Definition of Pass around

1. Verb. Cause be distributed. "This letter is being circulated among the faculty"

Exact synonyms: Circulate, Distribute, Pass On
Generic synonyms: Displace, Move
Specialized synonyms: Send Around, Utter, Scatter, Spread, Spread Out
Derivative terms: Circular, Circulation, Circulation, Circulation

2. Verb. Cause to become widely known. "Broadcast the news"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pass Around

pasquin
pasquinade
pasquinaded
pasquinades
pasquinading

Literary usage of Pass around

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Natural Gas Association of America, Modern Language Association of America (1917)
"WELDED BY-pass around GATE VALVE. II. C. HUTCHINGS, CONSTRUCTION FOREMAN, ... a side gate on each connection and completing the By-pass around the gate. ..."

2. Lectures, Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the World's Famous by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"Even the travelers who go from France to Spain are usually satisfied with a distant view of the Franco-Spanish mountains, as they pass around them along the ..."

3. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"Even the travelers who go from France to Spain are usually satisfied with a distant view of the Franco-Spanish mountains, as they pass around them along the ..."

4. The Story of the Great War by Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill, Leonard Wood, Francis Trevelyan Miller, Austin Melvin Knight, Frederick Palmer, Frank Herbert Simonds, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1916)
"160 miles to Heligoland Jellicoe and Beatty pass around flank of German Fleet. 'Capping' it and interposing between the Fleet and its base. ..."

5. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1850)
"... the apron was necessarily too long to pass around rollers in the manner represented in the figure, and it was therefore wound upon drums. ..."

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