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Definition: Pass Through |
Pass ThroughVerb1. Make a transit. 2. Cause to move through; "Pass a chemical through a solution". 3. Pass through an enemy-line; in a military conflict. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Pass ThroughSynonyms: infiltrate (v), pass across (v), pass over (v), transit (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Business | Be in the hands of, be on the stocks, be on the anvil; pass through one's hands. |
Circuition | Verb: turn, bend, wheel; go about, put about; heel; go round to the right about, turn round to the right about; turn on one's heel; make a circle, make a complete circle, describe a circle, describe a complete circle; go through x, go through x, pass through x, pass through x. |
Eventuality | Meet with; experience, enjoy, encounter, undergo, suffer, pass through, go through, be subjected to, be exposed to; fall to the lot of; be one's chance, be one's fortune, be one's lot; find; endure; (feel). |
Passage | Verb: pass, pass through; perforate; (hole); penetrate, permeate, thread, thrid, enfilade; go through, go across; go over, pass over; cut across; ford, cross; pass and repass, work; make one's way, thread one's way, worm one's way, force one's way; make a passage form a passage; cut one's way through; find its way, find its vent; transmit, make way, clear the course; traverse, go over the ground. |
Printing | Verb: print; compose; put to press, go to press; pass through the press, see through the press; publish; bring out; appear in print, rush into print; distribute, makeup, mortise, offset, overrun, rout. |
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| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I did not pass through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm! (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) That's what enables him to pass through inanimate objects. (Birds of Prey; writing credit: Adam Armus; Nora Kay Foster) I will face my fear, I will let it pass through me. (Children of Dune; writing credit: Frank Herbert; John Harrison) I will face my fear and it will pass through me and when it is gone there will be nothing only I will remain. (Dune; writing credit: John Harrison) We will pass through the American patrols, past their sonar nets, and lay off their largest city, and listen to their rock and roll while we conduct missile drills. (The Hunt for Red October; writing credit: Larry Ferguson) | |
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![]() | Measuring through house on Pasadena Base Line selected to pass through window and out other side Base line length was over 20 miles Base line party of Clement L. Garner. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | Oregon Trail marker near South Pass identifying the first women to pass through the area, Rock Springs Field Office. Credit: Jerry Sintz. | |
![]() | Transits the Panama Canal, circa 1914-15. She was reportedly the first battleship to pass through the canal when it opened in 1914. The original photograph was published on a stereograph card by the Keystone View Co. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Pomona (Calif.) Assembly Center - evacuees pass through outer gate of center toward buses awaiting to take them to relocation center. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Conversion. Auto parts to artillery shells. Artillery shells pass through a continuous automatic paint-spraying operation in which protective coatings are applied to all inside and outside surfaces. Location: a converted Midwest auto plant. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | One of the busiest ports of the Pacific is that of Batavia, metropolis of the island of Java, Netherlands East Indies. The bulk of our rubber and tin supplies pass through this port. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Printing war ration book 2. Glued sheets containing four ration books pass through the cutting machine and come out into single ration books. Weelan Reilly feeds the cutter as Ida Stuart, left, and Isabel Small, check the books and pack them in cardboard. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Freight train going up Cajon Pass through the San Bernardino Mountains, Cajon, Calif. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Bubbles; bubble; glug; glugging; bleed; bubble; charge; drain; drip; exude; filter; filtrate; impregnate; leach; ooze; pass through; penetrate; perk; permeate; pervade; saturate; strain; sweat; transfuse; transude; weep. | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Baltasar Gracian | One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity. |
Stephan Grellet | I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. |
William Ellery Channing | All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene. |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | In the various stages of development which the struggle of the working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole. (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | To go from the old station to the new, we must pass through Paris. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The protein is arranged to let light pass through and focus on the retina. (references) | |
Gas exchange occurs instantaneously in normal infants as the red blood cells pass through the capillaries. (references) | ||
Most proteins are too big to pass through the kidneys' filters into the urine, unless the kidneys are damaged. (references) | ||
