูดดื่ม excited impassioned calm cool luek-sueng
passionless
ADJ ไร้อารมณ์ เยือกเย็น ไม่กระตือรือร้น rai-ar-rom
passive
ADJ ซึ่ง ไม่มี ปฏิกิริยา ไม่ โต้แย้ง sueng-mai-me-pa-ta-kri-ri-ya
passive
ADJ อยู่ เฉยๆ เรื่อยๆ ไม่ ดิ้นรน inactive active yu-choi-choi
passively
ADV อย่างเฉื่อยๆ อย่าง ไม่มี ปฏิกิริยา โต้ตอบ indifferently quietly yang-chui
passivism
N ความ ไม่ รุนแรง ความ นิ่งเฉย
passkey
N กุญแจ ประตูหน้าบ้าน latchkey kun-jea-pra-tu-na-ban
passkey
N กุญแจผี กุญแจ ที่ ไข ประตู ได้ หลาย บาน master key kun-jea-pe
passover
N เทศกาล เฉลิมฉลอง ของ ยิว ที่ เริ่ม ตั้งแต่ วันที่ 14 ของ Nisan
passport
N สิ่ง ได้รับ การ ยอมรับ หนทาง siang-dai-rab-kan-yom-rab
passport
N หนังสือเดินทาง ใบ ผ่าน ทาง indentification visa travel permit authorization ngan-sue-doen-tang
passus
N นิทาน ส่วน ของ กวีนิพนธ์
password
N รหัสผ่าน countersign signal watchword ra-had-pan
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
PASS
v.i.[Eng. pat, and as a noun, a pass, a defile, an ambling, pace; passen, to be fit, to suit; L. patior, whence passion, to suffer, and peto, competo, in the sense of fit; Gr. to walk or step, to suffer; The word pass coincides with L. passus, a step, and this is from pando, L. passus, a step, and this is from pando, to extend; n being casual, the original word was pado.] 1. To move, in almost any manner; to go; to proceed from one place to another. A man may pass on foot, on horseback or in a carriage; a bird and a meteor pass through the air; a ship passes on or through the water; light passes from the sun to the planets; it passes from the sun to the earth in about eight minutes.
2. To move from one state to another; to alter or change, or to be changed in condition; as, to pass from health to sickness; to pass from just to unjust.
3. To vanish; to disappear; to be lost. In this sense, we usually say, to pass away.
Beauty is a charm, but soon the charm will pass.
4. To be spent; to go on or away progressively.
The time when the thing existed, is the idea of that space of duration which passed between some fixed period and the being of that thing.
5. To die; to depart from life. [Little used. ]
6. To be in any state; to undergo; with under; as, to pass under the rod.
7. To be enacted; to receive the sanction of a legislative house or body by a majority of votes.
Neither of these bills has yet passed the house of commons.
8. To be current; to gain reception or to be generally received. Bank bills pass as a substitute for coin.
False eloquence passeth only where true is not understood.
9. To be regarded; to be received in opinion or estimation.
This will not pass for a fault in him, till it is proved to be one in us.
1 . To occur; to be present; to take place; as, to notice what passes in the mind.
11. To be done.
Provided no indirect act pass upon our prayers to defile them.
12. To determine; to give judgment or sentence.
Though well we may not pass upon his life.
13. To thrust; to make a push in fencing or fighting.
14. To omit; to suffer to go unheeded or neglected. We saw the act, but let it pass.
15. To move through any duct or opening; as, substances in the stomach that will not pass, not be converted into ailment.
16. To percolate; to be secreted; as juices that pass from the glands into the mouth.
17. To be in a tolerable state.
A middling sort of man was left well enough by his father to pass, but he could never think he had enough, so long as any had more.
18. To be transferred from one owner to another. The land article passed by livery and seizin.
19. To go beyond bounds. For this we generally use surpass.
2 . To run or extend; as a line or other thing. The north limit of Massachusetts passes three miles north of the Merrimac.
To come to pass, to happen; to arrive; to come; to be; to exist; a phrase much used in the Scriptures.
To pass away, to move from sight; to vanish.
1. To be spent; to be lost.
A good part of their lives passes away without thinking.
To pass by, to move near and beyond. He passed by as we stood in the road.
To pass on, to proceed.
To pass over, to go or move from side to side; to cross; as, to pass over to the other side.
To pass into, to unite and blend, as two substances or colors, in such a manner that it is impossible to tell where one ends and the other begins.
PASS
v.t.To go beyond. The sun has passed the age of frivolousness. 1. To go through or over; as, to pass a river.
2. To spend; to live through; as, to pass time; to pass the night in revelry, and the day in sleep.
3. To cause to move; to send; as, to pass the bottle from one guest to another; to pass a pauper from one town to another; to pass a rope round a yard; to pass the blood from the right to the left ventricle of the heart.
4. To cause to move hastily.
I had only time to pass my eye over the medals, which are in great number.
5. To transfer from one owner to another; to sell or assign; as, to pass land from A to B by deed; to pass a note or bill.
6. To strain; to cause to percolate; as, to pass wine through a filter.
7. To utter; to pronounce; as, to pass compliments; to pass sentence or judgment; to pass censure on another's works.
8. To procure or cause to go.
Waller passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge.
9. To put an end to.
This night
We'll pass the business privately and well.
1 . To omit; to neglect either to do or to mention.
I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array.
11. To transcend; to transgress or go beyond; as, to pass the bounds of moderation.
12. To admit; to allow; to approve and receive as valid or just; as, to pass an account at the war-office.
13. To approve or sanction by a constitutional or legal majority of votes; as, the house of representatives passed the bill. Hence,
14. To enact; to carry through all the forms necessary to give validity; as, the legislature passed the bill into a law.
15. To impose fraudulently; as, she passed the child on her husband for a boy.
16. To practice artfully; to cause to succeed; as, to pass a trick on one.
17. To surpass; to excel; to exceed.
18. To thrust; to make a push in fencing.
To see thee fight, to see thee pass thy puncto.
To pass away, to spend; to waste; as, to pass away the flower of like in idleness.
To pass by, to pass near and beyond.
1. To overlook; to excuse; to forgive; not to censure or punish; as, to pass by a crime or fault.
2. To neglect; to disregard.
Certain passages of Scripture we cannot pass by without injury to truth.
To pass over, to move from side to side; to cross; as, to pass over a river or mountain.
1. To omit; to overlook or disregard. He passed over one charge without a reply.
PASS
n.A narrow passage, entrance or avenue; a narrow or difficult place of entrance and exit; as a pass between mountains. 1. A passage; a road.
2. Permission to pass, to go or to come; a license to pass; a passport.
A gentleman had a pass to go beyond the seas.
A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy.
3. An order for sending vagrants or impotent persons to their place of abode.
4. In fencing and fighting, a thrust; a push; attempt to stab or strike; as, to make a pass at an antagonist.
5. State; condition or extreme case; extremity.
To what a pass are our minds brought.
Matters have been brought to this pass--
PASS-PAROLE
n.[pass and parole. ] In military affairs, a command given at the head of an army and communicated by word of mouth to the rear.
PASSABLE
a.That may be passed, traveled or navigated. The roads are not passable. The stream is passable in boats. 1. That may be penetrated; as a substance passable by a fluid.
2. Current; receivable; that may be or is transferred from hand to hand; as bills passable in lieu of coin. False coin is not passable.
3. Popular; well received.
4. Supportable. [This should be passible. ]
PASSABLY
adv. Tolerably. [See Passibly.]
PASSADE, PASSADO
n.A push or thrust.
PASSADE
n.In the menage, a turn or course of a horse backwards or forwards on the same spot of ground.
PASSAGE
n. 1. The act of passing or moving by land or water, or through the air or other substance; as the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a fowl; the passage of light or a meteor; the passage of fluids through the pores of the body, or from the glands. Clouds intercept the passage of solar rays.
2. The time of passing from one place to another. What passage had you? We had a passage of twenty five days to Havre de Grace, and of thirty eight days from England.
3. Road; way; avenue; a place where men or things may pass or be conveyed.
And with his pointed dart,
Explores the nearest passage to this heart.
4. Entrance or exit.
What! are my doors opposed against my passage?
5. Right of passing; as, to engage a passage on board a ship bound to India.
6. Occurrence; event; incident; that which happens; as a remarkable passage in the life of Newton. [See the Spanish verb, supra. This sense is obsolescent. ]
7. A passing away; decay. [Little used. ]
8. Intellectual admittance; mental reception.
Among whom I expect this treatise will have a fairer passage than among those deeply imbued with other principles.
9. Manner of being conducted; management.
On consideration of the conduct and passage of affairs in former times--
1 . Part of a book or writing; a single clause, place or part of indefinite extent.
How commentators each dark passage shun.
11. Enactment; the act of carrying through all the regular forms necessary to give validity; as the passage of a law, or of a bill into a law, by a legislative body.
Bird of passage, a fowl that passes at certain seasons from one climate to another, as in autumn to the south to avoid the winter's cold, and in spring to the north for breeding. Hence the phrase is sometimes applied to a man who has no fixed residence.
PASSAGER
n.A traveler or voyager; one who passes or journeys on foot, in a vehicle, or in a ship or boat. This word is usually written corruptly passenger, and the first vowel is often short.
PASSED, PAST
pp. Gone by; done; accomplished; ended. 1. Enacted; having received all the formalities necessary to constitute a law.
PASSENGER
n.One who is traveling, as in a public coach, or in a ship, or on foot. This is the usual, though corrupt orthography. Passenger falcon, a kind of migratory hawk.
PASSER
n.One that passes; a passenger.
PASSERINE
a.[L. passer, a sparrow. ] Pertaining to sparrows, or to the order of birds to which sparrows belong, the Passeres.
PASSIBILITY
n.The quality or capacity of receiving impressions from external agents; aptness to feel or suffer.
PASSIBLE
a.Susceptible of feeling or of impressions from external agents. Apollinarius held even Deity to be passible.
PASSIBLENESS
the same as passibility.
PASSING
ppr. Moving; proceeding. 1. a. Exceeding; surpassing; eminent.
2. Adverbially used to enforce or enhance the meaning of another word; exceedingly; as passing fair; passing strange.
PASSING-BELL
n.The bell that rings at the hour of death to obtain prayers for the passing soul. It is also used for the bell that rings immediately after death.
PASSINGLY
adv. Exceedingly.
PASSING-NOTE
n.In music, a note introduced between two others for the purpose of softening a distance or melodizing a passage.
PASSION
n.[L. passio, from patior, to suffer. ] 1. The impression or effect of an external agent upon a body; that which is suffered or received.
A body at rest affords us no idea of any active power to move, and when set in motion, it is rather a passion than an action in it.
2. Susceptibility of impressions from external agents.
The differences of moldable and not moldable, etc. , and many other passions of matter, are plebeian notions. [Little used. ]
3. Suffering; emphatically, the last suffering of the Savior.
To whom also he showed himself alive after his passion, by many infallible proofs. Acts 1:3.
4. The feeling of the mind, or the sensible effect of impression; excitement, perturbation or agitation of mind; as desire, fear, hope, joy, grief, love, hatred. The eloquence of the orator is employed to move the passions.
5. Violent agitation or excitement of mind, particularly such as is occasioned by an offense, injury or insult; hence, violent anger.
6. Zeal; ardor; vehement desire.
When statesmen are ruled by faction and interest, they can have no passion for the glory of their country.
7. Love.
He owned his passion for Amestris.
8. Eager desire; as a violent passion for fine clothes.
PASSION
v.i.To be extremely agitated. [Not used. ]
PASSION-FLOWER
n.A flower and plant of the genus Passiflora.
PASSION-WEEK
n.The week immediately preceding the festival of Easter; so called because in that week our Savior's passion and death took place.
PASSIONARY
n.A book in which are described the sufferings of saints and martyrs.
PASSIONATE
a. 1. Easily moved to anger; easily excited or agitated by injury or insult; applied to persons.
Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate.
2. Highly excited; vehement; warm; applied to things; as passionate affection; passionate desire; passionate concern.
3. Expressing strong emotion; animated; as passionate eloquence.
PASSIONATE
v.t.To affect with passion; to express passionately. [Not used. ]
PASSIONATELY
adv. With passion; with strong feeling; ardently; vehemently; as, to covet any thing passionately; to be passionately fond. 1. Angrily; with vehement resentment; as, to speak passionately.
PASSIONATENESS
n.State of being subject to passion or anger. 1. Vehemence of mind.
PASSIONED
a.Disordered; violently affected. 1. Expressing passion.
PASSIONLESS
a.Not easily excited to anger; of a calm temper. 1. Void of passion.
PASSIVE
a.[L. passivus, from passus, patior, to suffer. ] 1. Suffering; not acting, receiving or capable of receiving impressions from external agents. We were passive spectators, not actors in the scene.
The mind is wholly passive in the reception of all its simple ideas.
God is not in any respect passive.
2. Unresisting; not opposing; receiving or suffering without resistance; as passive obedience; passive submission to the laws.
Passive verb, in grammar, is a verb which expresses passion, or the effect of an action of some agent; as in L. doceor, I am taught; in English, she is loved and admired by her friends; he is assailed by slander.
Passive obedience, as used by writers on government, denotes not only quiet unresting submission to power, but implies the denial of the right of resistance, or the recognition of the duty to submit in all cases to the existing government.
Passive prayer, among mystic divines, is suspension of the activity of the soul or intellectual faculties, the soul remaining quiet and yielding only to the impulses of grace.
Passive commerce, trade in which the productions of a country are carried by foreigners in their own bottoms. [See Active commerce. ]
PASSIVELY
adv. With a passive nature or temper; with a temper disposed to submit to the acts of external agents, without resistance. 1. Without agency.
2. According to the form of the passive verb.
PASSIVENESS
n.Quality of receiving impressions from external agents or causes; as the passiveness of matter. 1. Passibility; capacity of suffering.
We shall lose our passiveness with our being.
2. Patience; calmness; unresisting submission.
PASSIVITY
n.Passiveness, which see. [Little used. ] 1. The tendency of a body to persevere in a given state, either of motion or rest, till disturbed by another body.
PASSLESS
a.Having no passage.
PASSOVER
n.[pass and over. ] A feast of the Jews, instituted to commemorate the providential escape of the Hebrews, in Egypt, when God smiting the first-born of the Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites, which were marked with the blood of the paschal lamb. 1. The sacrifice offered at the feast of the passover.
PASSPORT
n. 1. A written license from a king or other proper authority, granting permission or safe conduct for one to pass through his territories, or to pass from one country to another, or to navigate a particular sea without hindrance or molestation.
2. A license for importing or exporting contraband goods or movables without paying the usual duties.
3. That which enables one to pass with safety or certainty.
His passport is his innocence and grace.
PASSY-MEASURE
n.An old stately kind of dance; a cinque-pace.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
PASS
Pass, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Passed; p. pr. & vb. n. Passing. ] Etym: [F.passer, LL. passare, fr. L. passus step, or from pandere, passum, to spread out, lay open. See Pace. ]
1. 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. "But now pass over [i.e., pass on ]." Chaucer. On high behests his angels to and fro Passed frequent. Milton. Sweet sounds rose slowly through their mouths, And from their bodies passed. Coleridge.
2. 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. Others, dissatisfied with what they have, ... pass from just to unjust. Sir W. Temple.
3. 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. Disturb him not, let him pass paceably. Shak. Beauty is a charm, but soon the charm will pass. Dryden. The passing of the sweetest soul That ever looked with human eyes. Tennyson.
4. 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 transitorly. So death passed upon all men. Rom. v. 12.Our own consciousness of what passes within our own mind. I. Watts.
5. To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as, their vacation passed pleasantly. Now the time is far passed. Mark vi. 35
6. 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. "Let him pass for a man. " Shak. False eloquence passeth only where true is not understood. Felton. This will not pass for a fault in him. Atterbury.
7. 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.
8. To go through any inspection or test successfully; to be approved or accepted; as, he attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.
9. To be suffered to go on; to be tolerated; hence, to continue; to live alogn. "The play may pass. " Shak.
1 . To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance or opposition; as, we let this act pass.
11. To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess. [Obs. ] "This passes, Master Ford. " Shak.
12. To take heed; to care. [Obs. ] As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not. Shak.
13. To go through the intestines. Arbuthnot.
14. (Law )
Defn: To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance; as, an estate passes by a certain clause in a deed. Mozley & W.
15. (Fencing )
Defn: To make a lunge or pass; to thrust.
16. (Card Playing )
Defn: To decline to play in one's turn; in euchre, to decline to make the trump. She would not play, yet must not pass. Prior. To bring to pass, To come to pass. See under Bring, and Come. -- To pass away, to disappear; to die; to vanish. "The heavens shall pass away. " 2 Pet. iii. 1 . "I thought to pass away before, but yet alive I am. " Tennyson. -- To pass by, to go near and beyond a certain person or place; as, he passed by as we stood there. -- To pass into, to change by a gradual transmission; to blend or unite with. -- To pass on, to proceed. -- To pass on or upon. (a ) To happen to; to come upon; to affect. "So death passed upon all men. " Rom. v. 12. "Provided no indirect act pass upon our prayers to define them. " Jer. Taylor. (b ) To determine concerning; to give judgment or sentence upon. "We may not pass upon his life. " Shak. -- To pass off, to go away; to cease; to disappear; as, an agitation passes off. -- To pass over, to go from one side or end to the other; to cross, as a river, road, or bridge.
PASS
PASS Pass, v. t.
1. In simple, transitive senses; as: (a ) 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. (b ) Hence:
Defn: To go from one limit to the other of; to spend; to live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer. "To pass commodiously this life. " Milton. She loved me for the dangers I had passed. Shak.
(c ) To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard. Please you that I may pass This doing. Shak. I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array. Dryden.
(d ) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed. And strive to pass. .. Their native music by her skillful art. Spenser. Whose tender power Passes the strength of storms in their most desolate hour. Byron.
(e ) 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.
2. In causative senses: as: (a ) 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. I had only time to pass my eye over the medals. Addison. Waller passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge. Clarendon.
(b ) To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce; hence, to promise; to pledge; as, to pass sentence. Shak. Father, thy word is passed. Milton.
(c ) 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. (e ) To put in circulation; to give currency to; as, to pass counterfeit money. "Pass the happy news. " Tennyson. (f ) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance; as, to pass a person into a theater, or over a railroad.
3. To emit from the bowels; to evacuate.
4. (Naut. )
Defn: To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc. ), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
5. (Fencing )
Defn: To make, as a thrust, punto, etc. Shak. Passed midshipman. See under Midshipman. -- To pass a dividend, to omit the declaration and payment of a dividend at the time when due. -- To pass away, to spend; to waste. "Lest she pass away the flower of her age. " Ecclus. xlii. 9. -- To pass by. (a ) To disregard; to neglect. (b ) To excuse; to spare; to overlook. -- To pass off, to impose fraudulently; to palm off. "Passed himself off as a bishop. " Macaulay. -- To pass (something ) on or upon (some one ), to put upon as a trick or cheat; to palm off. "She passed the child on her husband for a boy. " Dryden. -- To pass over, to overlook; not to note or resent; as, to pass over an affront.
PASS
Pass, n. Etym: [Cf. F. pas (for sense 1 ), and passe, fr. passer to pass. See Pass, v. i.]
1. 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. "Try not the pass! " the old man said. Longfellow.
2. (Fencing )
Defn: A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary. Shak.
3. A movement of the hand over or along anything; the manipulation of a mesmerist.
4. (Rolling Metals )
Defn: A single passage of a bar, rail, sheet, etc. , between the rolls.
5. State of things; condition; predicament. Have his daughters brought him to this pass. Shak. Matters have been brought to this pass. South.
6. 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. A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy. Kent.
7. Fig. : a thrust; a sally of wit. Shak.
8. Estimation; character. [Obs. ] Common speech gives him a worthy pass. Shak.
9. Etym: [Cf. Passus. ]
Defn: A part; a division. [Obs. ] Chaucer. Pass boat (Naut. ), a punt, or similar boat. -- Pass book. (a ) A book in which a trader enters articles bought on credit, and then passes or sends it to the purchaser. (b ) See Bank book. -- Pass box (Mil. ), a wooden or metallic box, used to carry cartridges from the service magazine to the piece. -- Pass check, a ticket of admission to a place of entertainment, or of readmission for one who goes away in expectation of returning.
PASSABLE
Pass "a *ble, a. Etym: [Cf. F. passable. ]
1. Capable of being passed, traveled, navigated, traversed, penetrated, or the like; as, the roads are not passable; the stream is passablein boats. His body's a passable carcass if it be not hurt; it is a throughfare for steel. Shak.
2. Capable of being freely circulated or disseminated; acceptable; generally receivable; current. With men as with false money -- one piece is more or less passable than another. L'Estrange.Could they have made this slander passable. Collier.
3. Such as may be allowed to pass without serious objection; tolerable; admissable; moderate; mediocre. My version will appear a passable beauty when the original muse is absent. Dryden.
PASSABLENESS
PASSABLENESS Pass "a *ble *ness, n.
Defn: The quality of being passable.
PASSABLY
PASSABLY Pass "a *bly, adv.
Defn: Tolerably; moderately.
PASSACAGLIA; PASSACAGLIO
Pas `sa *ca *glia, Pas `sa *ca *glio, n. Etym: [Sp. pasacalle a certain tune on the guitar, prop. , a tune played in passing through the streets.] (Mus. )
Defn: An old Italian or Spanish dance tune, in slow three-four measure, with divisions on a ground bass, resembling a chaconne.
PASSADE; PASSADO
Pas *sade ", Pas *sa "do, n. Etym: [F. passade; cf. Sp. pasada. See Pass, v. i.]
1. (Fencing )
Defn: A pass or thrust. Shak.
2. (Man. )
Defn: A turn or course of a horse backward or forward on the same spot of ground.
PASSAGE
Pas "sage, n. Etym: [F. passage. See Pass, v. i.]
1. The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a bird; the passage of light; the passage of fluids through the pores or channels of the body. What! are my doors opposed against my passage! Shak.
2. Transit by means of conveyance; journey, as by water, carriage, car, or the like; travel; right, liberty, or means, of passing; conveyance. The ship in which he had taken passage. Macaulay.
3. Price paid for the liberty to pass; fare; as, to pay one's passage.
4. Removal from life; decease; departure; death. [R.] "Endure thy mortal passage. " Milton. When he is fit and season'd for his passage. Shak.
5. Way; road; path; channel or course through or by which one passes; way of exit or entrance; way of access or transit. Hence, a common avenue to various apartments in a building; a hall; a corridor. And with his pointed dart Explores the nearest passage to his heart. Dryden. The Persian army had advanced into the. .. passages of Cilicia. South.
6. A continuous course, process, or progress; a connected or continuous series; as, the passage of time. The conduct and passage of affairs. Sir J. Davies. The passage and whole carriage of this action. Shak.
7. A separate part of a course, process, or series; an occurrence; an incident; an act or deed. "In thy passages of life. " Shak. The. .. almost incredible passage of their unbelief. South.
