All English words - page 4003

Meanings of Passback:

noun

A backward pass from the centre to put the ball in play.

Meanings of Passband:

noun

A frequency band within which signals are transmitted by a filter without attenuation.

Usage examples:

A second bandpass filter of the at least two disparate bandpass filters has as a passband a second …

Meanings of Passbands:

noun

A frequency band within which signals are transmitted by a filter without attenuation.

Usage examples:

A second bandpass filter of the at least two disparate bandpass filters has as a passband a second …

Meanings of Passbook:

noun

A book issued by a bank or building society to an account holder, recording sums deposited and withdrawn.

Usage examples:

Just like a time deposit versus a passbook savings account, there's a trade off: cost-effectiveness…

Meanings of Passbooks:

noun

A book issued by a bank or building society to an account holder, recording sums deposited and withdrawn.

Usage examples:

Just like a time deposit versus a passbook savings account, there's a trade off: cost-effectiveness…

Meanings of Passe:

adjective

No longer fashionable; out of date.

Usage examples:

Minis are passé—the best skirts are knee-length

Meanings of Passed:

verb

Move or cause to move in a specified direction.

Usage examples:

He passed through towns and villages

noun

An act or instance of moving past or through something.

Usage examples:

Repeated passes with the swipe card

exclamation

Said when one does not know the answer to a question, for example in a quiz.

Usage examples:

To the enigmatic question we answered ‘pass’

Meanings of Passed-away:

phrasal verb

To die

Usage examples:

Her father passed away last week.

Meanings of Passed-on:

phrasal verb

To die

Usage examples:

It's important to remember friends and family who have passed on., some organizations passed on sub…

Meanings of Passed-out:

verb

To pass the ball (= move it between players in a team sport) more effectively than the opposing team

Usage examples:

Yesterday, they outplayed and outpassed the united side., they were outclassed and outpassed by bar…

Meanings of Passed-over:

phrasal verb

To ignore or to not give attention to someone or something

Usage examples:

They passed sal over for promotion.

Meanings of Passel:

noun

A large group of people or things.

Usage examples:

A passel of journalists

Meanings of Passels:

noun

A large group of people or things.

Usage examples:

A passel of journalists

Meanings of Passement:

noun

A strip of braiding, usually made with gold or silver wire or with silk, used as decorative trimming in interior design and fashion; usually in plural. also: such strips collectively, as a material; passementerie; = "lace".

Meanings of Passementerie:

noun

Decorative trimming such as tassels, braid, and fringing, used on furniture and clothing (e.g. military uniforms).

Usage examples:

The pair's work, reviving the ancient art of passementerie - decoration using fringing, trimming an…

Meanings of Passenger:

noun

A traveller on a public or private conveyance other than the driver, pilot, or crew.

Usage examples:

More than 50 passengers escaped injury when a train was derailed

Meanings of Passengers:

noun

A traveller on a public or private conveyance other than the driver, pilot, or crew.

Usage examples:

More than 50 passengers escaped injury when a train was derailed

Meanings of Passepied:

noun

A breton dance similar to a quick minuet, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Usage examples:

Like other dances of rustic origin adopted by the court, the passepied was taken up by composers of…

Meanings of Passer:

noun

A person who gives or transfers something to someone else.

Usage examples:

The passer of the note

Meanings of Passer-by:

noun

Someone who is going past a particular place, especially when something unusual happens

Usage examples:

The gunmen opened fire, killing a policeman and a passer-by.

Meanings of Passerby:

noun

A person who happens to be going past something, especially on foot.

Usage examples:

The raiders fled when disturbed by a passer-by

Meanings of Passeres:

noun

With plural agreement. a large order of birds (now usually called passeriformes), comprising the perching birds and (formerly) some others; the perching birds collectively, the passerines.

Meanings of Passeriform:

adjective

Resembling a sparrow in form or structure; specifically of or relating to the order passeriformes of perching birds.

Meanings of Passeriformes:

adjective

Resembling a sparrow in form or structure; specifically of or relating to the order passeriformes of perching birds.

Meanings of Passerine:

adjective

Relating to or denoting birds of a large order distinguished by having feet that are adapted for perching, including all songbirds.

Usage examples:

These animals include rodents, passerine birds and arthropods.

noun

A passerine bird; a perching bird.

Usage examples:

Divers, grebes, geese, ducks, raptors, auks and passerines are the most affected especially in very…