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Antonyms for passes over

Grammar : Verb
Spell : pas, pahs
Phonetic Transcription : pæs, pɑs

Definition of passes over

Origin :
  • "written permission to pass into, or through, a place," 1590s, from pass (v.). Sense of "ticket for a free ride or admission" is first found 1838. Colloquial make a pass "offer an amorous advance" first recorded 1928, perhaps from a sporting sense. Phrase come to pass (late 15c.) uses the word with a sense of "completion, accomplishment."
  • verb ignore, disregard
Example sentences :
  • The engine of an automobile is cooled by the water that passes over it from the radiator.
  • Extract from : « Common Science » by Carleton W. Washburne
  • At intervals it passes over a stream by means of foot bridges.
  • Extract from : « Love Among the Chickens » by P. G. Wodehouse
  • It passes over the sterility of our poor comfort like a lost child's cry.
  • Extract from : « Visions and Revisions » by John Cowper Powys
  • Remember, that not only is it warm itself, but it warms the air which passes over it.
  • Extract from : « A Voyage round the World » by W.H.G. Kingston
  • America passes over these things, but the thoughtful cannot pass over them.
  • Extract from : « Instigations » by Ezra Pound
  • The tremor that passes over Isolde loosens her grasp upon the goblet.
  • Extract from : « The Complete Opera Book » by Gustav Kobb
  • When a firm membrane is developed between the last two spheres this Sphrastrum-stage passes over into the Actissa.
  • Extract from : « Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, First Part: Porulosa (Spumellaria and Acantharia) » by Ernst Haeckel
  • Cenellipsis passes over into Ellipsidium by the production of radial spines on the surface (corresponding to Heliosphra).
  • Extract from : « Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, First Part: Porulosa (Spumellaria and Acantharia) » by Ernst Haeckel
  • These join at the centre into one, which passes over a pulley.
  • Extract from : « A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines » by Andrew Ure
  • The shock that passes over her is like the shock of chemical change.
  • Extract from : « Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist » by Richard G. Moulton

Synonyms for passes over

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