8. A particular portion constituting a part of something continuous; esp. , a portion of a book, speech, or musical composition; a paragraph; a clause. How commentators each dark passage shun. Young.
9. Reception; currency. [Obs. ] Sir K. Digby.
1 . A pass or en encounter; as, a passage at arms. No passages of love Betwixt us twain henceforward evermore. Tennyson.
11. A movement or an evacuation of the bowels.
12. In parliamentary proceedings: (a ) The course of a proposition (bill, resolution, etc. ) through the several stages of consideration and action; as, during its passage through Congress the bill was amended in both Houses. (b ) The advancement of a bill or other proposition from one stage to another by an affirmative vote; esp. , the final affirmative action of the body upon a proposition; hence, adoption; enactment; as, the passage of the bill to its third reading was delayed. "The passage of the Stamp Act. " D. Hosack.The final question was then put upon its passage. Cushing. In passage, in passing; cursorily. "These. .. have been studied but in passage. " Bacon. -- Middle passage, Northeast passage, Northwest passage. See under Middle, Northeast, etc. -- Of passage, passing from one place, region, or climate, to another; migratory; -- said especially of birds "Birds of passage. " Longfellow. -- Passage hawk, a hawk taken on its passage or migration. -- Passage money, money paid for conveyance of a passenger, -- usually for carrying passengers by water.
Syn. -- Vestibule; hall; corridor. See Vestibule.
PASSAGER
Pas "sa *ger, n. Etym: [See Passenger. ]
Defn: A passenger; a bird or boat of passage. [Obs. ] Ld. Berners.
PASSAGEWAY
PASSAGEWAY Pas "sage *way `, n.
Defn: A way for passage; a hall. See Passage, 5.
PASSANT
Pas "sant, a. Etym: [F., p.pr. of passer. See Pass, v. i.]
1. Passing from one to another; in circulation; current. [Obs. ] Many opinions are passant. Sir T. Browne.
2. Curs [Obs. ] On a passant rewiew of what I wrote to the bishop. Sir P. Pett.
3. Surpassing; excelling. [Obs. ] Chaucer.
4. (Her. )
Defn: Walking; -- said of any animal on an escutcheon, which is represented as walking with the dexter paw raised.
PASSE; PASSEE
Pas `sé ", masc. Pas `sé "e, fem. , a. Etym: [F.]
Defn: Past; gone by; hence, past one's prime; worn; faded; as, a passée belle. Ld. Lytton.
PASSEGARDE
Passe "garde `, n. Etym: [F.] (Anc. Armor )
Defn: A ridge or projecting edge on a shoulder piece to turn the blow of a lance or other weapon from the joint of the armor.
PASSEMENT
Passe "ment, n. Etym: [F.]
Defn: Lace, gimp, braid etc. , sewed on a garment. Sir W. Scott.
PASSEMENTERIE
Passe *men "terie, n. Etym: [F.]
Defn: Beaded embroidery for women's dresses.
PASSENGER
Pas "sen *ger, n. Etym: [OE. & F. passager. See Passage, and cf. Messenger. ]
1. A passer or passer-by; a wayfarer. Shak.
2. A traveler by some established conveyance, as a coach, steamboat, railroad train, etc. Passenger falcon (Zoöl.), a migratory hawk. Ainsworth. -- Passenger pigeon (Zoöl.), the common wild pigeon of North America (Ectopistes migratorius ), so called on account of its extensive migrations.
PASSENGER MILE
PASSENGER MILE Pas "sen *ger mile. (Railroads )
Defn: A unit of measurement of the passenger transportation performed by a railroad during a given period, usually a year, the total of which consists of the sum of the miles traversed by all the passengers on the road in the period in question.
PASSENGER MILEAGE
PASSENGER MILEAGE Passenger mileage. (Railroads )
Defn: Passenger miles collectively; the total number of miles traveled by passengers on a railroad during a given period.
PASSE PARTOUT
Passe " par `tout ", n. Etym: [F., from passer to pass + partout everywhere. ]
1. That by which one can pass anywhere; a safe-conduct. [Obs. ] Dryden.
2. A master key; a latchkey.
3. A light picture frame or mat of cardboard, wood, or the like, usually put between the picture and the glass, and sometimes serving for several pictures.
PASSER
PASSER Pass "er, n.
Defn: One who passes; a passenger.
PASSER-BY
PASSER-BY Pass `er-by ", n.
Defn: One who goes by; a passer.
PASSERES
Pas "se *res, n. pl. Etym: [NL. , fr. L. passer a sparrow. ] (Zoöl.)
Defn: An order, or suborder, of birds, including more that half of all the known species. It embraces all singing birds (Oscines ), together with many other small perching birds.
PASSERIFORM
PASSERIFORM Pas *ser "i *form, a. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Like or belonging to the Passeres.
PASSERINE
Pas "ser *ine, a. Etym: [L. passerinus, fr. passer a sparrow. ] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to the Passeres. The columbine, gallinaceous, and passerine tribes people the fruit trees. Sydney Smith.
PASSERINE
PASSERINE Pas "ser *ine, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: One of the Passeres.
PASSIBILITY
Pas `si *bil "i *ty, n. Etym: [L. passibilitas: cf. F. passibilité.]
Defn: The quality or state of being passible; aptness to feel or suffer; sensibility. Hakewill.
PASSIBLE
Pas "si *ble, a. Etym: [L. passibilis, fr. pati, to suffer: cf. F.passible. See Passion. ]
Defn: Susceptible of feeling or suffering, or of impressions from external agents. Apolinarius, which held even deity itself passible. Hooker.
PASSIBLENESS
PASSIBLENESS Pas "si *ble *ness, n.
Defn: Passibility. Brerewood.
PASSIFLORA
Pas "si *flo "ra, n. Etym: [NL. , from L. passio passion (fr. pati, passus, to suffer ) + flos, floris, flower. ] (Bot. )
Defn: A genus of plants, including the passion flower. It is the type of the order Passifloreæ, which includes about nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species.
PASSIM
Pas "sim, adv. Etym: [L.]
Defn: Here and there; everywhere; as, this word occurs passim in the poem.
PASSING
PASSING Pass "ing, n.
Defn: The act of one who, or that which, passes; the act of going by or away. Passing bell, a tolling of a bell to announce that a soul is passing, or has passed, from its body (formerly done to invoke prayers for the dying ); also, a tolling during the passing of a funeral procession to the grave, or during funeral ceremonies. Sir W. Scott. Longfellow.
PASSING
PASSING Pass "ing, a.
1. Relating to the act of passing or going; going by, beyond, through, or away; departing.
2. Exceeding; surpassing, eminent. Chaucer. "Her passing deformity. " Shak. Passing note (Mus. ), a character including a passing tone. -- Passing tone (Mus. ), a tone introduced between two other tones, on an unaccented portion of a measure, for the sake of smoother melody, but forming no essential part of the harmony.
PASSING
PASSING Pass "ing, adv.
Defn: Exceedingly; excessively; surpassingly; as, passing fair; passing strange. "You apprehend passing shrewdly. " Shak.
PASSINGLY
PASSINGLY Pass "ing *ly, adv.
Defn: Exceedingly. Wyclif.
PASSION
Pas "sion, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. passio, fr. pati, passus, to suffer. See Patient. ]
1. A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion ); specifically, the suffering of Christ between the time of the last supper and his death, esp. in the garden upon the cross. "The passions of this time. " Wyclif (Rom. viii. 18 ). To whom also he showed himself alive after his passion, by many infallible proofs. Acts i. 3.
2. The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; -- opposed to action. A body at rest affords us no idea of any active power to move, and, when set is motion, it is rather a passion than an action in it. Locke.
3. Capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents. [R.] Moldable and not moldable, scissible and not scissible, and many other passions of matter. Bacon.
4. The state of the mind when it is powerfully acted upon and influenced by something external to itself; the state of any particular faculty which, under such conditions, becomes extremely sensitive or uncontrollably excited; any emotion or sentiment (specifically, love or anger ) in a state of abnormal or controlling activity; an extreme or inordinate desire; also, the capacity or susceptibility of being so affected; as, to be in a passion; the passions of love, hate, jealously, wrath, ambition, avarice, fear, etc. ; a passion for war, or for drink; an orator should have passion as well as rhetorical skill. "A passion fond even to idolatry. " Macaulay. "Her passion is to seek roses." Lady M. W. Montagu. We also are men of like passions with you. Acts xiv. 15.The nature of the human mind can not be sufficiently understood, without considering the affections and passions, or those modifications or actions of the mind consequent upon the apprehension of certain objects or events in which the mind generally conceives good or evil. Hutcheson. The term passion, and its adverb passionately, often express a very strong predilection for any pursuit, or object of taste -- a kind of enthusiastic fondness for anything. Cogan.The bravery of his grief did put me Into a towering passion. Shak. The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still. Pope. Who walked in every path of human life, Felt every passion. Akenside.When statesmen are ruled by faction and interest, they can have no passion for the glory of their country. Addison.
5. Disorder of the mind; madness. [Obs. ] Shak.
6. Passion week. See Passion week, below. R. of Gl. Passion flower (Bot. ), any flower or plant of the genus Passiflora; -- so named from a fancied resemblance of parts of the flower to the instruments of our Savior's crucifixion.
Note: The flowers are showy, and the fruit is sometimes highly esteemed (see Granadilla, and Maypop ). The roots and leaves are generally more or less noxious, and are used in medicine. The plants are mostly tendril climbers, and are commonest in the warmer parts of America, though a few species are Asiatic or Australian. Passion music (Mus. ), originally, music set to the gospel narrative of the passion of our Lord; after the Reformation, a kind of oratorio, with narrative, chorals, airs, and choruses, having for its theme the passion and crucifixion of Christ. -- Passion play, a mystery play, in which the scenes connected with the passion of our Savior are represented dramatically. -- Passion Sunday (Eccl.), the fifth Sunday in Lent, or the second before Easter. -- Passion Week, the last week but one in Lent, or the second week preceding Easter. "The name of Passion week is frequently, but improperly, applied to Holy Week. " Shipley.
Syn. -- Passion, Feeling, Emotion. When any feeling or emotion completely masters the mind, we call it a passion; as, a passion for music, dress, etc. ; especially is anger (when thus extreme ) called passion. The mind, in such cases, is considered as having lost its self- control, and become the passive instrument of the feeling in question.
PASSION
Pas "sion, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Passioned; p.pr & vb. n. Passioning.]
Defn: To give a passionate character to. [R.] Keats.
PASSION
PASSION Pas "sion, v. i.
Defn: To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated. [Obs. ] "Dumbly she passions, frantically she doteth." Shak.
PASSIONAL
PASSIONAL Pas "sion *al, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
Defn: A passionary.
PASSIONARY
Pas "sion *a *ry, n. Etym: [L. passionarius: cf. F. passionaire.]
Defn: A book in which are described the sufferings of saints and martyrs. T. Warton.
PASSIONATE
Pas "sion *ate, a. Etym: [LL. passionatus: cf. F. passionné. ]
1. Capable or susceptible of passion, or of different passions; easily moved, excited or agitated; specifically, easily moved to anger; irascible; quick-tempered; as, a passionate nature. Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate. Prior.
2. Characterized by passion; expressing passion; ardent in feeling or desire; vehement; warm; as, a passionate friendship. "The passionate Pilgrim. " Shak.
3. Suffering; sorrowful. [Obs. ] Shak.
PASSIONATE
PASSIONATE Pas "sion *ate, v. i.
1. To affect with passion; to impassion. [Obs. ] Great pleasure, mixed with pitiful regard, The godly kind and queen did passionate. Spenser.
2. To express feelingly or sorrowfully. [Obs. ] Shak.
PASSIONATELY
PASSIONATELY Pas "sion *ate *ly, adv.
1. In a passionate manner; with strong feeling; ardently. Sorrow expresses itself. .. loudly and passionately. South.
2. Angrily; irascibly. Locke.
PASSIONATENESS
PASSIONATENESS Pas "sion *ate *ness, n.
Defn: The state or quality of being passionate.
PASSIONIST
Pas "sion *ist, n. (R. C. Ch. )
Defn: A member of a religious order founded in Italy in 1737, and introduced into the United States in 1852. The members of the order unite the austerities of the Trappists with the activity and zeal of the Jesuits and Lazarists. Called also Barefooted Clerks of the Most Holy Cross.
PASSIONLESS
PASSIONLESS Pas "sion *less, a.
Defn: Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited; calm. "Self-contained and passionless. " Tennyson.
PASSIONTIDE
Pas "sion *tide `, n. Etym: [Passion + tide time. ]
Defn: The last fortnight of Lent.
PASSIVE
Pas "sive, a. Etym: [L. passivus: cf. F. passif. See Passion. ]
1. Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, not actors in the scene. The passive air Upbore their nimble tread. Milton. The mind is wholly passive in the reception of all its simple ideas. Locke.
2. Receiving or enduring without either active sympathy or active resistance; without emotion or excitement; patient; not opposing; unresisting; as, passive obedience; passive submission. The best virtue, passive fortitude. Massinger.
3. (Chem. )
Defn: Inactive; inert; not showing strong affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive.
4. (Med. )
Defn: Designating certain morbid conditions, as hemorrhage or dropsy, characterized by relaxation of the vessels and tissues, with deficient vitality and lack of reaction in the affected tissues. Passive congestion (Med. ), congestion due to obstruction to the return of the blood from the affected part. -- Passive iron (Chem. ), iron which has been subjected to the action of heat, of strong nitric acid, chlorine, etc. It is then not easily acted upon by acids. -- Passive movement (Med. ), a movement of a part, in order to exercise it, made without the assistance of the muscles which ordinarily move the part. -- Passive obedience (as used by writers on government ), obedience or submission of the subject or citizen as a duty in all cases to the existing government. -- Passive prayer, among mystic divines, a suspension of the activity of the soul or intellectual faculties, the soul remaining quiet, and yielding only to the impulses of grace. -- Passive verb, or Passive voice (Gram. ), a verb, or form of a verb, which expresses the effect of the action of some agent; as, in Latin, doceor, I am taught; in English, she is loved; the picture is admired by all; he is assailed by slander.
Syn. -- Inactive; inert; quiescent; unresisting; unopposing; suffering; enduring; submissive; patient.
PASSIVE BALLOON; PASSIVE AEROPLANE
PASSIVE BALLOON; PASSIVE AEROPLANE Pas "sive bal *loon " or a "ër *o *plane.
Defn: One unprovided with motive power.
PASSIVE FLIGHT
PASSIVE FLIGHT Passive flight.
Defn: Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power.
PASSIVELY
PASSIVELY Pas "sive *ly, adv.
1. In a passive manner; inertly; unresistingly.
2. As a passive verb; in the passive voice.
PASSIVENESS
PASSIVENESS Pas "sive *ness, n.
Defn: The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission. To be an effect implies passiveness, or the being subject to the power and action of its cause. J. Edwards.
PASSIVITY
Pas *siv "i *ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. passivité. ]
1. Passiveness; -- opposed to activity. Jer. Taylor.
2. (Physics )
Defn: The tendency of a body to remain in a given state, either of motion or rest, till disturbed by another body; inertia. Cheyne.
3. (Chem. )
Defn: The quality or condition of any substance which has no inclination to chemical activity; inactivity.
PASS-KEY
PASS-KEY Pass "-key `, n.
Defn: A key for opening more locks than one; a master key.
PASSLESS
PASSLESS Pass "less, a.
Defn: Having no pass; impassable. Cowley.
PASSMAN
Pass "man, n.; pl. Passmen (.
Defn: One who passes for a degree, without honors. See Classman, 2. [Eng. Univ. ]
PASSOVER
Pass "o `ver, n. Etym: [Pass + over. See Pasch. ] (Jewish Antiq.)(a ) A feast of the Jews, instituted to commemorate the sparing of the Hebrews in Egypt, when God, smiting the firstborn of the Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites which were marked with the blood of a lamb. (b ) The sacrifice offered at the feast of the passover; the paschal lamb. Ex. xii.
PASS-PAROLE
Pass `-pa *role ", n. Etym: [F. passe-parole.] (Mil. )
Defn: An order passed from front to rear by word of mouth.
PASSPORT
Pass "port (, n. Etym: [F. passeport, orig. , a permission to leave a port or to sail into it; passer to pass + port a port, harbor. See Pass, and Port a harbor. ]
1. Permission to pass; a document given by the competent officer of a state, permitting the person therein named to pass or travel from place to place, without molestation, by land or by water. Caution in granting passports to Ireland. Clarendon.
2. A document carried by neutral merchant vessels in time of war, to certify their nationality and protect them from belligerents; a sea letter.
3. A license granted in time of war for the removal of persons and effects from a hostile country; a safe-conduct. Burrill.
4. Figuratively: Anything which secures advancement and general acceptance. Sir P. Sidney. His passport is his innocence and grace. Dryden.
PASSUS
Pas "sus, n.; pl. L. Passus, E. Passuses (. Etym: [L., a step, a pace. See Pace. ]
Defn: A division or part; a canto; as, the passus of Piers Plowman. See 2d Fit.
PASSWORD
PASSWORD Pass "word `, n.
Defn: A word to be given before a person is allowed to pass; a watchword; a countersign. Macaulay.
PASSYMEASURE
Pas "sy *meas `ure, n. Etym: [Corrupted fr. It. passamezzo. ] [Obs. ]
Defn: See Paspy. Shak.
New American Oxford Dictionary
pass
pass 1 |pas pæs | ▶verb 1 move or cause to move in a specified direction: [ no obj. ] : he passed through towns and villages | the shells from the Allied guns were passing very low overhead | [ with obj. ] : he passed a weary hand across his forehead | pass an electric current through it. • change from one state or condition to another: homes that have passed from public to private ownership. • die (used euphemistically ): his father had passed to the afterlife | she passed away peacefully in her sleep | a good and decent man has passed on . 2 [ with obj. ] go past or across; leave behind or on one side in proceeding: she passed a rest area with a pay phone | the two vehicles had no room to pass each other | [ no obj. ] : we will not let you pass. • go beyond the limits of; surpass; exceed: this item has passed its sell-by date. • Tennis hit a winning shot past (an opponent ). 3 [ no obj. ] (of time or a point in time ) elapse; go by: the day and night passed slowly | the moment had passed. • happen; be done or said: not another word passed between them | [ with complement ] : this fact has passed almost unnoticed. • [ with obj. ] spend or use up (a period of time ): this was how they passed the time . • come to an end: the danger had passed. 4 [ with obj. ] transfer (something ) to someone, esp. by handing or bequeathing it to the next person in a series: your letter has been passed to Mr. Rich for action | please pass the fish | [ with two objs. ] : he passed her a cup. • [ no obj. ] be transferred from one person or place to another, esp. by inheritance: infections can pass from mother to child at birth | if Ann remarried the estate would pass to her new husband. • (in football, soccer, hockey, and other games ) throw, kick, or hit (the ball or puck ) to another player on one's own team. • put (something, esp. money ) into circulation: persons who have passed bad checks. • [ no obj. ] (esp. of money ) circulate; be current: cash was passing briskly. 5 [ with obj. ] (of a candidate ) be successful in (an examination, test, or course ): she passed her driving test. • judge the performance or standard of (someone or something ) to be satisfactory: [ with obj. and complement ] : he was passed fit by army doctors. • [ no obj. ] be accepted as adequate; go uncensured: she couldn't agree, but let it pass | her rather revealing dress passed without comment. • [ no obj. ] (pass as /for ) be accepted as or taken for: he could pass for a native of Sweden. 6 [ with obj. ] (of a legislative or other official body ) approve or put into effect (a proposal or law ) by voting on it: the bill was passed despite fierce opposition. • [ no obj. ] (of a proposal or law ) be examined and approved by (a legislative body or process ): the bill passed by 164 votes to 107. 7 [ with obj. ] pronounce (a judgment or judicial sentence ): passing judgment on these crucial issues | it is now my duty to pass sentence upon you. • utter (something, esp. criticism ): she would pass remarks about the Paxtons in their own house. • [ no obj. ] (pass on /upon ) archaic adjudicate or give a judgment on: a jury could not be trusted to pass upon the question of Endicott's good faith. 8 [ with obj. ] discharge (something, esp. urine or feces ) from the body: frequency of passing urine. 9 [ no obj. ] forgo one's turn in a game or an offered opportunity: we pass on dessert and have coffee. • [ as exclamation ] said when one does not know the answer to a question, for example in a quizzing game: to the enigmatic question we answered “Pass. ” • [ with obj. ] (of a company ) not declare or pay (a dividend ). • Bridge make no bid when it is one's turn during an auction. • [ with obj. ] Bridge make no bid in response to (one's partner's bid ): East had passed his partner's opening bid of one club. ▶noun 1 an act or instance of moving past or through something: repeated passes with the swipe card | an unmarked plane had been making passes over his house. • informal an amorous or sexual advance made to someone: she made a pass at Stephen. • an act of passing the hands over anything, as in conjuring or hypnotism. • a thrust in fencing. • a juggling trick. • Bridge an act of refraining from bidding during the auction. • Computing a single scan through a set of data or a program. 2 a successful completion of an examination or course: [ as modifier ] : a 100 percent pass rate. • the grade indicating this. • Brit. an achievement of a university degree without honors: [ as modifier ] : a pass degree. 3 a card, ticket, or permit giving authorization for the holder to enter or have access to a place, form of transportation, or event. 4 (in football, soccer, hockey, and other games ) an act of throwing, kicking, or hitting the ball or puck to another player on the same team. 5 a state or situation of a specified, usually bad or difficult, nature: this is a sad pass for a fixture that used to crackle with excitement. PHRASES come to a pretty pass reach a bad or regrettable state of affairs. pass the baton see baton. pass the buck see buck 3. pass one's eye over read (a document ) cursorily. pass the hat see hat. pass one's lips see lip. pass muster see muster. pass the parcel see parcel. pass the time of day see time. pass water urinate. PHRASAL VERBS pass someone by happen without being noticed or fully experienced by someone: sometimes I feel that life is passing me by. pass off (of proceedings ) happen or be carried through in a specified, usually satisfactory, way: the weekend had passed off entirely without incident. pass something off 1 evade or lightly dismiss an awkward remark: he made a light joke and passed it off. 2 Basketball throw the ball to a teammate who is unguarded: he scored eight times and passed off six assists. pass someone /something off as falsely represent a person or thing as (something else ): the drink was packaged in champagne bottles and was being passed off as the real stuff. pass out 1 become unconscious: he consumed enough alcohol to make him pass out. 2 Brit. complete one's initial training in the armed forces. 3 (of bridge players ) not play a hand because all players have passed. pass someone over ignore the claims of someone to promotion or advancement: he was passed over for a cabinet job. pass something over avoid mentioning or considering something: I shall pass over the matter of the transitional period. pass something up refrain from taking up an opportunity: he passed up a career in pro baseball. DERIVATIVES pass er noun he's a good passer of the ball ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French passer, based on Latin passus ‘pace. ’
pass
pass 2 |pæs pas | ▶noun a route over or through mountains: the pass over the mountain was open again after the snows | [ in place names ] : the Khyber Pass. • a passage for fish over or past a weir or dam. • a navigable channel, esp. at the mouth of a river: Sabine Pass. PHRASES head (or cut ) someone /something off at the pass forestall someone or something: the doctor's aim to head the infection off at the pass. ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘division of a text, passage through ’): variant of pace 1, influenced by pass 1 and French pas .
