What's the difference between pass and poss?

Pass


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind or manner of motion; as, to pass on, by, out, in, etc.; to pass swiftly, directly, smoothly, etc.; to pass to the rear, under the yoke, over the bridge, across the field, beyond the border, etc.
  • (v. i.) To move or be transferred from one state or condition to another; to change possession, condition, or circumstances; to undergo transition; as, the business has passed into other hands.
  • (v. i.) To move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge; to pass away; hence, to disappear; to vanish; to depart; specifically, to depart from life; to die.
  • (v. i.) To move or to come into being or under notice; to come and go in consciousness; hence, to take place; to occur; to happen; to come; to occur progressively or in succession; to be present transitorily.
  • (v. i.) To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as, their vacation passed pleasantly.
  • (v. i.) To go from one person to another; hence, to be given and taken freely; as, clipped coin will not pass; to obtain general acceptance; to be held or regarded; to circulate; to be current; -- followed by for before a word denoting value or estimation.
  • (v. i.) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness; to be carried through a body that has power to sanction or reject; to receive legislative sanction; to be enacted; as, the resolution passed; the bill passed both houses of Congress.
  • (v. i.) To go through any inspection or test successfully; to be approved or accepted; as, he attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.
  • (v. i.) To be suffered to go on; to be tolerated; hence, to continue; to live along.
  • (v. i.) To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance or opposition; as, we let this act pass.
  • (v. i.) To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.
  • (v. i.) To take heed; to care.
  • (v. i.) To go through the intestines.
  • (v. i.) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance; as, an estate passes by a certain clause in a deed.
  • (v. i.) To make a lunge or pass; to thrust.
  • (v. i.) To decline to take an optional action when it is one's turn, as to decline to bid, or to bet, or to play a card; in euchre, to decline to make the trump.
  • (v. i.) In football, hockey, etc., to make a pass; to transfer the ball, etc., to another player of one's own side.
  • (v. t.) To go by, beyond, over, through, or the like; to proceed from one side to the other of; as, to pass a house, a stream, a boundary, etc.
  • (v. t.) To go from one limit to the other of; to spend; to live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
  • (v. t.) To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
  • (v. t.) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
  • (v. t.) To go successfully through, as an examination, trail, test, etc.; to obtain the formal sanction of, as a legislative body; as, he passed his examination; the bill passed the senate.
  • (v. t.) 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; as, the waiter passed bisquit and cheese; the torch was passed from hand to hand.
  • (v. t.) To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce; hence, to promise; to pledge; as, to pass sentence.
  • (v. t.) 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; as, he passed the bill through the committee; the senate passed the law.
  • (v. t.) To put in circulation; to give currency to; as, to pass counterfeit money.
  • (v. t.) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance; as, to pass a person into a theater, or over a railroad.
  • (v. t.) To emit from the bowels; to evacuate.
  • (v. t.) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
  • (v. t.) To make, as a thrust, punto, etc.
  • (v. i.) 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; as, a mountain pass.
  • (v. i.) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
  • (v. i.) A movement of the hand over or along anything; the manipulation of a mesmerist.
  • (v. i.) A single passage of a bar, rail, sheet, etc., between the rolls.
  • (v. i.) State of things; condition; predicament.
  • (v. i.) Permission or license to pass, or to go and come; a psssport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission; as, a railroad or theater pass; a military pass.
  • (v. i.) Fig.: a thrust; a sally of wit.
  • (v. i.) Estimation; character.
  • (v. i.) A part; a division.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Samples are hydrolyzed with Ba (OH)2, and the hydrolysate is passed through a Dowex-50 column to remove the salts and soluble carbohydrates.
  • (2) "They wanted to pass it almost like a secret negotiation," she said.
  • (3) Comparison of developmental series of D. merriami and T. bottae revealed that the decline of the artery in the latter species is preceded by a greater degree of arterial coarctation, or narrowing, as it passes though the developing stapes.
  • (4) That’s a criticism echoed by Democrats in the Senate, who issued a report earlier this month criticising Republicans for passing sweeping legislation in July to combat addiction , the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (Cara), but refusing to fund it.
  • (5) Ten or 4% of the administered parasites passed in the feces during the 3 days following the first or second infection, but 32% after the third infection.
  • (6) David Hamilton tells me: “The days of westerners leading expeditions to Nepal will pass.
  • (7) Their narrowed processes pass at a common site through the muscle layer and above this layer again slightly widen and project above the neighbouring tegument.
  • (8) They could go out and trade for a pitcher such as the New York Mets’ Bartolo Colón , an obvious choice despite his 41 years, but he would come with an $11m price tag for next season and have to pass through the waiver wires process first – considering the wily mood Billy Beane is in this year, the A’s could be the team that blocks such a move.
  • (9) Wharton feared that if his bill had not cleared the Commons on this occasion, it would have failed as there are only three sitting Fridays in the Commons next year when the legislation could be heard again should peers in the House of Lords successfully pass amendments.
  • (10) Much less obvious – except in the fictional domain of the C Thomas Howell film Soul Man – is why someone would want to “pass” in the other direction and voluntarily take on the weight of racial oppression.
  • (11) Approximately 50% of a bolus injection of 125I-ANP was removed during a single pass through the lungs compared with the intravascular marker 14C-dextran.
  • (12) The New York Times also alleged that the Met had not passed full details about how many people were victims of the illegal practice to the CPS because it has a history of cooperation with News International titles.
  • (13) To evaluate the acute changes in left ventricular (LV) performance before and immediately after percutaneous aortic valvuloplasty, 25 patients underwent first-pass radionuclide angiocardiography for construction of pressure-volume loops.
  • (14) He has also been a vocal opponent of gay marriage, appearing on the Today programme in the run-up to the same-sex marriage bill to warn that it would "cause confusion" – and asking in a Spectator column, after it was passed, "if the law will eventually be changed to allow one to marry one's dog".
  • (15) The resolution must be passed by both houses but cannot be amended.
  • (16) The frequency spectra of transmission coefficients for ultrasound passing through a sheet of gas-filled micropores have been measured using incident waves with amplitudes up to 2.4 x 10(4) Pa.
  • (17) Whether out of fear, indifference or a sense of impotence, the general population has learned to turn away, like commuters speeding by on the freeways to the suburbs, unseeingly passing over the squalor.
  • (18) The court hearing – in a case of the kind likely to be heard in secret if the government's justice and security bill is passed – was requested by the law firm Leigh Day and the legal charity Reprieve, acting for Serdar Mohammed, tortured by the Afghan security services after being transferred to their custody by UK forces.
  • (19) This Doppler echocardiographic study of patients with a dual chamber pacemaker was undertaken to assess the changes in mitral and aortic flow induced by passing from the double stimulation to the atrial detection mode.
  • (20) Eleven patients spontaneously passed the calculus, ten prior to delivery and one patient postpartum.

