cap vs pass

cap

verb
  • To surpass or outdo. 

  • To set an upper limit on something. 

  • To award a cap as a mark of distinction. 

  • To lie over or on top of something. 

  • To convert text to uppercase. 

  • To make something even more wonderful at the end. 

  • To lie; to tell a lie. 

  • To select to play for the national team. 

  • To take a screenshot or to record a copy of a video. 

  • To select a player to play for a specified side. 

  • To cover or seal with a cap. 

  • To shoot (someone) with a firearm. 

  • To deprive of a cap. 

noun
  • An uppercase or capital letter. 

  • A recording or screenshot. 

  • Anyone have a cap of the games last night? 

  • The top part of a mushroom. 

  • A place on a national team; an international appearance. 

  • An academic mortarboard. 

  • A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc. 

  • A small amount of percussive explosive in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun. 

  • A lie or exaggeration. 

  • The uppermost of any assemblage of parts. 

  • The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck. 

  • The summit of a mountain, etc. 

  • A large size of writing paper. 

  • A crown for covering a tooth. 

  • A capitalist. 

  • An artificial upper limit or ceiling. 

  • capillary 

  • Capitalization. 

  • A protective cover or seal. 

  • A capacitor. 

  • A capsule of a drug. 

  • Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament. 

  • A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked. 

  • A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope. 

  • A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives. 

  • A bullet used to shoot someone. 

  • A portion of a spherical or other convex surface. 

pass

verb
  • To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed. 

  • To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another. 

  • To depart, to cease, to come to an end. 

  • To spend. 

  • To go from one person to another. 

  • To put through a sieve. 

  • To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do". 

  • To reject; to pass up. 

  • To happen. 

  • In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn. 

  • To proceed without hindrance or opposition. 

  • To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure. 

  • To utter; to pronounce; to pledge. 

  • To die. 

  • To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance. 

  • In euchre, to decline to make the trump. 

  • To put in circulation; to give currency to. 

  • To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer. 

  • To decline something that is offered or available. 

  • To move or be moved from one place to another. 

  • To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression). 

  • To continue. 

  • To elapse, to be spent. 

  • To progress from one state to another; to advance. 

  • To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance. 

  • 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. 

  • To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate. 

  • To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force. 

  • To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard. 

  • To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes. 

  • To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa. 

  • To make a lunge or swipe. 

  • To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate. 

  • To decline or not attempt to answer a question. 

  • To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body). 

  • To make a judgment on or upon a person or case. 

  • To achieve a successful outcome from. 

  • To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past. 

noun
  • A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything. 

  • Success in an examination or similar test. 

  • Permission or license to pass, or to go and come. 

  • An intentional walk. 

  • The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff. 

  • A sexual advance. 

  • An attempt. 

  • A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process. 

  • A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission 

  • The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another. 

  • A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool. 

  • 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. 

  • A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river. 

  • The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre. 

  • The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse. 

  • 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. 

  • A password (especially one for a restricted-access website). 

  • A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary. 

  • A thrust; a sally of wit. 

  • An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass". 

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