Dead vs Pass - What's the difference?
dead | pass |
(not comparable) No longer living.
(hyperbole) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life
* 1600 , (William Shakespeare), (As You Like It) , Act III, Scene 3:
(of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored.
Without emotion.
Stationary; static.
Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
Unproductive.
Completely inactive; without power; without a signal.
(not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
(not comparable) No longer used or required.
(not comparable, sports) Not in play.
Tagged out.
(not comparable) Full and complete.
(not comparable) Exact.
Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
(informal) (Certain to be) in big trouble.
Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.
(obsolete) Bringing death; deadly.
(legal) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
(engineering) Not imparting motion or power.
(lb) Exactly right.
(lb) Very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly.
As if dead.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Charles Dickens)
(in the singular) Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
(in the plural) Those who have died.
(archaic) Formerly, "be dead" was used instead of "have died" as the perfect tense of "die".
To prevent by disabling; stop.
* 1826 , The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Edward Reynolds, Lord Bishop of Norwich , collected by Edward Reynolds, Benedict Riveley, and Alexander Chalmers. pp. 227. London: B. Holdsworth.
To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
* Chapman
(UK, transitive, slang) To kill.
* 2006 , Leighanne Boyd, Once Upon A Time In The Bricks (page 178)
* 2008 , Marvlous Harrison, The Coalition (page 106)
An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
* (rfdate) (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow):
A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over or along anything.
* 1921', John Griffin, "Trailing the Grizzly in Oregon", in ''Forest and Stream'', pages 389-391 and 421-424, republished by Jeanette Prodgers in '''1997 in ''The Only Good Bear is a Dead Bear , page 35:
A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
An attempt.
(fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
(figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
A sexual advance.
(sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
(rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
* (rfdate) (James Kent):
A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission; as, a railroad or theater pass; a military pass.
(baseball) An intentional walk.
The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
* 1606 Shakespeare:
* (rfdate) (Robert South):
(obsolete) Estimation; character.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare:
(obsolete, Chaucer, compare 'passus') A part, a division.
The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
(lb) Physical movement.
#(lb) To move or be moved from one place to another.
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#(lb) To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
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, passage=We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.}}
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, title= #(lb) 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.
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#*:I had only time to pass my eye over the medals.
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#*:Waller passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge.
# To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
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# To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
#(lb) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
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##*:Iaquinta passes it coolly into the right-hand corner as Paston dives the other way.
##(lb) To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
## To make a lunge or swipe.
#(lb) To go from one person to another.
#(lb) To put in circulation; to give currency to.
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#(lbl) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
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(lb) To change in state or status, to advance.
#(lb) To change from one state to another.
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#(lb) To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
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#*(rfdate) (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
#*:Beauty is a charm, but soon the charm will pass .
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#*:The crisis passed as she'd prayed it would, but it remained to be seen just how much damage had been done.
# To die.
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# To go successfully through (an examination, trail, test, etc.).
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# To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
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#(lb) 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.
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#*:Pass the happy news.
# To make a judgment on'' or ''upon a person or case.
#*1485 , Sir (Thomas Malory), (w, Le Morte d'Arthur) , Book X:
#*:And within three dayes twelve knyghtes passed uppon hem; and they founde Sir Palomydes gylty, and Sir Saphir nat gylty, of the lordis deth.
#(lb) To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:to pass sentence
#*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
#*:Father, thy word is passed .
(lb) To move through time.
# To elapse, to be spent.
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# To spend.
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#*(rfdate) (John Milton) (1608-1674)
#*:To pass commodiously this life.
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#*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
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, title= #(lb) To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
#*(rfdate) (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:Please you that I may pass / This doing.
#*(rfdate) (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
#*:I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array.
#(lb) To continue.
#(lb) To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
#(lb) To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
#*(rfdate) (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#:She loved me for the dangers I had passed .
#To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance or opposition.
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(lb) To happen.
