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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.
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



... it does not surprise us, for we have watched from the valley and seen the pale twilight. Through the wondrous Sabbath of faithful souls, the long day of rosemary and rue, the light brightens in the East; and we pass on towards it with quiet feet and opening eyes, bearing with us all of the redeemed earth that we have made our own, until we are fulfilled in the sunrise of the great Easter Day, and the peoples come from north and south ...
— The Roadmender • Michael Fairless

... what the enterprise meant to a young man in distant Newcastle, whose favorite name was Jessy, how the news travelled to still more distant Canada, where a family of emigrants which had left its Sarah behind in Thrums, could talk of nothing else for weeks—it is hard to have to pass on without dwelling on these things, and indeed—but pass ...
— Sentimental Tommy - The Story of His Boyhood • J. M. Barrie

... Morley's revives associations of the hotels, or "Inns," as they were more generally called in Charles Dickens's early days. Strolling from Morley's eastward along the Strand, to which busy thoroughfare there are numerous references in the works of Dickens, we pass on our left the Golden Cross Hotel, a great coaching-house half a century ago, from whence the Pickwickians and Mr. Jingle started, on the 13th of May, 1827, by the "Commodore" coach for Rochester. "The low archway," against which Mr. Jingle thus prudently cautioned the ...
— A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land • William R. Hughes

... us he had seen the people with tails, of whom we have often heard.[4] They live fifteen days up a river, in the interior of the Bruni country. It is a large river, but in some places runs through caverns, where they can only pass on small rafts. He was sent there by Pangeran Mumeim to get goats, as these tailed gentry keep a great many of them. He says their tails are as long as the two joints of the middle finger, fleshy and stiff. ...
— Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak • Harriette McDougall

... they all,—or nearly all of them,—promised their votes. Now and again some sturdy fellow, seeming to be half ashamed of himself in opposing all those around him, would say shortly that he meant to vote for Moggs, and pass on. "You do,—do you?" Sir Thomas heard Mr. Spicer say to one such man. "Yes, I does," said the man. Sir Thomas heard no more, but he felt how perilous was the position on which a candidate stood under ...
— Ralph the Heir • Anthony Trollope


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