Usually means: Transfers possession or moves beyond.
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  1. passes: Merriam-Webster
  2. passes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. passes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Passes, passes: Wordnik
  5. passes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. passes: Wiktionary
  7. passes: Dictionary.com
  8. passes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. passes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. passes: Legal dictionary

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  1. passes: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. passes: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. passes: Medical dictionary

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  2. passes: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (PASS)

verb:  To change place.
verb:  (intransitive) To move or be moved from one place to another.
verb:  (transitive) To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
verb:  (ditransitive) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
verb:  (intransitive, transitive, medicine) To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
verb:  (sports) To make various kinds of movement.
verb:  (transitive, soccer) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
verb:  (transitive) To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
verb:  (intransitive, fencing) To make a lunge or swipe.
verb:  (intransitive, American football) To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
verb:  (intransitive) To go from one person to another.
verb:  (transitive) To put in circulation; to give currency to.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
verb:  (transitive, cooking) To put through a sieve.
verb:  To change in state or status
verb:  (intransitive) To progress from one state to another; to advance.
verb:  (intransitive) To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
verb:  (intransitive) To die.
verb:  (intransitive, transitive) To achieve a successful outcome from.
verb:  (intransitive, transitive) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
verb:  (intransitive, law) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
verb:  (intransitive, law) To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
verb:  (transitive) To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
verb:  (intransitive) To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
verb:  To move through time.
verb:  (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to be spent.
verb:  (transitive, of time) To spend.
verb:  (transitive) To allow to go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
verb:  (intransitive) To continue.
verb:  (intransitive) To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
verb:  (transitive) To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
verb:  (intransitive) To happen.
verb:  To be accepted.
verb:  (intransitive, stative) To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
verb:  (intransitive, stative, sociology) To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
verb:  To refrain from doing something.
verb:  (intransitive) To decline something that is offered or available.
verb:  (transitive) To reject; to pass up.
verb:  (intransitive) To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
verb:  (intransitive) In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
verb:  (intransitive, card games) In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
verb:  To do or be better.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.
verb:  (transitive) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed, to have an interest, to care.
noun:  An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
noun:  A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
noun:  A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
noun:  A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
noun:  An attempt.
noun:  A sexual advance (often in the phrase make a pass).
noun:  Success in an examination or similar test.
noun:  (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
noun:  (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
noun:  (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
noun:  (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
noun:  Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
noun:  A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
noun:  (baseball) An intentional walk.
noun:  (sports) The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
noun:  The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
noun:  (obsolete) Estimation; character.
noun:  (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
noun:  An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
noun:  (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
noun:  (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (education) Initialism of positive alternative to school suspension.
noun:  Initialism of penile artery shunt syndrome.
noun:  Initialism of personal alert safety system.
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