What is "pass by"

vb. 1 (cx intransitive English) To travel past without stopping. (from 14th c.) 2 (cx transitive English) To travel past (something) without stopping; to ignore, to disregard. (from 14th c.) 3 (cx intransitive English) Of a period of time: to come to an end, to elapse. (from 15th c.)

v. pass by; "A black limousine passed by when she looked out the window"; "He passed his professor in the hall"; "One line of soldiers surpassed the other" [syn: travel by, surpass, go past, go by, pass]