The difference between Meet and Pass

When used as nouns, meet means a sports competition, especially for track and field (a track meet) or swimming (a swim meet), whereas pass means an opening, road, or track, available for passing.

When used as verbs, meet means to come face to face with by accident, whereas pass means to move or be moved from one place to another.

Meet is also adjective with the meaning: suitable.

check bellow for the other definitions of Meet and Pass

  1. Meet as a verb (Ireland):

    To come face to face with by accident; to encounter. To come face to face with someone by arrangement. To get acquainted with someone. To French kiss someone.

    Examples:

    "Fancy meeting you here!  Guess who I met at the supermarket today?"

    "Let's meet at the station at 9 o'clock.  Shall we meet at 8 p.m in our favorite chatroom?"

    "I'm pleased to meet you!  I'd like you to meet a colleague of mine."

    "I met my husband through a mutual friend at a party. It wasn't love at first sight; in fact, we couldn't stand each other at first!"

  2. Meet as a verb (sports):

    To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting. To come together in conflict. To play a match.

    Examples:

    "I met with them several times.  The government ministers met today to start the negotiations."

    "England and Holland will meet in the final."

  3. Meet as a verb:

    To converge and finally touch or intersect. To touch or hit something while moving. To adjoin, be physically touching.

    Examples:

    "The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away."

    "The right wing of the car met the column in the garage, leaving a dent."

    "The carpet meets the wall at this side of the room. The forest meets the sea along this part of the coast."

  4. Meet as a verb:

    To satisfy; to comply with.

    Examples:

    "This proposal meets my requirements.  The company agrees to meet the cost of any repairs."

  5. Meet as a verb:

    To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.

    Examples:

    "The eye met a horrid sight.  He met his fate."

  1. Meet as a noun:

    A sports competition, especially for track and field (a track meet) or swimming (a swim meet).

  2. Meet as a noun:

    A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.

  3. Meet as a noun (rail transport):

    A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.

  4. Meet as a noun:

    A meeting.

    Examples:

    "OK, let's arrange a meet with Tyler and ask him."

  5. Meet as a noun (algebra):

    The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.

  6. Meet as a noun (Irish):

    An act of French kissing someone.

  1. Meet as an adjective (archaic):

    Suitable; right; proper.

  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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