pass.
pass. ▶abbreviation • passenger. • passim. • passive.
passable
pass a ble |ˈpasəbəl ˈpæsəbəl | ▶adjective 1 just good enough to be acceptable; satisfactory: he spoke passable English. 2 (of a route or road ) clear of obstacles and able to be traveled along or on: the road was passable with care. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French, from passer ‘to pass. ’
passably
pass a bly |ˈpasəblē ˈpæsəbli | ▶adverb in a way that is just good enough: [ as submodifier ] : he was passably attractive.
passacaglia
pas sa ca glia |ˌpäsəˈkälyə ˌpɑsəˈkɑljə | ▶noun Music a composition similar to a chaconne, typically in slow triple time with variations over a ground bass. ORIGIN Italian, from Spanish pasacalle, from pasar ‘to pass ’ + calle ‘street ’ (because originally it was a dance often played in the streets ).
passade
pas sade |pəˈsād pəˈseɪd | ▶noun a movement performed in advanced dressage and classical riding, in which the horse performs a 180 ° turn, with its forelegs describing a large circle and its hind legs a smaller one. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: French, from Italian passata or Provençal passada, from medieval Latin passare ‘to pass. ’
passage
pas sage 1 |ˈpasij ˈpæsɪʤ | ▶noun 1 the act or process of moving through, under, over, or past something on the way from one place to another: there were moorings for boats wanting passage through the lock. • the act or process of moving forward: despite the passage of time she still loved him. • the right to pass through somewhere: we obtained a permit for safe passage from the embassy. • a journey or ticket for a journey by sea or air: he then booked passage home aboard a Spanish warship. • Ornithology (of a migrating bird ) the action of passing through a place en route to its final destination: the species occurs regularly on passage | [ as modifier ] : a passage migrant. • Medicine & Biology |ˈpæsɪ ˈpæsɪ |the process of propagating microorganisms or cells in a series of host organisms or culture media, so as to maintain them or modify their virulence. 2 a narrow way, typically having walls on either side, allowing access between buildings or to different rooms within a building; a passageway. • a duct, vessel, or other channel in the body. 3 the process of transition from one state to another: an allegory on the theme of the passage from ignorance to knowledge. • the passing of a bill into law: a catalyst for the unrest was the passage of a privatization law. 4 a short extract from a book or other printed material: he picked up the newspaper and read the passage again. • a section of a piece of music: nothing obscures the outlines of an orchestral passage more than a drumroll on an unrelated note. • an episode in a longer activity such as a sporting event: a neat passage of midfield play. ▶verb [ with obj. ] Medicine & Biology subject (a strain of microorganisms or cells ) to a passage: each recombinant virus was passaged nine times successively. PHRASES passage of (or at ) arms a fight or dispute. work one's passage work in return for a free place on a voyage: he worked his passage home as a steward. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French, based on Latin passus ‘pace. ’
passage
pas sage 2 |ˈpæsɪʤ ˈpasij | ▶noun a movement performed in advanced dressage and classical riding, in which the horse executes a slow elevated trot, giving the impression of dancing. ORIGIN early 18th cent.: from French passage, from an alteration of Italian passeggiare ‘to walk, pace, ’ based on Latin passus ‘pace. ’
passage grave
pas |sage grave ▶noun Archaeology a prehistoric megalithic burial chamber of a type found chiefly in western Europe, with a passage leading to the exterior. Passage graves were originally covered by a mound, which in many cases has disappeared, and most date from the Neolithic period.
passage hawk
pas sage hawk ▶noun a hawk caught for training while on migration, esp. as an immature bird of less than twelve months. Compare with haggard.
passageway
pas sage way |ˈpasijˌwā ˈpæsəʤˌweɪ | ▶noun a long, narrow way, typically having walls on either side, that allows access between buildings or to different rooms within a building.
passagework
pas sage work |ˈpasijˌwərk ˈpæsɪʤwərk | ▶noun music notable chiefly for the scope it affords for virtuoso playing: some of the passagework in early Beethoven is very awkward.
Passaic
Pas sa ic |pəˈsāik pəˈseɪɪk | an industrial city in northeastern New Jersey, on the Passaic River; pop. 66,884 (est. 2008 ).
Passamaquoddy
Pas sa ma quod dy |ˌpasəməˈkwädē ˌpæsəməˈkwɑdi | ▶noun ( pl. same or Passamaquoddies ) 1 a member of a North American Indian people inhabiting parts of eastern Maine and, formerly, southwestern New Brunswick. 2 the Algonquian language of this people. ▶adjective of or relating to this people or their language. ORIGIN from Passamaquoddy pestəmokhatíyək, ‘place where pollack are plentiful, ’ referring to Passamaquoddy Bay.
Passamaquoddy Bay
Pas sa ma quod dy Bay |ˌpasəməˈkwädē ˌpæsəməˌkwɑdi ˈbeɪ | (also Quoddy Bay ) an inlet of the Bay of Fundy, at the border of Maine and New Brunswick, noted for its powerful tides.
passant
pas sant |ˈpasənt pəˈsɑnt | ▶adjective [ usu. postpositive ] Heraldry (of an animal ) represented as walking, with the right front foot raised. The animal is depicted in profile facing the dexter (left ) side with the tail raised, unless otherwise specified (e.g., as “passant guardant ”). ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French, literally ‘proceeding, ’ present participle of passer .
passata
pas sa ta |pəˈsätə pəˈsɑtə | ▶noun a thick paste made from strained tomatoes and used esp. in Italian cooking. ORIGIN Italian.
passband
pass band |ˈpasˌband ˈpæsˌbænd | ▶noun a frequency band within which signals are transmitted by a filter without attenuation.
passbook
pass book |ˈpasˌbo͝ok ˈpæsˌbʊk | ▶noun a booklet issued by a bank to an account holder for recording sums deposited and withdrawn.
Passchendaele, Battle of
Pass chen daele, Battle of |ˈpaSHənˌdāl ˈbætl əv ˈpæʃənˌdeɪl |(also Passendale ) a prolonged episode of trench warfare involving appalling loss of life during World War I in 1917, near the village of Passchendaele in western Belgium. It is also known as the third Battle of Ypres.
pass door
pass door ▶noun a door in a theater connecting the backstage area and the auditorium.
passé
pas sé |paˈsā pæˈseɪ | ▶adjective [ predic. ] no longer fashionable; out of date: miniskirts are passé —the best skirts are knee-length. • archaic (esp. of a woman ) past one's prime. ORIGIN French, literally ‘gone by, ’ past participle of passer .
passed ball
passed ball ▶noun Baseball a pitch that the catcher fails to stop or control, enabling a base runner to advance.
passed pawn
passed pawn ▶noun Chess a pawn that no enemy pawn can stop from queening.
passeggiata
pas seg gia ta |ˌpasəˈjätə ˌpæsəˈʤɑtə | ▶noun ( pl. passeggiate |-ˈjätā | ) a leisurely walk or stroll, esp. one taken in the evening; a promenade (used with reference to the tradition of taking such a walk in Italy or Italian-speaking communities ). ORIGIN Italian.
passel
pas sel |ˈpasəl ˈpæsəl | ▶noun informal a large group of people or things of indeterminate number; a pack: a passel of journalists. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: representing a pronunciation of parcel .
passementerie
passe men terie |pasˈmentrē pæsˈmɛntri | ▶noun decorative trimming such as tassels, braid, and fringing, used on furniture and clothing (e.g. military uniforms ). ORIGIN early 17th cent.: French, from passement ‘braid. ’
Passendale, Battle of
Pas sen dale, Battle of |ˈpasənˌdāl ˈbætl əv ˈpæsənˌdeɪl | variant spelling of Passchendaele, Battle of.
passenger
pas sen ger |ˈpasinjər ˈpæsɪnər | ▶noun a traveler on a public or private conveyance other than the driver, pilot, or crew. ORIGIN Middle English: from the Old French adjective passager ‘passing, transitory, ’ used as a noun, from passage (see passage 1 ).
passenger mile
pas sen ger mile ▶noun one mile traveled by one passenger, as a unit of traffic.
passenger pigeon
pas sen ger pi geon ▶noun an extinct long-tailed North American pigeon, noted for its long migrations in huge flocks. It was relentlessly hunted, the last individual dying in captivity in 1914. [Ectopistes migratorius, family Columbidae. ]
passe-partout
passe-par tout |ˌpas pärˈto͞o ˌpæs pərˈtu | ▶noun 1 a picture or photograph simply mounted between a piece of glass and a sheet of cardboard (or two pieces of glass ) stuck together at the edges with adhesive tape. • adhesive tape or paper used in making such a frame. 2 archaic a master key. ORIGIN late 17th cent.: from French, literally ‘passes everywhere. ’
passepied
passe pied |päsˈpyā pɑsˈpjeɪ | ▶noun a dance like a quick minuet, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries. ORIGIN French, from passer ‘to pass ’ + pied ‘foot. ’
passerby
pass er by |ˈpasərˌbī ˈpæsərˌbaɪ | ▶noun ( pl. passersby ) a person who happens to be going past something, esp. on foot.
passerine
pas ser ine |ˈpasərin, -ˌrīn ˈpæsərən |Ornithology ▶adjective of, relating to, or denoting birds of a large order distinguished by feet that are adapted for perching, including all songbirds. ▶noun a passerine bird; a perching bird. The order Passeriformes comprises more than half of all bird species, the remainder being known informally as the nonpasserines. All passerines in Europe belong to the suborder Oscines (the oscine passerines ), so that the term is effectively synonymous with ‘songbird ’ there (see songbird ). Those of the suborder Deutero-Oscines (the suboscine passerines ) are found mainly in America. ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from Latin passer ‘sparrow ’ + -ine 1 .
Passface
Pass face |ˈpasˌfās ˈpæsfeɪs | ▶noun trademark a security system in which a user must recognize pictures of human faces in order to gain access to a computer or computer network. • ( passface ) a digital photograph of a human face that is used for identification in a Passface system. ORIGIN on the pattern of password .
pass-fail
pass-fail ▶adjective denoting a class, course, or system of grading in which the only two grades given are “pass ” and “fail. ”
passible
pas si ble |ˈpasəbəl ˈpæsəbəl | ▶adjective Christian Theology capable of feeling or suffering; susceptible to sensation or emotion: only the humanity of Jesus is regarded as passible. DERIVATIVES pas si bil i ty |ˌpasəˈbilitē |noun ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin passibilis, from Latin pass- ‘suffered, ’ from the verb pati .
passim
pas sim |ˈpasim ˈpæsˌɪm | ▶adverb (of allusions or references in a published work ) to be found at various places throughout the text. ORIGIN Latin, from passus ‘scattered, ’ from the verb pandere.
passing
pass ing |ˈpasiNG ˈpæsɪŋ | ▶adjective [ attrib. ] 1 going past: passing cars. 2 (of a period of time ) going by: she detested him more with every passing second. • carried out quickly and lightly: a passing glance. 3 meeting or surpassing the requirements of a course or examination: a passing grade. ▶noun [ in sing. ] 1 the passage of something, esp. time: with the passing of the years she had become a little eccentric. • the action of throwing, kicking, or hitting a ball or puck to another team member during a sports match: his play showed good passing and good control | [ as modifier ] : a good passing movement. 2 used euphemistically to refer to a person's death: her passing will be felt deeply by many people. • the end of something: the passing of the Cold War and the rise of a new Europe. PHRASES in passing briefly and casually: the research was mentioned only in passing. DERIVATIVES pass ing ly adverb
passing bell
pass ing bell ▶noun chiefly historical a bell rung immediately after a death as a signal for prayers.
passing note
pass ing note (also passing tone ) ▶noun Music a note not belonging to the harmony but interposed to secure a smooth transition from one chord to another.
passing shot
pass ing shot |ˈpæsɪŋ ʃɑt | ▶noun Tennis a winning shot beyond and out of reach of one's opponent.
passion
pas sion |ˈpaSHən ˈpæʃən | ▶noun 1 strong and barely controllable emotion: a man of impetuous passion. • a state or outburst of such emotion: oratory in which he gradually works himself up into a passion. • intense sexual love: their all-consuming passion for each other | she nurses a passion for Thomas. • an intense desire or enthusiasm for something: the English have a passion for gardens. • a thing arousing enthusiasm: modern furniture is a particular passion of Bill's. 2 ( the Passion ) the suffering and death of Jesus: meditations on the Passion of Christ. • a narrative of this from any of the Gospels. • a musical setting of any of these narratives: an aria from Bach's St. Matthew Passion. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin passio (n- ) (chiefly a term in Christian theology ), from Latin pati ‘suffer. ’
passional
pas sion al |ˈpaSHənl ˈpæʃənl | ▶adjective rare of, relating to, or marked by passion: a current of passional electric energy. ▶noun rare a book about the sufferings of saints and martyrs, for reading on their feast days.
passionate
pas sion ate |ˈpaSHənit ˈpæʃ (ə )nət | ▶adjective showing or caused by strong feelings or a strong belief: passionate pleas for help | he's passionate about football. • showing or caused by intense feelings of sexual love: a passionate kiss. DERIVATIVES pas sion ate ly adverb, pas sion ate ness noun ORIGIN late Middle English (also in the senses ‘easily moved to passion ’ and ‘enraged ’): from medieval Latin passionatus ‘full of passion, ’ from passio (see passion ).
passionflower
pas sion flow er |ˈpaSHənˌflou (-ə )r ˈpæʃənˌflaʊ (ə )r |(also passion flower ) ▶noun an evergreen climbing plant of warm regions that bears distinctive flowers with parts that supposedly resemble instruments of the Crucifixion. [Genus Passiflora, family Passifloraceae. ]
passion fruit
pas sion fruit |ˈpæʃən frut |(also passionfruit ) ▶noun the edible purple fruit of a kind of passionflower that is grown commercially, esp. in tropical America. Also called granadilla. [This fruit is obtained from Passiflora edulis, family Passifloraceae. ]
passionless
pas sion less |ˈpaSHənlis ˈpæʃnləs | ▶adjective lacking strong emotion; unemotional: the voice is passionless, monotone.
Passion play
Pas sion play |ˈpæʃən ˌpleɪ | ▶noun a dramatic performance representing Christ's Passion from the Last Supper to the Crucifixion.
Passion Sunday
Pas sion Sun day ▶noun the fifth Sunday in Lent.
Passiontide
Pas sion tide |ˈpaSHənˌtīd ˈpæʃənˌtaɪd | ▶noun the last two weeks of Lent.
Passion Week
Pas sion Week ▶noun 1 the week between Passion Sunday and Palm Sunday. 2 older name for Holy Week.
passivate
pas si vate |ˈpasəˌvāt ˈpæsəveɪt | ▶verb [ with obj. ] (usu. as adj. passivated ) make (a metal or other substance ) unreactive by altering the surface layer or coating the surface with a thin inert layer: components are made from passivated and anodized aluminum. • Electronics coat (a semiconductor ) with inert material to protect it from contamination. DERIVATIVES pas si va tion |ˌpasəˈvāSHən |noun
passive
pas sive |ˈpasiv ˈpæsɪv | ▶adjective 1 accepting or allowing what happens or what others do, without active response or resistance: the women were portrayed as passive victims. • Chemistry (of a metal ) made unreactive by a thin inert surface layer of oxide. • (of a circuit or device ) containing no source of electromotive force. • (of radar or a satellite ) receiving or reflecting radiation from a transmitter or target rather than generating its own signal. • relating to or denoting heating systems that make use of incident sunlight as an energy source. 2 Grammar denoting or relating to a voice of verbs in which the subject undergoes the action of the verb (e.g., they were killed as opposed to he killed them ). The opposite of active. ▶noun Grammar a passive form of a verb. • (the passive ) the passive voice. DERIVATIVES pas sive ly adverb, pas sive ness noun, pas siv i ty |paˈsivitē |noun ORIGIN late Middle English (in sense 2 of the adjective, also in the sense ‘(exposed to ) suffering, acted on by an external agency ’): from Latin passivus, from pass- ‘suffered, ’ from the verb pati .
passive-aggressive
pas sive-ag gres sive ▶adjective of or denoting a type of behavior or personality characterized by indirect resistance to the demands of others and an avoidance of direct confrontation, as in procrastinating, pouting, or misplacing important materials.
passive immunity
pas sive im mu ni ty ▶noun Physiology the short-term immunity that results from the introduction of antibodies from another person or animal. Compare with active immunity.
passive matrix
pas sive ma trix ▶noun Electronics a display system in which individual pixels are selected using two control voltages for the row and column.
passive resistance
pas sive re sist ance |ˈpæsɪv rəˈzɪstəns | ▶noun nonviolent opposition to authority, esp. a refusal to cooperate with legal requirements: they called for protest in the form of passive resistance.
passive restraint
pas sive res traint ▶noun a car safety device that is activated by the force of a collision or other sudden stop and that aims to prevent injury to a passenger.
passive smoking
pas sive smok ing |ˈpæsɪv smoʊkɪŋ | ▶noun the involuntary inhaling of smoke from other people's cigarettes, cigars, or pipes: children are more susceptible to the effects of passive smoking.
passivize
pas siv ize |ˈpasəˌvīz ˈpæsɪvaɪz | ▶verb [ with obj. ] Grammar convert (a verb or clause ) into the passive form: a sentence that has been passivized. • [ no obj. ] (of a verb or clause ) be convertible in this way: transitive verbs in idiomatic expressions frequently will not passivize. DERIVATIVES pas siv iz a ble |-əbəl |adjective, pas siv i za tion |ˌpasəvəˈzāSHən |noun
passkey
pass key |ˈpasˌkē ˈpæsˌki | ▶noun 1 a key to the door of a restricted area, given only to those who are officially allowed access. 2 a master key.
pass laws
pass laws ▶plural noun historical a body of laws in operation in South Africa under apartheid, controlling the rights of black people to residence and travel and implemented by means of identity documents compulsorily carried.
pass mark
pass mark ▶noun the minimum mark needed to pass an examination.
Passos, John Dos
Pas sos, John Dos see Dos Passos, John.
Passover
Pass o ver |ˈpasˌōvər ˈpæsˌoʊvər | ▶noun the major Jewish spring festival that commemorates the liberation of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery, lasting seven or eight days from the 15th day of Nisan. ORIGIN from pass over ‘pass without touching, ’ with reference to the exemption of the Israelites from the death of their firstborn (Exod. 12 ).
passport
pass port |ˈpasˌpôrt ˈpæsˌpɔrt | ▶noun an official document issued by a government, certifying the holder's identity and citizenship and entitling them to travel under its protection to and from foreign countries. • [ in sing. ] a thing that ensures admission to or the achievement of something: the sport utility vehicle seemed like a a passport to new adventures. ORIGIN late 15th cent. (denoting authorization to enter or depart from a port ): from French passeport, from passer ‘to pass ’ + port ‘seaport. ’
passus
pas sus |ˈpasəs ˈpæsəs | ▶noun ( pl. same ) a section, division, or canto of a story or poem, esp. a medieval one. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from Latin, literally ‘step, pace, ’ in medieval Latin ‘passage of a book. ’
password
pass word |ˈpasˌwərd ˈpæsˌwərd | ▶noun a secret word or phrase that must be used to gain admission to something. • a string of characters that allows access to a computer, interface, or system.
