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Pass on   /pæs ɑn/   Listen
Pass on

verb
1.
Place into the hands or custody of.  Synonyms: give, hand, pass, reach, turn over.  "Turn the files over to me, please" , "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers"
2.
Transmit (knowledge or skills).  Synonyms: give, impart, leave.  "Leave your name and address here" , "Impart a new skill to the students"
3.
Move forward, also in the metaphorical sense.  Synonyms: advance, go on, march on, move on, progress.  Antonym: recede.
4.
Give to or transfer possession of.
5.
Refer to another person for decision or judgment.  Synonyms: relegate, submit.
6.
Cause be distributed.  Synonyms: circulate, distribute, pass around.
7.
Transmit information.  Synonyms: communicate, pass, pass along, put across.  "Pass along the good news"






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"Pass on" Quotes from Famous Books



... faintly, and then said, gravely: "It was an awful business. So sudden, you know, that I couldn't do anything." He made a movement to pass on. "I suppose there has ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... number of editions it went through. In 1531 appeared the little collection of works of Ringelberg,[454] which is truly called an Encyclopaedia by {282} Morhof, though the thumbs and fingers of the two hands will meet over the length of its one volume. There are more small collections; but we pass on to the first work to which the name of Encyclopaedia is given. This is a ponderous Scientiarum Omnium Encyclopaedia of Alsted,[455] in four folio volumes, commonly bound in two: published in 1629 and again in ...
— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) • Augustus de Morgan

... now I swear, by the token that Ulstermen swear by," he cried; "On a green stone by me shall be broken that eel, to the Ford if it glide: From woe it shall ne'er be escaping, till it loose me, and pass on its way!" And she said: "As a wolf myself shaping, I will spring on thee, eager to slay, I will tear thee; the flesh shall be rended from thy chest by the wolf's savage bite, Till a strip be torn from thee, extended from the arm on thy left to thy right! With ...
— Heroic Romances of Ireland Volumes 1 and 2 Combined • A. H. Leahy

... drink my personal determination to quit still excites the patronizing inquiry, "Still on the wagon?" when I meet old friends. That used to make me angry, but it does not any more. I say, "Yes!" take my mineral water and pass on to other things. But the position of those who quit and go back to it, and seek to excuse the return by saying, "Oh, I only stopped to see whether I could. I found it was easy; so I began again!"—now is that not the sublimation of piffle? The fact that any man who salves himself ...
— The Old Game - A Retrospect after Three and a Half Years on the Water-wagon • Samuel G. Blythe

... you for?" Such as answered "The king and commons" were allowed to go unmolested, others were killed. The two friends had several narrow escapes. Fortunately Edgar had learned the watchword at Dartford and readily replied, and they were allowed to pass on. They were traversing Bread Street when they heard a scream behind them, and a girl came flying along, pursued by a large number of the rioters, headed by a man in the dress of a clerk. She reached the door of a handsome house close ...
— A March on London • G. A. Henty


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