pass vs turn

pass

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

  • 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 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". 

turn

verb
  • Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control. 

  • To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery. 

  • To magically or divinely attack undead. 

  • To be nauseated; said of the stomach. 

  • To change the color of the leaves in the autumn. 

  • To sour or spoil; to go bad. 

  • To reach a certain age. 

  • To sicken; to nauseate. 

  • To transform into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc. 

  • To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds. 

  • To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated. 

  • To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt. 

  • To complete. 

  • To become (begin to be). 

  • To change fundamentally; to metamorphose. 

  • To change (a person) into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc. 

  • To make (money); turn a profit. 

  • Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces. 

  • To navigate through a book or other printed material. 

  • To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation. 

  • To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle. 

  • Of a body, person, etc, to move around an axis through itself. 

  • To change one's direction of travel. 

  • Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces. 

  • To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa. 

  • To become giddy; said of the head or brain. 

  • To undergo the process of turning on a lathe. 

  • To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe. 

  • To hinge; to depend. 

noun
  • The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em. 

  • A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others. 

  • A change in temperament or circumstance. 

  • A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again. 

  • One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players. 

  • A single loop of a coil. 

  • Character; personality; nature. 

  • A short skit, act, or routine. 

  • A fit or a period of giddiness. 

  • A unit of plane angle measurement based on this movement. 

  • A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight). 

  • A pass behind or through an object. 

  • An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control. 

  • A walk to and fro. 

  • A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule. 

  • The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices. 

  • A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice. 

  • A change of direction or orientation. 

  • A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation. 

  • The time required to complete a project. 

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