Used in a Sentence

passed

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for passed.

Editorial note

Until the law is passed that releases all restrictions on visa-workers and simply grants them citizenship or an extremely permissive stay-while-looking-for-a-job situation, increasing the h1-b quota is simply a means to create a reduced-rights cheaper workforce.

Examples16
Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

That has passed a given qualification or examination; qualified.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of passed gathered in one view.

adjective

That has passed a given qualification or examination; qualified.

adjective

That has passed beyond a certain point (chiefly in set collocations).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for passed.

adjective

That has passed a given qualification or examination; qualified.

adjective

That has passed beyond a certain point (chiefly in set collocations).

Example sentences

1

Until the law is passed that releases all restrictions on visa-workers and simply grants them citizenship or an extremely permissive stay-while-looking-for-a-job situation, increasing the h1-b quota is simply a means to create a reduced-rights cheaper workforce.

2

You passed what's supposedly a const object into a function that expected to be able to change it.

3

Some people are perfectly capable of doing the work, and are passed up for completely irrational reasons.

4

Are there great devs who are passed over or who do not want to work at the big companies?

5

Note that even 'in out' parameters may be passed by value through a 'pass by copy-in copy-out' mechanism, so whether a parameter is passed by value or reference is largely handled behind the scenes, so the type system doesn't include that information.

6

My step-grandmother is a business lawyer who has passed the bar in multiple states including Florida.

7

Some of the oldest trees are estimated to be over 1000 years old and have been passed through generations of care takers.

8

Your talk of 'outlaws' meant, to my eyes, a more hypothetical situation where some form of DNT was passed in to law.

9

First of all, Ada may have already made a copy of the value; small (register-sized) values tend to be passed by copy into subprograms.

10

Note that this is not the only way types differ in Ada than in C++ when it comes to access: C++ types encode information about how a parameter is passed, Ada types do not.

11

We're a quickly growing company and have just passed the 100-employee threshold!

12

It lacked context as any game does until its time has passed.

Quote examples

1

If you look at the example `swap(i,A[i])` in the "Criticism" section, you'll see that it is not the address of `A[i]`(as evaluated at call time) that is passed, but the entire expression `A[i]` to be re-evaluated every time `i` changes.

2

A "good" church community (that seems like a weird phrase, but go with me for a second) would involve people that you might only have passed in the hallway bringing you food, helping out with your other kids, or other chores that you simply don't have the time or energy to do during your emergency state.

3

Before you retort with, "But blocks/procs aren't 'really' methods", you might also want to step back and realize that Ruby also allows any method to be passed as well using &Object.method(:method_name); that basically says "Oh hey; pass this method just like a block".

4

So some of the co-living spaces are co-living as defined by "you passed our landlord's test" but others are "everybody must like you to live here." If this was relating to Uber, we'd also mention they are doing the entire "break local laws and hope city hall doesn't care" trick by introducing oversubscribed short term housing which is against city policy.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use passed in a sentence?

Until the law is passed that releases all restrictions on visa-workers and simply grants them citizenship or an extremely permissive stay-while-looking-for-a-job situation, increasing the h1-b quota is simply a means to create a reduced-rights cheaper workforce.

What does passed mean?

That has passed a given qualification or examination; qualified.

What part of speech is passed?

passed is commonly used as adjective.