PASS AROUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pass around mean? 

• PASS AROUND (verb)
  The verb PASS AROUND has 2 senses:

1. cause to be distributed

2. cause to become widely known

  Familiarity information: PASS AROUND used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASS AROUND (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to be distributed

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

circulate; distribute; pass around; pass on

Context example:

This letter is being circulated among the faculty

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

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

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

send around (forward to others)

utter (put into circulation)

scatter; spread; spread out (strew or distribute over an area)

Sentence frames:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to become widely known

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

broadcast; circularise; circularize; circulate; diffuse; disperse; disseminate; distribute; pass around; propagate; spread

Context example:

broadcast the news

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

air; bare; publicise; publicize (make public)

Cause:

circulate; go around; spread (become widely known and passed on)

Verb group:

circulate; go around; spread (become widely known and passed on)

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

podcast (distribute (multimedia files) over the internet for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer)

sow (introduce into an environment)

generalise; generalize; popularise; popularize; vulgarise; vulgarize (cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use)

carry; run (include as the content; broadcast or publicize)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something