Business | The study will focus on finding the routes that could pass through Mexico and/or the United States to serve Tijuana/Rosarito and San Diego. (references) | |
Approval of the Israeli Ministry of Health is necessary because of economic agreements signed between the PA and Israel and because all goods coming into the PA areas pass through Israeli ports. (references) | ||
Moreover, the BOI has reported steady increases in investment projects seeking BOI promotional privileges (see Table 5). The large increase in BOI applications in 1999 and 2000 bodes well for the environmental technologies market in the next two to three years as these projects pass through the installation phase into the start up of operations. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Belarus | There were no reports of the forced return of persons to a country where they feared persecution; however, refugees often are persons from third world countries seeking to pass through Russia and then Belarus en route to other European countries. (references) |
Economic History | Uae | An international cargo ship can cut 24 hours off the sailing time from Europe to the Far East by not joining the queue to pass through the busy straits; by-passing the Gulf also means lower insurance rates. (references) |
Chile | Different agreements contain varying procedures; some allow the investor to choose either the host country's legal system or international arbitration but not both, while others specify that disputes must pass through the host country's legal system before recourse to international arbitration. (references) | |
Human Rights | Syria | Accurate information regarding the number of cases heard by the SSSC is difficult to obtain, although hundreds of cases are believed to pass through the court annually. (references) |
Brazil | According to Justica Global, a local human rights group, prisoners were forced to pass through a "corridor" formed by military policemen from the Special Operations Unit while the policemen beat the prisoners with iron bars, truncheons, and whips. (references) | |
Brazil | Recepcao occurs when adolescents are transferred to a different facility and must pass through two rows of guards who kick, beat, and scream at them. (references) | |
Political Economy | Colombia | Members of the security forces collaborated with paramilitary groups that committed abuses, in some instances allowing such groups to pass through roadblocks, sharing information, or providing them with supplies or ammunition. (references) |
Trade | Brazil | As with value-added taxes in Europe, IPI taxes on products that pass through several stages of processing can be adjusted to compensate for IPI taxes paid at each stage. (references) |
West Bank | Most WB/G-bound products pass through Israeli ports and so are subject to Israeli customs and security inspection. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Malaysia | There are allegations that some level of corruption must exist among law enforcement since some trafficking victims have been known to pass through two or more ports of entry without travel documents. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Tom Ridge | Exactly. Their own iris scan, fingerprint scan, facial recognition, so that it might ease their pass through the gate and onto the airplane. Again, strictly talking to them on a voluntary capacity, but it does make some sense. |
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Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Difficulties, too, were presenting themselves as to the navigation of other streams which, arising within our territories, pass through those adjacent. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | We believe that all nations should have the freedom of the seas and equal rights to the navigation of boundary rivers and waterways and of rivers and waterways which pass through more than one country. |
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Expressions using "pass through": pass through a lock ♦ pass through one's hands ♦ pass through the mill ♦ pass through x. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
estate heir offshore pass through trust | 9 |
pass through window | 8 |
ipsec pass through | 5 |
credentials management operations pass through | 4 |
kitchen pass through window | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "pass through"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kaloj përmes (transit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عبر كذا (by), إجتاز بنجاح (pass, pass across). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | минавам през (go by, go through, penetrate), минавам (elapse, flow, get by, go, go by, lapse, pass, pass away, pass by, pass into, pass round, range, roll by, roll on, run, wear through), пресичам (come across, congeal, cross, cut across, go over, intercross, interrupt, intersect, intervene, overpass, passage, transect, traverse, truncate), прекосявам (cross, measure, pass over, traverse), преживявам (emote, experience, have, live through, meet with, outlive, outwear, overlive, rub along, rub on, see, subsist, survive, undergo), изкарвам (be through, dislodge, fare, fetch, finish, get, get through, make, oust, run off, serve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | " (achieve, attain, clear, dignity, inform, notify, reach, realize), " (classics, sacred book, scripture, to undergo), 穿 (penetrate, perforate, pierce, to bore through, to dress, to put on, to thread, to wear), " (to get into), 渡過 (to cross over), 徹 (penetrate, penetrating, pervade, thorough). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | projít èím. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | gennemse (cover, go through). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | gaan door (cover, go through), doorgaan (continue, cover, go on, go through, pass on, proceed with), aflopen (come to an end, cover, end, end up, expire, go through, peal, ring, stoop), afleggen (abandon, cover, go through, layer, put off, take off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | trairi (cover, go through). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | käydä läpi (go over, go through, look over, undergo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | parcourir (passed), traverser, transiter, franchir (pass), abattre. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | durchqueren (cover, cross, Ford, go through, to cross, to traverse, traverse), durchlaufen (go through, run through, run without stopping, to traverse, travers, wear through), durchgehen (be allowed, be non-stop, be passed, be tolerated, bolt, check through, comb through, come through, cover, elope, go over, go through, peruse, run off, run through, sift, slip by, slip past, to peruse, walk through). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | διέρχομαι (go through, weather). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"שתחל. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | átmegy (go through, overpass, pass, pass over, to adjourn, to come through, to cross, to cross over, to get through, to go over, to go through, to knife, to pass across, to pass through, to put over, to repass, to step across). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | melalui (by means of, experience, via). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | percorrere (come, cover, cross, go, go across, go through, pace, range, ride, run across, travel, tread, walk, wander). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 超える (to cross, to cross over, to pass over out of, to pass through). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | くぐる (to dive, to drive, to evade, to go underground, to hide, to pass through), まち'とおる (to pass through town), "える (to cross, to cross over, to exceed, to grow fat, to grow fertile, to pass over, to pass through), もぐる (to dive, to drive, to evade, to go underground, to hide, to pass through), とおりすぎる (to pass, to pass through). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | goll ny hrooid (clearance, clearance of cheque, go through). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | asspay oughthray o solo deixa passar água facilmente (the soil allows water to pass through easily, the soil is porous), o calor dos fumos que saem do laboratório do forno Martin é recuperado fazendo-se passar os fumos por câmaras de recuperação guarnecidas por um empilhamento em tijolos refractários (the sensible heat in the waste gases from the open hearth is recovered as the gases pass through regenerator chambers(UK)/regenerative chambers(US)filled with a checkerwork of refractory bricks), no lavador os gases ascendentes atravessam um jacto de água (in the washer the rising gases pass through a water spray), cadinho filtrante (pass through a filtering crucible of 4 porosity). (various references) trece prin (course, draw, experience, foot, get through, go through, perambulate, permeate, run, squeeze through, strain). (various references) проехать через, проехать (go by, go past, pass by). (various references) siubhail (cover, die, go, go through, move, walk). (various references) proputovati (perambulate, peregrinate, travel through), propustiti (leave out, let by, lose, miss, miss out, omit, pass, skip, throw away), proći (come through, get by, get off, go, go by, go past, go through, log, pass, pass by, run), preći (change over, cote, cover, cover ground, cross, go over, march, overpass, pass over, shade, shift, transit, traverse), pasirati (mash). (various references) pasar por (call at, fall back on, pass along, pass by, pass for, push through), recorrer (accomplish, beat, bridge, cover, do, go over, go through, March, passed, perambulate, range, roam, rove, tour, tramp, travel, walk, wander). (various references) upitie (you ought to pass through). (various references) passera (come about, cross, get by, go by, happen, occur, pass, pass by), genomgå (experience, go through, suffer, undergo, undergoing). (various references) nüfuz etmek (diffuse, indwell, penetrate, Pierce), içine işlemek (effect painfully, interpenetrate, offend deeply, perforate, sink into), içinden geçmek, başından geçmek (experience, fare, happen, know, live through), arasından geçmek (penetrate, thread), çekmek (abide, absorb, arrest, attract, be a sufferer by, be a sufferer from, be cursed with smth., bear, bear with, captivate, carry, catch, charm, claw, conjugate, decline, drag, draw, draw off, draw on, draw out, dwindle, engage, engross, extract, fetch, glamor, glamour, go through, go to scale at, grind, grip, haul, heave, hitch, hoist, hold, inflect, inhale, invite, last out, lug, lump, magnetize, pique, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull away, pull over, pull up, receive, record, run up, scale in, scale out, schlep, schlepp, shoot, shrink, sip, siphon, siphon off, soak, soak in, sop up, stand the racket, stretch, suck, suffer, sustain, syphon, syphon off, take, take after, take one's medicine, throw back, toss, tow, tow away, tug, turn the scale at, undergo, up with, whisk, withdraw). (various references) просіювати (screen), пропускати (balk, drop out, leave out, let by, let through, miss out, omit, outlet, overjump, overleap, overlook, pass over, skip, waste), перетинати (cross, intercept, intersect, overgo, overpass, transverse, traverse), переживати (emote, experience, feel, prove, survive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | lego, penetro, permeare. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 30, Verse 32 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Parelqatw panta ta probata sou shmeron kai diacwrison ekeiqen pan probaton faion en toiV arnasin kai pan dialeukon kai ranton en taiV aixin estai moi misqoV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Gyra omnes greges tuos et separa cunctas oves varias et sparso vellere et quodcumque furvum et maculosum variumque fuerit tam in ovibus quam in capris erit merces mea |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | I will go aboute all thy shepe this daye and separate fro the all the shepe that are spotted and of dyverse coloures and all blacke shepe amonge the lambes and the partie and spotted amonge the kyddes: And then such shalbe my rewarde. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | I will pass through all thy flock to-day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Let me go through all your flock today, taking out from among them all the sheep which are marked or coloured or black, and all the marked or coloured goats: these will be my payment. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Genesis Chapter 30, Verse 32 |
| Cebuano | Moadto ako karon sa tanan mong panon sa mga carnero, nga magalain ako sa tanang kahayupan nga kabang ug sa lain nga bulok, ug sa tanang kahayupan sa bulok nga maitum-itum sa taliwala sa mga carnero, ug sa mga kabang ug sa lain nga bulok sa taliwala sa mga kanding ug gikan niini mao ang akong suhol. |
| Croatian | Daj da proðem danas kroz tvoje stado i od njega izluèim svaku garavu ovcu i svaku šarenu ili napruganu kozu! Neka to bude moja plaæa! |
| Danish | Jeg vil i Dag gå hele din Hjord igennem og udskille alle spættede og blakkede Dyr alle de sorte Får og de blakkede eller spættede Geder skal være min Løn; |
| Dutch | Ik zal heden door uw ganse kudde gaan, daarvan afzonderende al het gespikkelde en geplekte vee, en al het bruine vee onder de lammeren, en het geplekte en gespikkelde onder de geiten; en zulks zal mijn loon zijn. |
| Finnish | minä tarkastan tänään kaiken laumasi; erota siitä pois kaikki pilkulliset ja kirjavat lampaat sekä karitsoista kaikki mustat ja vuohista kirjavat ja pilkulliset. Ja minun palkkani on sitten oleva tämä, |
| French | Je parcourrai aujourd`hui tout ton troupeau; mets part parmi les brebis tout agneau tacheté et marqueté et tout agneau noir, et parmi les chèvres tout ce qui est marqueté et tacheté. Ce sera mon salaire. |
| German | Ich will heute durch alle deine Herden gehen und aussondern alle gefleckten und bunten Schafe und alle schwarzen Schafe und die bunten und gefleckten Ziegen. Was nun bunt und gefleckt fallen wird, das soll mein Lohn sein. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Izinkan saya pada hari ini berjalan di tengah-tengah segala kawanan kambing domba Paman, dan mengambil setiap anak domba yang hitam, dan juga setiap kambing muda yang belang atau berbintik-bintik. Itu saja upah yang saya inginkan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Pada hari ini akan aku melalui segala kawan binatangmu serta kuasingkan dari padanya tiap-tiap yang berintik dan berbelang, maka segala binatang yang perang di antara segala domba dan yang berbelang dan berintik di antara segala kambing ia itu akan menjadi upahku. |
| Maori | Ka tika ahau na waenganui i tau kahui katoa akuanei, a ka wehea i reira nga mea whai tongitongi katoa, nga mea purepure, me nga mea pakaka katoa i roto i nga hipi, me nga purepure, me nga mea whai tongitongi i roto i nga koati: a ko era hei utu moku. |
| Norwegian | Jeg vil idag gå gjennem hele din hjord og skille ut alt som er flekket og spraglet og alt som er sort blandt fårene, og likeså alt som er spraglet og flekket blandt gjetene; og det skal være min lønn. |
| Portuguese | Passarei hoje por todo o teu rebanho, separando dele todos os salpicados e malhados, e todos os escuros entre as ovelhas, e os malhados e salpicados entre as cabras; e isto será o meu salário. |
| Rumanian | Azi am sq trec prin toatq turma ta; am sq pun deoparte din oi orice miel sein wi pestriy wi orice miel negru, wi din capre tot ce este pestriy wi sein. Aceasta sq fie simbria mea. |
| Spanish | Yo pasaré hoy en medio de todo tu rebaño, poniendo aparte toda oveja pintada o salpicada de diversos colores y todo cordero de color oscuro; y de entre las cabras las salpicadas de diversos colores y las pintadas. Eso será mi salario. |
| Swedish | Jag vill i dag gå igenom hela din hjord och avskilja ur den alla spräckliga och brokiga såväl som alla svarta djur bland fåren, så ock vad som är brokigt och spräckligt bland getterna; sådant må sedan bliva min lön. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-h-h-o-p-r-s-s-t-u" | |
-3 letters: aphthous, hotspurs, shophars. | |
-4 letters: authors, hotspur, outpass, pastors, ragouts, ragtops, rugosas, sapours, shaughs, shophar, sprouts, stupors, through, troughs, upshots, upsoars. | |
-5 letters: argots, assort, aughts, author, garths, gators, ghauts, ghosts, graphs, grasps, groats, groups, grouts, haughs, horahs, horsts, hostas, hursts, hussar, oughts, outgas, pargos, parous, pastor, pathos, pharos, potash, prahus, prutah, ragout, ragtop, roasts. | |
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