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In sports terms the difference between pass and cross

is that pass is the act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another while cross is relative movement by a player or of players.

In obsolete terms the difference between pass and cross

is that pass is estimation; character while cross is a coin stamped with the figure of a cross, or that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money in general.

In intransitive terms the difference between pass and cross

is that pass is to come and go in consciousness while cross is to travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another.

In transitive terms the difference between pass and cross

is that pass is to transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed while cross is to contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.

As nouns the difference between pass and cross

is that pass is 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 while cross is a geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.

As verbs the difference between pass and cross

is that pass is Physical movement.cross is to make or form a cross.

As an adjective cross is

transverse; lying across the main direction.

As a preposition cross is

across.

As a proper noun Cross is

{{surname|topographic|from=Middle English}} for someone who lived near a stone cross on a road.

pass

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) pas, pase, pace, from . See the verb section, below.

Noun

(es)
  • 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.
  • a mountain pass
  • * (rfdate) (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow):
  • "Try not the pass !" the old man said.
  • 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:
  • [The bear] made a pass at the dog, but he swung out and above him [...]
  • A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
  • An attempt.
  • My pass at a career of writing proved unsuccessful.
  • (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
  • (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
  • A sexual advance.
  • The man kicked his friend out of the house after he made a pass at his wife.
  • (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 ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy.
  • 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.
  • Smith was given a pass after Jones' double.
  • The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
  • * 1606 Shakespeare:
  • What, have his daughters brought him to this pass ?
  • * (rfdate) (Robert South):
  • 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...
  • (obsolete) Estimation; character.
  • * (rfdate) Shakespeare:
  • Common speech gives him a worthy pass .
  • (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.
  • 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) meet
    Derived 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 pass

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) passen, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Verb

    (es)
  • (lb) Physical movement.
  • #(lb) To move or be moved from one place to another.
  • #:
  • #(lb) To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
  • #:
  • #*
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , 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.}}
  • #*{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
  • , title= 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.}}
  • #(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.
  • #:
  • #:
  • #*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
  • #*:I had only time to pass my eye over the medals.
  • #* (1609-1674)
  • #*:Waller passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge.
  • # To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
  • #:
  • #:
  • # 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.
  • ## To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
  • ##* The Guardian , Rob Smyth, 20 June 2010
  • ##*: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.
  • #:
  • #(lbl) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
  • #:
  • (lb) To change in state or status, to advance.
  • #(lb) To change from one state to another.
  • #:
  • #(lb) To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
  • #:
  • #*(rfdate) (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • #*:Beauty is a charm, but soon the charm will pass .
  • #*, chapter=23
  • , title= 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.}}
  • #*1995 , Penny Richards, The Greatest Gift of All :
  • #*:The crisis passed as she'd prayed it would, but it remained to be seen just how much damage had been done.
  • # To die.
  • #:
  • #:
  • #:
  • # To go successfully through (an examination, trail, test, etc.).
  • #:
  • #:
  • # To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
  • #:
  • #:
  • #:
  • #*{{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter
  • , volume=100, issue=2, page=87, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= 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.}}
  • # To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
  • #:
  • #:
  • #(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.
  • #:
  • #* (1809-1892)
  • #*: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.
  • #:
  • # To spend.
  • #:
  • #*(rfdate) (John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • #*:To pass commodiously this life.
  • #*
  • #*: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.
  • #*, chapter=23
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=For, although Allan had passed his fiftieth year,
  • #(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.
  • #:
  • (lb) To happen.
  • :
  • *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".
  • #:
  • #:
  • #(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.
  • 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) * overtake
    Derived 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 night

    Etymology 3

    Short for password .

    Noun

    (es)
  • (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
  • Anyone want to trade passes ?

