PASS BY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pass by mean? 

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

1. move past

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASS BY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move past

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

go by; go past; pass; pass by; surpass; travel by

Context example:

One line of soldiers surpassed the other

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

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

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

skirt (pass around or about; move along the border)

run by (pass by while running)

fly by (pass by while flying)

fly by; whisk by; zip by (move by very quickly)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

These cars won't pass by

 Context examples 

If we make haste, we shall pass by them presently, and I am dying to show you my hat.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She would certainly pass by, for that way led home.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

So afraid you might have a headache!—seeing you pass by so often, and knowing how much trouble you must have.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Florence is the largest asteroid to pass by our planet this close since the NASA program to detect and track near-Earth asteroids began.

(Biggest Asteroid Ever Detected Flies Past Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

To pass by; having passed by.

(Elapse, NCI Thesaurus)

But on their way home they had to pass by the hazel-tree that Ashputtel had planted; and on the branch sat a little dove singing.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

On Oct. 12 EDT (Oct. 11 PDT), a small asteroid designated 2012 TC4 will safely pass by Earth at a distance of approximately 26,000 miles (42,000 kilometers).

(Asteroid Tracking Network Observes Close Approach, NASA)

Yet a chance traveller might pass by; and I wish no eye to see me now: strangers would wonder what I am doing, lingering here at the sign-post, evidently objectless and lost.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The next pass by the rings' outer edges is planned for Dec. 11.

(Over Saturn's Turbulent North, NASA)

Florence is the largest asteroid to pass by our planet this close since the NASA program to detect and track near-Earth asteroids began.

(Large Asteroid to Safely Pass Earth on Sept. 1, NASA)