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*1876 , The Dilemma'', Chapter LIII, republished in Littell's ''Living Age , series 5, volume 14, page 274:
*:for the memory of what passed while at that place is almost blank.
(lb) To be accepted.
#(lb) To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
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#(lb) To present oneself as, and therefore be accepted by society as, a member of a race, sex or other group to which society would not otherwise regard one as belonging; especially to live and be known as white although one has black ancestry, or to live and be known as female although one was born male (or vice versa).
In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
#(lb) In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
(lb) To do or be better.
# To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.
#*(rfdate) (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:This passes , Master Ford.
#(lb) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
#*(rfdate) (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
#*:And strive to pass Their native music by her skillful art.
#*(rfdate) (w) (1788-1824)
#*:Whose tender power Passes the strength of storms in their most desolate hour.
To take heed.
*(rfdate) (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not.
(lb) To come and go in consciousness.
(computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
As nouns the difference between dead and pass
is that dead is tooth while pass is pass (between mountains ).dead
English
Adjective
(er)- All of my grandparents are dead .
- When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child, understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room.
- He is dead to me.
- She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea.
- the dead''' load on the floor''; ''a '''dead lift .
- dead''' air''; ''a '''dead glass of soda .
- dead''' time''; '''''dead fields ; also in compounds.
- OK, the circuit's dead . Go ahead and cut the wire.
- Now that the motor's dead you can reach in and extract the spark plugs.
- That monitor is dead ; don’t bother hooking it up.
- There are several dead laws still on the books regulating where horses may be hitched.
- Is this beer glass dead ?
- Once the ball crosses the foul line, it's dead .
- dead''' stop''; '''''dead''' sleep''; '''''dead''' giveaway''; '''''dead silence
- dead''' center''; '''''dead''' aim''; ''a '''dead''' eye''; ''a '''dead level
- After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead .
- "You come back here this instant! Oh, when I get my hands on you, you're dead , mister!"
- a dead floor
- (Shakespeare)
- A person who is banished or who becomes a monk is civilly dead .
- the dead spindle of a lathe
Quotations
* (English Citations of "dead")Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* alive * livingAdverb
(-)- dead''' right''; '''''dead''' level''; '''''dead''' flat''; '''''dead''' straight''; '''''dead left
- He hit the target dead in the centre.
- dead''' wrong''; '''''dead''' set''; '''''dead''' serious''; '''''dead''' drunk''; '''''dead''' broke''; '''''dead''' earnest''; '''''dead''' certain''; '''''dead''' slow''; '''''dead''' sure''; '''''dead''' simple''; '''''dead''' honest''; '''''dead''' accurate''; '''''dead''' easy''; '''''dead''' scared''; '''''dead''' solid''; '''''dead''' black''; '''''dead''' white''; '''''dead empty ;
- dead''' tired''; '''''dead''' quiet''; '''''dead''' asleep''; '''''dead''' pale''; '''''dead''' cold''; '''''dead still
- I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy.
Noun
(dead)- The dead''' of night.'' ''The '''dead of winter.
- Have respect for the dead .
Synonyms
* (those who have died) the deceasedVerb
(en verb)- "I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead [????????] in vain." Galatians 2:21, King James Version (1611).
- “What a man should do, when finds his natural impotency dead him in spiritual works”
- Heaven's stern decree, / With many an ill, hath numbed and deaded me.
- This dude at the club was trying to kill us so I deaded him, and then I had to collect from Spice.
- “What, you was just gonna dead him because if that's the case then why the fuck we getting the money?” Sha asked annoyed.
