WordNet
v. cause to be distributed; "This letter is circulating among the faculty" [syn: circulate, pass on, distribute]
cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news" [syn: circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse]
Usage examples of "pass around".
As we pass around the house, I discover a boy in the ravine filling a bag with chestnuts and hickorynuts.
Hand-copying would have engaged every stationer and monk in Paris for weeks and the originals were too fragile to pass around.
At the valley's end the cliffs upon the left ran out into the sea, so that to pass around them as I desired to do it was necessary to scale them in search of a ledge along which I might continue my journey.
I slowed down, hoping the few cars behind me would pass around, get on out of the way.
The compound of invisibility merely bows outward the reflected light, which, entering our eyes and impinging upon our optic nerves, results in the phenomenon which we call vision, so that they pass around any object which is coated with the compound.
She handed her clipboard down to him, then noticed a stranger in their pit, wearing the appropriate pass around his neck.
They pass around the jagged bottom of the bottle, each man taking a gulp of what remains.
We don't need the insanity and warfare and physical defects that Outsiders pass around the galaxy like some virus!
They pull printouts from their knapsacks to pass around: they cluster around a copy of the new 2600 magazine.
As soon as they landed he was to unload, pass around the oolt'poslenar and attack the gun to destroy its ability to fire, in other words, aim at the barrel.
Cape Washington, a bold, sharp headland, projects from the foot of the mountain on its eastern side, and finding such heavy pack in Wood Bay, Scott decided to turn to the south to pass around this cape.
A small detachment to ensure that they did not remain loose in the Spanish rear and the main force would simply pass around them to the targets farther on in the city.
Just turn out where and when I say, shout a few things that some guys I'll send along will be there to pass around, get in the way and block the street for an hour or so, and that's all that's needed.