Oxford Dictionary
pass
pass 1 |pɑːs | ▶verb 1 move or cause to move in a specified direction: [ no obj., with adverbial of direction ] : he passed through towns and villages | a plane was passing lazily overhead | [ with obj. and adverbial of direction ] : he passed a weary hand across his forehead | pass an electric current through it. • [ no obj., with adverbial of direction ] change from one state or condition to another: homes which have passed from public to private ownership. • [ no obj. ] euphemistic, chiefly N. Amer. die: I was with him the night he passed. 2 [ with obj. ] go past or across; leave behind or on one side in proceeding: on the way to the station she passed a cinema | the two vehicles had no room to pass each other | [ no obj. ] : we will not let you pass. • go beyond the limits of; surpass or exceed: the Portuguese trade passed its peak in the 1760s | this item has passed its sell-by date. • Tennis hit a winning shot past (an opponent ). 3 [ no obj. ] (of time ) elapse; go by: the day and night passed slowly. • [ with obj. ] spend or use up (a period of time ): this was how they passed the time. • come to an end: the danger had passed. • happen; be done or said: not another word passed between them | [ with complement ] : this fact has passed almost unnoticed. 4 [ with obj. and usu. with adverbial of direction ] transfer (something ) to someone, especially by handing or bequeathing it to the next person in a series: your letter has been passed to Mr Rich for action | pass the milk | the poem was passed from generation to generation | [ with two objs ] : he passed her a cup. • [ no obj., with adverbial ] be transferred from one person or place to another, especially by inheritance: if Ann remarried the estate would pass to her new husband. • (in soccer, rugby, and other games ) kick, hit, or throw (the ball ) to another player of one's own side: his intent was to pass the ball forward rather than knock it back. • put (something, especially money ) into circulation: persons who have passed bad cheques. • [ no obj. ] (especially of money ) circulate; be current. 5 [ with obj. ] (of a candidate ) be successful in (an examination, test, or course ): she passed her driving test. • judge the performance or standard of (someone or something ) to be satisfactory: [ with obj. and complement ] : he was passed fit by army doctors. • [ no obj. ] (pass as /for ) be accepted as or taken for: he could pass for a native of Sweden. • [ no obj. ] be accepted as adequate; go unremarked: she couldn't agree, but let it pass . 6 (of a legislative or other official body ) approve or put into effect (a proposal or law ) by voting on it: the bill was passed despite fierce opposition. • [ no obj. ] (of a proposal ) be approved by a legislative or other official body: the Bill passed by 164 votes to 107. 7 [ with obj. ] pronounce (a judgement or judicial sentence ): passing judgement on these crucial issues | it is now my duty to pass sentence upon you. • utter (something, especially criticism ): she would pass remarks about the Peebles in their own house. • [ no obj. ] (pass on /upon ) archaic adjudicate or give a judgement on. 8 [ with obj. ] discharge (something, especially urine or faeces ) from the body. 9 [ no obj. ] forgo one's turn in a game or an offered opportunity to do or have something: we pass on pudding and have coffee. • [ as exclamation ] said when one does not know the answer to a question, for example in a quiz: to the enigmatic question we answered ‘Pass ’. • [ with obj. ] (of a company ) not declare or pay (a dividend ). • Bridge make no bid when it is one's turn during an auction. ▶noun 1 an act or instance of moving past or through something: repeated passes with the swipe card | an unmarked plane had been making passes over his house. • an act of passing the hands over something, as in conjuring or hypnotism. • a thrust in fencing. • a juggling trick. • Computing a single scan through a set of data or a program. 2 a success in an examination, test, or course: an A-level pass in Music | [ as modifier ] : a 100 per cent pass rate. • Brit. an achievement of a university degree without honours: [ as modifier ] : a pass degree. 3 a card, ticket, or permit giving authorization for the holder to enter or have access to a place, form of transport, or event: a bus pass | you could only get in with a pass. • historical (in South Africa ) an identity book which black people had to carry between 1952 and 1986, used to limit the movement of black people to urban areas. 4 (in soccer, rugby, and other games ) an act of kicking, hitting, or throwing the ball to another player on the same side. 5 informal an amorous or sexual advance made to someone: she made a pass at Stephen. 6 a state or situation of a specified, usually undesirable, nature: if this was what was being taught these days in colleges things had come to a pretty pass . 7 Bridge an act of refraining from bidding during the auction. PHRASES pass the baton see baton. pass the buck see buck 3. pass one's eye over read (a document ) cursorily. pass go successfully complete the first stage of an undertaking: home builders can't actually pass go unless they sell the houses. [from a manoeuvre in the board game Monopoly. ] pass the hat ( round ) see hat. pass one's lips see lip. pass muster see muster. pass the parcel see parcel. pass the time of day see time. pass water urinate. PHRASAL VERBS pass away euphemistic die: she passed away in her sleep. pass someone by happen without being noticed or fully experienced by someone: sometimes I feel that life is passing me by. pass off Brit. (of proceedings ) happen or be concluded in a specified, usually satisfactory way: the weekend had passed off entirely without incident. pass something off 1 evade or lightly dismiss an awkward remark: he made a light joke and passed it off. 2 Basketball throw the ball to a teammate who is unmarked. pass someone /thing off as falsely represent a person or thing as (something else ): the drink was packaged in champagne bottles and was being passed off as the real stuff. pass on euphemistic die: his wife passed on twelve years ago. pass out 1 become unconscious: he consumed enough alcohol to make him pass out. 2 Brit. complete one's initial training in the armed forces. pass over euphemistic die: by the time I reached the hospital she had passed over. pass someone over ignore the claims of someone to promotion or advancement: he was passed over for a cabinet job. pass something over avoid mentioning or considering something: I shall pass over the matter of the transitional period. pass something up refrain from taking up an opportunity: he passed up a career in pro baseball. DERIVATIVES passer noun ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French passer, based on Latin passus ‘pace ’.
pass
pass 2 |pɑːs | ▶noun a route over or through mountains: the pass over the mountain was open again after the snows | [ in place names ] : the Khyber Pass. • a passage for fish over or past a weir or dam. PHRASES head (or cut ) someone /thing off at the pass forestall someone or something: he came up with this story at the last minute, just to cut me off at the pass. sell the pass Brit. betray a cause: he is merciless to other poets whom he considers to have sold the pass. ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘division of a text, passage through ’): variant of pace 1, influenced by pass 1 and French pas .
passable
pass |able |ˈpɑːsəb (ə )l | ▶adjective 1 just good enough to be acceptable; satisfactory: he spoke passable English. 2 (of a route or road ) clear of obstacles and able to be travelled on: the road was passable with care. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French, from passer ‘to pass ’.
passably
pass |ably |ˈpɑːsəbli | ▶adverb in a way that is just good enough; reasonably: [ as submodifier ] : he was passably attractive.
passacaglia
passacaglia |ˌpasəˈkɑːlɪə | ▶noun Music a composition similar to a chaconne, typically in slow triple time with variations over a ground bass. ORIGIN Italian, from Spanish pasacalle, from pasar ‘to pass ’ + calle ‘street ’ (because originally it was a dance often played in the streets ).
passade
passade |pəˈseɪd | ▶noun a movement performed in advanced dressage and classical riding, in which the horse performs a 180 ° turn, with its forelegs describing a large circle and its hind legs a smaller one. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: French, from Italian passata or Provençal passada, from medieval Latin passare ‘to pass ’.
passage
passage 1 |ˈpasɪdʒ | ▶noun 1 [ mass noun ] the action or process of moving through or past somewhere on the way from one place to another: there were moorings for boats wanting passage through the lock. • the action or process of moving forward: despite the passage of time she still loved him. • the right to pass through somewhere: we obtained a permit for safe passage from the embassy. • [ count noun ] a journey by sea or air: I booked a passage on the next ship. • Ornithology (of a migrating bird ) the action of passing through a place en route to its final destination: the species occurs regularly on passage | [ as modifier ] : a passage migrant. 2 a narrow way allowing access between buildings or to different rooms within a building; a passageway. • a duct, vessel, or other channel in the body. 3 [ mass noun ] the process of transition from one state to another: an allegory on the theme of the passage from ignorance to knowledge. • the passing of a bill into law: a catalyst for the unrest was the passage of a privatization law. 4 a short extract from a book or other printed material: he picked up the newspaper and read the passage again. • a section of a piece of music: an orchestral passage. • an episode in a spell of longer activity such as a sporting event: a neat passage of midfield play. 5 Medicine & Biology |paˈsɑːʒ |the propagation of microorganisms or cells in a series of host organisms or culture media, so as to maintain them or modify their virulence. ▶verb |paˈsɑːʒ | [ with obj. ] Medicine & Biology subject (a strain of microorganisms or cells ) to a passage. PHRASES passage of (or at ) arms archaic a fight or dispute. work one's passage work in return for a free place on a voyage: he worked his passage home as a steward. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French, based on Latin passus ‘pace ’.
passage
passage 2 |paˈsɑːʒ | ▶noun a movement performed in advanced dressage and classical riding, in which the horse executes a slow elevated trot, giving the impression of dancing. ORIGIN early 18th cent.: from French, from an alteration of Italian passeggiare ‘to walk, pace ’, based on Latin passus ‘pace ’.
passage grave
pas |sage grave ▶noun Archaeology a prehistoric megalithic burial chamber of a type found chiefly in western Europe, with a passage leading to the exterior. Passage graves were originally covered by a mound, which in many cases has disappeared, and most date from the Neolithic period.
passage hawk
pas |sage hawk ▶noun a hawk caught for training while on migration, especially as an immature bird of less than twelve months. Compare with haggard.
passageway
pas ¦sage |way |ˈpasɪdʒweɪ | ▶noun a long, narrow way, typically having walls either side, that allows access between buildings or to different rooms within a building.
passagework
pas ¦sage |work |ˈpasɪdʒwəːk | ▶noun [ mass noun ] music notable chiefly for the scope it affords for virtuoso playing: some of the passagework in early Beethoven is very awkward.
Passaic
Pas sa ic |pəˈsāik pəˈseɪɪk | an industrial city in northeastern New Jersey, on the Passaic River; pop. 66,884 (est. 2008 ).
Passamaquoddy
Passamaquoddy |ˌpasəməˈkwɒdi | ▶noun ( pl. same or Passamaquoddies ) 1 a member of an American Indian people inhabiting parts of SE Maine and, formerly, SW New Brunswick. 2 [ mass noun ] the Algonquian language of the Passamaquoddy, now with few speakers. ▶adjective relating to the Passamaquoddy or their language. ORIGIN from a Micmac name for Passamaquoddy Bay, literally ‘place where pollack are plentiful ’.
Passamaquoddy Bay
Pas sa ma quod dy Bay |ˌpasəməˈkwädē ˌpæsəməˌkwɑdi ˈbeɪ | (also Quoddy Bay ) an inlet of the Bay of Fundy, at the border of Maine and New Brunswick, noted for its powerful tides.
passant
passant |ˈpas (ə )nt | ▶adjective [ usu. postpositive ] Heraldry (of an animal ) represented as walking, with the right front foot raised. The animal is depicted in profile facing the dexter side with the tail raised, unless otherwise specified (e.g. as ‘passant guardant ’). ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French, literally ‘proceeding ’, present participle of passer .
passata
passata |pəˈsɑːtə | ▶noun [ mass noun ] a thick paste made from sieved tomatoes and used especially in Italian cooking. ORIGIN Italian.
passband
pass |band |ˈpɑːsband | ▶noun a frequency band within which signals are transmitted by a filter without attenuation.
passbook
pass |book |ˈpɑːsbʊk | ▶noun 1 a book issued by a bank or building society to an account holder, recording sums deposited and withdrawn. 2 historical (in South Africa under apartheid ) a black person's pass.
Passchendaele, Battle of
Passchendaele, Battle of |ˈpaʃ (ə )ndeɪl |(also Passendale ) a prolonged episode of trench warfare involving appalling loss of life during the First World War in 1917, near the village of Passchendaele in western Belgium. It is also known as the third Battle of Ypres.
pass door
pass door ▶noun a door in a theatre connecting the backstage area and the auditorium.
passé
passé |ˈpaseɪ | ▶adjective [ predic. ] no longer fashionable; out of date: minis are passé —the best skirts are knee-length. • archaic (especially of a woman ) past one's prime. ORIGIN French, literally ‘gone by ’, past participle of passer .
passed ball
passed ball ▶noun Baseball a pitch that the catcher fails to stop or control, enabling a base runner to advance.
passed pawn
passed pawn ▶noun Chess a pawn that no enemy pawn can stop from queening.
passeggiata
passeggiata |ˌpasɛˈdʒɑːtə | ▶noun ( pl. passeggiate |-teɪ | ) (especially in Italy or Italian-speaking areas ) a leisurely walk or stroll, especially one taken in the evening for the purpose of socializing. ORIGIN Italian.
passel
passel |ˈpas (ə )l | ▶noun informal, chiefly US a large group of people or things: a passel of journalists. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: representing a pronunciation of parcel .
passementerie
passementerie |ˈpasm (ə )ntri | ▶noun [ mass noun ] decorative trimming such as tassels, braid, and fringing, used on furniture and clothing (e.g. military uniforms ). ORIGIN early 17th cent.: French, from passement ‘braid ’.
Passendale, Battle of
Passendale, Battle of |ˈpas (ə )ndeɪl | variant spelling of Passchendaele, Battle of.
passenger
pas ¦sen |ger |ˈpasɪndʒə | ▶noun a traveller on a public or private conveyance other than the driver, pilot, or crew. • chiefly Brit. a member of a team or group who does far less effective work than the other members. ORIGIN Middle English: from the Old French adjective passager ‘passing, transitory ’, used as a noun, from passage (see passage 1 ).
passenger mile
pas ¦sen |ger mile ▶noun one mile travelled by one passenger, as a unit of traffic.
passenger pigeon
pas ¦sen |ger pi ¦geon ▶noun an extinct long-tailed North American pigeon, noted for its long migrations in huge flocks. It was relentlessly hunted, the last individual dying in captivity in 1914. ●Ectopistes migratorius, family Columbidae.
passepartout
passepartout |ˌpaspɑːˈtuː, ˌpɑːs -| ▶noun 1 (also passepartout frame ) a picture or photograph mounted between a piece of glass and a sheet of card (or two pieces of glass ) stuck together at the edges with adhesive tape. • [ mass noun ] adhesive tape or paper used in making a passepartout frame. 2 archaic a master key. ORIGIN late 17th cent.: from French, literally ‘passes everywhere ’.
passepied
passepied |ˌpasˈpɪeɪ | ▶noun a Breton dance similar to a quick minuet, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries. ORIGIN French, from passer ‘to pass ’ + pied ‘foot ’.
passer-by
passer-by ▶noun ( pl. passers-by ) a person who happens to be going past something, especially on foot.
passerine
passerine |ˈpasərʌɪn, -riːn |Ornithology ▶adjective relating to or denoting birds of a large order distinguished by having feet that are adapted for perching, including all songbirds. ▶noun a passerine bird; a perching bird. The order Passeriformes comprises more than half of all bird species, the remainder being known informally as the non-passerines. All passerines in Europe belong to the suborder Oscines (the oscine passerines ), so that the term is effectively synonymous with ‘songbird ’ there (see songbird ). Those of the suborder Deutero-Oscines (the suboscine passerines ) are found mainly in America. ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from Latin passer ‘sparrow ’ + -ine 1 .
Passface
Pass face |ˈpasˌfās ˈpæsfeɪs | ▶noun trademark a security system in which a user must recognize pictures of human faces in order to gain access to a computer or computer network. • ( passface ) a digital photograph of a human face that is used for identification in a Passface system. ORIGIN on the pattern of password .
pass-fail
pass-fail ▶adjective denoting a class, course, or system of grading in which the only two grades given are “pass ” and “fail. ”
passible
passible |ˈpasɪb (ə )l | ▶adjective Christian Theology capable of feeling or suffering; susceptible to sensation or emotion: only the humanity of Jesus is regarded as passible. DERIVATIVES passibility |-ˈbɪlɪti |noun ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin passibilis, from Latin pass- ‘suffered ’, from the verb pati .
passim
passim |ˈpasɪm | ▶adverb (of allusions or references in a published work ) to be found at various places throughout the text. ORIGIN Latin, from passus ‘scattered ’, from the verb pandere.
passing
pass |ing |ˈpɑːsɪŋ | ▶adjective [ attrib. ] 1 going past: passing cars. 2 (of a period of time ) going by: she detested him more with every passing second. • carried out quickly and lightly: a passing glance. 3 (of a resemblance or similarity ) slight. ▶noun [ mass noun ] 1 the passage of something, especially time: with the passing of the years she had become a little eccentric. 2 (in sport ) the action of passing a ball to another team member: his play showed good passing and control. 3 the end of something: the passing of the Cold War. • euphemistic a person's death: her passing will be felt deeply by many people. PHRASES in passing briefly and casually: the research was mentioned only in passing. DERIVATIVES passingly adverb
passing bell
pass |ing bell ▶noun chiefly historical a bell rung immediately after a death as a signal for prayers.
passing note
pass |ing note ▶noun Music a note not belonging to the harmony but interposed to secure a smooth transition.
passing shot
pass |ing shot ▶noun Tennis a shot aiming the ball beyond and out of reach of one's opponent.
passion
pas |sion |ˈpaʃ (ə )n | ▶noun 1 [ mass noun ] strong and barely controllable emotion: a man of impetuous passion. • [ in sing. ] a state or outburst of strong emotion: oratory in which he gradually works himself up into a passion. • intense sexual love: their all-consuming passion for each other | [ in sing. ] : she nurses a passion for Thomas. • [ in sing. ] an intense desire or enthusiasm for something: the English have a passion for gardens. • [ count noun ] a thing arousing great enthusiasm: modern furniture is a particular passion of Bill's. 2 ( the Passion ) the suffering and death of Jesus. • an account of the Passion from any of the Gospels. • a musical setting of any of the biblical accounts of the Passion : an aria from Bach's St Matthew Passion. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin passio (n- ) (chiefly a term in Christian theology ), from Latin pati ‘suffer ’.
passional
pas |sion ¦al |ˈpaʃ (ə )n (ə )l | ▶adjective literary relating to or marked by passion: a current of passional electric energy. ▶noun Christian a book about the sufferings of saints and martyrs, for reading on their feast days.
passionate
pas ¦sion |ate |ˈpaʃ (ə )nət | ▶adjective having, showing, or caused by strong feelings or beliefs: passionate pleas for help | he's passionate about football. • arising from intense feelings of sexual love: a passionate kiss. DERIVATIVES passionately adverb, passionateness noun ORIGIN late Middle English (also in the senses ‘easily moved to passion ’ and ‘enraged ’): from medieval Latin passionatus ‘full of passion ’, from passio (see passion ).
passion flower
pas |sion flower ▶noun an evergreen climbing plant of warm regions, which bears distinctive flowers with parts that supposedly resemble instruments of the Crucifixion. ●Genus Passiflora, family Passifloraceae.
passion fruit
pas |sion fruit ▶noun the edible purple fruit of a kind of passion flower that is grown commercially, especially in tropical America and the Caribbean. Also called granadilla. ●This fruit is obtained from Passiflora edulis, family Passifloraceae.
passionless
pas ¦sion |less |ˈpaʃnləs | ▶adjective lacking strong emotion; unemotional: the voice is passionless, monotone.
Passion play
Passion play ▶noun a dramatic performance representing Christ's Passion from the Last Supper to the Crucifixion.
Passion Sunday
Passion Sun ¦day ▶noun the fifth Sunday in Lent.
Passiontide
Pas ¦sion |tide |ˈpaʃ (ə )ntʌɪd | ▶noun the last two weeks of Lent.
Passion Week
Passion Week ▶noun 1 the week between Passion Sunday and Palm Sunday. 2 older name for Holy Week.
passivate
passivate |ˈpasɪveɪt | ▶verb [ with obj. ] (usu. as adj. passivated ) make (a metal or other substance ) unreactive by altering the surface layer or coating the surface with a thin inert layer. • Electronics coat (a semiconductor ) with inert material to protect it from contamination. DERIVATIVES passivation |-ˈveɪʃ (ə )n |noun
passive
pas |sive |ˈpasɪv | ▶adjective 1 accepting or allowing what happens or what others do, without active response or resistance: the women were portrayed as passive victims. 2 Grammar denoting a voice of verbs in which the subject undergoes the action of the verb (e.g. they were killed as opposed to the active form he killed them ). The opposite of active. 3 (of a circuit or device ) containing no source of electromotive force. • (of radar or a satellite ) receiving or reflecting radiation from a transmitter or target rather than generating its own signal. • (of a heating system ) making use of incident sunlight as an energy source. 4 Chemistry (of a metal ) made unreactive by a thin inert surface layer of oxide. ▶noun Grammar a passive form of a verb. • (the passive ) the passive voice. DERIVATIVES passively adverb, passiveness noun, passivity |-ˈsɪvɪti |noun ORIGIN late Middle English (in sense 2 of the adjective, also in the sense ‘(exposed to ) suffering, acted on by an external agency ’): from Latin passivus, from pass- ‘suffered ’, from the verb pati .
passive-aggressive
passive-aggressive ▶adjective of or denoting a type of behaviour or personality characterized by indirect resistance to the demands of others and an avoidance of direct confrontation.
passive immunity
pas |sive im ¦mun |ity ▶noun [ mass noun ] Physiology the short-term immunity which results from the introduction of antibodies from another person or animal. Compare with active immunity.
passive matrix
pas |sive ma ¦trix ▶noun Electronics a display system in which individual pixels are selected using two control voltages for the row and column.
passive resistance
pas |sive re |sist |ance ▶noun [ mass noun ] non-violent opposition to authority, especially a refusal to cooperate with legal requirements.
passive restraint
pas sive res traint ▶noun a car safety device that is activated by the force of a collision or other sudden stop and that aims to prevent injury to a passenger.
passive smoking
pas |sive smok ¦ing ▶noun [ mass noun ] the involuntary inhaling of smoke from other people's cigarettes, cigars, or pipes.
passivize
passivize |ˈpasɪvʌɪz |(also passivise ) ▶verb [ with obj. ] Grammar convert (a verb or clause ) into the passive form. DERIVATIVES passivization |-ˈzɛɪʃ (ə )n |noun
pass key
pass key ▶noun 1 a key to the door of a restricted area, given only to those who are officially allowed access. 2 a master key.
pass laws
pass laws ▶plural noun historical a body of laws in operation in South Africa under apartheid, controlling the rights of black people to residence and travel and implemented by means of identity documents compulsorily carried.
pass mark
pass mark ▶noun the minimum mark needed to pass an examination.
Passos, John Dos
Passos, John Dos see Dos Passos, John.
Passover
Pass |over |ˈpɑːsəʊvə | ▶noun the major Jewish spring festival which commemorates the liberation of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery, lasting seven or eight days from the 15th day of Nisan. ORIGIN from pass over ‘pass without touching ’, with reference to the exemption of the Israelites from the death of their firstborn (Exod. 12 ).
passport
pass |port |ˈpɑːspɔːt | ▶noun an official document issued by a government, certifying the holder's identity and citizenship and entitling them to travel under its protection to and from foreign countries. • [ in sing. ] a thing that ensures admission to or the achievement of something: good qualifications are a passport to success. ORIGIN late 15th cent. (denoting authorization to depart from a port ): from French passeport, from passer ‘to pass ’ + port ‘seaport ’.
passus
passus |ˈpasəs | ▶noun ( pl. same ) a section, division, or canto of a story or poem, especially a medieval one. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from Latin, literally ‘step, pace ’, in medieval Latin ‘passage of a book ’.
password
pass |word |ˈpɑːswəːd | ▶noun a secret word or phrase that must be used to gain admission to a place. • a string of characters that allows access to a computer, interface, or system.
