Difference between Pass and Clear

What is the difference between Pass and Clear?

Pass as a verb is to move or be moved from one place to another. while Clear as a verb is all the way; entirely.

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 walk 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. 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: Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Clear

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Completely transparent in colourBright, not dark or obscured.Free of obstacles.Without clouds.Free of ambiguity or doubt.Free of guilt, or suspicion.The sky is said to be clear, when less than one eighth of its area is obscured by clouds.Without a thickening ingredient.

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: All the way; entirely.Not near something or touching it.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To remove obstructions or impediments.To eliminate ambiguity or doubt from a matter; to clarify; especially, to clear up.To remove from suspicion; especially of having committed a crimeTo pass without interference; to miss.To become clear.Of a check or financial transaction, to go through as payment; to be processed so that the money is transferred.To earn a profit of; to net.To obtain permission to use (a sample of copyrighted audio) in another track.

Example sentence: Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

We hope you now know whether to use Pass or Clear in your sentence.

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