Pass
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Pass, PASS, The Pass or Passed may refer to:
Permissions
- Ticket (admission)
- Pass (military), permission for military personnel to be away from their unit
- Backstage pass, allows admission to backstage areas of a performance venue
- Hall pass, a token allowing a pupil to leave the classroom during school
- Press pass, grants special privilege or access to journalists
- Season ticket, or season pass
- Transit pass, permitting travel, including:
- Boarding pass, allows a passenger to board an aircraft
- Continent pass, a pass allowing air travel within a continent
Arts and entertainment
- Pass, in a game, to decline a turn at play
- In contract bridge, to make no bid when it is one's turn to bid
- "The Pass" (song), a song by the band Rush
- Passed (band), a Hungarian band formed in the summer of 2014
- Pro-Am Sports System, or PASS Sports, a former Detroit-area cable television channel
Sports
- Passing (association football)
- Pass (ice hockey), the movement of the puck from one player to another
- Basketball pass
- Forward pass, in American and Canadian football
- Lateral pass or onside pass, in American and Canadian football respectively
- Rugby passes (disambiguation)
- Pro All Stars Series, a super late model racing series
- "The Pass", nickname for the 1996 CART Monterey Grand Prix
Geography
- Pass, Poland, a village in Poland
- Pass, County Meath, a townland in Ireland
- Mountain pass, a lower place in a mountain range allowing easier passage
- Ocean passes, straits named with the synonym "pass" or "passage":
- In Caribbean:
- Anegada Passage
- Caicos Passage, part of the geography of the Turks and Caicos Islands
- (La) Désirade Passage, Guadeloupe
- Dominica Passage, between Dominica and Guadeloupe
- Guadeloupe Passage, off Guadeloupe
- Marie-Galante Passage, off Guadeloupe
- Martinique Passage, between Dominica and Martinique
- Mona Passage, between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico
- Saint Vincent Passage, between Saint Vincent and Saint Lucia
- (Les) Saintes Passage, Guadeloupe
- Windward Passage, between Cuba and Hispaniola
- Within, or terminating in, Puget Sound, state of Washington, USA:
- In other areas:
- Amchitka Pass, Alaska
- Boundary Pass, western North America
- Drake Passage, between South America and Antarctica
- Pass Christian, Passe aux Christian, and Passe de Huile, near city of Pass Christian, Mississippi, USA
- Sibutu Passage, between Borneo and the Sulu Archipelago
- Tongass Passage, between Alaska and British Columbia
- In Caribbean:
Science and technology
- Pass (spaceflight), the period in which a satellite or other spacecraft is visible above the local horizon
- PASS Sample Size Software, a computer program for estimating sample size
- PASS device, a personal safety device used by firefighters entering a hazardous environment
- Planning, Attention, Simultaneous, and Successive Theory, a learning and intelligence model
- Plasma Acoustic Shield System, a disorientating weapon based on plasma explosions
- Platform as a service, usually spelled PaaS, a category of cloud computing services
People
- A Pass (born 1989), Ugandan musician
- Frank Alexander de Pass, English soldier, first Jewish recipient of the Victoria Cross in World War I
- Joe Pass (1929–1994), jazz musician
- John Pass (born 1947), British-born Canadian poet
- Nelson Pass (born 1951), designer of audio amplifiers
- Patrick Pass (born 1977), American football player
Other uses
- Pass (legislature), the action of approving a proposed law
- Pass (sleight of hand), a sleight of hand move
- The Pass (psychoanalysis)
- Pass Labs, an audio company based in Foresthill, California, USA
- Pass laws, apartheid laws in South Africa which limited the movement of some people
- Pass Plus, a UK scheme to improve driving skills among young drivers
- Peer-Assisted Study Sessions, an academic support program often used in higher education
- Performer Availability Screening Services, a U.S. STI screening database
- Professional Association for SQL Server, a global Microsoft SQL Server community group
- Professional Aviation Safety Specialists, an AFL–CIO affiliated union
- Proof of Age Standards Scheme, an age identification program in the U.K.
See also
- All pages with titles containing Pass
- Passer (disambiguation)
- Passing (disambiguation)
- Passage (disambiguation)
- Bypass (disambiguation)
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