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passed (PAST) (verb)
1. To have departed or to have died: Latonya's uncle passed away last night after a long illness.
2. To have achieved approval, often from a legislative body: The political organization passed a new resolution regarding membership.
2. To have achieved approval, often from a legislative body: The political organization passed a new resolution regarding membership.
The legislators passed a new law about speeding automobiles.
3. To have gone around or to have gone away from: The speeding red car passed the bus which was moving slowly up the hill.
The traveling circus passed through the town after their performance.
4. To have changed or replaced ownership from one person to another: The line of inheritance was passed from the father to the son.
5. To have achieved a successful completion of a task: When the test scores were posted, Jim noticed that he had passed the English grammar examination.
6. To have exceeded or surpassed: The new shopping mall passed all expectations in terms of variety of stores and shops.
past (PAST) (adjective)
1. Concerning something which took place prior to the present: It is interesting to study the past times of Roy's town and to learn about the early settlers.
2. Referring to an individual who has held a position of authority or ownership; former: Dina was the past president of the musical organization.
2. Referring to an individual who has held a position of authority or ownership; former: Dina was the past president of the musical organization.
The past owner of the red sports car took very good care of it.
past (PAST) (adverb)
Regarding how something has gone beyond a specific point in life: Janine is at the age that should be past playing with the doll house.
past (PAST) (adjective)
Descriptive of a previous life, history, or action: Dorothea had a past secret which she did not want to talk about.
Those who cannot remember what has passed into the past are condemned to repeat it.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group P; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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(Greek: by the side of, beside, past, beyond; contrary, wrong, irregular, abnormal)
(scientist, inventor, printer, writer, patriot, and diplomat; sharing his contribution of wisdom to generations from the past, in the present, and into the future)
(Latin: burere, "to burn up"; from urere, with an inserted or faulty separation of b in amburere, "to burn around"; which stands for amb-urere, "to burn around", but it was misdivided into am-burere and because of this misdivision, the new verb burere was formed with the past participle bustum; so, it really came from urere, "to burn, to singe")
(calendars past and present)
(June, the month for marriages, past and present)
(Part 1 of 4: The Ballad of Salvation Bill by Robert W. Service and additional capnomania-fumimania information about smoking or addiction to tobacco smoke from the past to the present)
(narrative descriptions and records of events from the distant and recent past; as well as, significant current events of global interest)
(Latin: to fasten; to attach; from fixus, past participle of figere)
(Greek > Latin: historical narrative; past events, past knowledge)
(Latin: oculus used as a reference to "eye" to designate something that looks like or is suggestive of a person's organ of sight including potato "eyes")
(influences on humanity including those from the past and the present)
(personal experiences and memories of past events)
(Latin: memory, remember, thought; retaining and recalling past experiences and information; capacity to store information; ability to recall or to recognize previous experiences; recollection; retention)
(Greek: memory, to remember; recollection of something or someone; awareness, consciousness of the present and the past)
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(plagiarize comes from Latin plagium which meant "kidnapping")
(sections which are available in this series about reasons for publishing)
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(Latin: putatus past participle of putare: to think over, consider, reckon, count; to trim, prune, lop, cut, clean, clear, unmixed)
(Greek > Latin: to recollect, to remember; act of recalling; to recall to memory; to remind of past events)
(historical and current advances and achievements)
(John Robertson, a committed lexicographer who is utilizing the past and the present to provide word information for our modern age)
(Origins of silk and present production)
(slavery not only existed in the past, but it still exists in parts of the present world)
(Latin: betrothed man, groom; betrothed woman, bride; both come from sponsus, past participle of spondere, "to promise, betroth" from Old French, espous [masculine, male]; espouse [feminine, female])
(Latin: to rub; to thresh, to grind; to wear away; from tritus, past participle of terere, "to rub")
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Books and Libraries: Past and Present
Books and libraries from antiquity to modern publications.
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Books and Books: Index of Articles
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nostalgia for the past *
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Pleonasms or Tautological Redundancies
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obsolete thing of the past *
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Pleonasms or Tautological Redundancies
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past experience
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Pleonasms or Tautological Redundancies
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past history
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Pleonasms or Tautological Redundancies
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past tradition *
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Pleonasms or Tautological Redundancies
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Tomorrow: one of the greatest labor saving devices from the past, to the present, and for the future.
(etymology of words or their original "true meanings"; a rich source of information regarding the earliest
meanings of words as they migrated from the past into the present)
(a glossary of archeological terms particularly related to the field of research that can tell us about our origins and our remote past)
(electricity and magnetic forces are combined for efficiency)
(Historical perspectives of the Reader's Digest)
(a few words from the Reader's Digest, March, 1932)
(a few words from the Reader's Digest, July, 1940)
(a compilation of excerpts and quotes from past issues of magazines and books so they won't be lost in the present)
(learning more about the progress of medicine throughout the centuries)
(over the past century, knowledge of the way the universe works [science] has grown significantly, and with it the ability to apply that knowledge to everyday problems [technology] has changed the way people live)
(terms appearing in some "scientific" areas from about 2000 B.C. to 1799 A.D.)
(terms appearing in some "scientific" areas from about 1800 A.D. to 1899 A.D.)
(words exist in all sizes and degrees of difficulty from numerous languages and English continues to churn out new words from the past and the present)
Word Entries at Get Words containing the term:
“past”
Did they say what I think they said? Words from “great thinkers”, past and present.
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Focusing on Words Newsletter #07
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Electricity, Its Past and Present Development
Electricity and electronic tools and products are an essential element in our modern times.
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Index of Scientific and Technological Topics
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Index of Information from Past Publications Revealed in the Present, Part 1
Information from the Past and into the Present, Part 1; Historical perspectives of the Reader's Digest.
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Information Index, a Compilation of Excerpts and Quotes from Publications Primarily from the Past
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Index of Information from Past Publications Revealed in the Present, Part 2
Information from the Past and into the Present, Part 2; Excerpts of humorous and more serious topics from the Reader's Digest March, 1932.
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Information Index, a Compilation of Excerpts and Quotes from Publications Primarily from the Past
(page 1)
Index of Information from Past Publications Revealed in the Present, Part 3
Information from the Past and into the Present, Part 3; A few words from the Reader's Digest July, 1940.
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Information Index, a Compilation of Excerpts and Quotes from Publications Primarily from the Past
(page 1)
Science and Technology from the Past to 1799, Part 1
An extensive list of Science and Technology terms from the past.
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Index of Scientific and Technological Topics
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