What is the difference between pass and cross?
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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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, 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.
## 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 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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#*(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).
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.
(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).
(usually with the) The cross on which Christ was crucified.
A hand gesture made by Catholics in imitation of the shape of the Cross.
* Sir Walter Scott
* Cowper
(Christianity) A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a symbol of religious devotion.
(figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross ) A difficult situation that must be endured.
* Ben Jonson
The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other
(biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
(by extension) A hybrid of any kind.
* Lord Dufferin
(boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
(football) A pass in which the ball travels from by one touchline across the pitch.
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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
(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.
Transverse; lying across the main direction.
* Isaac Newton
(archaic) Opposite, opposed to.
Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for.
*, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.50:
* Jeremy Taylor
* Glanvill
* South
* Dryden
Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.
* Jeremy Taylor
Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
(archaic) across
* L'Estrange
cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.
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)
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#*: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= # (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)
# (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.
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## (label) To score a try.
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, title= (label) To oppose.
# (label) To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.
# To interfere and cut off; to debar.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# (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.
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)- 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 ?
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English
Noun
(es)- Put a cross for a wrong answer and a tick for a right one.
- Criminals were commonly executed on a wooden cross .
- She made the cross after swearing.
- Before the cross has waned the crescent's ray.
- 'Tis where the cross is preached.
- She was wearing a cross on her necklace.
- It's a cross I must bear.
- Heaven prepares a good man with crosses .
- A quick cross of the road.
- Toning down the ancient Viking into a sort of a cross between Paul Jones and Jeremy Diddler
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- I should bear no cross if I did bear you; for I think you have no money in your purse.
Synonyms
* (production of cross-breeding or -fertilization) hybrid * (cross on which Christ was crucified) True CrossDerived terms
* Celtic cross * crossroads * cross-stitch * double cross * fiery cross * Latin cross * left cross * Maltese cross * Saint Andrew's cross * * True Cross * right crossAdjective
(er)- At the end of each row were cross benches which linked the rows.
- the cross refraction of the second prism
- His actions were perversely cross to his own happiness.
- As a fat body is more subject to diseases, so are rich men to absurdities and fooleries, to many casualties and cross inconveniences.
- a cross fortune
- the cross and unlucky issue of my design
- The article of the resurrection seems to lie marvellously cross to the common experience of mankind.
- We are both love's captives, but with fates so cross , / One must be happy by the other's loss.
- 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.
- He had received a cross answer from his mistress.
- 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, irritatedDerived terms
* cross cut * cross-examine * crossly * cross-multiplication * crosspatch * cross purposes * cross-section * cross-wisePreposition
(English prepositions)- She walked cross the mountains.
- A fox was taking a walk one night cross a village.
- The Lorentz force is q times v cross B.
Verb
(es)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.}}
- Your kind letter crossed mine.
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. }}
- to cross me from the golden time I look for
