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🧑‍🤝‍🧑 To hand over 💻 To send data
to pass down

to pass down

1 4.8
Send a value or setting from a main part of a program to its smaller parts
  • phrasal verb
  • Specialized
translation icon : pasar a los componentes hijos
  • It's true that the current DOE is handling functions passed down from the AEC, and President Obama needs to split the department: one side does energy production, the other does energy cleanup.

Examples

  • The primary reason for this situation is that timing constraints generated by the front end and passed down to the back end are based on a timing analysis performed by the front end, using rough or rule-of-thumb estimates of interconnection delay and loading.

    Academic text (1996)

  • In programming, a component can pass down props to its child components to ensure proper functionality.

  • Yeah, because I observed that the the conversation usually starts by you, second by you and then pass down this line back to me.

  • I have three lines (mine and one for each kid) and always take the upgrade (no matter which line is eligible) and pass down my old phone.

    Blog text (32)

  • Gordon immediately countered, wheeling his horse and performing a sort of military curtsey as he passed down the line.

    Academic text (2003)

  • Aside from the whir from the ceiling fan and the sound of a slow-passing car down Silver Street, the Liberty Bell Chalet is quiet.

    Blog text (17)

  • The parent component will pass down the user settings to the child components for consistent user experience.

  • When creating a new user interface, you need to pass down the state to maintain the component hierarchy.

Synonyms

to transmit
vsto pass down
169 3.7

To send something from one thing to another, for example a message or disease

specifically moves component values down the component hierarchy
to pass on
vsto pass down
134 2.7

To give something to another person, often information or a message

sends values or properties from a parent to child components
to pass along
vsto pass down
76 2.5

Give news, a message, or something you received to another person

propagates values directly from a parent to child components
to hand down
vsto pass down
49 3.6

Give objects, knowledge, or traditions to younger people in your family

does this in programming by sending properties from parent components to children

How Wide

to broadcast
  • Literature
178 2.1
to propagate
23 5.9
to pass down
  • Specialized
1 4.8
to assign
  • Specialized
16 3.0
to localize
  • US
23 4.8

Surface Forms

pass down infinitive
passed down past
passed down past participle
passing down present participle
passes down third person singular

Morphology

pass + down

The meaning 'to transmit from a parent to its children' is directly derivable from 'pass' (to transfer) plus 'down' (to a lower level or next generation). This downward-transfer composition is a common, cross-linguistic pattern (e.g., pass down a tradition or inheritance), so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will generally infer the intended programming sense even if the technical term 'props' is domain-specific.

Etymology

Pass down in programming uses the same image: the parts pass values down a chain, like a parent handing a small box to its child boxes so each child gets what it needs. So pass down means 'to send a value, setting, or state from a parent part to its child parts'.