    Statistics

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    Anagrams

    * asps * saps * spas English ergative verbs 1000 English basic words ----

    cross

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.
  • Put a cross for a wrong answer and a tick for a right one.
  • (heraldiccharge) Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.
  • A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).
  • Criminals were commonly executed on a wooden cross .
  • (usually with the) The cross on which Christ was crucified.
  • A hand gesture made by Catholics in imitation of the shape of the Cross.
  • She made the cross after swearing.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • Before the cross has waned the crescent's ray.
  • * Cowper
  • 'Tis where the cross is preached.
  • (Christianity) A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a symbol of religious devotion.
  • She was wearing a cross on her necklace.
  • (figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross ) A difficult situation that must be endured.
  • It's a cross I must bear.
  • * Ben Jonson
  • Heaven prepares a good man with crosses .
  • The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other
  • A quick cross of the road.
  • (biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
  • (by extension) A hybrid of any kind.
  • * Lord Dufferin
  • Toning down the ancient Viking into a sort of a cross between Paul Jones and Jeremy Diddler
  • (boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
  • (football) A pass in which the ball travels from by one touchline across the pitch.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=And Stamford Bridge erupted with joy as Florent Malouda slotted in a cross from Drogba, who had stayed just onside. }}
  • A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross ).
  • A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross )
  • (obsolete) A coin stamped with the figure of a cross, or that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money in general.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I should bear no cross if I did bear you; for I think you have no money in your purse.
  • (obsolete, Ireland) Church lands.
  • A line drawn across or through another line.
  • (surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
  • A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
  • (Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
  • Synonyms

    * (production of cross-breeding or -fertilization) hybrid * (cross on which Christ was crucified) True Cross

    Derived terms

    * Celtic cross * crossroads * cross-stitch * double cross * fiery cross * Latin cross * left cross * Maltese cross * Saint Andrew's cross * * True Cross * right cross

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Transverse; lying across the main direction.
  • At the end of each row were cross benches which linked the rows.
  • * Isaac Newton
  • the cross refraction of the second prism
  • (archaic) Opposite, opposed to.
  • His actions were perversely cross to his own happiness.
  • Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for.
  • *, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.50:
  • As a fat body is more subject to diseases, so are rich men to absurdities and fooleries, to many casualties and cross inconveniences.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • a cross fortune
  • * Glanvill
  • the cross and unlucky issue of my design
  • * South
  • The article of the resurrection seems to lie marvellously cross to the common experience of mankind.
  • * Dryden
  • We are both love's captives, but with fates so cross , / One must be happy by the other's loss.
  • Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.
  • She was rather cross about missing her train on the first day of the job.
    Please don't get cross''' at me.'' (or) ''Please don't get '''cross with me.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • He had received a cross answer from his mistress.
  • Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
  • cross interrogatories
    cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other

    Synonyms

    * (opposite to) contrarily, opposed, reverse, antipodal * (mildly angry) angry, annoyed, irritated

    Derived terms

    * cross cut * cross-examine * crossly * cross-multiplication * crosspatch * cross purposes * cross-section * cross-wise

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • (archaic) across
  • She walked cross the mountains.
  • * L'Estrange
  • A fox was taking a walk one night cross a village.
  • cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.
  • The Lorentz force is q times v cross B.

    Verb

    (es)
  • To make or form a .
  • # To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect.
  • # To lay or draw something across, such as a line.
  • # To mark with an X.
  • # To write lines at right angles.(w)
  • #*
  • #*:An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
  • # To make the sign of the cross over oneself.
  • To move relatively.
  • # (label) To go from one side of (something) to the other.
  • #*
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.}}
  • #* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 19, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= England 1-0 Ukraine , passage=Ukraine, however, will complain long and hard about a contentious second-half incident when Marko Devic's shot clearly crossed the line before it was scrambled away by John Terry, only for the officials to remain unmoved.}}
  • # (label) To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another.
  • # (label) To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
  • #* (James David Forbes) (1809-1868)
  • Your kind letter crossed mine.
  • # (label) Relative movement by a player or of players.
  • ## Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs.
  • ## (label) To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.
  • #
  • ## (label) To score a try.
  • ##* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=February 12, author=Mark Orlovac, work=BBC
  • , title= England 59-13 Italy , passage=England cut loose at the end of the half, Ashton, Mark Cueto and Mike Tindall all crossing before the break. }}
  • (label) To oppose.
  • # (label) To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.
  • # To interfere and cut off; to debar.
  • #* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • to cross me from the golden time I look for
  • # (label) To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness.
  • (label) To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
  • To stamp or mark a cheque in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited into a bank account.
  • Synonyms

    * (to cross-fertilize or crossbreed) cross-fertilize, crossbreed

    Derived terms

    * crossing * cross off * cross one's arms * cross one's fingers * cross one's heart * cross one's legs * cross out * cross over * crossover * cross paths * cross someone's palm * cross the aisle * crossword