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Passing   /pˈæsɪŋ/   Listen
Passing

adjective
1.
Lasting a very short time.  Synonyms: ephemeral, fugacious, short-lived, transient, transitory.  "A passing fancy" , "Youth's transient beauty" , "Love is transitory but it is eternal" , "Fugacious blossoms"
2.
Of advancing the ball by throwing it.  Synonym: pass.  "A pass play"
3.
Allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily.
4.
Hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough.  Synonyms: casual, cursory, perfunctory.  "A passing glance" , "Perfunctory courtesy"
noun
1.
(American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate.  Synonyms: pass, passing game, passing play.
2.
Euphemistic expressions for death.  Synonyms: departure, exit, expiration, going, loss, release.
3.
The motion of one object relative to another.  Synonym: passage.
4.
The end of something.
5.
A bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another.  Synonym: passage.  "The passing of flatus"
6.
Going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it.  Synonym: overtaking.
7.
Success in satisfying a test or requirement.  Synonyms: pass, qualifying.  "He got a pass in introductory chemistry"
adverb
1.
To an extreme degree.  Synonyms: exceedingly, extremely, super.  "Extremely unpleasant"


Pass

verb
(past & past part. passed; pres. part. passing)
1.
Go across or through.  Synonyms: go across, go through.  "A terrible thought went through his mind"
2.
Move past.  Synonyms: go by, go past, pass by, surpass, travel by.  "He passed his professor in the hall" , "One line of soldiers surpassed the other"
3.
Make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation.  Synonym: legislate.  "We cannot legislate how people spend their free time"
4.
Pass by.  Synonyms: elapse, glide by, go along, go by, lapse, slide by, slip away, slip by.
5.
Place into the hands or custody of.  Synonyms: give, hand, pass on, reach, turn over.  "Turn the files over to me, please" , "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers"
6.
Stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point.  Synonyms: extend, go, lead, run.  "His knowledge doesn't go very far" , "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life" , "The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets"
7.
Travel past.  Synonyms: overhaul, overtake.
8.
Come to pass.  Synonyms: come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass off, take place.  "The meeting took place off without an incidence" , "Nothing occurred that seemed important"
9.
Go unchallenged; be approved.  Synonym: clear.
10.
Pass time in a specific way.  Synonym: spend.
11.
Pass over, across, or through.  Synonyms: draw, guide, run.  "She ran her fingers along the carved figurine" , "He drew her hair through his fingers"
12.
Transmit information.  Synonyms: communicate, pass along, pass on, put across.  "Pass along the good news"
13.
Disappear gradually.  Synonyms: blow over, evanesce, fade, fleet, pass off.
14.
Go successfully through a test or a selection process.  Synonym: make it.
15.
Be superior or better than some standard.  Synonyms: exceed, go past, overstep, top, transcend.  "She topped her performance of last year"
16.
Accept or judge as acceptable.
17.
Allow to go without comment or censure.
18.
Transfer to another; of rights or property.
19.
Pass into a specified state or condition.  Synonyms: lapse, sink.
20.
Throw (a ball) to another player.
21.
Be inherited by.  Synonyms: devolve, fall, return.  "The land returned to the family" , "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead"
22.
Cause to pass.  Synonym: make pass.
23.
Grant authorization or clearance for.  Synonyms: authorise, authorize, clear.  "The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography"
24.
Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life.  Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it.  "The children perished in the fire" , "The patient went peacefully" , "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"
25.
Eliminate from the body.  Synonyms: egest, eliminate, excrete.



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"Passing" Quotes from Famous Books



... such a daddy, too," said she. "Mike's stronger for a man nor even I am for a woman"—a glow of wifely pride passing over her face; "and as to good looks, it's him as is got the good looks, not me. But none on us can't make it out about the chavo. He's so weak and sick he don't look as if he belonged to Boswells' ...
— The Romany Rye - A Sequel to 'Lavengro' • George Borrow
... take his hand. Her eyes, turned sideways, glinted; her teeth were fastened on her lower lip. She dropped the lilies, suddenly looked up at him, gulped, and slunk away. In passing she had smeared the ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... The passing weeks taught Haines that he was deeply in love with Carolina, and, though he had endeavored to keep the knowledge of this from her, her woman's intuition had told her his secret, and she stifled the momentary regrets that flitted into her ...
— A Gentleman from Mississippi • Thomas A. Wise
... be, if ever there was one in this world; and I turned away, and felt unable to keep altogether from weeping. But the mare either could not understand, or else would not believe it. She reached her long neck forth, and felt him with her under lip, passing it over his skin as softly as a mother would do to an infant; and then she looked up at me again; as much as to say, ...
— Lorna Doone - A Romance of Exmoor • R. D. Blackmore
... full of oxygen at a constant temperature. In the interior of this vase is placed a small copper ring, and the whole is set in a magnetic field. The oxygen molecules are, as we know, magnetic, and when passing through the interior of the ring they produce in this ring an induced current. During this time, it is true, other molecules emerge from the space enclosed by the circuit; but the two effects do not counterbalance each other, and the resulting current is maintained. ...
— The New Physics and Its Evolution • Lucien Poincare


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