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noun
- a large consolidated mass of floating sea ice
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| paramo |
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noun
- a treeless grassland ecosystem covering extensive high areas of equatorial mountains, especially in South America
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| pass |
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noun
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
a mountain pass
Quotations
:"Try not the pass!" the old man said. — Longfellow
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(fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary. (Shakespeare)
- A movement of the hand over or along anything; the manipulation of a mesmerist.
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(rolling metals) A single passage of a bar, rail, sheet, etc., between the rolls.
- The state of things; condition; predicament.
Quotations
:Have his daughters brought him to this pass. — Shakespeare
:Matters have been brought to this pass. — South.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
Quotations
A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy. — Kent
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(baseball) An intentional walk
Smith was given a after Jones' double.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission; as, a railroad or theater pass; a military pass.
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(figurative) A thrust; a sally of wit. (Shakespeare)
- A sexual advance.
The man kicked his friend out of the house after he made a at his wife.
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(obsolete) Estimation; character.
Quotations
:Common speech gives him a worthy pass. — Shakespeare
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(obsolete; Chaucer; compare passus) A part, a division.
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(rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake. (Antonym: a meet.)
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(sport) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
verb (pass, es)
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(defn, English)
(rfc-header, Intransitive)
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adjective
- of, relating to, measured from, or referred to a geographic pole (the North Pole or South Pole)
- of an orbit that passes over, or near, one of these poles
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(chemistry) having a dipole; ionic
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(mathematics) of a coordinate system, specifying the location of a point in a plane by using a radius and an angle
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| prime meridian |
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noun
- The reference line at 0° longitude, passing through Greenwich, England, from which longitude east and west is measured.
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| projection |
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noun
- something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out
The face of the cliff had many projections which are big enough for birds to nest on.
- a forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation
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(psychology) an assumption that others have similar thoughts as oneself
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(photography) the image that a translucent object casts onto another object
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(geometry) something like a shadow, that an object casts onto another object.
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(mathematics) transformations of one thing into something else, e.g. applications of functions.
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