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PASS OVER
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bypass
Example:
He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible
Synonyms:
jump; pass over; skip; skip over
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "pass over" is one way to...):
drop; leave out; miss; neglect; omit; overleap; overlook; pretermit (leave undone or leave out)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Rub with a circular motion
Example:
He passed his hands over the soft cloth
Synonyms:
pass over; wipe
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "pass over" is one way to...):
rub (move over something with pressure)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass over"):
sponge (wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten)
squeegee (wipe with a squeegee)
broom; sweep (sweep with a broom or as if with a broom)
towel (wipe with a towel)
whisk; whisk off (brush or wipe off lightly)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Also:
pass (pass over, across, or through)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Fly over
Example:
The plane passed over Damascus
Synonyms:
overfly; pass over
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "pass over" is one way to...):
go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)
Domain category:
air; air travel; aviation (travel via aircraft)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 4
Meaning:
Travel across or pass over
Example:
The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day
Synonyms:
cover; cross; cut across; cut through; get across; get over; pass over; track; traverse
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "pass over" is one way to...):
pass (go across or through)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass over"):
tramp (cross on foot)
stride (cover or traverse by taking long steps)
walk (traverse or cover by walking)
crisscross (cross in a pattern, often random)
ford (cross a river where it's shallow)
bridge (cross over on a bridge)
jaywalk (cross the road at a red light)
drive; take (proceed along in a vehicle)
course (move swiftly through or over)
hop (traverse as if by a short airplane trip)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 5
Meaning:
Make a passage or journey from one place to another
Example:
Some travelers pass through the desert
Synonyms:
move through; pass across; pass over; pass through; transit
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "pass over" is one way to...):
pass (go across or through)
Verb group:
transit (cause or enable to pass through)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass over"):
cut (pass through or across)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Context examples:
Miss Spenlow endeavoured, said Miss Murdstone, to bribe me with kisses, work-boxes, and small articles of jewellery—that, of course, I pass over.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Travel across or pass over.
(Cross, NCI Thesaurus)
Then a large log of wood came and said, “I am big enough; I will lay myself across the stream, and you shall pass over upon me.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I mentioned it to Mr. Carruthers, who seemed interested in what I said, and told me that he had ordered a horse and trap, so that in future I should not pass over these lonely roads without some companion.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I have to begin my report by bad news, for the first serious personal trouble (I pass over the incessant bickerings between the Professors) occurred this evening, and might have had a tragic ending.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I pass over the sort of slur conveyed in this suggestion on the character of my beloved; indeed, when you are far away, Janet, I'll try to forget it: I shall notice only its wisdom; which is such that I have made it my law of action.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I pass over Mr. Wickfield's proposing my aunt, his proposing Mr. Dick, his proposing Doctors' Commons, his proposing Uriah, his drinking everything twice; his consciousness of his own weakness, the ineffectual effort that he made against it; the struggle between his shame in Uriah's deportment, and his desire to conciliate him; the manifest exultation with which Uriah twisted and turned, and held him up before me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
They look out of no face but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