American Oxford Thesaurus
pass
pass 1 verb 1 the traffic passing through the village: go, proceed, move, progress, make one's way, travel. ANTONYMS stop. 2 a car passed him: overtake, go past /by, pull ahead of, overhaul, leave behind; informal leapfrog. 3 time passed: elapse, go by /past, advance, wear on, roll by, tick by. 4 he passed the time writing letters: occupy, spend, fill, use (up ), employ, while away. 5 pass me the salt: hand (over ), give, reach. 6 Max passed the ball back: kick, hit, throw, lob. 7 her estate passed to her grandson: be transferred, go, be left, be bequeathed, be handed down /on, be passed on; Law devolve. 8 his death passed almost unnoticed: happen, occur, take place, come about, transpire, come and go; literary befall. 9 the storm passed: abate, fade (away ), come to an end, blow over, run its course, die out, finish, end, cease, subside. 10 nature's complexity passes all human understanding: surpass, exceed, transcend. 11 he passed the exam: be successful in, succeed in, gain a pass in, get through; informal sail through, scrape through. ANTONYMS fail. 12 the senate passed the bill: approve, vote for, accept, ratify, adopt, agree to, authorize, endorse, legalize, enact; informal OK. ANTONYMS reject. 13 she could not let that comment pass: go (unnoticed ), stand, go unremarked, go undisputed. 14 we should not pass judgment: declare, pronounce, utter, express, deliver, issue. 15 passing urine: discharge, excrete, evacuate, expel, emit, release. ▶noun 1 you must show your pass: permit, warrant, authorization, license. 2 a perfectly executed pass: kick, hit, throw, cross, lateral (pass ).PHRASES come to pass literary it came to pass that Dorothy left Roberto: happen, come about, occur, transpire, arise; literary befall. make a pass at are you accusing him of making a pass at you? make (sexual ) advances to, proposition; informal come on to, make a play for, hit on, make time with, put the make on. pass away /on See die (sense 1 ). pass as /for I really think you could pass for an attorney: be mistaken for, be taken for, be accepted as. pass off he tried to pass her off as his daughter: misrepresent, falsely represent; disguise. pass out this heat could make anyone pass out: faint, lose consciousness, black out. pass over many a great movie has been passed over by the Academy: disregard, overlook, ignore, pay no attention to, let pass, gloss over, take no notice of, pay no heed to, turn a blind eye to. pass up I should never have passed up my chance to go to Rome: turn down, reject, refuse, decline, give up, forgo, let pass, miss (out on ); informal give something a miss.
pass
pass 2 noun a pass through the mountains: route, way, road, passage, cut, gap, notch.
passable
passable adjective 1 the beer was passable: adequate, all right, fairly good, acceptable, satisfactory, moderately good, not (too ) bad, average, tolerable, fair; mediocre, middling, ordinary, indifferent, unremarkable, unexceptional; informal OK, so-so, 'comme ci, comme ça', nothing to write home about. 2 the road is still passable: navigable, traversable, negotiable, unblocked, unobstructed, open, clear.
passably
passably adverb a passably good dinner: quite, rather, somewhat, fairly, reasonably, moderately, comparatively, relatively, tolerably; informal pretty.
passage
passage noun 1 their passage through the country: transit, progress, passing, movement, motion, traveling. 2 the passage of time: passing, advance, course, march. 3 a passage from the embassy: safe conduct, warrant, visa; admission, access. 4 the overnight passage: voyage, crossing, trip, journey. 5 clearing a passage to the front door: way (through ), route, path. 6 a passage to the kitchen. See passageway (sense 1 ). 7 a passage between the buildings. See passageway (sense 2 ). 8 the nasal passages: duct, orifice, opening, channel; inlet, outlet. 9 the passage to democracy: transition, development, progress, move, change, shift. 10 the passage of the bill: enactment, passing, ratification, royal assent, approval, adoption, authorization, legalization. 11 a passage from “Macbeth ”: extract, excerpt, quotation, quote, citation, reading, piece, selection.
passageway
passageway noun 1 secret passageways: corridor, hall, passage, hallway, walkway, aisle. 2 a narrow passageway off the main street: alley, alleyway, passage, lane, path, pathway, footpath, track, thoroughfare.
passé
passé adjective See old-fashioned.
passenger
passenger noun rail passengers: traveler, commuter, fare, rider.
passerby
passerby noun several passersby confirmed his description of the collision: bystander, eyewitness, witness.
passing
passing adjective 1 of passing interest: fleeting, transient, transitory, ephemeral, brief, short-lived, temporary, momentary; literary evanescent. 2 a passing glance: hasty, rapid, hurried, brief, quick; cursory, superficial, casual, perfunctory. ▶noun 1 the passing of time: passage, course, progress, advance. 2 Jack's passing: death, demise, passing away /on, end, loss, quietus; formal decease. 3 the passing of the new bill: enactment, ratification, approval, adoption, authorization, legalization, endorsement. PHRASES in passing in passing, let me add that the new membership directory will be available on Thursday: incidentally, by the by /way, en passant.
passion
passion noun 1 the passion of activists: fervor, ardor, enthusiasm, eagerness, zeal, zealousness, vigor, fire, fieriness, energy, fervency, animation, spirit, spiritedness, fanaticism. ANTONYMS apathy. 2 he worked himself up into a passion: (blind ) rage, fit of anger /temper, temper, towering rage, tantrum, fury, frenzy. 3 hot with passion: love, (sexual ) desire, lust, ardor, infatuation, lasciviousness, lustfulness. 4 his passion for football: enthusiasm, love, mania, fascination, obsession, fanaticism, fixation, compulsion, appetite, addiction; informal thing. 5 French literature is my passion: obsession, preoccupation, craze, mania, hobbyhorse. 6 the Passion of Christ: crucifixion, suffering, agony, martyrdom.
passionate
passionate adjective 1 a passionate entreaty: intense, impassioned, ardent, fervent, vehement, heated, emotional, heartfelt, eager, excited, animated, adrenalized, spirited, energetic, fervid, frenzied, fiery, wild, consuming, violent; literary perfervid. ANTONYMS apathetic. 2 Elizabeth is passionate about sports: very keen on, very enthusiastic about, addicted to; informal mad about, crazy about, hooked on, nuts about, nutso for. 3 a passionate kiss: amorous, ardent, hot-blooded, aroused, loving, sexy, sensual, erotic, lustful; informal steamy, hot, red-hot, turned on. ANTONYMS cold. 4 a passionate woman: excitable, emotional, fiery, volatile, mercurial, quick-tempered, high-strung, impulsive, temperamental. ANTONYMS phlegmatic.
passionless
passionless adjective a room full of passionless faces: unemotional, cold, cold-blooded, emotionless, frigid, cool, unfeeling, unloving, unresponsive, undemonstrative, impassive.
passive
passive adjective 1 a passive role: inactive, nonactive, nonparticipative, uninvolved. 2 passive victims: submissive, acquiescent, unresisting, unassertive, compliant, pliant, obedient, docile, tractable, malleable, pliable. ANTONYMS active, assertive. 3 the woman's face was passive: emotionless, impassive, unemotional, unmoved, dispassionate, passionless, detached, unresponsive, undemonstrative, apathetic, phlegmatic.
passport
passport noun qualifications are the passport to success: key, path, way, route, avenue, door, doorway.
Oxford Thesaurus
pass
pass 1 verb 1 the traffic passing through the village: go, proceed, move, progress, make one's way, travel, drive, fly; run, flow, course, stream, roll, drift, sweep. ANTONYMS halt, stop. 2 every time a car passed him, he worried it might be the police: overtake, go past, move past, go by, get ahead of, pull ahead of, go ahead of; outstrip, outdistance, lap, leave behind; Brit. overhaul. 3 as time passed, my feelings towards him slowly changed: elapse, go by, go past, proceed, progress, advance, wear on, slip by, slip away, roll by, glide by, tick by. 4 he passed the time writing letters: occupy, spend, fill, use (up ), employ, devote, take up, while away, beguile; kill, waste, fritter, dissipate. 5 pass me the salt, please: hand, let someone have, give, hand over, hand round, reach; transfer, convey, deliver; throw, toss; informal chuck, bung. 6 he passed the ball back to the goalkeeper: kick, hit, throw, head, lob, loft. 7 on her death in 1865, the estate passed to her grandson: be transferred, be made over, be turned over, be signed over, go, devolve, be left, be bequeathed, be handed down /on, be given, be consigned, be passed on. 8 his death passed almost unnoticed: happen, occur, take place, come about, transpire; literary befall; rare eventuate. 9 the storm passed as quickly as it had begun: come to an end, cease to exist, fade, fade away, melt away, blow over, run its course, ebb, die out, evaporate, vanish, peter out, draw to a close, disappear, finish, end, cease, terminate; rare evanish. 10 God's peace passes all human understanding: surpass, exceed, go beyond, transcend, outdo, surmount, outstrip. 11 he passed the entrance exam: be successful in, succeed in, gain a pass in, get through, come through, meet the requirements of, pass muster in; qualify, graduate; informal come up to scratch in, come up to snuff in, sail through, scrape through. ANTONYMS fail. 12 the Senate passed the defence bill by seventy votes to sixteen: approve, vote for, accept, ratify, adopt, carry, agree to, authorize, sanction, endorse, validate, legalize, put into effect, enact; informal OK. ANTONYMS reject. 13 there was no way she could let that comment pass: go unnoticed, go unheeded, stand, go, be accepted, go unremarked, go undisputed, go uncensored. 14 I'm hardly in a position to pass judgement on her: declare, pronounce, utter, express, deliver, issue, set forth. 15 he felt a stinging sensation every time he passed urine: discharge, excrete, eliminate, evacuate, expel, emit, void, release, let out. PHRASES come to pass such a moment came to pass one fateful Saturday back in 1985: happen, come about, occur, transpire, arise; literary befall. pass away /on she passed away peacefully in her sleep. See die. pass as /for she could easily pass for someone half her age: be mistaken for, be taken for, be regarded as, be accepted as. pass off 1 the rally passed off peacefully: take place, go off, happen, occur, be carried though, be completed, be brought to a conclusion, be accomplished; turn out, fall out, pan out; N. Amer. go down. 2 when the dizziness passed off he sat up and looked at his watch: wear off, come to an end, fade, fade away, pass, disappear, vanish, die down, ebb. pass someone off he added Natasha's name to his passport, passing her off as his daughter: misrepresent, falsely represent, give a false identity to; disguise, dress up. pass out she probably banged her head when she passed out: faint, collapse, lose consciousness, black out, keel over; informal flake out, conk out; literary swoon. pass something over the court cannot possibly pass over these offences: disregard, overlook, ignore, avoid considering, not take into consideration, forget, pay no attention to, let pass, let go, gloss over, take no notice of, pay no heed to, take no account of, close one's eyes to, turn a deaf ear to, turn a blind eye to, omit, skip; archaic overleap. pass something up I can't pass up a bargain like this, can I? fail to take advantage of, turn down, reject, refuse, decline, deny oneself, give up, forgo, let go by, let pass, miss, miss out on, ignore, brush aside, dismiss, waive, spurn, neglect, abandon; informal give something a miss. ▶noun 1 you can only get in if you have a pass: permit, warrant, authorization, licence; passport, visa, safe conduct, exeat; free ticket, free admission, complimentary ticket; rare laissez-passer. 2 a cross-field pass: kick, hit, throw, shot, header. PHRASES come to a pretty pass things have come to a pretty pass if the tabloids are influencing England's selection policy: reach a regrettable /bad state (of affairs ), be in a worrying state, be in a sad plight, be in troubled circumstances, be in dire straits; informal be in a pickle /hole. make a pass at I bet he made a pass at Elizabeth: make sexual advances to, make advances to, make sexual overtures to, proposition, make a sexual approach to; informal come on to, make a play for; N. Amer. informal hit on, make time with, put the make on; dated make love to.
pass
pass 2 noun a pass through the mountains: route, way, road, narrow road, passage, cut, gap, gorge, canyon, ravine, gully, defile, col, couloir; Scottish bealach; N. Amer. notch.
passable
passable adjective 1 the beer was passable: adequate, all right, fairly good, acceptable, sufficiently good, sufficient, satisfactory, moderately good, not (too ) bad, average, tolerable, fair, decent, respectable, presentable, admissible, allowable; mediocre, middling, ordinary, run-of-the-mill, workaday, indifferent, unremarkable, undistinguished, unexceptional; informal OK, so-so, fair-to-middling, nothing to write home about, no great shakes, not up to much, not much cop, bog-standard, vanilla, plain vanilla; NZ informal half-pie. ANTONYMS unacceptable; excellent. 2 the road is still passable: navigable, traversable, negotiable, crossable, able to be travelled on /along, unblocked, unobstructed, open, clear, usable. ANTONYMS impassable.
passably
passably adverb a passably good dinner: quite, rather, somewhat, fairly, reasonably, moderately, comparatively, relatively, after a fashion, to a limited extent /degree, to a certain degree, to some extent, tolerably; adequately, satisfactorily; informal pretty, ish.
passage
passage noun 1 only one incident marred their passage through the country | the passage of sound through water: transit, progress, passing, movement, moving, motion, going, crossing, travelling, traversal, traverse. 2 the passage of time: passing, advance, course, march, moving on, flow. 3 they obtained a passage to Ajaccio from the French Minister of Culture: safe conduct, entry, admission, access; permission /authorization to travel through, leave to travel in; warrant, visa. 4 the overnight passage to Aberdeen was wild and stormy: voyage, crossing, trip, cruise, sail; journey, tour, trek. 5 police officers cleared a passage to the front door: way, way through, route, path, course. 6 a small passage led to the kitchen: corridor, passageway, hall, hallway, entrance hall, entrance, walkway, aisle, gangway. 7 a passage between the buildings: alley, alleyway, lane, path, pathway, way, footpath, track, trackway, road, thoroughfare; Scottish & N. English ginnel, snicket, vennel, wynd, twitten; N. Amer. areaway; W. Indian & US trace; Indian gully. 8 food and air passages | the nasal passages: duct; orifice, opening, aperture, hole, channel; inlet, outlet. 9 an abrupt passage from the darkness of the Middle Ages to the light of the Renaissance: transition, development, progress, progression, move, change, shift, conversion, metamorphosis. 10 the passage of a Private Member's Bill: enactment, passing, ratification, acceptance, approval, adoption, authorization, sanction, validation, legalization, endorsement. 11 a passage from ‘Macbeth ’: extract, excerpt, quotation, quote, citation, cite, reading, section, piece, selection, part, snippet, fragment, portion; text, paragraph, verse, stanza, canto, line, sentence, phrase.
passageway
passageway noun 1 the house was full of secret passageways: corridor, hall, passage, hallway, walkway, gangway, aisle. 2 her hotel was at the end of a narrow passageway off the main street: alley, alleyway, lane, path, pathway, way, footpath, track, trackway, road, thoroughfare; Scottish & N. English ginnel, snicket, vennel, wynd, twitten; N. Amer. areaway; W. Indian & US trace; Indian gully.
passé
passé adjective French this type of film has long been denounced as passé: out of date, outdated, out, dated, unfashionable, out of fashion, old-fashioned, outmoded, out of style, behind the times, outworn, archaic, obsolescent, obsolete, ancient, antiquated, superannuated, defunct, dead, old-fogeyish, old-fangled, quaint, anachronistic, olde worlde, medieval; French démodé; N. Amer. horse-and-buggy; informal old hat, square, not with it, out of the ark, creaky, mouldy, square-toed; N. Amer. informal clunky, rinky-dink, mossy. ANTONYMS fashionable.
passenger
passenger noun 1 more than fifty passengers escaped injury when the train was derailed: traveller, commuter, voyager, rider, fare payer, fare; deck passenger, foot passenger. 2 all departments have their share of passengers: hanger-on, drone, idler, parasite; informal freeloader.
passing
passing adjective 1 his death was of only passing interest: fleeting, transient, transitory, ephemeral, evanescent, brief, short-lived, short, temporary, momentary, fading, impermanent; rare fugacious. ANTONYMS permanent, lasting. 2 the sculpture is worth more than a passing glance: hasty, rapid, hurried, brief, quick; cursory, superficial, casual, perfunctory, desultory, incidental, summary, glancing. ANTONYMS careful. ▶noun 1 the passing of time has done little to improve the situation: passage, course, progress, advance, process, flow. 2 it was with much regret that I learned of Jack's passing | the passing of ‘traditional ’ art: death, demise, passing away, passing on, end, expiry, loss, expiration, decease; disappearance, vanishing, dying out; rare quietus. 3 the passing of the government's new Heritage Bill: enactment, passage, ratification, acceptance, approval, adoption, authorization, sanction, validation, legalization, endorsement. PHRASES in passing he mentioned in passing that you had a lot of female visitors: incidentally, by the by, by the way, as it happens, in the course of conversation, en passant, parenthetically.
passion
passion noun 1 the passion with which voters attach themselves to a particular political party: fervour, ardour, intensity, enthusiasm, eagerness, zeal, zealousness, vehemence, vigour, avidity, avidness, feeling, emotion, fire, heat, fieriness, fierceness, excitement, energy, animation, gusto, zest, zestfulness, spirit, spiritedness, commitment, fanaticism, violence; rare fervency, ardency, passionateness. ANTONYMS indifference, apathy. 2 he gradually worked himself up into a passion: rage, blind rage, fit of rage /anger /temper, temper, towering rage, outburst of anger, tantrum, fury, frenzy, paroxysm, fever; Brit. informal paddy; Brit. informal, dated wax, bate, paddywhack. 3 Roman's deep voice was husky with passion: love, desire, sexual love, sexual desire, lust, ardour, hunger, yearning, longing, craving, adoration, infatuation, lasciviousness, lustfulness; French amour fou; rare concupiscence, nympholepsy. 4 his passion for football: enthusiasm, love, mania, keen interest, fascination, obsession, fanaticism, fixation, predilection, compulsion, appetite, relish, partiality, liking, interest, weakness, penchant, addiction, fondness; informal thing, yen; rare appetency. 5 English literature is something of a passion with me: obsession, preoccupation, craze, mania, rage, hobby horse. 6 the Passion of Christ: crucifixion, pain, suffering, agony, martyrdom; rare martyrization.
passionate
passionate adjective 1 a passionate entreaty | passionate hatred: intense, impassioned, ardent, fervent, zealous, vehement, fiery, heated, feverish, emotional, heartfelt, eager, excited, animated, spirited, vigorous, strong, energetic, messianic, fanatical, frenzied, wild, fierce, consuming, violent, tumultuous, flaming, raging, burning, uncontrollable, ungovernable; rare perfervid, fervid, passional. ANTONYMS apathetic, half-hearted. 2 McGregor is passionate about sport: very keen on, very enthusiastic about, addicted to, devoted to, infatuated with; informal mad about, crazy about, hooked on, nuts about, nutty about, gone on; N. Amer. informal nutso over; Austral. /NZ informal shook on. 3 a passionate lover | a passionate kiss: amorous, ardent, hot-blooded, red-blooded, warm-blooded, aroused, loving, on fire, sexy, sensual, erotic, lustful, sultry, torrid; informal steamy, sizzling, hot, red-hot, turned on. ANTONYMS cold, passionless. 4 Christina was passionate and given to terrible tantrums: excitable, emotional, intense, fiery, volatile, mercurial, quick-tempered, hot-headed, highly strung, hot-blooded, impulsive, temperamental, tempestuous, dramatic, melodramatic. ANTONYMS phlegmatic, placid.
passionless
passionless adjective 1 he was not as passionless as they made out: unemotional, cold, cold-blooded, emotionless, frigid, cool, unfeeling, unloving, unresponsive, undemonstrative, impassive, withdrawn, unapproachable, aloof, detached, distant, dispassionate, remote. ANTONYMS passionate. 2 the whole movie seems oddly passionless: dull, boring, lacking in vitality, spiritless, lifeless, soulless, wooden, dry, desiccated, flat, uninspired, unimpassioned, insipid, lacklustre, colourless, anaemic, bloodless, vapid. ANTONYMS exciting.
passive
passive adjective 1 he played only a passive role in the proceedings: inactive, non-active, non-participative, non-participating, uninvolved, dormant, quiescent, inert. 2 the women were portrayed as passive victims: submissive, acquiescent, unresisting, yielding, unassertive, non-resistant, compliant, complaisant, pliant, resigned, obedient, docile, tractable, malleable, pliable, meek, subdued, deferential, forbearing, long-suffering, patient, lamblike, non-violent, supine; non-aggressive; archaic resistless. ANTONYMS active, assertive. 3 the woman's face was passive: emotionless, impassive, indifferent, unemotional, unmoved, unconcerned, dispassionate, passionless, detached, unresponsive, undemonstrative, remote, aloof, calm, apathetic, phlegmatic, lifeless.
passport
passport noun 1 travel document, travel papers, papers, travel permit, visa, identity card, ID, laissez-passer. 2 good qualifications are the passport to success: key, path, way, route, avenue, means of access, door, doorway, entry, entrée, admission, admittance, open sesame.
password
password noun word of identification, sign, signal, word; open sesame; Military, archaic watchword, countersign, parole.
Duden Dictionary
Pass
Pass Substantiv, maskulin , der |P a ss |der Pass; Genitiv: des Passes, Pässe 1 amtliches Dokument (mit Angaben zur Person, [biometrischen Daten, ] Lichtbild und Unterschrift des Inhabers bzw. der Inhaberin ), das der Legitimation besonders bei Reisen ins Ausland dient gekürzt aus älter passbrif, passport < französisch passeport = Geleitbrief, Passierschein, zu: passer = überschreiten (passieren ) und port = Durchgang ein deutscher Pass | der Pass ist abgelaufen | den Pass vorzeigen jemandem die Pässe zustellen [der diplomatischen Vertretung eines Staates ] das Agrément entziehen 2 (im Hochgebirge ) niedrigster Punkt zwischen zwei Bergrücken oder Kämmen, der einen Übergang über einen Gebirgszug ermöglicht französisch pas (vgl. italienisch passo, niederländisch pas ) < lateinisch passus = Schritt der Pass ist gesperrt | einen Pass überqueren 3 englisch pass Ballspiele, besonders Fußball gezieltes Zuspielen, gezielte Ballabgabe an einen Spieler, eine Spielerin der eigenen Mannschaft ein steiler Pass | einen Pass spielen 4 zu veraltet Pass = abgemessener Teil, Zirkel (schlag )Architektur aus mehreren Kreisbogen gebildete Figur des gotischen Maßwerks 5 Jägersprache ausgetretener Pfad des niederen Haarwildes 6 Passgang
passabel
pas sa bel Adjektiv |pass a bel |Adjektiv; Steigerungsformen: passabler, passabelste französisch passable, eigentlich = gangbar, zu: passer, passieren bestimmten Ansprüchen einigermaßen gerecht werdend; annehmbar eine passable Handschrift | das Hotel ist passabel
Passacaglia
Pas sa ca g lia, Pas sa ca glia Substantiv, feminin Musik , die |…ˈkalja |die Passacaglia; Genitiv: der Passacaglia, Plural: die Passacaglien |[…jən ]|italienisch passacaglia < spanisch pasacalle = von der Gitarre begleiteter Gesang, zu: pasar = hindurchgehen und calle = Straße; nach den durch die Straßen ziehenden Musikantengruppen Instrumentalstück aus Variationen über eine vier- oder achttaktige, als Ostinato ständig wiederkehrende Bassmelodie
Passacaille
Pas sa cail le Substantiv, feminin , die |…ˈkaːjə |die Passacaille; Genitiv: der Passacaille, Plural: die Passacaillen lateinisch-spanisch-französisch Passacaglia
Passage
Pas sa ge Substantiv, feminin , die |paˈsaːʒə österreichisch meist …ʃ |die Passage; Genitiv: der Passage, Plural: die Passagen französisch passage, zu: passer, passieren ; schon mittelhochdeutsch passāsche = Weg, Furt 1 ohne Plural das Durchgehen, Durchfahren, Passieren 1b dem Schiff wurde die Passage verwehrt 2 a [schmale ] Stelle zum Durchgehen, Durchfahren, Passieren 1b b überdachte kurze Ladenstraße für Fußgänger [die zwei Straßen verbindet ]3 große Reise mit dem Schiff oder dem Flugzeug über das Meer eine Passage buchen 4 fortlaufender, zusammenhängender Teil (besonders einer Rede oder eines Textes ) eine längere Passage aus einem Buch zitieren | sie hatte schwierige Passagen in ihrer Kür 5 Musik auf- und absteigende schnelle Tonfolge in solistischer Instrumental- oder Vokalmusik 6 Astronomie (von einem Gestirn ) das Überschreiten des Meridians 7 Reiten (als Übung der Hohen Schule ) Form des Trabes, bei der die erhobenen diagonalen Beinpaare länger in der Schwebe bleiben
Passageinstrument
Pas sa ge in s t ru ment , Pas sa ge in stru ment Substantiv, Neutrum Astronomie , das |Pass a geinstrument |das Passageinstrument; Genitiv: des Passageinstrument [e ]s, Plural: die Passageinstrumente Messinstrument zur Bestimmung der Durchgangszeiten der Sterne durch den Meridian
passager
pas sa ger Adjektiv Medizin |…ˈʒeːɐ̯ |französisch passager (in Bezug auf Symptome, Krankheiten o. Ä.) nur vorübergehend auftretend
Passagier
Pas sa gier Substantiv, maskulin , der Passagierin |…ˈʒiːɐ̯ |der Passagier; Genitiv: des Passagiers, Plural: die Passagiere (unter Einfluss von französisch passager = Passagier ) italienisch passaggiere, Nebenform von: passeggero = Reisender, zu: passare = reisen, über das Vulgärlateinische zu lateinisch passus, Pass Person, die sich auf einer Reise (besonders mit Flugzeug oder Schiff ) befindet Kurzform: Pax blinder Passagier jemand, der sich heimlich besonders an Bord eines Schiffes, Flugzeuges versteckt hat und ohne Fahrkarte, ohne Erlaubnis mitreist zu »blind « in der veralteten Bedeutung »versteckt, heimlich «
Passagierdampfer
Pas sa gier damp fer Substantiv, maskulin , der |Passag ie rdampfer |Fahrgastschiff
Passagierflugzeug
Pas sa gier flug zeug Substantiv, Neutrum , das |Passag ie rflugzeug |Flugzeug, das zur Beförderung von Fluggästen dient
Passagiergut
Pas sa gier gut Substantiv, Neutrum , das |Passag ie rgut |vom Fahrgast aufgegebenes Gepäck, das mit dem gleichen Beförderungsmittel mitgenommen wird wie der Passagier
Passagierin
Pas sa gie rin Substantiv, feminin , die |Passag ie rin |die Passagierin; Genitiv: der Passagierin, Plural: die Passagierinnen weibliche Form zu Passagier
Passagierliste
Pas sa gier lis te Substantiv, feminin , die |Passag ie rliste |Liste der Passagierinnen und Passagiere an Bord eines Schiffes, Flugzeugs
Passagiermaschine
Pas sa gier ma schi ne Substantiv, feminin , die |Passag ie rmaschine |
Passah
Pas sah , Pas sa Substantiv, Neutrum jüdische Religion , das Passa |P a ssah P a ssa ˈpasa ˈpasa |das Passah; Genitiv: des Passah [s ] das Passa; Genitiv: des Passa [s ] 1 Fest zum Gedenken an den Auszug aus Ägypten 2 Passahlamm
Passahfest
Pas sah fest , Pas sa fest Substantiv, Neutrum , das Passafest |P a ssahfest P a ssafest | Passah 1
Passahlamm
Pas sah lamm , Pas sa lamm Substantiv, Neutrum , das Passalamm |P a ssahlamm P a ssalamm |Lamm, das beim Passahmahl gegessen wird; Passah 2
Passahmahl
Pas sah mahl , Pas sa mahl Substantiv, Neutrum , das Passamahl |P a ssahmahl P a ssamahl |das Passahmahl < Plural: Passahmahle > das Passamahl < Plural: Passamahle > Mahl am Passahfest
Passameter
Pas sa me ter Substantiv, Neutrum Technik , das |Passam e ter |das Passameter; Genitiv: des Passameters, Plural: die Passameter lateinisch ; griechisch Feinmessgerät für Außenmessung an Werkstücken
Passamezzo
Pas sa mez zo Substantiv, maskulin , der |Passam e zzo |der Passamezzo; Genitiv: des Passamezzos, Plural: die Passamezzi lateinisch-italienisch 1 alter italienischer Tanz, eine Art schnelle Pavane 2 Teil der Suite 4
Passamt
Pass amt Substantiv, Neutrum , das |P a ssamt |Behörde, die für das Ausstellen von Pässen 1 zuständig ist
Passant
Pas sant Substantiv, maskulin , der Passantin |Pass a nt |der Passant; Genitiv: des Passanten, Plural: die Passanten französisch passant, substantiviertes 1. Partizip von: passer, passieren 1 [vorbeigehender ] Fußgänger 2 schweizerisch Durchreisender
Passantin
Pas san tin Substantiv, feminin , die |Pass a ntin |die Passantin; Genitiv: der Passantin, Plural: die Passantinnen weibliche Form zu Passant
Passat
Pas sat Substantiv, maskulin , der |Pass a t |der Passat; Genitiv: des Passat [e ]s, Plural: die Passate aus dem Niederdeutschen < niederländisch passaat (wind ), Herkunft ungeklärt in Richtung Äquator gleichmäßig wehender Ostwind in den Tropen
Passatwind
Pas sat wind Substantiv, maskulin , der |Pass a twind |
Passau
Pas sau Eigenname |P a ssau |Stadt an der Mündung von Inn und Ilz in die Donau
Passauer
Pas sau er Adjektiv |P a ssauer |indeklinables Adjektiv der Passauer Dom
Passauer
Pas sau er Substantiv, maskulin , der |P a ssauer |der Passauer; Genitiv: des Passauers, Plural: die Passauer Einwohnerbezeichnung
Passauerin
Pas sau e rin Substantiv, feminin , die |P a ssauerin |weibliche Form zu Passauer
Passbild
Pass bild Substantiv, Neutrum , das |P a ssbild |für einen Pass 1 , Ausweis bestimmte Porträtaufnahme in Kleinformat [die bestimmten amtlichen Anforderungen entsprechen muss ]
passe
passe pas; französisch passe, eigentlich = übertrifft, nach den höheren Zahlen im Gegensatz zu manque , 3. Person Singular Präsens Indikativ von: passer = übertreffen, vorbeigehen, passieren die Zahlen von 19 bis 36 betreffend (in Bezug auf eine Gewinnmöglichkeit im Roulette )
passé
pas sé, pas see Adjektiv umgangssprachlich passee |paˈseː paˈseː |französisch passé, 2. Partizip von: passer, passieren [im Rahmen der Entwicklung ] vorbei; [als nicht mehr in die Zeit passend ] abgetan diese Mode ist [endgültig ] passé | er ist als Politiker passé (hat als Politiker keine Chance mehr )
Passe
Pas se Substantiv, feminin , die |P a sse |die Passe; Genitiv: der Passe, Plural: die Passen lateinisch-französisch maßgerecht geschnittener Stoffteil, der bei Kleidungsstücken im Bereich der Schultern angesetzt wird
Pässe
Päs se |P ä sse |Plural von Pass
Passeier
Pas sei er Substantiv, Neutrum , das |Pass ei er |Alpental in Südtirol
Passeiertal
Pas sei er tal , Pas sei er-Tal Substantiv, Neutrum , das Passeier-Tal |Pass ei ertal Pass ei er-Tal |das Passeiertal; Genitiv: des Passeiertal [e ]s das Passeier-Tal; Genitiv: des Passeier-Tal [e ]s Alpental in Südtirol
Passementerie
Pas se men te rie Substantiv, feminin , die |pasəmãtəˈriː |die Passementerie; Genitiv: der Passementerie, Plural: die Passementerien mit Posamenten verziertes textiles Erzeugnis
passen
pas sen schwaches Verb |p a ssen |schwaches Verb; Perfektbildung mit »hat « mittelhochdeutsch (niederrheinisch ) passen = zum Ziel kommen, erreichen (durch niederländische Vermittlung ) < französisch passer, passieren 1 a (von Kleidung o. Ä.) jemandem in Größe und Schnitt angemessen sein; der Figur und den Maßen entsprechen; nicht zu eng, zu weit, zu groß oder zu klein sein der Mantel passt [mir ] nicht b für jemanden, etwas geeignet sein; auf jemanden, etwas abgestimmt sein, sodass eine harmonische Gesamtwirkung entsteht die Farbe der Schuhe passt nicht zum Anzug | sie passt nicht zu uns | häufig im 1. Partizip bei passender Gelegenheit 2 a genau das Maß, die Form o. Ä. haben, dass es sich zu etwas, in etwas [verbindend ] bringen lässt dieser Deckel passt nicht auf den Topf b einer Sache genau das Maß, die Form o. Ä. geben, dass sie sich zu etwas, in etwas [verbindend ] bringen lässt die Bolzen in die Bohrlöcher passen 3 a (meist aus persönlichen Gründen o. Ä.) jemandes Einstellung entsprechen und deshalb sehr angenehm sein der neue Mann passte dem Chef nicht | um 15 Uhr passt es mir gut das könnte dir (ihm usw. ) so passen spöttisch das hättest du [das hätte er usw. ] wohl gerne so b sich passen umgangssprachlich sich schicken, gehören das, deine Kleidung passt sich nicht für diesen Anlass c landschaftlich richtig sein, stimmen was sie berichtet hat, das könnte eher passen , als das, was er da erzählt d mit jemandem, etwas übereinstimmen das passt ganz gut auf die Beschreibung 4 a landschaftlich aufpassen b auf ihn musst du besonders passen , er ist gefährlich b landschaftlich auf jemanden, etwas gespannt warten, lauern den ganzen Tag habe ich auf dich gepasst 5 a Skat nicht [mehr ] weiterreizen (und damit darauf verzichten, das Spiel in die Hand zu bekommen ) [ich ] passe! b umgangssprachlich nicht weiterwissen, keine Antwort wissen und deshalb (in diesem Fall ) aufgeben da muss ich passen , das weiß ich nicht 6 englisch to pass Ballspiele, besonders Fußball (den Ball ) einem Spieler, einer Spielerin der eigenen Mannschaft gezielt zuspielen er passte steil zum Libero
passend
pas send |p a ssend |die richtige Passform besitzend
passend
pas send Adjektiv |p a ssend |1 geeignet, sich anbietend das ist eine passende Gelegenheit für Lob und Kritik 2 (von Kleingeld ) genau abgezählt hätten Sie's passend ?
passenderweise
pas sen der wei se Adverb |p a ssenderweise |wie es passt; wie es (für jemanden oder etwas ) geeignet ist der Fußballer hat passenderweise während der WM Geburtstag
Passepartout
Passe par tout Substantiv, Neutrum oder Substantiv, maskulin , das oder der |pasparˈtuː |das, schweizerisch: der Passepartout; Genitiv: des Passepartouts, Plural: die Passepartouts französisch passe-partout, eigentlich = etwas, was überall passt 1 Umrahmung aus leichter Pappe für Grafiken, Zeichnungen, Fotos o. Ä., die meist unter dem Glas eines Rahmens liegt 2 schweizerisch, sonst veraltet Dauerkarte 3 schweizerisch, sonst selten Hauptschlüssel
Passepied
Passe pi ed , Passe pied Substantiv, maskulin , der |pasˈpi̯eː |der Passepied; Genitiv: des Passepieds, Plural: die Passepieds französisch passe-pied, eigentlich = Tanz, bei dem ein Fuß über den anderen gesetzt wird 1 Rundtanz aus der Bretagne in schnellem, ungeradem Takt 2 Musik zu den nicht festen Teilen der Instrumentalsuite gehörender Tanz, der meist zwischen Sarabande und Gigue eingeschoben ist
Passepoil
Passe poil Substantiv, maskulin besonders österreichisch, schweizerisch , der |pasˈpo̯al |französisch passepoil Paspel
passepoilieren
passe poi lie ren schwaches Verb besonders österreichisch |passepoil ie ren paspo̯a …|schwaches Verb; Perfektbildung mit »hat « französisch passepoiler paspelieren
Passeport
Passe port Substantiv, maskulin , der |pasˈpoːɐ̯ |der Passeport; Genitiv: des Passeports, Plural: die Passeports französisch passeport, Pass französische Bezeichnung für: Reisepass
Passer
Pas ser Substantiv, maskulin Druckwesen , der |P a sser |der Passer; Genitiv: des Passers, Plural: die Passer genaues Aufeinanderliegen der Druckformen o. Ä. bei mehrmaligem aufeinanderfolgendem Drucken, besonders beim Mehrfarbendruck
Passerelle
Pas se rel le Substantiv, feminin schweizerisch , die |P a sserelle |die Passerelle; Genitiv: der Passerelle, Plural: die Passerellen französisch Fußgängerüberweg, kleiner Viadukt
Passevite
Passe vite Substantiv, Neutrum schweizerisch , das |pasˈviːt |französisch passe-vite, zu: passer = passieren 3 und vite = schnell Passiermaschine
Passform
Pass form Substantiv, feminin , die |P a ssform |ohne Plural (von Kleidung, Wäsche ) passender, maßgerechter Sitz
Passfoto
Pass fo to Substantiv, Neutrum oder Substantiv, feminin , das oder die |P a ssfoto ˈpasfoːto |das, schweizerisch auch: die Passfoto Passbild
Passgang
Pass gang Substantiv, maskulin , der |P a ssgang |ohne Plural zu französisch pas = Gang, Schritt, Pass Gangart von Vierbeinern, bei der beide Beine einer Körperseite gleichzeitig nach vorn gesetzt werden
Passgänger
Pass gän ger Substantiv, maskulin , der |P a ssgänger |Vierbeiner, der sich im Passgang fortbewegt Kamele sind Passgänger
Passgängerin
Pass gän ge rin Substantiv, feminin , die |P a ssgängerin |weibliche Form zu Passgänger
passgenau
pass ge nau Adjektiv |p a ssgenau |(von einer Form ) genau passend, sich einpassend auf Millimeter passgenau sein
passgerecht
pass ge recht Adjektiv |p a ssgerecht |maßgerecht
Passhöhe
Pass hö he Substantiv, feminin , die |P a sshöhe |höchster Punkt eines Passes 2
Passierball
Pas sier ball Substantiv, maskulin Tennis , der |Pass ie rball |
passierbar
pas sier bar Adjektiv |pass ie rbar |sich passieren 1a 1a, b lassend
passieren
pas sie ren schwaches Verb |pass ie ren |französisch passer, über das Romanische (vgl. italienisch passare ) zu lateinisch passus, Pass 1 a Perfektbildung mit »hat « (in Bezug auf eine Absperrung, Grenze o. Ä.) auf die andere Seite gehen, fahren der Zug hat gerade die Grenze passiert | figurativ der Film hat die Zensur passiert (ist ohne Beanstandung durch die Zensur gegangen ) | figurativ diese Ware passiert zollfrei (muss an der Grenze nicht verzollt werden ) | figurativ der Torwart musste den Ball passieren lassen (besonders Fußball ; konnte ihn nicht halten )b Perfektbildung mit »hat « durch etwas hindurch-, über etwas hinweggehen, -fahren eine Brücke passieren c Perfektbildung mit »hat « an jemandem, etwas vorbeigehen, -fahren den Wachtposten passieren 2 a Perfektbildung mit »ist « französisch se passer geschehen 1a dort ist ein Unglück passiert | er tat so, als sei nichts passiert b Perfektbildung mit »ist « französisch se passer geschehen 1b was passiert mit den alten Zeitungen?c Perfektbildung mit »ist « französisch se passer geschehen 1c mir ist eine Panne passiert | das kann jedem mal passieren | wenn du nicht gleich ruhig bist, passiert [dir ] was! (Drohung )3 Perfektbildung mit »hat « (weiche Nahrungsmittel ) durch ein Sieb oder ein dazu geeignetes Gerät treiben und so eine Art Brei o. Ä. herstellen Spinat passieren 4 Tennis (am Gegner, der zum Netz vorgerückt ist ) den Ball so vorbeischlagen, dass er für ihn unerreichbar ist er passierte den Australier mit einem Drive
Passiergewicht
Pas sier ge wicht Substantiv, Neutrum Münzkunde , das |Pass ie rgewicht |Gewicht, das eine Münze mindestens haben muss, um gültig zu sein
Passiermaschine
Pas sier ma schi ne Substantiv, feminin , die |Pass ie rmaschine |[Küchen ]gerät zum Passieren 3
Passierschein
Pas sier schein Substantiv, maskulin , der |Pass ie rschein |Schein, der zum Betreten eines Bereichs o. Ä. berechtigt, der einem bestimmten Personenkreis vorbehalten ist den Passierschein vorzeigen
Passierscheinabkommen
Pas sier schein ab kom men Substantiv, Neutrum , das |Pass ie rscheinabkommen |
Passierscheinstelle
Pas sier schein stel le Substantiv, feminin , die |Pass ie rscheinstelle |
Passierschlag
Pas sier schlag Substantiv, maskulin Tennis , der |Pass ie rschlag |Schlag, mit dem der Ball an dem zum Netz vorgerückten Gegner so vorbeigeschlagen wird, dass er für ihn unerreichbar ist
Passiersieb
Pas sier sieb Substantiv, Neutrum , das |Pass ie rsieb |
Passiflora
Pas si flo ra Substantiv, feminin , die |Passifl o ra |die Passiflora; Genitiv: der Passiflora, Plural: die Passifloren lateinisch-neulateinisch Passionsblume
passim
pas sim Adverb |p a ssim |lateinisch da und dort, zerstreut, allenthalben Abkürzung: pass.
Passimeter
Pas si me ter Substantiv, Neutrum Technik , das |Passim e ter |das Passimeter; Genitiv: des Passimeters, Plural: die Passimeter lateinisch ; griechisch Feinmessgerät für Innenmessungen an Werkstücken
Passio
Pas sio Substantiv, feminin Philosophie , die |P a ssio |die Passio; Genitiv: der Passio lateinisch das Erleiden, Erdulden; Gegensatz Actio 2
Passion
Pas si on Substantiv, feminin , die |Passi o n |die Passion; Genitiv: der Passion, Plural: die Passionen 1 a starke, leidenschaftliche Neigung zu etwas; Vorliebe, Liebhaberei französisch passion < spätlateinisch passio, Passion 2 b leidenschaftliche Hingabe französisch passion < spätlateinisch passio, Passion 2 2 a ohne Plural spätmittelhochdeutsch passiōn < kirchenlateinisch passio < (spät )lateinisch passio = Leiden, Krankheit, zu lateinisch passum, 2. Partizip von: pati, Patient christliche Religion das Leiden und die Leidensgeschichte Christi b spätmittelhochdeutsch passiōn < kirchenlateinisch passio < (spät )lateinisch passio = Leiden, Krankheit, zu lateinisch passum, 2. Partizip von: pati, Patient christliche Religion künstlerische Darstellung der Leidensgeschichte Christi c spätmittelhochdeutsch passiōn < kirchenlateinisch passio < (spät )lateinisch passio = Leiden, Krankheit, zu lateinisch passum, 2. Partizip von: pati, Patient christliche Religion Vertonung der Leidensgeschichte Christi als Chorwerk oder Oratorium
Passional
Pas si o nal Substantiv, Neutrum , das Passionar |Passion a l |das Passional; Genitiv: des Passionals, Plural: die Passionale mittellateinisch passionale, passionarius 1 mittelalterliches liturgisches Buch mit Heiligengeschichten 2 größte Legendensammlung des deutschen Mittelalters um 1300
Passionar
Pas si o nar Substantiv, Neutrum , das Passional |Passion a r |das Passionar; Genitiv: des Passionars, Plural: die Passionare mittellateinisch passionale, passionarius 1 mittelalterliches liturgisches Buch mit Heiligengeschichten 2 größte Legendensammlung des deutschen Mittelalters um 1300
passionato
pas si o na to Adverb Musik |passion a to |italienisch leidenschaftlich, stürmisch; appassionato
Passionato
Pas si o na to Substantiv, Neutrum Musik , das |Passion a to |das Passionato; Genitiv: des Passionatos, Plural: die Passionatos und Passionati leidenschaftlicher Vortrag
passioniert
pas si o niert Adjektiv |passion ie rt |zu veraltet passionieren = sich für etwas leidenschaftlich einsetzen < französisch passionner sich einer Sache mit leidenschaftlicher Begeisterung hingebend; aus Passion
Passionsblume
Pas si ons blu me Substantiv, feminin , die |Passi o nsblume |in den verschiedenen Teilen der Blüte glaubte man die Dornenkrone Christi und die Nägel vom Kreuz zu erkennen (besonders in Südamerika heimische ) rankende Pflanze mit großen, gelappten bis gefingerten Blättern und großen, strahligen Blüten
Passionsfrucht
Pas si ons frucht Substantiv, feminin , die |Passi o nsfrucht |
Passionssonntag
Pas si ons sonn tag Substantiv, maskulin katholische Kirche , der |Passi o nssonntag |vorletzter Sonntag vor Ostern
Passionsspiel
Pas si ons spiel Substantiv, Neutrum , das |Passi o nsspiel |volkstümliche dramatische Darstellung der Passion Christi
Passionsspielhaus
Pas si ons spiel haus Substantiv, Neutrum , das |Passi o nsspielhaus |
Passionsweg
Pas si ons weg Substantiv, maskulin gehoben , der |Passi o nsweg |Leidensweg
Passionswoche
Pas si ons wo che Substantiv, feminin , die |Passi o nswoche |Karwoche
Passionszeit
Pas si ons zeit Substantiv, feminin , die |Passi o nszeit |a christliche Kirche Zeit vom Passionssonntag bis Karfreitag b Fastenzeit b
passiv
pas siv Adjektiv |p a ssiv auch …ˈsiːf |wohl unter Einfluss von französisch passif < lateinisch passivus = duldend, empfindsam, zu: pati, Passion 1 a von sich aus nicht die Initiative ergreifend und sich abwartend verhaltend, die Dinge an sich herankommen lassend, nicht tätig, rührig, zielstrebig, nicht tatkräftig oder unternehmungslustig er ist eine völlig passive Natur b nicht selbst in einer Sache tätig, sie nicht ausübend, sie erduldend; etwas mit sich geschehen lassend, auf sich einwirken lassend er wollte bei der Diskussion kein passiver Teilnehmer sein | passiver Raucher Nichtraucher, der den Tabakrauch anwesender rauchender Personen einatmet | Politik passives Wahlrecht das Recht, gewählt zu werden | passiver Widerstand Widerstand durch Nichtbefolgung ohne Anwendung von Gewalt | passiver Wortschatz Wortschatz, den ein Hörer oder Leser zwar versteht, aber nicht selbst verwendet c durch Einwirkungen von außen gekennzeichnet, beeinflusst; unter Einwirkung von außen funktionierend dieses Übungsgerät bietet die Möglichkeit des passiven Turnens 2 als Mitglied einer Vereinigung, einer Sportgemeinschaft nicht aktiv an dem, was diese Vereinigung gestaltet, durchführt, an Training oder Wettkämpfen o. Ä., teilnehmend 3 Sprachwissenschaft selten passivisch
Passiv
Pas siv Substantiv, Neutrum Sprachwissenschaft , das |P a ssiv |das Passiv; Genitiv: des Passivs, Plural: die Passive Plural selten lateinisch (genus ) passivum Verhaltensrichtung des Verbs, die von der im Satzgegenstand genannten Person oder Sache her gesehen wird, die von einer Handlung betroffen wird; Leideform z. B. der Hund wird [von Fritz ] geschlagen
Passiva
Pas si va |Pass i va |Plural von Passivum , Passivum
Passivbewaffnung
Pas siv be waff nung Substantiv, feminin , die |P a ssivbewaffnung |das Tragen von Schutzhelm, kugelsicherer Weste o. Ä. zum Schutz gegen Gewalteinwirkung von außen (z. B. bei Demonstrationen )
Passivbildung
Pas siv bil dung Substantiv, feminin Sprachwissenschaft , die |P a ssivbildung |Bildung der Passivformen (im Rahmen der Konjugation )
Passiven
Pas si ven Pluralwort , die |Pass i ven |Plural von Passivum
Passivgeschäft
Pas siv ge schäft Substantiv, Neutrum Bankwesen , das |P a ssivgeschäft |Bankgeschäft, bei dem sich die Bank Geld beschafft, um Kredite gewähren zu können
Passivhandel
Pas siv han del Substantiv, maskulin Kaufmannssprache , der |P a ssivhandel |
Passivhaus
Pas siv haus Substantiv, Neutrum , das |P a ssivhaus |Haus, dessen Energiebedarf weitgehend durch die Sonneneinstrahlung und die Wärmeabgabe der darin befindlichen Geräte und Personen gedeckt wird
passivieren
pas si vie ren schwaches Verb |passiv ie ren |schwaches Verb; Perfektbildung mit »hat « 1 Kaufmannssprache Verbindlichkeiten aller Art auf der Passivseite der Bilanz erfassen und ausweisen 2 Chemie unedle Metalle in den Zustand der chemischen Passivität 2 überführen (und sie dadurch korrosionsbeständiger machen )
passivisch
pas si visch Adjektiv Sprachwissenschaft |pass i visch auch ˈpas …|das Passiv betreffend; im Passiv stehend
Passivismus
Pas si vis mus Substantiv, maskulin , der |Passiv i smus |der Passivismus; Genitiv: des Passivismus passive Haltung; Verzicht auf Aktivität
Passivität
Pas si vi tät Substantiv, feminin , die |Passivit ä t |die Passivität; Genitiv: der Passivität französisch passivité 1 passives Verhalten 2 Chemie (bei unedlen Metallen ) herabgesetzte Reaktionsfähigkeit
Passivlegitimation
Pas siv le gi ti ma ti on Substantiv, feminin Rechtssprache , die |P a ssivlegitimation |im Zivilprozess sachliche Befugnis der beklagten Person, ihre Rechte geltend zu machen
Passivmasse
Pas siv mas se Substantiv, feminin , die |P a ssivmasse |Schuldenmasse [im Konkurs ]
Passivposten
Pas siv pos ten Substantiv, maskulin Kaufmannssprache , der |P a ssivposten |auf der Passivseite der Bilanz aufgeführter Posten 3b
Passivprozess
Pas siv pro zess Substantiv, maskulin Rechtswissenschaft , der |P a ssivprozess |der Passivprozess; Genitiv: des Passivprozesses, Plural: die Passivprozesse Prozess, in dem jemand als Beklagter auftritt; Gegensatz Aktivprozess
Passivrauchen
Pas siv rau chen Substantiv, Neutrum , das |P a ssivrauchen |das Passivrauchen; Genitiv: des Passivrauchens Einatmen von Tabakrauch, der durch Rauchen anderer Personen verursacht wird
Passivsaldo
Pas siv sal do Substantiv, maskulin , der |P a ssivsaldo |Verlustvortrag
Passivseite
Pas siv sei te Substantiv, feminin Kaufmannssprache , die |P a ssivseite |rechte Seite einer Bilanz, auf der Eigenkapital 1 und Fremdkapital aufgeführt sind
Passivum
Pas si vum Substantiv, Neutrum Wirtschaft , das |Pass i vum |das Passivum; Genitiv: des Passivums, Plural: die Passiva und , besonders österreichisch, Passiven meist im Plural substantiviertes Neutrum von lateinisch passivus, passiv auf der Passivseite der Bilanz eines Unternehmens stehender Wert aus Eigenkapital 1 oder Fremdkapital ; Schuld, Verbindlichkeit
Passivzinsen
Pas siv zin sen Pluralwort , die |P a ssivzinsen |die Passivzinsen (Plural ) Zinsen, die ein Unternehmen zu zahlen hat; Gegensatz Aktivzinsen
Passkontrolle
Pass kon t rol le , Pass kon trol le Substantiv, feminin , die |P a sskontrolle |1 das Kontrollieren des Passes 1 2 offizielle Stelle, wo der Pass kontrolliert wird durch die Passkontrolle gehen
Passometer
Pas so me ter Substantiv, Neutrum , das |Passom e ter |das Passometer; Genitiv: des Passometers, Plural: die Passometer lateinisch ; griechisch Schrittzähler
Passstelle
Pass stel le , Pass-Stel le Substantiv, feminin , die Pass-Stelle |P a ssstelle P a ss-Stelle |
Passstraße
Pass stra ße , Pass-Stra ße Substantiv, feminin , die Pass-Straße |P a ssstraße P a ss-Straße |Straße, die über einen Pass 2 führt
Passung
Pas sung Substantiv, feminin Technik , die |P a ssung |Art und Weise, wie zusammengehörende Teile, Werkstücke (z. B. Lager und Welle ) zusammenpassen
Passus
Pas sus Substantiv, maskulin bildungssprachlich , der |P a ssus |der Passus; Genitiv: des Passus, Plural: die Passus |[ˈpasuːs ]|mittellateinisch passus (im Sinne von »Abgemessenes, Umrissenes «) < lateinisch passus, Pass Abschnitt, Stelle eines Textes
passwärts
pass wärts Adverb |p a sswärts | -wärts in Richtung auf den Pass 2 ; zum Pass 2 hin
Passwort
Pass wort Substantiv, Neutrum , das |P a sswort |das Passwort < Plural: Passwörter > englisch password, aus: pass = Ausweis; Passierschein; Zugang (< französisch passe, zu: passer, passieren ) und word = Wort 1 Losung 2 , Kennwort 2a 2 EDV nur Eingeweihten bekannte, aus Buchstaben, Ziffern oder Sonderzeichen bestehende Zeichenfolge, die den Gebrauch einer Sache, den Zugang zu ihr ermöglicht und sie gegen den Missbrauch durch Außenstehende schützen soll
passwortgeschützt
pass wort ge schützt Adjektiv besonders EDV |p a sswortgeschützt |durch ein Passwort vor unberechtigtem Zugriff geschützt vertrauliche Daten sind passwortgeschützt
Passzwang
Pass zwang Substantiv, maskulin , der |P a sszwang |
French Dictionary
passable
passable adj. adjectif Ni bon ni mauvais, mais néanmoins satisfaisant. : Une note passable. SYNONYME acceptable ; correct ; honnête ; moyen .
