Pass vs Paper - What's the difference?
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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=(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.}}
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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.
#* (1609-1674)
#*: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 .
#*, chapter=23
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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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, title= # To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
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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).
A sheet material used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water.
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, title= A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
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*:"I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal.."
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, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1
, passage=“Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke
(lb) Wallpaper.
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*:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
(lb) Wrapping paper.
A written document, generally shorter than a book (white paper'', ''term paper ), in particular one written for the Government.
A written document that reports scientific or academic research and is usually subjected to peer review before publication in a scientific journal or in the proceedings of a scientific or academic meeting (such as a conference, a workshop or a symposium).
A scholastic essay.
(lb) Money.
(lb) A university course.
A paper packet containing a quantity of items.
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A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.
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Made of paper.
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Insubstantial.
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To apply paper to.
To document; to memorialize.
To fill a theatre or other paid event with complimentary seats.
As nouns the difference between pass and paper
is that pass is pass (between mountains ) while paper is a sheet material used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water.As an adjective paper is
made of paper.As a verb paper is
to apply paper to.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
(wikipedia paper)Noun
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}
George Goodchild
Synonyms
* (medium used in writing) bookfellDerived terms
* abrasive paper * art paper * banana paper * blotting paper * bog paper * brown paper * butcher paper * carbon paper * chattel paper * cigarette paper * commercial paper * construction paper * * emery paper * filter paper * funny paper * graph paper * green paper * hang paper * linen paper * liquid paper * litmus paper * paper aeroplane/paper airplane * paper ballot * paper candidate * paper chase * paper chromatography * paper clip * paper currency * paper cut * paper cutter * paper fight * paper flower * paper hat * paper mill * paper money * paper nautilus * paper round * paper snowflake * paper tape * paper tiger * paper trail * paperbark * paperboard * paperknife * piece of paper * plain paper * position paper * put pen to paper * quadrille paper * rice paper * scientific paper * sheet of paper * scratch paper * soda paper * term paper * test paper * tissue paper * toilet paper * touch-paper * tracing paper * treacle paper * way out of a paper bag * white paper * wrapping paper * writing paperAdjective
(-)Verb
(en verb)- to paper the hallway walls
- After they reached an agreement, their staffs papered it up.
- As the event has not sold well, we'll need to paper the house.