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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



... I had the arrangement of my own time, and I determined to regulate it in such a manner that I might enjoy as much of their sweet summer as I possibly could; short, it is true, but "passing sweet." ...
— Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark • Mary Wollstonecraft
... and the fort many people were passing to and fro, some of whom were to walk with me down the long trail of years. Evermore that April day stands out as the beginning of things for me. Dim are the days behind it, a jumble of happy childish hours, each keen enough as the things ...
— Vanguards of the Plains • Margaret McCarter
... retribution. But, for my part, I long ago espoused the cause of religious liberty, not because that cause was popular, but because it was just; and I am not disposed to abandon the principles to which I have been true through my whole life in deference to a passing clamour. The day may come, and may come soon, when those who are now loudest in raising that clamour may again be, as they have formerly been, suppliants for justice. When that day comes I will try to prevent others from oppressing them, as I now try to prevent ...
— The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 4 (of 4) - Lord Macaulay's Speeches • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... of them in their sermons speaking of circumcision, baptismal washings and purifications, new moons, feasts of the passover and unleavened bread, sacrifices, and other rites. We shall find them dwelling on these as constituent parts of the religion of the Jews. We shall find them immediately passing from thence to the religion of Jesus Christ. Here all is considered by them to be spiritual. Devotion of the heart is insisted upon as that alone which is acceptable to God. If God is to be worshipped, it is laid down as a position, ...
— A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume II (of 3) • Thomas Clarkson
... soon the branches unite in one mighty river which, seeming to shun life and sunlight, buries itself so deeply in the great plateau that the traveller through this region may perish in sight of its waters without being able to descend far enough to reach them. After passing through one hundred miles of canon, the river emerges upon a desert region, where the rainfall is so slight that curious and unusual forms of plants and animals have been developed, forms which are adapted to withstand the ...
— The Western United States - A Geographical Reader • Harold Wellman Fairbanks


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