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Promotes vs Passed - What's the difference?

promotes | passed |

As verbs the difference between promotes and passed

is that promotes is (promote) while passed is (pass).

As an adjective passed is

that has passed beyond a certain point (chiefly in set collocations).

promotes

English

Verb

(head)
  • (promote)
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    promote

    English

    Verb

    (promot)
  • To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.
  • He promoted his clerk to office manager.
    Having crossed the chessboard, his pawn was promoted to a queen.
  • To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.
  • They promoted the abolition of daylight saving time.
    They promoted the new film with giant billboards.
  • To encourage, urge or incite
  • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=5 , so that finding myself on the point of going, and loath to leave the tender partner of my joys behind me, I employed all the forwarding motions and arts my experience suggested to me, to promote his keeping me company to our journey's end}}
  • To elevate to the above league.
  • At the end of the season, three teams are promoted to the Premier League.
  • (label) To increase the activity of a catalyst by changing its surface structure
  • (label) To exchange a pawn for a queen or other piece when it reaches the 8th rank
  • Antonyms

    * (raise rank) demote * (advocate or urge on behalf of) denigrate, oppose

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    passed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (pass)
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • That has passed beyond a certain point (chiefly in set collocations).
  • That has passed a given qualification or examination; qualified.
  • Derived terms

    * passed pawn

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