Poss


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To push; to dash; to throw.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There are definitely elements of Clash of Clans in this Wild West-themed game, but it’s got a spark of originality too as you build your posse, explore the wild frontier and protect your town.
  • (2) N-(Tetrazol-5-yl)azetidin-2-ones were found to posses excellent activity.
  • (3) Leadership is not always about pyrotechnics at EU summits or staying one step ahead of the posse.
  • (4) Normally, amphetamine reduces grooming behavior, but since this reduction was greater in lead-reared than in control rats, the data suggest that for this measure the lead-reared rat may posses an increased sensitivity to amphetamines.
  • (5) In this simple sentiment we can find hope, as we can in the efforts of those cleaning up the debris and ash in bonhomous, broom-wielding posses.
  • (6) All GABAergic agents, except piracetam, were found to posses anticatatonic actions as they significantly blocked perphenazine-induced catatonia.
  • (7) According to the differentiations of the apical surface of the dendrites, it is possible to distinguish six different classes: a) dendrites with one cilium and 75 nm thick cytofila (sometimes dendrites of identical appearance posses more than one cilium); b)dendrites with several cilial and 150 nm thick cytofila; c) dendrites with several cilia, 50 nm thick cytofila, and long, striated rootlets; d) dendrites with several cilia bur without cytofila; e) dendrites with 130 nm thick cytofila but without cilia; and f) dendrites with 65 nm thick cytofila but without cilia; dendrites of this class are the only ones with a cytoplasm more electron dense than that of the surrounding supporting cells.
  • (8) He refers several times to Vaughan, Jonathan Ross, Chris Evans, and to the kind of "posse radio" spawned by Steve Wright.
  • (9) This microvascular difference may account for the susceptibility of the ganglia to metastases when compared to nerve trunks which posses unfenestrated endothelium and blood-nerve barrier.
  • (10) For the first time a new type of glia cells is described which are designated as astrocytic tanycyte; they posses the structural features of tanycytes as well as of astrocytes.--After adrenalectomy and castration the area of the glia is bigger in the external zone than in untreated animals.
  • (11) It has been stated that the neuromuscular spindles posses their own microcirculatory bed which is formed by the vessels of the surrounding muscular tissue, tends to separate in the course of development and subdivides into two parts: extracapsular and intracapsular.
  • (12) For example: Broker B: u see 3m jpy libor going anywhere btween [sic] now and IMM?4 Primary Submitter B : looks fairly static to be honest, poss more pressure on upside, but not a lot Broker B: Oh.
  • (13) These sites of staining have been shown, by other methods, to posses substantial Na+, K+-ATPase, indicating that the antibody recognizes antigenic determinants of the sodium pump highly conserved in the course of evolution.
  • (14) Benzophenanthridine alkaloids, fagaronine 4, O-methylfagaronine 5, nitidine 1, allonitidine 3 and methoxydihydronitidine 2 have been shown to posses inhibitory activity against reverse transcriptase of RNA tumor viruses.
  • (15) The intercellular spaces are considerably dilated, and the cells posses intracellular spaces having well developed microvilli.
  • (16) The kind of don who arrived in a smart restaurant while on the run at Nuevo Laredo, deep in the territory of an enemy cartel, had the doors locked by his men, who took all mobile phones from those dining, asked them to continue at his expense while he ate, then left with his posse.
  • (17) Characteristically, the avascular pole and the lateral margins of the cell posses predominantly stacked and whorled cisternae of agranular ER.
  • (18) It is concluded that the hepatic ALDH from rats posses in the active centre two SH-groups in close vicinity which can be oxidized slightly to the intramolecular disulfide and reduced again.
  • (19) So expansive, grateful and loyal is the fighter's posse he makes presidents jealous.
  • (20) In previous studies 1-methyl-2-nitro-1H-imidazole-5-carboxaldehyde and 1-methyl-2-nitro-5-vinyl-1H-imidazole were found to posses interesting antimicrobial activities.