Definition of Make pass

1. Verb. Cause to pass. "She passed around the plates"

Exact synonyms: Pass
Causes: Go Across, Go Through, Pass
Specialized synonyms: Cycle, Pass Off, Pass Through, Lead, Run

Lexicographical Neighbors of Make Pass

make noise
make noises
make off
make off with
make old bones
make one's bed
make one's bed and lie in it
make one's mark
make one's way
make oneself at home
make oneself scarce
make or break
make out like a bandit
make over
make peace
make possible
make pure
make quick work of
make relaxed
make right
make room
make semblant
make sense
make short work of
make somebody's hair curl
make someone's blood boil
make someone's blood run cold
make someone's day

Literary usage of Make pass

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Mummy: Chapters on Egyptian Funereal Archaeology by Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge (1894)
"... a hru neb her ari maket en make pass the night I of day every in making the protection of og, ..."

2. A Dictionary: English and Burmese by Adoniram Judson (1849)
"Transmit, t>. f. to send from one to another, со» gSa to make pass (through some medium,) ... to make pass from one to another, ..."

3. Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine (1847)
"... not being an installed Master, cannot make, pass, or raise; his acts therefore as such are invalid. The Grand Lodge knowingly would NOT grant ..."

4. Revised Laws of Nevada: Containing State Statutes of a General Nature from by Nevada, James G. Sweeney, George Frederick Talbot, Frank Herbert Norcross (1920)
"Every person who shall make, pass, utter or publish with the intention to defraud any other person or persons, firm, corporation or body politic, any bill, ..."

5. A Brief Course in General Physics, Experimental and Applied by George Arthur Hoadley (1900)
"Charge the electrophorus and count the number of sparks that you can make pass between the disk and the square of tinfoil. Discharge the tinfoil by touching ..."

6. Essentials of Physics by George Arthur Hoadley (1921)
"Count the number of sparks that you can make pass from the electrophorus disk to the square of tin foil. Discharge the tin foil by touching it. ..."

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