PAS

Definition: PAS

PAS

Noun

1. Right of going foremost; precedence.

2. A pace; a step, as in a dance.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "PAS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Etymology: Pas \Pas\, noun. [French expression See Pace.]. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Repute

Rank, standing, brevet rank, precedence, pas, station, place, status; position, position in society; order, degree, baccalaureate, locus standi, caste, condition.

Term

Noun: term, rank, station, stage, step; degree; scale, remove, grade, link, peg, round of the ladder, status, position, place, point, mark, pas, period, pitch; stand, standing; footing, range.

Crosswords: PAS

Afrikaan (be appropriate, be suitable, clothe, conform, dress, Easter, exclusively, fit, fit in, just, only, suit), Albanian (after, against, at, back, behind, beyond, hence, over), Czech (midriff, pass, passport, waist), Danish (passport), Dutch (exclusively, just, just now, only, pace, pass, passport, step, stride), French (foot, footstep, gauge, move, no, not, pace, pitch, step, steps, stride, tread), French Canadian (not), Hawaiian (after, behind), Irish (pass, passport), Occitan (no), Papiamen (peace), Romanian (channel, foot, footmark, footprint, footstep, gate, gorge, leap, move, opening, pace, pass, pitch, remove, step, stride, tread, walk), Serbo-Croatian (canine, dog, waist), Turkish (furring, no bid, pass, rust), Welsh (whooping cough).

Near faux pas. I almost wore the same thing (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Pas celui-là (Sirène du Mississippi, La; writing credit: François Truffaut)

Le roi n'est pas un sujet (Ridicule; writing credit: Rémi Waterhouse ; Michel Fessler)

Ne me dit pas que tu as encore faim (Douze travaux d'Astérix, Les; writing credit: René Goscinny; Albert Uderzo)

Pas facile (Someone I love, Someone who loves me; performing artist: Dion)

Ne te retourne pas (Humana; performing artist: Fabian)

Que tu n'imaginais pas (Humana; performing artist: Fabian)

Si tu comprends pas l'amour (I Will Love Again; performing artist: Lara Fabian)

Les Filles c'est pas pareil (1974)

On n'est pas sérieux quand on a 17 ans (1974)

Impossible... pas français (1974)

Et si tu n'en veux pas (1974)

L' Amour pas comme les autres (1974)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Ceci N'Est Pas Keith/Ceci N'Est Pas Rosmarie (reference)

• La\Guerre de Troie n'Aura pas Lieu (reference)

• Le Pharaon Qui Navait Pas Dombre (reference)

• On Ne Badine Pas Avec Lamour (reference)

• Pas De Deux: Great Partnerships in Dance (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• 4 Pages : Profils Du Nord Pas De Calais C-w Lettre De Conjon (reference)

• Syndicat Agricole Nord Pas De Calais (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Great Pas de Deux (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Zydeco Sont Pas Sale (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Ewing's sarcoma that metastasized to the pleural fluid. Stained PAS for glycogen. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Histopathology of coccidioidomycosis. Spherule with endospores of Coccidioides immitis. PAS stain. Credit: CDC.

Hemosiderin, revealed here using PAS stain and H&E counterstain, is a normal by-product produced during the breakdown of red blood cells, and the decomposition of the hemoglobin molecule contained in these blood components. Credit: CDC.

Je ne veux pas. / Pigal. Lith. de Langlumé. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Je me pas assez méfié de la payse. / Lith. de Villian. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Le jeu n'en vaut pas la chandelle. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mr. and Mrs. Tom Stuart, (seated) of Hempstead County, Arkansas, are shown reading the news about their good fortune in becoming the first Negro family in the nation to receive a farm housing loan, authorized by the Housing Act of 1949, which Congress pas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Three ballerinas perform pas de trois as they cast ballots into trash can, atop the Empire State Building] / World Telegram & Sun p. Credit: Library of Congress; photo by Herman Hiller..

