PASS OVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pass over mean? 

• PASS OVER (verb)
  The verb PASS OVER has 5 senses:

1. bypass

2. make a passage or journey from one place to another

3. travel across or pass over

4. fly over

5. rub with a circular motion

  Familiarity information: PASS OVER used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASS OVER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bypass

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

jump; pass over; skip; skip over

Context example:

He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible

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:

Make a passage or journey from one place to another

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

move through; pass across; pass over; pass through; transit

Context example:

Some travelers pass through the desert

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

Travel across or pass over

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

cover; cross; cut across; cut through; get across; get over; pass over; track; traverse

Context example:

The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day

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 4

Meaning:

Fly over

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

overfly; pass over

Context example:

The plane passed over Damascus

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 5

Meaning:

Rub with a circular motion

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

pass over; wipe

Context example:

He passed his hands over the soft cloth

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)

 Context examples 

He had been watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a shadow pass over his face as I spoke.

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

Every year during spring and fall migration, tens of millions of birds take flight at sunset and pass over our heads, unseen in the night sky.

(Using artificial intelligence to track birds' dark-of-night migrations, National Science Foundation)

Would he never pass over that fifty feet?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I pass over the madness about parting from me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Many threw themselves down upon the turf and allowed successive waves to pass over their bodies, whilst others, driven wild by the blows, returned them with their hunting-crops and walking-canes.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then said a straw, “I will lay myself across, and you may pass over upon me.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft during its first pass over Jupiter's Great Red Spot in July 2017 indicate that this iconic feature penetrates well below the clouds.

(NASA's Juno Probes the Depths of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, NASA)

So he said, "I'm sorry not to do as you wish, but we must pass over your hill whether you like it or not," and he walked boldly forward.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

I saw an intent look pass over Holmes’s face.

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

Why, the river rises and falls the best part of forty feet, and half the country is a morass that you can't pass over.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)