Difference between Toss and Pass

What is the difference between Toss and Pass?

Toss as a noun is a throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction (often implying a lack of care.) while 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.

Toss

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction (often implying a lack of care.) The toss of a coin before a cricket, football etc. match

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To throw with an initial upward direction. To flip a coin, to decide a point of contention. To discard: to toss out To stir or mix (a salad). To masturbate To search.

Example sentence: The serve, I think, is the most difficult, you know, in terms of coordination, because you got the two arms going, and you got to toss it up at the right time so.

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: If you want to relax, watch the clouds pass by if you're laying on the grass, or sit in front of the creek; just doing nothing and having those still moments is what really rejuvenates the body.

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

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