go vs pass

go

verb
  • To die. 

  • To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.) 

  • To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend. 

  • To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.) 

  • To be spent or used up. 

  • To belong (somewhere). 

  • To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race). 

  • To make the (specified) sound. 

  • To fit. 

  • To urinate or defecate. 

  • To tend (toward a result). 

  • To be lost. 

  • To have (final) authority; to be authoritative. 

  • I woke up just before the clock went. 

  • To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of. 

  • Let's go halves on this. 

  • Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way 

  • To continuously or habitually be in a state. 

  • I went at him with a knife. 

  • To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group. 

  • To enjoy. (Compare go for.) 

  • To attend. 

  • To be sold. 

  • To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time. 

  • Synonyms: become, turn, change into 

  • To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving. 

  • To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state). 

  • To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.) 

  • To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc). 

  • To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted. 

  • To sound; to make a noise. 

  • To leave; to move away. 

  • To extend (from one point in time or space to another). 

  • To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result). 

  • To come to (a certain condition or state). 

  • To start; to begin (an action or process). 

  • To work (through or over), especially mentally. 

  • Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate 

  • To attack. 

  • To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.) 

  • To date. 

  • Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell. 

  • Synonyms: function, work, operate 

  • To break down or decay. 

  • To be accepted. 

  • We've only gone twenty miles today. 

  • To be valid. 

  • To have a certain record. 

  • To take a turn, especially in a game. 

  • To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something). 

  • To be out. 

  • To resort (to). 

  • To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion). 

  • To yield or weigh. 

  • Those babies go five tons apiece. 

  • To be discarded or disposed of. 

  • To follow or proceed according to (a course or path). 

  • To lead (to a place); to give access to. 

  • To be expressed or composed (a certain way). 

  • Anything goes around here. 

  • Why don’t you go with us? 

  • Let's go this way for a while. 

  • To end or disappear. (Compare go away.) 

  • To fight or attack. 

  • How long can you go without water? 

  • To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay. 

  • To proceed (especially to do something foolish). 

  • To collapse or give way, to break apart. 

  • Expressing encouragement or approval. 

  • To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.) 

  • To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.) 

  • To contribute to a (specified) end product or result. 

  • To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required). 

  • To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as. 

  • To travel or pass along. 

  • To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink. 

adj
  • Working correctly and ready to commence operation; approved and able to be put into action. 

noun
  • A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game). 

  • An attempt, a try. 

  • An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved. 

  • Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance. 

  • The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one. 

  • An act; the working or operation. 

  • A period of activity. 

  • Synonym: green light 

  • A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters. 

  • Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try 

  • The act of going. 

pass

verb
  • To die. 

  • 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 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. 

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". 

How often have the words go and pass occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )