PASS ALONG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pass along mean? 

• PASS ALONG (verb)
  The verb PASS ALONG has 1 sense:

1. transmit information

  Familiarity information: PASS ALONG used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASS ALONG (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Transmit information

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

communicate; pass; pass along; pass on; put across

Context example:

pass along the good news

Hypernyms (to "pass along" is one way to...):

communicate; convey; transmit (transfer to another)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass along"):

implant; plant (put firmly in the mind)

send a message (give or constitute a signal, not necessarily verbally)

relay (pass along)

get across; put over (communicate successfully)

ask for; bespeak; call for; quest; request (express the need or desire for)

telecommunicate (communicate over long distances, as via the telephone or e-mail)

acknowledge; receipt (report the receipt of)

carry (pass on a communication)

deliver; render; return (pass down)

message (send as a message)

message (send a message to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

 Context examples 

Willoughby Smith had been in his bedroom, which he uses as a sitting-room, but the maid heard him at that moment pass along the passage and descend to the study immediately below her.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass along its gullet and down into its crop.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Weeks, months, seasons, pass along.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And in review would pass along the corridors of memory all previous thrills and burnings he had known,—the drunkenness of wine, the caresses of women, the rough play and give and take of physical contests,—and they seemed trivial and mean compared with this sublime ardor he now enjoyed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Two thousand a year without debt or drawback—except the little love-child, indeed; aye, I had forgot her; but she may be 'prenticed out at a small cost, and then what does it signify? Delaford is a nice place, I can tell you; exactly what I call a nice old fashioned place, full of comforts and conveniences; quite shut in with great garden walls that are covered with the best fruit-trees in the country; and such a mulberry tree in one corner! Lord! how Charlotte and I did stuff the only time we were there! Then, there is a dove-cote, some delightful stew-ponds, and a very pretty canal; and every thing, in short, that one could wish for; and, moreover, it is close to the church, and only a quarter of a mile from the turnpike-road, so 'tis never dull, for if you only go and sit up in an old yew arbour behind the house, you may see all the carriages that pass along.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)