Difference between Pass and Return

What is the difference between Pass and Return?

Pass as a noun is 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. while Return as a noun is the act of returning.

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: Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Return

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The act of returning.A return ticket.An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect.Gain or loss from an investment.A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts. A tax return.A carriage return character.The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To come or go back (to a place or person).To go back in thought, narration, or argument.To turn back, retreat.To turn (something) round.To give something back to its original holder or owner.To take something back to a retailer for a refund.To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.To play a card as a result of another player's lead.To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.To relinquish control to the calling procedure.To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.

Example sentence: The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

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

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