Usually means: Allowing someone or something through.
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General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. pass: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pass, pass, pass, pass: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pass, pass: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pass, pass: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pass: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pas's, Pass, Pass, pass, pass, pass: Wordnik
  7. pass: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. PASS, pass: Wiktionary
  9. pass: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pass: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pass: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. pass, pass: Dictionary.com
  13. pass (n.), pass (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. pass: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Pass (ice hockey), Pass (legislature), Pass (military), Pass (sleight of hand), Pass (software), Pass (spaceflight), Pass, The Pass (psychoanalysis), The Pass (song), The Pass: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Pass: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pass: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. pass: Rhymezone
  19. pass: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pass: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Pass (to pass another car): American-Britih Dictionary
  22. PASS: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Pass: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. pass: Free Dictionary
  25. pass: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. Pass, pass: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. pass: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  28. pass: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  29. pass (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. pass-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. pass: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pass: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. pass: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. PASS: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. pass: Idioms
  4. United States Postal Service Official Abbreviations (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PASS: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. pass, pass: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Pass: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  3. The Pass: A Seattle Lexicon
  4. pass: Urban Dictionary

Sports (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pass: Dan's Poker
  2. pass: Pinochle Glossary
  3. Pass: Backgammon
  4. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Hiking Terms (No longer online)
  6. winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  8. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)
  9. Pass: Sports Definitions

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. PASS: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  5. pass: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary
  6. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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American English Definition British English Definition
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 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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