passablement
passablement adv. adverbe 1 D ’une manière passable. : Il a réussi passablement. 2 Assez. : Elle a passablement travaillé. SYNONYME beaucoup .
passade
passade n. f. nom féminin Aventure. : Ce n ’était qu ’une passade. SYNONYME caprice ; tocade .
passage
passage n. m. nom masculin 1 Action de passer. : Un droit de passage. Passage interdit. Le passage des oies sauvages au printemps. 2 Couloir. : Margot a cherché un tapis pour son passage. SYNONYME corridor . 3 Extrait d ’un ouvrage que l ’on cite. : Lisez ce passage, il est très beau. SYNONYME citation . LOCUTIONS Au passage En passant. : Prévenez -le au passage. De passage Momentanément. : Elle est de passage à Québec. Livrer passage. Laisser passer. : Ahuris, les spectateurs ont livré passage à un saltimbanque et à son ours apprivoisé. Passage à niveau. Croisement d ’une route et d ’une voie ferrée. : Des passages à niveau (et non *traverses de chemin de fer ). Passage inférieur. Ouvrage aménagé au-dessous d ’une voie de communication pour éviter le croisement de plusieurs voies. Passage obligé. figuré Étape obligatoire, élément indispensable. : Les études constituent un passage obligé en ce qui a trait à la réussite professionnelle. Passage supérieur. Passage d ’une voie de communication au-dessus d ’une autre pour éviter le croisement de plusieurs voies (Recomm. off. ). : Nous devons emprunter le passage supérieur (et non l *overpass ) pour traverser la voie ferrée. SYNONYME saut-de-mouton . Note Sémantique Ne pas confondre avec le nom viaduc, ouvrage routier ou ferroviaire construit à une grande hauteur afin d ’enjamber une vallée, une dépression, etc. , et comportant de nombreuses travées (GDT ).
passager
passager , ère adj. et n. m. et f. adjectif Qui dure peu longtemps. : Un malaise passager, vite disparu. SYNONYME éphémère ; momentané ; temporaire . Note Technique Le Petit Robert consigne le sens de « très fréquenté » de l ’adjectif passager en apposant la marque d ’usage fam. pour familier, tandis que Le Petit Larousse considère cet emploi comme critiqué. L ’adjectif ne s ’emploie pas en ce sens au Québec. nom masculin et féminin Personne qui utilise un moyen de transport. : Il y a 325 passagers dans cet avion. SYNONYME voyageur .
passagèrement
passagèrement adv. adverbe Pour peu de temps. : Ils sont ici passagèrement. SYNONYME temporairement .
passant
passant , ante adj. et n. m. et f. adjectif Où il passe beaucoup de monde. : Une rue passante. SYNONYME animé ; fréquenté . nom masculin et féminin Personne qui passe. : Les passants regardent les vitrines.
passation
passation n. f. nom féminin 1 droit Action de passer un contrat. 2 Action de transmettre des pouvoirs d ’une personne à une autre. : La passation des pouvoirs du président. 3 didactique Fait de passer (un examen, un test ). : La passation d ’un oral.
passé
passé prép. préposition Après, au-delà de. : Passé 17 heures, le magasin est fermé. Note Grammaticale Placé en tête de phrase, le participe passé est considéré comme une préposition et demeure invariable.
passé
passé n. m. nom masculin 1 Temps qui a été. : Cette histoire appartient au passé. ANTONYME futur . tableau – passé (temps du ). 2 Vie passée. : Elle a un passé difficile. ANTONYME avenir .
passe
passe n. f. nom féminin Action de passer quelque chose à quelqu ’un. : Faire une passe à un coéquipier pour qu ’il marque un but. LOCUTIONS Être dans une (bonne, mauvaise ) passe. Se trouver dans une situation (favorable, défavorable ). Être en passe de. Être sur le point de. : Ils sont en passe de réussir. Mot de passe. Mot secret par lequel on peut se faire reconnaître. : Des mots de passe connus. FORME FAUTIVE passe. Au sens de laissez-passer, carte d ’abonnement, billet de faveur, ce mot est un archaïsme.
passe
passe n. m. nom masculin Abréviation familière du nom passe-partout. : Le concierge a égaré son passe.
passe-
passe- élément Certains mots composés avec l ’élément passe- s ’écrivent avec un trait d ’union. Un passe-partout. D ’autres s ’écrivent en un seul mot. Un passeport. L ’élément passe- étant un verbe, il ne prend pas la marque du pluriel.
passe-crassane
passe-crassane n. f. (pl. passe-crassanes ) nom féminin Variété de poire. : Des passe-crassanes juteuses.
passé date
passé date FORME FAUTIVE Anglicisme pour périmé, dont la date de péremption est dépassée. : La date de péremption de ce produit est le 15 mai: il est périmé (et non *passé date ). Un médicament dont la date limite de consommation ou dont la date de péremption est dépassée (et non *passé date ).
passe-droit
passe-droit n. m. (pl. passe-droits ) nom masculin Privilège accordé contre la règle, la justice.
passé dû
passé dû FORME FAUTIVE Calque de « past due » pour échu, en souffrance, arriéré. : Un délai échu (et non *passé dû ), un compte en souffrance (et non *passé dû ), des intérêts arriérés (et non *passés dus ).
passéisme
passéisme n. m. nom masculin Attachement excessif aux choses du passé.
passéiste
passéiste adj. et n. m. et f. adjectif et nom masculin et féminin Qui a un attachement excessif pour le passé, la tradition. : Ces passéistes prêchent le retour au passé. Des nostalgies passéistes.
passementerie
passementerie n. f. nom féminin Art, commerce des garnitures tissées dans l ’aménagement intérieur (passements, cordons, glands, etc. ). : Un cordon torsadé et terminé par un gland – parfait exemple de l ’art de la passementerie – retenait le lourd rideau de velours. Prononciation Les e des deuxième et quatrième syllabes ne se prononcent pas, [pɑsmɑ̃tri ]
passe-montagne
passe-montagne n. m. (pl. passe-montagnes ) nom masculin Bonnet de laine qui couvre les oreilles et la nuque. SYNONYME cagoule .
passe-partout
passe-partout adj. inv. et n. m. inv. (pl. passe-partout ) adjectif invariable Qui convient en toute circonstance. : Une jupe passe-partout. nom masculin invariable Abréviation familière passe. 1 Clé permettant d ’ouvrir plusieurs serrures. 2 Encadrement de carton dans lequel on peut placer un dessin, une image, etc. : Un passe-partout ivoire rehaussera l ’aquarelle.
passe-passe
passe-passe n. m. inv. nom masculin invariable Tour de passe-passe. Tour d ’adresse des prestidigitateurs et, au figuré, tromperie habile, manœuvre douteuse. : Le magicien exécute des tours de passe-passe. « L ’objectif de 20 \% de réduction des émissions sera réalisé à près de 80 \% par des actions en dehors du territoire européen, grâce au tour de passe-passe de la compensation carbone dans les pays du Sud » (Le Monde ). SYNONYME tour de magie . Note Technique Le mot ne s ’emploie que dans cette locution.
passe-plat
passe-plat n. m. (pl. passe-plats ) nom masculin Guichet permettant de passer les assiettes de la cuisine à une autre pièce.
passepoil
passepoil n. m. nom masculin Liséré qui borde certaines parties d ’un vêtement, qui souligne l ’arête d ’un siège, d ’un couvre-lit ou le bord d ’un coussin. : Un passepoil (et non *piping ) de couleur contrastante.
passepoilé
passepoilé , ée adj. adjectif Garni d ’un passepoil. : Des coussins passepoilés.
passeport
passeport n. m. nom masculin Pièce d ’identité officielle. : Il a un passeport français, elle a un passeport canadien. Note Orthographique passeport, en un seul mot.
passer
passer v. tr. , intr. , pronom. verbe transitif 1 Traverser. : Passer une rivière. Passer le seuil d ’une maison. Ils ont passé la frontière, la douane (et non *les douanes ) sans encombre. SYNONYME franchir . 2 Prêter. : Passe-moi ton dictionnaire! 3 Employer (du temps ). : Julien a passé l ’été à la campagne. SYNONYME utiliser . Note Grammaticale Lorsque le verbe indique la durée, le participe passé est invariable si le complément répond à la question « combien? ». Les trois semaines que Julien a passé à la campagne. Le participe passé s ’accorde selon la règle normale si le complément précède le verbe et répond à la question « quoi? ». Les vacances qu ’il a passées à la campagne. 4 Mettre sur soi. : Passer un tricot. SYNONYME revêtir . 5 Subir une épreuve. : Je passerai mon examen de français le 20 mai. verbe intransitif 1 Aller quelque part en traversant un lieu. : Passer par les montagnes. Passeras-tu par Trois-Rivières pour aller à Québec? 2 Disparaître, s ’écouler. : Le temps passe trop vite. 3 Être admis, réussir. : Fanny passera en cinquième année bientôt. C ’est formidable, j ’ai passé! 4 Ne pas insister sur, feindre de ne pas voir, entendre. : Passons sur ces déclarations contestables. Note Syntaxique En ce sens, le verbe se construit avec la préposition sur. 5 Être diffusé (à la télévision, au cinéma ). : Cette émission passera à la télévision ce soir. Ce film ne passe plus dans les cinémas de Québec. Note Grammaticale Le verbe se conjugue avec l ’auxiliaire avoir à la forme transitive. Elle a passé ses vacances à la montagne. Il se conjugue généralement avec l ’auxiliaire être à la forme intransitive. L ’hiver est enfin passé. L ’emploi de l ’auxiliaire avoir est un peu vieilli. L ’hiver a passé. verbe pronominal 1 Avoir lieu. : L ’histoire se passe au Moyen Âge. SYNONYME arriver ; produire . 2 S ’écouler. : Deux ans se sont passés depuis notre rencontre. 3 Se prêter. : Elles se sont passé des livres et des photos. 4 Se priver de. : Elles se sont passées de gâteaux. SYNONYME abstenir . Note Grammaticale À la forme pronominale, le participe passé de ce verbe s ’accorde en genre et en nombre avec le complément direct si celui-ci le précède. Les vélos qu ’elles se sont passés étaient en parfait état. Elles se sont facilement passées de voiture. Le participe passé reste invariable si le complément direct suit le verbe. Elles se sont passé des disques. LOCUTIONS En passant Incidemment. : Soit dit en passant, j ’avais prévu sa réaction. Passer (un accord, une convention, un marché ). Conclure (un accord, une convention, un marché ) selon des modalités définies. : Les conventions que ces dirigeants ont passées. SYNONYME ratifier ; signer . Passer (un coup de fil, de téléphone ). Téléphoner. : Passe-moi un coup de fil en soirée. Passer comme une lettre à la poste. Être facilement accepté. : La proposition est passée comme une lettre à la poste. Passer outre. figuré Poursuivre une action sans tenir compte des objections. : Ils ont passé outre à mes conseils. Passer pour. Être jugé comme, avoir la réputation de. : Il passe pour un menteur. Passer sous silence. Taire, ne pas évoquer. : Il serait préférable de passer sous silence cet incident. Passer tout droit. Dépasser par erreur sa destination, se lever en retard. Passer une commande. Commander un bien, un service à un fournisseur. : Passer (et non *placer ) une commande. Passer un examen. Subir une épreuve d ’évaluation (bien ou mal ). : Je passerai mon examen de physique demain. Passer un sapin. québécisme familier Rouler quelqu ’un. : Il nous a passé un sapin, il nous a eus. FORMES FAUTIVES passer (une loi, un règlement ). Anglicisme pour voter (une loi ), adopter, établir (un règlement ). passer une remarque. Calque de « to pass a remark » pour faire une remarque, formuler une remarque. aimer
passereaux
passereaux ou passériformes n. m. pl. nom masculin pluriel Ordre d ’oiseaux le plus important qui regroupe des oiseaux percheurs et chanteurs de petite ou moyenne taille qui se nourrissent d ’insectes, de graines ou de petits fruits et qui possèdent quatre doigts, dont l ’un, doté d ’une griffe, est dirigé vers l ’arrière. : L ’alouette, le cardinal et le moineau sont des passereaux ou des passériformes. Note Technique Le terme français passereaux est employé dans la langue courante pour désigner les passériformes. Dans Le Grand Dictionnaire terminologique, l ’OQLF indique que « ce terme correspond à une ancienne classification des oiseaux ».
passerelle
passerelle n. f. nom féminin 1 Pont étroit réservé aux piétons. : Une passerelle d ’avion. 2 figuré Voie, moyen d ’accès. : Établir une passerelle entre des cursus universitaires.
passerose
passerose n. f. nom féminin Plante qui fleurit en grappes de grosses corolles sur de hautes tiges. : Un joli bosquet de passeroses. SYNONYME rose trémière .
passe-temps
passe-temps n. m. inv. (pl. passe-temps ) nom masculin invariable Divertissement. : Des passe-temps (et non *hobbies ) intéressants. SYNONYME amusement ; distraction ; jeu .
passeur
passeur , euse n. m. et f. nom masculin et féminin 1 Personne qui conduit un bateau pour traverser une rivière. 2 Personne qui fait passer une frontière illégalement.
passible
passible adj. adjectif Qui mérite une amende, une peine à la suite d ’un délit, d ’un crime. : Il est passible de dix ans d ’emprisonnement.
passif
passif n. m. nom masculin 1 comptabilité Ensemble des dettes d ’une personne, d ’une entreprise. : L ’actif et le passif. 2 grammaire La voix passive du verbe exprime l ’action à partir de l ’objet qui la subit, alors que la voix active considère l ’action à partir du sujet qui la fait. – À la forme active, on écrira: : La fillette mange la pomme. – À la forme passive, les rôles sont inversés: : La pomme est mangée par la fillette. Note Grammaticale En principe, tous les verbes transitifs directs peuvent se construire au passif, puisque c ’est le complément direct de l ’actif qui devient le sujet de la construction passive. Dans les faits, les verbes avoir et pouvoir ne peuvent être mis au passif. La voix passive se construit avec l ’auxiliaire être et le participe passé s ’accorde toujours avec le sujet du verbe.
passif
passif , ive adj. adjectif 1 Inactif. : Agis, ne reste pas passif! . SYNONYME amorphe ; inerte . ANTONYME actif . 2 grammaire Se dit de la forme verbale où le sujet subit l ’action. : « L ’orange est cueillie par l ’enfant » est une forme passive.
passion
passion n. f. nom féminin 1 Penchant irrésistible pour une personne. : Cette femme est sa passion. SYNONYME adoration ; amour . 2 Goût très vif pour quelque chose. : Il a la passion de l ’informatique. Note Typographique Quand le nom désigne le supplice du Christ, il s ’écrit avec une majuscule. La semaine de la Passion.
passionnant
passionnant , ante adj. adjectif Qui cause un vif intérêt. : Des documentaires passionnants. SYNONYME captivant ; excitant ; intéressant ; prenant . Note Sémantique Ne pas confondre avec le participe présent invariable passionnant. La foule était nombreuse, les étudiants se passionnant pour ce chanteur. Note Orthographique passio nn ant.
passionné
passionné , ée adj. et n. m. et f. adjectif Ardent, fervent. : Une personne passionnée de cinéma. SYNONYME fanatique ; mordu . nom masculin et féminin Personne animée de passion. : C ’est une passionnée de voile. Note Orthographique passio nn é.
passionnel
passionnel , elle adj. adjectif Déterminé par la passion. : Des crimes passionnels.
passionnément
passionnément adv. adverbe D ’une manière passionnée. : Un peu, beaucoup, passionnément, à la folie. Note Orthographique passio nn ément.
passionner
passionner v. tr. , pronom. verbe transitif Causer un vif intérêt. : Cette présentation a passionné l ’auditoire. SYNONYME captiver ; intéresser . verbe pronominal Éprouver une passion. : Il se passionne pour l ’astronomie. SYNONYME emballer ; enticher . Note Syntaxique À la forme pronominale, le verbe se construit toujours avec la préposition pour. Note Grammaticale À la forme pronominale, le participe passé de ce verbe s ’accorde toujours en genre et en nombre avec son sujet. Elle s ’est toujours passionnée pour la poésie. aimer Note Orthographique passio nn er.
passivement
passivement adv. adverbe D ’une manière passive. : Ils attendent passivement une décision. ANTONYME activement .
passivité
passivité n. f. nom féminin État de celui ou de ce qui est passif, amorphe, sans initiative.
passoire
passoire n. f. nom féminin 1 Ustensile destiné à filtrer, à égoutter des aliments. 2 figuré Ce qui laisse tout passer. : La frontière canadienne est-elle une passoire?
Spanish Dictionary
passe-partout
passe-partout paspartú .
passing-shot
passing-shot nombre masculino En tenis, tiro potente y a muy poca altura que supera al adversario que está cerca de la red .El plural es passing-shots. Se pronuncia 'pasingxut' .
