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PASS THROUGH
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pass through an enemy line; in a military conflict
Synonyms:
infiltrate; pass through
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "pass through" is one way to...):
pass (go across or through)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Make a passage or journey from one place to another
Example:
Some travelers pass through the desert
Synonyms:
move through; pass across; pass over; pass through; transit
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "pass through" 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 through"):
cut (pass through or across)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 3
Meaning:
Cause to move through
Example:
Pass a chemical through a solution
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "pass through" is one way to...):
make pass; pass (cause to pass)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass through"):
reeve (fasten by passing through a hole or around something)
reeve (pass through a hole or opening)
reeve (pass a rope through)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Context examples:
A material or device that allows certain substances to pass through it, while keeping other substances out.
(Filter, NCI Dictionary)
Having high relative density or specific gravity; permitting little if any light to pass through.
(Dense, NCI Thesaurus)
The amount of x-rays that pass through the bone is measured for each beam.
(Dual x-ray absorptiometry, NCI Thesaurus)
The viruses pass through the air and enter your body through your nose or mouth.
(Flu, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
It also helps leukocytes pass through blood vessel walls to sites of infection and causes fever by affecting areas of the brain that control body temperature.
(IL-1, NCI Dictionary)
Perhaps during a previous pass through the inner-solar system, or during a distant flyby of Jupiter, a chunk that we now know of as BA14 might have broken off of 252P.
(A 'Tail' of Two Comets, NASA)
They can only reenter the bloodstream if they’re able to pass through a tiny splenic structure called the interendothelial slit.
(How the spleen keeps blood healthy, NIH)
It was so small that a rat could hardly pass through.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Ioxaglate meglumine blocks x-rays as they pass through the body, thereby allowing body structures not containing iodine to be visualized.
(Ioxaglate Meglumine, NCI Thesaurus)
A condition in which the muscles of the intestines do not allow food to pass through, resulting in a blocked intestine.
(Paralytic ileus, NCI Dictionary)
