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Definition of Pass through

1. Verb. Make a passage or journey from one place to another. "Some travelers pass through the desert"

2. Verb. Cause to move through. "Pass a chemical through a solution"

3. Verb. Pass through an enemy line; in a military conflict.

Definition of Pass through

1. Verb. To transit something ¹

2. Verb. To make something move through something else ¹

3. Verb. To infiltrate ¹

4. Noun. (American English) A framed, window-like aperture in the interior wall of a house, usually between a kitchen and dining room, through which items (especially food) can be passed. A serving hatch. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Literary usage of Pass through

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

1. The Pilgrim's Progress, from this World to that which is to Come by John Bunyan (1806)
"... and pass through the Valleys of Humiliation, and of the Shadow of Death. I saw in my dream, that they went forward until they were come to the brow of ..."

2. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1909)
"L. CHAPTER XVIII TAHITI AND NEW ZEALAND pass through the Low Archipelago—Tahiti—Aspect—Vegetation on the Mountains—View of Eimeo—Excursion into the ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"This valley, like all those which pass through the city, has no proper name in the Bible; neither has it in Arabic; it is conventionally known as the ..."

4. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"To pass through with a thread. of the size of that I have threaded it with, in The largest crooked needle, with a ligature 3. ..."

5. A Treatise on Conic Sections: Containing an Account of Some of the Most by George Salmon (1879)
"If a polygon be inscribed in a conic, all whose sides but one pass through fixed points, the envelope of that side will be a conic having double contact ..."

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