Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A secret word, phrase, or sequence of characters that must be presented in order to gain access or admittance.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A secret parole or countersign by which a friend may be distinguished from a stranger, and allowed to pass.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A word to be given before a person is allowed to pass; a watchword; a countersign.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A secret word used to gain admittance or to gain access to information; watchword.
  • noun computing A string of characters used to log in to a computer or network, to access a level in a video game, etc.
  • verb computing, transitive To protect with a password.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group

Etymologies

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pass +‎ word.

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Examples

  • Enter the correct password in the _password_ field.

    Netvouz - new bookmarks jecogite 2010

  • Enter the correct password in the _password_ field.

    Netvouz - new bookmarks jecogite 2010

  • I could read and delete them. username = "mlxxx@vabb. upn"; password = "xyzpdq"; sleep 2 echo USER $username sleep 1 echo PASS $password sleep 2 echo STAT sleep 1 echo QUIT

    LinuxQuestions.org ml41782 2009

  • Download the source code, open twitter_status. php, change $username and $password with your Twitter username and password and upload the file in your test server.

    doggdot.us 2009

  • GetFormsCredentials userName = _userName password = _password authority = _domain

    ASP.NET Forums 2009

  • InputBox, password, Enter Password, (Leave this field blank if you don´t set a password), hide runwait, "\% A_ScriptDir\%\exe2ahk. exe", \% 1\% \% password\%

    AutoHotkey Community 2008

  • · Changing to service mode and entering the password_ you will get a pop-up with the password as the title.

    Softpedia - Windows - All 2008

  • AS declare @err0 int update WL_user set password = @password where UserName = @userName set @err0 = @@error select @err0 as err0

    博客园首页 2008

  • username = $username, password = $password, my $friends_list = $nt-friends;

    Friendly Followers and Followings of Friends on Twitter « everything e-diotic 2010

  • username = $username, password = $password, my $friends_list = $nt-friends;

    06 « January « 2010 « everything e-diotic 2010

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