Le bon feu 1914-1915-1916. N'oubliez pas ceux qui ont froid. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pas trop de chahut - S.V.P. Les Foyers du soldat. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It is understood that due diligence will be exercised in the restoration of the destroyed mines in the Nord and the Pas de Calais. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

They went to the least frequented walk of the Luxembourg, and every Sunday to mass, always at Saint Jacques du Haut Pas, because it was quite distant

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Civil Liberties

Malaysia

In October 2000, the Chief Minister of Kelantan, who is also the spiritual adviser for the opposition Islamic party PAS, was banned from speaking at a mosque in Selangor. (references)

Malaysia

In January 2000, the editor and printer of Harakah, the newspaper of the opposition Islamic party, Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS), were charged with sedition in connection with an 1999 Harakah article that quoted an opposition politician's comments on the confession of Sukma Darawaman, Anwar Ibrahim's codefendant in Anwar's sodomy trial. (references)

Economic History

Indonesia

PAS organizes and supports programs designed to help promote trade and investment. (references)

Human Rights

Malaysia

Some of those arrested are members of the opposition Islamic Party (PAS), and one, the group's alleged leader, Nik Adli, is also the son of PAS leader and Chief Minister of Kelantan Nik Aziz. (references)

Political Economy

Malaysia

One reason given for the movement of Malay voters to PAS was their unhappiness with the treatment of former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who was forced from office in the fall of 1998 and was tried and convicted in April 1999 of four charges of corruption. (references)

Malaysia

The Barisan National won about 75% of the parliamentary seats, higher than the two-thirds goal it had set for itself, but it lost to PAS a sizable number of Malay voters who traditionally had supported UMNO. (references)

Political Rights

Mexico

In the Chamber of Deputies, the PRI holds 211 seats; the PAN 206; the PRD 50; the Green Ecologist Party (PVEM) 17; the Labor Party (PT) 7; Democracy Convergence (CD) 4; the Nationalist Society Party (PSN) 3; and the Social Alliance Party (PAS) 2. The PRI holds 60 seats in the Senate; the PAN 46; the PRD 16; the PVEM 5; and the CD 1. Legislators can and do on occasion change their party affiliation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "PAS": avis incidemment exprimé par le juge et n'ayant pas force de précédent ♦ du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas ♦ faux pas ♦ il n'a pas invente' la poudre ♦ la garde meurt et ne se rend pas ♦ le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle ♦ le jugement ne va que le pas ♦ le pas ♦ make a faux pas ♦ ne pas reveiller le chat qui dort ♦ ne reveillez pas le chat qui dort ♦ pas de deux ♦ pas seul ♦ pas si bete ♦ qui n'a pas invente' la poudre ♦ quicken one's pas. Additional references.

Beginning with "PAS": Pas-ce-soir, Pas-dammim, Pas-de-Calais, pas-score, pas-time.

Ending with "PAS": faux-pas.

Containing "PAS": Nord-pas-de-calais.

Albanian

superioritet (predominance), avantazh (advantage, edge, flying start, forehand, interest, lead, odds, one up, self interest, vantage). (various references)

Arabic 

‏زلة (cringing, error, fault, faux pas, frailty, lapse, peccadillo, stumble). (various references)

Bulgarian 

танцова стъпка (step), танц (dance, hop, measure), първенство (anteriority, hegemony, precedence, primacy, priority), предимство (advantage, antecedence, asset, leg up, plus, precedence, preference, priority, privilege, pull, right of way, score, start, vantage). (various references)

Chinese 

得罪 (say something that offends sb; have a faux pas). (various references)

Czech

krok (footstep, gait, measure, move, pace, step, tread, walk). (various references)

Danish

PAS-system (public automobile service) (PAS-system, public automobile service system, public automobile system), offentligt automobilsystem (PAS-system, public automobile service system, public automobile system). (various references)

Dutch

openbare stadsauto (PAS-system, public automobile service system, public automobile system). (various references)

Finnish

yleisessä käytössä olevien kaupunkiautojen järjestelmä (PAS-system, public automobile service system, public automobile system), kömmähdys (bloomer, blunder, boner, faux pas). (various references)

