passes
/ˈpɐːsəz/ · verb
Meaning
- To change place.
- To change in state or status
- To move through time.
- To be accepted.
- In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
- To do or be better.
- 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.
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over or along anything.
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- An attempt.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
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