A type of dialogue or argument where the participants do not have any reasonable goal. The aim is to argue for the sake of conflict, and often to see who can yell the loudest.
One who makes specious arguments; one who is disputatious.
Provoking strife, controversy or discord.
A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
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; a sally of wit.
An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
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 transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
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.