Derived terms
* better dead than red * brain dead/brain-dead * clinically dead * dead air * dead as a dodo * dead as a doorknob * dead as a doornail * dead ball * dead bat * deadbeat * dead body * dead-born/deadborn * dead cat bounce * dead center * dead code * dead donkey * dead duck * dead end * dead giveaway * deadhead * dead heat * dead horse * dead ice * dead-in-shell * dead in the water * dead language * dead last * dead leg * dead letter * deadline/dead line * dead link * deadlock * dead man/dead man's hand * dead march * dead marine * dead meat * dead men * dead metaphor * deadnettle * dead on * dead or alive * deadpan * dead president * dead reckoning * dead rubber * Dead Sea * dead serious * dead set against * dead soldier * dead space * dead sticking * dead to the world * dead tree * dead water * dead weight * deadwood * dead zone * drop dead * * leave for dead * living dead * not be caught dead * over my dead body * play dead * stop deadStatistics
*pass
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) pas, pase, pace, from . See the verb section, below.Noun
(es)- a mountain pass
- "Try not the pass !" the old man said.
- [The bear] made a pass at the dog, but he swung out and above him [...]
- My pass at a career of writing proved unsuccessful.
- The man kicked his friend out of the house after he made a pass at his wife.
- A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy.
- Smith was given a pass after Jones' double.
- What, have his daughters brought him to this pass ?
- Matters have been brought to this pass , that, if one among a man's sons had any blemish, he laid him aside for the ministry...
- Common speech gives him a worthy pass .
Synonyms
* gap * thrust * * (movement over or along anything) * transit * (the state of things) condition, predicament, state * (sense) access, admission, entry * (document granting permission to pass or to go and come) * *Antonyms
* (rail transport) meetDerived terms
* back pass/back-pass/backpass * backstage pass * backward pass * bandpass * boarding pass * bring to pass * bypass * chest pass * come to pass * coupon pass * don't pass go * drop pass * dry pass * fish pass * flare pass * flat pass * forward pass * free pass * Hail Mary pass * half-pass * hall pass * hand pass * highpass * hospital pass * inbounds pass * incomplete pass * intentional pass * lateral pass * lead pass * lowpass * mountain pass * outlet pass * passband * pass boat * pass book * pass box * pass check * pass-fail * passkey * pass law * pass-remarkable * pass rush * penalty pass * pretty pass * saucer pass * screen pass * short pass * side pass * snap pass * spiral pass * spot pass * two-line pass * userpass * wet passEtymology 2
From (etyl) passen, from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(es)The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed . He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.}}
The Guardian, Rob Smyth, 20 June 2010
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.}}
The British Longitude Act Reconsidered, passage=But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=For, although Allan had passed his fiftieth year,
Synonyms
* pass by, pass over, etc. * (go from one limit to the other of) spend * (live through) bear, endure, suffer, tolerate, undergo * (go by without noticing) disregard, ignore, take no notice of * (transcend) better, exceed, excel, outdo, surpass, transcend * (go successfully through) * (obtain the formal sanction of) be accepted by, be passed by * (cause to move or go) deliver, give, hand, make over, send, transfer, transmit * (utter) pronounce, say, speak, utter * (promise) pledge, promise, vow * (cause to advance by stages of process) approve, enact, ratify * (put into circulation) circulate, pass around * (cause to obtain entrance) admit, let in, let past * evacuate, void * (nautical: take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure ) * make * (move or be moved from one place to another) go, move * (change from one state to another) * (move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge) * (die) pass away, pass over * (come and go in consciousness) * (happen) happen, occur * (elapse) elapse, go by * (go from one person to another) * (advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness) * (go through any inspection or test successfully) * (to be tolerated) * (to continue) continue, go on * (proceed without hindrance or opposition) * exceed, surpass * take heed, take notice * (go through the intestines) * * thrust * (decline to play in one's turn ): * (sense) * overtakeDerived terms
* bypass * don't pass go * let pass * pass across * pass along * pass around * pass away * pass back * pass by * pass down * passer * pass for * pass gas * pass into * pass muster * pass off * pass on * pass out * pass over * Passover * pass-parole * pass the baton * pass the buck * pass the hat * pass the parcler * pass the time/pass time * pass through * pass up * pass upon * pass under the yoke * pass water * pass wind * pass with flying colors * password * ships that pass in the nightEtymology 3
Short for password .Noun
(es)- Anyone want to trade passes ?