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
pass
pass /pæs |pɑːs /〖paceと同源 〗(名 )passage 動詞 ~es /-ɪz /; ~ed /-t /; ~ing 自動詞 1 〖pass (+副詞 )〗〈人 乗り物などが 〉 (…を )通る , 通り過ぎる , 通り抜ける (by , through ); (…から …へ )進む ; 〈パイプ 道などが 〉走る , 通じる (!副詞 は場所 方向 様態の表現 ) ▸ Cars are passing along the street .道を車が通り過ぎて行く ▸ pass through [into ] a room 部屋を通り抜ける [へと進む ]▸ No passing .⦅掲示 ⦆追い越し禁止 ▸ The bike passed quickly round the corner .自転車はさっと角を曲がって通り過ぎた 2 〈時間が 〉過ぎる , たつ , 経過する (by, away )▸ Two weeks have passed since we met .僕たちが出会って2週間がたったね (≒It has been two weeks since we met. )▸ The rest of the holiday passed quickly .残りの休日はあっという間に過ぎた ▸ Not [Hardly ] a day passes without my [me ] thinking about my kids .我が子のことを思わない日は [まず ]1日もない ⦅作文のポイント ⦆私たちが結婚してから10年になる .× It has passed ten years since we got married .○ Ten years have passed since we got married. ≒It has been [is ] ten years since ….❢╳it has passed A 〈期間 〉 since …. としない .⦅作文のポイント ⦆9月の半ばを過ぎて × as we passed the middle of September ○ as the middle of September passed ❢passする (過ぎる )のはwe (人 )ではなく年月など .3 ⦅ややかたく ⦆〈財産 地位などが 〉 (人の死後 )【人から /人に 】渡る , 所有権などが移る «from /to » ▸ The house [land ] passed to Ed .その家 [土地 ]はエドへ譲与された 4 a. やむ , 終わる ; 過ぎ去る ; なくなる (off )▸ The fever soon passed (off ).熱はすぐなくなった ▸ Let's wait for the rush hour to pass before we go .出かけるのはラッシュアワーが終わるまで待とう b. ⦅遠回しに ⦆亡くなる (away )(→die 1 類義 )▸ His father passed away last month at the age of 80 .彼の父上は80歳で先月お亡くなりになりました 5 ⦅ややかたく ⦆ «…から /…に » (状態などが )変わる , 移る , 推移する «from /to » ▸ pass from infancy to youth 幼年期から青年期へと移行する 6 〘球技 〙【人に 】(ボールなどを )パスする «to » ▸ pass to a midfield player ミッドフィールダーにボールをパスする 7 〈人が 〉 (試験などに )通る , 合格する (↔fail ); 〈議案などが 〉通過する , 承認される ▸ He was well prepared and passed easily .彼は準備万端で簡単に合格した 8 大目にみられる ; 見過ごされる ▸ I'll let it pass this time .今回は見逃してやろう ▸ His policy passed without comment [dissent ].彼の方針は問題 [異論 ]なしとされた ▸ pass unnoticed 見とがめられない 9 ⦅かたく ⦆ «…の間で » 〈事が 〉起こる , 行われる ; 〈言葉 手紙などが 〉交わされる «between » ; 〈情報などが 〉 «…に » 広がる «through » ▸ After what passed between us, we decided it would be best to separate .二人の間に起こった事を考えると, 我々は別れるのが一番だと決意した ▸ A look passed between Ken and Beth .ケンとベスは視線を交わした 10 〘トランプ 〙パスする , 1回休む ; ⦅くだけて ⦆(クイズなどで )【問題を 】降参する , パスする «on » ▸ I ('ll ) pass .≒Pass .パスします 11 ⦅くだけた話 ⦆ «…は » いらない , 結構だ , 辞退する «on » (!誘いを断るくだけた表現 ) ▸ Thanks, but I'll pass on the ice cream .ありがとう . でもアイスクリームは遠慮するわ 他動詞 1 〈人 物 場所 〉の (そば ) を通り過ぎる , 通過する , 通り抜ける ▸ I passed him [the post office ].彼 [郵便局 ]のそばを通った (!動くものが目的語の場合, 「追い越す 」場合と 「すれちがう 」場合がある:I passed Jim on my way to the station. 駅に行く途中, 僕はジムを追い越した [とすれちがった ]) ▸ An ambulance passed the red light without stopping .救急車が止まらずに赤信号を突っ切った 2 a. 〖pass A (to B )〗(B 〈人 〉に )A 〈物など 〉を (手 )渡す , 回す (on ); 〖pass A to B /B A 〗A 〈物 情報など 〉をB 〈人など 〉に渡す , 伝える (→give 他動詞 1 語法 (5 )(a ))▸ Pass (me ) the sugar, please. ≒Would you pass (me ) the sugar? 砂糖を取っていただけませんか (!食事中に人の目の前にある物は自分で手を出さず, 取ってもらうよう頼むのがよい ) ▸ He picked up the photo and passed it to me .彼は写真を拾い上げ, 私に手渡した (!Aが 代名詞 の場合はpass A to Bの語順が普通 ) ▸ I passed your idea (on ) to the boss .君の意見を上司に伝えたよ b. ⦅かたく ⦆【人に 】〈財産など 〉を 譲る , 譲渡する «to » .c. 【人 グループなどに 】〈問題 質問など 〉を 回す , 委ねる (across, back, on ) «to » .d. 〘球技 〙【人に 】〈ボール 〉をパスする «to » ▸ pass the ball back to the keeper キーパーにボールをパスする 3 a. 〈人などが 〉〈試験 検査など 〉に合格する , 通る (↔fail ); 〈議案などが 〉〈議会など 〉を通る ▸ pass a driving [the final ] test 運転実技 [最終 ]テストに合格する ▸ The bill passed the House .法案は議会を通過した b. 〈人など 〉を試験に通過させる , 合格にする (↔fail ); 〈議案など 〉を通過させる , 可決する ▸ The law was passed in 2001 .2001年にその法律は可決した ▸ pass a candidate 候補者を合格にする 4 «…をして » 〈時間 〉をつぶす , 過ごす «do ing » (!明確な目的を持って時間を過ごす場合は通例spend ) ▸ play video games to pass the time 時間つぶしにテレビゲームをする ▸ pass the day (by ) chatting with friends 友達とおしゃべりをしてその日を過ごす 5 «…に » A 〈手など 〉を動かす ; A 〈物など 〉を通す , 回す , 巻く «around , into , over , through » ▸ pass one's belt through the loops ベルト通しにベルトを通す ▸ pass one's eyes over the page そのページに目を通す 6 a. (総計が )〈ある数値 〉を超える (exceed )▸ Visitors to the exhibition passed ten thousand .展示会の訪問者は1万人を超えた b. ⦅かたく ⦆〈理解の範囲など 〉を越える ▸ The reason passes all understanding .その理由はまったく理解できない 7 «…に » 〈批評 判決など 〉を下す , 言い渡す ; 〈言葉 意見など 〉を述べる, 〈約束 〉を与える «on » ▸ pass sentence on a murderer 殺人者に判決を述べる ▸ pass comment on one's hairstyle 髪型について一言いう 8 ⦅かたく ⦆〘医 〙〈便など 〉を 排泄 (はいせつ )する ▸ pass urine [water ]排尿する 9 〈偽金など 〉を使う , つかませる .l è t A p á ss 1 A 〈人など 〉を通してあげる .2 A 〈誤りなど 〉を見逃す .3 A 〈チャンスなど 〉を逸する .p à ss A al ó ng [al ó ng A ] «…へ » Aを (人の手から手へと )回して渡す «to » .p à ss A (a )r ó und [(a )r ó und A ]A 〈物 〉を (人に )回す ; A 〈食べ物 〉を (人に )回す, 渡す, 勧める .p á ss as A =pass for A .p à ss a ẃ ay 1 ↑自動詞 4 b .2 ↑自動詞 2 .p à ss b ý ↑自動詞 1 , 2 .p à ss A b ý [b ý A ]1 Aのそばを通る ; Aのそばを素通りする ; Aとすれちがう (!「追い越す 」の意味はない ) ▸ The bus passed by the bus stop without stopping .バスはバス停のそばを止まらず通り過ぎた 2 〈事が 〉A 〈人など 〉とは関係なく起こる [行われる ]▸ The Internet revolution passed me by .インターネット革命は私には無縁であった 3 〈人生 機会などが 〉A 〈人 〉に見逃される, 見捨てられる, Aを避けて通る ▸ Life passed him by .彼は人生の楽しみを味わうことがなかった ▸ Don't let opportunities pass you by .機会を逃してはだめだ p à ss A d ó wn [d ó wn A ]【人 世代から /別の人 次の世代に 】A 〈物 知識など 〉を伝える «from /to » (!しばしば受け身で ) .p á ss for A Aとして通る, Aと見なされる ; ⦅否定的に ⦆Aとしてまかり通る, (一応は )Aとされている ▸ He's fifteen years old, but could pass for twenty .彼は15歳だが20歳でも通るだろう ▸ He was taken to what passed for a hospital .彼は病院とされている所へ運ばれた (!十分な施設が整っていないことを含意 ) p á ss into A Aの一部となる ▸ The events that day passed into history .その日の出来事は歴史の一部となった p à ss ó ff 1 ⦅英 ⦆〈事が 〉行われる, 終了する (!通例様態を示す 副詞 を伴う ) ▸ The charity bazaar passed off successfully .チャリティバザーは成功のうちに幕を閉じた 2 ↑自動詞 4 a .p à ss A ó ff [ó ff A ]1 «…だとして » Aを偽る, 通用させる ; «…だと » Aの身元 [正体 ]を偽る «as , for » (!Aはoneself ) ▸ He passed himself off as an Oxford graduate .彼は自分をオックスフォード大出身だと偽った 2 A 〈悪口など 〉を無視する, 見逃す .p à ss ó n 1 =pass away .2 ⦅主に英 ⦆【次の話題などに 】移る, 進む «to » .p à ss A ó n [ó n A ]1 ↑他動詞 2 a .2 【人に 】A 〈病気など 〉をうつす ; 遺伝させる «to » .3 【子供などへ 】A 〈財産など 〉を譲る «to » .4 【人に 】A 〈技能など 〉を伝授する «to » .5 A 〈食物など 〉を回す .6 【人に 】A 〈費用など 〉を負担させる «to » .7 【別の人などに 】A 〈人 〉を紹介する «to » .p à ss ó ut 1 ⦅主に米話 ⦆気を失う, 気絶する (faint ).2 ⦅主に英 ⦆【軍の学校を 】(訓練を終えて )卒業する «of » .p à ss A ó ut [ó ut A ]⦅主に米 ⦆ «…に » Aを配る, 渡す «to » .p á ss over A A 〈話題など 〉を無視する ; 見のがす ; 避ける ▸ I'll pass over what you said yesterday .昨日君が言ったことは大目に見よう p à ss A ó ver [ó ver A ]〖通例be ~ed over 〗A 〈しかるべき人 〉が (仕事 [昇進 ]などの対象から )はずされる ▸ He was passed over after disagreeing with company policy .会社の方針に異論を唱えて以来, 彼は仕事が回ってこなくなった ▸ be passed over for promotion 他人に昇進される p à ss thr ó ugh 1 ↑自動詞 1 .2 ⦅話 ⦆〖主に進行形で 〗ちょうど通りかかる ▸ “Do you live around here? ” “No, I'm just passing through .”「このあたりにお住まいですか 」「いえ, 通りがかりの者です 」p á ss through A 1 ⦅主に英 ⦆A 〈つらい時期など 〉を経験する .2 A 〈場所 〉を通り過ぎる .p à ss A ú p [ú p A ]⦅くだけた話 ⦆A 〈申し出など 〉を断る ; A 〈機会など 〉を逃がす ▸ The offer is too good to pass up .その申し出は断るにはもったいない 名詞 複 ~es /-ɪz /C 1 a. 入場 [通行 ]許可 (証 ); 無料入場 [乗車 ]券 , パス ▸ show a three-month train pass 3か月有効の電車定期券を見せる ▸ a boarding pass 搭乗券 ▸ a pass to the museum 博物館への入場許可書 b. 通行 , 通過 ▸ The police car made two passes .パトカーが2度通過した 2 〘球技 〙(ボールの )パス ; 〘トランプ 〙パス 〘順番を次の人に回すこと 〙; 〘フェンシング 〙突き ▸ throw [make ] a long pass ロングパスを投げる [送る ]3 ⦅主に英 ⦆【試験などの 】通過 , 合格 «in » ; ⦅英 ⦆(大学の )及第 (!honours (優等 )ではなく普通の; ↔fail ) ▸ get a pass in chemistry 化学で合格点を取る ▸ a pass rate 合格率 4 山道 , 小道 ; 峠の道 (!しばしばP -で固有名詞として ) ; 水路 ▸ a mountain pass 山道 5 段階 ; ⦅やや古 くだけて ⦆〖a ~〗(困った )状況 , 状態 ▸ in [on ] the first pass 第一段階で 6 (奇術師などの )手 [杖 (つえ )]さばき .br ì ng A to p á ss Aを引き起こす, 実現させる .c ò me to p á ss ⦅主に英 やや古 /おどけて ⦆〈事が 〉起こる, 生じる ; 完致される ▸ come to a pretty [such a ] pass 困ったことになる h ò ld the p á ss 主義 [利益 ]をあくまで守る .m à ke a p á ss at A ⦅くだけて ⦆A 〈異性など 〉に言い寄る, Aを口説き落とそうとする .s è ll the p á ss ⦅主に英 ⦆(金のために )裏切る, 主義にそむく .~̀ degr é e ⦅英 ⦆普通学士号 〘優等学士号はhonours degree 〙.~́ ed b à ll 〘野球 〙パスボール, 捕逸 .~̀ m á rk ⦅英 ⦆合格点 (⦅米 ⦆passing mark ).
passable
pass a ble /pǽsəb (ə )l |pɑ́ːs -/形容詞 1 〖通例 名詞 の前で 〗(よくはないが )まずまずの, かろうじて (adequate, fair ).2 〖通例be ~〗〈道路 川が 〉 (どうにか )通れる [渡れる ].p á ss a bly 副詞 まずまず .
passage
pas sage /pǽsɪdʒ /〖pass (通過する )age (行為 )〗名詞 複 ~s /-ɪz /1 C (建物内部の )通路 , 通り道 ; 出入口 , ホール (passageway )▸ an underground passage 地下連絡通路 ▸ a narrow passage between two buildings 建物の間の細い通り道 2 U 通行 (許可 ); C 〖単数形で 〗【人ごみなどの 】抜け道 , 行く手 «through » (!wayより ⦅かたい ⦆語 ) ▸ force a passage through the crowd 人ごみを押し分けて進む ▸ No passage .⦅掲示 ⦆通行禁止 ▸ allow safe [free ] passage 安全 [自由 ]な通行を許可する 3 C (本 曲などの )一節 ; 一句 ; 引用部 ▸ a passage from the Bible 聖書の一節 4 U 〖具体例ではa (…) ~〗(議案などの )通過 , 可決 (passing )▸ the passage of the tax bill through Parliament 税金法案の議会通過 5 U 〖the ~〗(時の )経過 ; 〖しばしばone 's ~〗 «…から /…への » 発展 , 成長 , 進歩 «from /to » ▸ his passage from boyhood to maturity 少年から大人への成長 6 C (体内で気体 液体が通る )管 ▸ nasal passages 鼻腔 (びこう )7 ⦅やや古 ⦆〖単数形で 〗 «…への » 旅 ; 船旅 (crossing ); 船賃 «to » ▸ work one's passage 船賃代わりに船内で働く 8 C (2者の間の )交流 ; 話し合い ; なぐり合い .9 U 排便 .動詞 自動詞 通り抜ける , 通過する .
passageway
p á ssage w à y 名詞 複 ~s C 連絡通路, 廊下 (passage ).
passbook
p á ss b ò ok 名詞 C 1 預金通帳 (bankbook ).2 (商人が信用貸ししたことを記しておく )通帳 .
passe
pas s é /pæséɪ |pɑ́ːseɪ /〖<フランス 〗形容詞 ⦅けなして ⦆〖通例be ~〗時代遅れの .
passel
pas sel /pǽs (ə )l /名詞 C ⦅米 やや古 ⦆〖通例単数形で 〗大量, 多数 ; 集団 .
passenger
pas sen ger /pǽsɪn (d )ʒə r / (! 強勢は第1音節 ) 〖passage (通行する )er (人 )〗名詞 複 ~s /-z /C 1 «…からの /…への » (バス 飛行機 船などの )乗客 , 旅客 «from /to » (!運転手 乗務員は含まない ) ; 〖形容詞的に 〗乗客用の ; 助手席の ▸ airline [rail ] passengers 飛行機 [列車 ]の乗客 ▸ Attention all passengers. Please remain seated .乗客の皆様, お席をお立ちにならないでください 2 ⦅英話 けなして ⦆足手まとい ; (チーム グループの )お荷物 .~́ c à r 乗用車 ; 客車 .~́ s è at (車の )助手席 (→car ).~́ s ì de (車の )助手席側 .~́ tr à in 旅客列車 .
passer-by
pass er-by ⦅主に米 ⦆pass er by /pæ̀sə r báɪ |pɑ̀ːs -/名詞 複 passers-by /-z- /C (通りすがりの )通行人 .
passim
pas sim /pǽsɪm /〖<ラテン 〗副詞 (引用した書物の )諸所に, あちこちに ▸ This occurs in Shakespeare passim .これはシェイクスピアの作品の諸所に散見する (!イタリック体で書かれる )
passing
pass ing /pǽsɪŋ |pɑ́ːs -/名詞 U 1 〖the ~〗(時 年月の )経過 .2 〖one's ~〗(政府 時代 習慣などの )終結, 消滅 .3 ⦅遠回しに ⦆〖one's ~〗(人の )死 (death ).形容詞 〖名詞 の前で 〗1 通り過ぎる, 過ぎ去る .2 つかの間の, 一時の 〈流行 活動 感情など 〉(fleeting )(↔lasting ).3 ついでの (短い )〈言動 〉(brief, casual ).in p á ssing ついでに 〈言う 書く 〉(incidentally ).with è ach [è very ] p à ssing d á y [y é ar ]⦅文 ⦆絶え間無く, 日に日に, 年々 〈変わるなど 〉.~́ l à ne ⦅米 ⦆追い越し車線 〘ほかの車の追い越しが認められているハイウェイの車線 〙.~̀ m á rk ⦅米 ⦆合格点 .
passion
pas sion /pǽʃ (ə )n /〖原義は 「キリストの受難, 苦しみ 」〗(形 )passionate 名詞 複 ~s /-z /1 U «…に対する » (愛情 怒りなどの )激しい感情 , 情熱 ; (性的 )欲情 «for » (!具体例ではa ~/~s; その際しばしば修飾語を伴う ) ▸ his burning passion for her 彼女に対する彼の燃えるような愛情 ▸ speak with great passion 感情をむき出しにして話す ▸ Passions ran high over the issue .その問題をめぐって激論が交わされた 2 C «…に対する » 熱 , 強い興味 , 愛着 ; 夢中にさせるもの «for » ▸ the Americans' passion for baseball アメリカ人の野球熱 ▸ have a passion for jazz ジャズに熱中している ▸ Painting is one of my passions .絵を描くのは私の大のお気に入りの1つだ 3 〖the P- 〗〘キリスト教 〙キリストの受難 .fl ỳ into a p á ssion ⦅文 ⦆突然怒り出す .~́ fr ù it パッションフルーツ 〘トケイソウの実 〙.P -́ Pl à y キリストの受難劇 .
passionate
pas sion ate /pǽʃ (ə )nət /→passion 形容詞 more ~; most ~1 〈人 行為などが 〉情熱的な , 情欲的な ; 怒りやすい ; 激しい ▸ a passionate kiss 情熱的なキス ▸ have a passionate nature すぐかっとなる 2 〈人 信条などが 〉熱狂的な ▸ a passionate supporter 熱心な支持者 3 «…に » 夢中の , 熱中した «about , for » ▸ be passionate about music 音楽に熱中している
passionately
p á s sion ate ly 副詞 1 情熱的に 〈キスするなど 〉; 感情むき出しで 〈話すなど 〉.2 熱狂的に, 熱心に 〈信じるなど 〉.
passionflower
p á ssion fl ò wer 名詞 C 〘植 〙トケイソウ .
passionless
p á s sion less 形容詞 情熱のない ; 落ちついた .
passive
pas sive /pǽsɪv /〖語源は 「苦しみ (passion )に耐える 」〗形容詞 more ~; most ~1 ⦅けなして ⦆〈人 態度などが 〉受動的な , 受け身の , 消極的な (↔active ).2 〖名詞 の前で 〗無抵抗の 〈活動 〉; おとなしい , 危険のない 〈動物 〉.3 比較なし 〘文法 〙〈動詞 文が 〉受動態の , 受け身の (↔active ).4 〘化 〙不活性の ; 〈金属が 〉腐食しにくい .5 太陽熱利用の .6 〈衛星などが 〉反射用の , 受動の .名詞 C 〘文法 〙〖単数形で; the ~〗受け身形 , 受動態 (の文 )(passive voice )(→active ).~̀ res í stance 非暴力的抵抗 .~̀ restr á int (s ỳ stem )(エアバッグなどの )受動安全装置 .~̀ sm ó king 間接喫煙 〘他人が吐くタバコの煙を吸うこと 〙.~ly 副詞 受動的に .~ness 名詞
passivity
pas siv i ty /pæsɪ́vəti /名詞 U ⦅けなして ⦆消極的態度 ; 無抵抗な様子 .
passivize
pas siv ize /pǽsɪvàɪz /動詞 他動詞 〘文法 〙〈動詞 句 〉を受動態にする .自動詞 〘文法 〙〈動詞 句が 〉受動態になる .
passkey
p á ss k è y 名詞 複 ~s C 親かぎ ; 合いかぎ .
Passover
P á ss ò ver 名詞 1 〖the ~〗過ぎ越しの祝い 〘出エジプトを記念するユダヤ人の祝い; 3月から4月初めの8日間行われる 〙.2 C 〖p- 〗(過ぎ越しの祝いに供える )小羊 (paschal lamb ).
passport
pass port /pǽspɔ̀ː r t |pɑ́ːs -/〖pass (通過する )port (港 )〗名詞 複 ~s /-ts /C 1 パスポート , 旅券 ; 通行許可証 ▸ Can I see your passport , please? パスポートを拝見できますか ▸ check [have, hold ] a passport パスポートを調べる [持っている ]▸ a valid passport 有効なパスポート 2 【成功 幸せなどの 】保障 , 確実な手段 «to , into » ▸ a passport to a good job [happiness, success ]良い就職 [幸福, 成功 ]へのパスポート ~́ contr ò l 出入国管理 (局 ).
password
pass word /pǽswə̀ː r d |pɑ́ːs -/名詞 複 ~s /-dz /C 1 〘コンピュ 〙パスワード .2 (軍事基地などでの )合言葉 .