The difference between Go and Pass

When used as nouns, go means the act of going, whereas pass means an opening, road, or track, available for passing.

When used as verbs, go means to move through space (especially to or through a place), whereas pass means to move or be moved from one place to another.

check bellow for the other definitions of Go and Pass

  1. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To move: To move through space (especially to or through a place). To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc). To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion). To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving. To leave; to move away. To walk; to travel on one's feet.

    Examples:

    "Why don’t you go with us? This train goes through Cincinnati on its way to Chicago. Chris, where are you going? There's no public transit where I'm going. Wow, look at him go!"

    "Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell."

    "Fans want to see the Twelfth Doctor go to the 51st century to visit River in the library."

    "We've only gone twenty miles today. This car can go circles around that one."

    "We went swimming. Let's go shopping."

    "Please don't go! I really must be going. Workmen were coming and going at all hours of the night."

  2. Go as a verb (intransitive, chiefly, of a, machine):

    To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).

    Examples:

    "The engine just won't go anymore."

  3. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To start; to begin (an action or process).

    Examples:

    "Get ready, get set, go! [[on your marks, get set, go On your marks, get set, go]]! [[on your marks On your marks]], set, go!"

    "Here goes nothing. Let's go and hunt."

  4. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To take a turn, especially in a game.

    Examples:

    "It’s your turn; go."

  5. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To attend.

    Examples:

    "I go to school at the schoolhouse. She went to Yale. They only go to church on Christmas."

  6. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To proceed: To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state). To proceed (especially to do something foolish).

    Examples:

    "That went well. "How are things going?" "Not bad, thanks."

    "Why'd you have to go and do that?"

    "Why'd you have to go do that?"

    "He just went and punched the guy. "

  7. Go as a verb:

    To follow or travel along (a path): To follow or proceed according to (a course or path). To travel or pass along.

    Examples:

    "Let's go this way for a while."

    "She was going that way anyway, so she offered to show him where it was."

  8. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To extend (from one point in time or space to another).

    Examples:

    "This property goes all the way to the state line."

  9. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To lead (to a place); to give access to.

    Examples:

    "Does this road go to Fort Smith?"

  10. Go as a verb (copula):

    To become.

    Examples:

    "You'll go blind. I went crazy / went mad. After failing as a criminal, he decided to go straight."

  11. Go as a verb:

    To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.

  12. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To continuously or habitually be in a state.

    Examples:

    "I don't want my children to go hungry. We went barefoot in the summer."

  13. Go as a verb:

    To come to (a certain condition or state).

    Examples:

    "they went into debt'', ''she goes to sleep around 10 o'clock'', ''the local shop wants to go digital, and eventually go global"

  14. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.

    Examples:

    " The traffic light went straight from green to red."

  15. Go as a verb:

    To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).

    Examples:

    "How did your meeting with Smith go?"

  16. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To tend (toward a result).

    Examples:

    "Well, that goes to show you. These experiences go to make us stronger."

  17. Go as a verb:

    To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.

    Examples:

    "qualities that go to make a lady / lip-reader / sharpshooter"

  18. Go as a verb (intransitive, of time):

    To pass, to be used up: To elapse, to pass; to slip away. To end or disappear. To be spent or used up.

    Examples:

    "The time went slowly."

    "After three days, my headache finally went."

    "His money went on drink."

  19. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To die.

  20. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To be discarded.

    Examples:

    "This chair has got to go."

  21. Go as a verb (intransitive, cricket):

    To be lost or out: To be lost. To be out.

  22. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To break down or apart: To collapse or give way, to break apart. To break down or decay.

    Examples:

    "This meat is starting to go off. My mind is going. She's 83; her eyesight is starting to go."

  23. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To be sold.

    Examples:

    "Everything must go. The car went for five thousand dollars."

  24. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.

    Examples:

    "The property shall go to my wife. The award went to Steven Spielberg."

  25. Go as a verb (transitive, intransitive):

    To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.

    Examples:

    "How long can you go without water? We've gone without your help for a while now. I've gone ten days now without a cigarette. Can you two go twenty minutes without arguing?!"

  26. Go as a verb (transitive, sports):

    To have a certain record.

    Examples:

    "They've gone one for three in this series. The team is going five in a row."

  27. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To be authoritative, accepted, or valid: To have (final) authority; to be authoritative. To be accepted. To be valid.

    Examples:

    "Whatever the boss says goes, do you understand?"

    "Anything goes around here."

  28. Go as a verb (transitive, slang):

    To say (something), to make a sound: To say (something, aloud or to oneself). To make the (specified) sound. To sound; to make a noise.

    Examples:

    "I go, "As if!" And she was all like, "Whatever!"

    "As soon as I did it, I went "that was stupid."

    "Cats go "meow". Motorcycles go "vroom"."

    "I woke up just before the clock went."

  29. Go as a verb:

    To be expressed or composed (a certain way).

    Examples:

    "The tune goes like this. As the story goes, he got the idea for the song while sitting in traffic."

  30. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To resort (to).

    Examples:

    "I'll go to court if I have to."

  31. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To apply or subject oneself to: To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something). To work (through or over), especially mentally.

    Examples:

    "I'm going to join a sports team.'' ''I wish you'd go and get a job.'' ''He went to pick it up, but it rolled out of reach."

    "He's going to leave town tomorrow''."

    "You didn't have to go to such trouble. I never thought he'd go so far as to call you. She went to great expense to help them win."

    "I've gone over this a hundred times. Let's not go into that right now."

  32. Go as a verb (intransitive, often followed by a preposition):

    To fit (in a place, or together with something): To fit. To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink. To belong (somewhere).

    Examples:

    "Do you think the sofa will go through the door? The belt just barely went around his waist."

    "This shade of red doesn't go with the drapes. White wine goes better with fish than red wine."

    "My shirts go on this side of the wardrobe. This piece of the jigsaw goes on the other side."

  33. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To date.

    Examples:

    "How long having they been going together? He's been going with her for two weeks."

  34. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To attack: To fight or attack. To attack.

    Examples:

    "I went at him with a knife."

  35. Go as a verb:

    To be in general; to be usually.

    Examples:

    "As sentences go, this one is pretty boring."

  36. Go as a verb (transitive):

    To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.

    Examples:

    "Let's go halves on this."

  37. Go as a verb (transitive):

    To yield or weigh.

    Examples:

    "Those babies go five tons apiece."

  38. Go as a verb (transitive, intransitive):

    To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.

    Examples:

    "That's as high as I can go. We could go two fifty."

    "I'll go a ten-spot. I'll go you a shilling."

  39. Go as a verb (transitive, colloquial):

    To enjoy.

    Examples:

    "I could go a beer right about now."

  40. Go as a verb (intransitive, colloquial):

    To urinate or defecate.

    Examples:

    "I really need to go. Have you managed to go today, Mrs. Miggins?"

  1. Go as a noun (uncommon):

    The act of going.

  2. Go as a noun:

    A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).

    Examples:

    "You’ve been on that pinball machine long enough—now let your brother have a go."

    "It’s your go."

  3. Go as a noun:

    An attempt, a try.

    Examples:

    "I’ll give it a go."

  4. Go as a noun:

    An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.

    Examples:

    "We will begin as soon as the boss says it's a go."

  5. Go as a noun:

    An act; the working or operation.

  6. Go as a noun (slang, dated):

    A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.

  7. Go as a noun (dated):

    The fashion or mode.

    Examples:

    "quite the go"

  8. Go as a noun (dated):

    Noisy merriment.

    Examples:

    "a high go"

  9. Go as a noun (slang, archaic):

    A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.

  10. Go as a noun:

    Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.

    Examples:

    "There is no go in him."

  11. Go as a noun (cribbage):

    The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.

  12. Go as a noun:

    A period of activity.

    Examples:

    "ate it all in one go"

  13. Go as a noun (obsolete, British slang):

    A dandy; a fashionable person.

  1. Go as a noun (board game):

    A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.

  1. Pass as a verb (intransitive):

    Physical movement. To move or be moved from one place to another. To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past. 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 eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes. To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure. To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force. # To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force. #* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jun/20/world-cup-2010-italy-new-zealand-live The Guardian], Rob Smyth, 20 June 2010 #*: Iaquinta passes it coolly into the right-hand corner as Paston dives the other way. # To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate. # To make a lunge or swipe. To go from one person to another. To put in circulation; to give currency to. To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.

    Examples:

    "They passed from room to room."

    "synonyms: go move"

    "You will pass a house on your right."

    "synonyms: overtake pass by pass over"

    "The waiter passed biscuits and cheese."

    "John passed Suzie a note."

    "The torch was passed from hand to hand."

    "synonyms: deliver give hand make over send transfer transmit"

    "He was passing blood in both his urine and his stool."

    "The poison had been passed by the time of the autopsy."