French

presser le pas (mend one's pace, quicken one's pas), passe-temps (pastime, pas-time), système de voitures banalisées (PAS-system), faux pas (faux pas), crédit de restructuration (new money(ne pas confondre avec fresh money)). (various references)

German

Schritt (crotch, degree, footfall, footstep, gait, move, pace, step, steps, stride, tread, trod, walk, yard). (various references)

Greek 

βήμα (footstep, gait, pace, rostrum, step, stride). (various references)

Hebrew 

משגה בעניני נמוס (faux pas). (various references)

Hungarian

tánclépés. (various references)

Italian

sistema di automobili banalizzate (PAS-system, public automobile service system, public automobile system), gaffe (blunder, faux pas, gaffe). (various references)

Pig Latin

aspay.(various references)

Portuguese

dança (dance, dancing, saltation). (various references)

Russian 

преимущество (advantage, advantages, bargaining chip, bargaining counter, better hand, jump, odds, perquisite, point, start, superiority, vantage, whip handle), первенство (anteriority, championship, precedence, primacy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prvenstvo (antecedents, anteriority, championship, precedence, preference, prerogative, primacy, priority), korak (footstep, move, pace, pitch, step). (various references)

Spanish

metida de pata (faux pas, howler), falso paso (faux pas), coladura (faux pas, seepage, straining). (various references)

Swedish

steg (footstep, gate, pace, step, steps, stride, tread, trod). (various references)

Thai

การประพฤติผิด (faux pas). (various references)

Turkish

adım (foot, footstep, pace, step). (various references)

Ukrainian

першість (antecedence, anteriority, championship, lead, precedence, precedency, primacy), па. (various references)

Vietnamese 

quyền ưu tiên bước nhảy, quyền đi trước (precedence), bước khiêu vũ. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "PAS": pascal, pascals, paschal, paschals, pase, paseo, paseos, pases, pash, pasha, pashadom, pashadoms, pashalic, pashalics, pashalik, pashaliks, pashas, pashed, pashes, pashing, pasqueflower, pasqueflowers, pasquil, pasquils, pasquinade, pasquinaded, pasquinades, pasquinading, pass, passable, passably, passacaglia, passacaglias, passade, passades, passado, passadoes, passados, passage, passaged, passages, passageway, passageways, passagework, passageworks, passaging, passant, passband, passbands, passbook, passbooks. (additional references)

Words ending with "PAS": catalpas, chutzpas, cuppas, dopas, grandpas, grappas, hutzpas, jipijapas, kalpas, kapas, kappas, koppas, lampas, levodopas, limpas, metepas, methyldopas, milpas, nipas, pampas, papas, poppas, pupas, salpas, sherpas, spas, stupas, tapas, tepas, thiotepas, upas. (additional references)

Words containing "PAS": antepast, antepasts, antipasti, antipasto, antipastos, antispasmodic, antispasmodics, blepharospasm, blepharospasms, bronchospasm, bronchospasms, bronchospastic, bypass, bypassed, bypasses, bypassing, bypast, calipash, calipashes, compass, compassable, compassed, compasses, compassing, compassion, compassionate, compassionated, compassionately, compassionateness, compassionatenesses, compassionates, compassionating, compassionless, compassions, copasetic, copastor, copastors, diapason, diapasons, dispassion, dispassionate, dispassionately, dispassionateness, dispassionatenesses, dispassions, encompass, encompassed, encompasses, encompassing, encompassment, encompassments. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: asp, sap, spa.

-1 letter: as, pa.

+1 letter: alps, amps, apes, apse, asps, baps, caps, daps, gaps, gasp, haps, hasp, laps, maps, naps, pacs, pads, pals, pams, pans, paps, pars, pase, pash, pass, past, pats, paws, pays, peas, pias, pyas, raps, rasp, salp, samp, saps, slap, snap, soap, spae, spam, span, spar, spas, spat, spay, spaz, swap, taps, upas, waps, wasp, yaps, zaps.