Notch
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To cut a notch in something To record a score etcetera by making notches on something To join by means of notches To achieve something
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A V-shaped cut. Such a cut, used for keeping a record An indentation. A mountain pass. A level or degree.
Example sentence: On any measure, Spain's bank rescue has been a disaster. A hundred million euros have been added to the national debt, ten-year bonds are at a record high and the country's credit rating has been downgraded three notches.
Pass
Part of speech: noun
Definition: 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 thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary. (Shakespeare)A movement over or along anything; the manipulation of a mesmerist.(rolling metals) A single passage of a bar, rail, sheet, etc., between the rolls.The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.An intentional walkA 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.A thrust; a sally of wit. (Shakespeare)A sexual advance.Estimation; character.A part, a division.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.)The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To move or be moved from one place to another.To change from one state to another.To move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge.(with "on" or "away"): To die.To come and go in consciousness.To happen.Of time, to elapse, to be spent.To go from one person to another.To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness.To go through any inspection or test successfully.To be tolerated.To continue.To proceed without hindrance or opposition.To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.To take heed.To go through the intestines. (John Arbuthnot)To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.To make a lunge or swipe.In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.In euchre, to decline to make the trump.To go by, over, through, or the like; to proceed from one side to the other of.To go from one limit to the other of; to spend.To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.To go successfully through, as an examination, trail, test, etc.To obtain the formal sanction of, as a legislative body.To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another; to transmit; to deliver; to hand; to make over.To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce.Hence, to promise; to pledge.To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.To put in circulation; to give currency to.To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.To emit from the bowels.To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.To make, as a thrust, punto, etc.To move the ball or puck or a teammate.
Example sentence: Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.