    "synonyms: evacuate void"

    "synonyms: thrust"

    "'pass counterfeit money"

    "synonyms: circulate pass around"

    "'pass a person into a theater or over a railroad"

    "synonyms: admit let in [[let]] [[past]]"

  2. Pass as a verb (intransitive):

    To change in state or status To progress from one state to another; to advance. To depart, to cease, to come to an end. To die. To achieve a successful outcome from. To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body). To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance. 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 make a judgment on or upon a person or case. To utter; to pronounce; to pledge. To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).

    Examples:

    "He passed from youth into old age."

    "At first, she was worried, but that feeling soon passed."

    "His grandmother passed yesterday."

    "synonyms: pass away pass on pass over"

    "He passed his examination."

    "He attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass."

    "Despite the efforts of the opposition, the bill passed."

    "The bill passed both houses of Congress."

    "The bill passed the Senate, but did not pass in the House."

    "synonyms: be [[accept]]ed by be [[pass]]ed by"

    "The estate passes by the third clause in Mr Smith's deed to his son."

    "When the old king passed away with only a daughter as an heir, the throne passed to a woman for the first time in centuries."

    "He passed the bill through the committee."

    "synonyms: approve enact ratify"

    "synonyms: pronounce say speak utter"

  3. Pass as a verb (intransitive, of time):

    To move through time. To elapse, to be spent. To spend. To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard. To continue. To proceed without hindrance or opposition. To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer. To happen.

    Examples:

    "Their vacation passed pleasantly."

    "synonyms: elapse go by"

    "What will we do to pass the time?"

    "synonyms: disregard ignore take no notice of"

    "synonyms: continue go on"

    "You're late, but I'll let it pass."

    "She loved me for the dangers I had passed."

    "synonyms: bear endure suffer tolerate undergo Thesaurus:tolerate"

    "It will soon come to pass."

    "synonyms: happoccur"

  4. Pass as a verb (intransitive):

    To be accepted. To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do". To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex or other group to which they would not otherwise regard one as belonging (or belonging fully, without qualifier); especially to live and be known as white although one has black ancestry, or to live and be known as female although one was assigned male or vice versa.

    Examples:

    "It isn't ideal, but it will pass."

  5. Pass as a verb (intransitive):

    In any game, to decline to play in one's turn. In euchre, to decline to make the trump.

  6. Pass as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

    To do or be better. To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess. To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: exceed surpass"

    "synonyms: better exceed exceoutdo surpass transcend"

  7. Pass as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

    To take heed.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: take heed take notice"

  1. Pass as a noun:

    An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.

    Examples:

    "a mountain pass"

    "synonyms: gap"

  2. Pass as a noun:

    A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.

    Examples:

    "the passes of the Mississippi"

  3. Pass as a noun:

    A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over or along anything.

  4. Pass as a noun:

    A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: transit"

  5. Pass as a noun:

    An attempt.

    Examples:

    "My pass at a career of writing proved unsuccessful."

  6. Pass as a noun:

    Success in an examination or similar test.

    Examples:

    "I gained three passes at A-level, in mathematics, French, and English literature."

  7. Pass as a noun (fencing):

    A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: thrust"

  8. Pass as a noun (figuratively):

    A thrust; a sally of wit.

  9. Pass as a noun:

    A sexual advance.

    Examples:

    "The man kicked his friend out of the house after he made a pass at his wife."

  10. Pass as a noun (sports):

    The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.

  11. Pass as a noun (rail transport):

    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 it.

    Examples:

    "ant meet"

  12. Pass as a noun:

    Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: access admission entry"

  13. Pass as a noun:

    A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission

    Examples:

    "a railroad pass; a theater pass; a military pass"

  14. Pass as a noun (baseball):

    An intentional walk.

    Examples:

    "Smith was given a pass after Jones' double."

  15. Pass as a noun:

    The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: condition predicament state"

  16. Pass as a noun (obsolete):

    Estimation; character.

  17. Pass as a noun (obsolete, Chaucer):

    A part, a division. Compare .

  18. Pass as a noun (cookery):

    The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.

  19. Pass as a noun:

    An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".

    Examples:

    "A pass would have seen her win the game, but instead she gave a wrong answer and lost a point, putting her in second place."

  20. Pass as a noun (computing):

    A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.

    Examples:

    "Most Pascal compilers process source code in a single pass."

  1. Pass as a noun (computing, slang):

    A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

    Examples:

    "Anyone want to trade passes?"

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