'Passing' definitions:
Definition of 'passing'
From: WordNet
adverb
To an extreme degree; "extremely cold"; "extremely unpleasant" [syn: extremely, exceedingly, super, passing]
adjective
Lasting a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but it is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms" [syn: ephemeral, passing, short-lived, transient, transitory, fugacious]
adjective
Of advancing the ball by throwing it; "a team with a good passing attack"; "a pass play" [syn: passing(a), pass(a)] [ant: running(a)]
adjective
Allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily; "a passing grade"
adjective
Hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy" [syn: casual, cursory, passing(a), perfunctory]
noun
(American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate; "the coach sent in a passing play on third and long" [syn: pass, passing play, passing game, passing]
noun
Euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing" [syn: passing, loss, departure, exit, expiration, going, release]
noun
The motion of one object relative to another; "stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets" [syn: passing, passage]
noun
The end of something; "the passing of winter"
noun
A bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another; "the passage of air from the lungs"; "the passing of flatus" [syn: passage, passing]
noun
Going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it; "she drove but well but her reckless passing of every car on the road frightened me" [syn: passing, overtaking]
noun
Success in satisfying a test or requirement; "his future depended on his passing that test"; "he got a pass in introductory chemistry" [syn: passing, pass, qualifying] [ant: failing, flunk]
Definition of 'Passing'
From: GCIDE
- Pass \Pass\ (p[.a]s, p[a^]s), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Passed; p. pr. & vb. n. Passing.] [F. passer, LL. passare, fr. L. passus step, or from pandere, passum, to spread out, lay open. See Pace.]
- 1. To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind or manner of motion; as, to pass on, by, out, in, etc.; to pass swiftly, directly, smoothly, etc.; to pass to the rear, under the yoke, over the bridge, across the field, beyond the border, etc. "But now pass over [i. e., pass on]." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- On high behests his angels to and fro Passed frequent. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Sweet sounds rose slowly through their mouths, And from their bodies passed. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To move or be transferred from one state or condition to another; to change possession, condition, or circumstances; to undergo transition; as, the business has passed into other hands. [1913 Webster]
- Others, dissatisfied with what they have, . . . pass from just to unjust. --Sir W. Temple. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge; to pass away; hence, to disappear; to vanish; to depart; specifically, to depart from life; to die. [1913 Webster]
- Disturb him not, let him pass paceably. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Beauty is a charm, but soon the charm will pass. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- The passing of the sweetest soul That ever looked with human eyes. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To move or to come into being or under notice; to come and go in consciousness; hence, to take place; to occur; to happen; to come; to occur progressively or in succession; to be present transitorily. [1913 Webster]
- So death passed upon all men. --Rom. v. 12. [1913 Webster]
- Our own consciousness of what passes within our own mind. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as, their vacation passed pleasantly. [1913 Webster]
- Now the time is far passed. --Mark vi. 35 [1913 Webster]
- 6. To go from one person to another; hence, to be given and taken freely; as, clipped coin will not pass; to obtain general acceptance; to be held or regarded; to circulate; to be current; -- followed by for before a word denoting value or estimation. "Let him pass for a man." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- False eloquence passeth only where true is not understood. --Felton. [1913 Webster]
- This will not pass for a fault in him. --Atterbury. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness; to be carried through a body that has power to sanction or reject; to receive legislative sanction; to be enacted; as, the resolution passed; the bill passed both houses of Congress. [1913 Webster]
- 8. To go through any inspection or test successfully; to be approved or accepted; as, he attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass. [1913 Webster]
- 9. To be suffered to go on; to be tolerated; hence, to continue; to live along. "The play may pass." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 10. To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance or opposition; as, we let this act pass. [1913 Webster]
- 11. To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess. [Obs.] "This passes, Master Ford." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 12. To take heed; to care. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 13. To go through the intestines. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
- 14. (Law) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance; as, an estate passes by a certain clause in a deed. --Mozley & W. [1913 Webster]
- 15. (Fencing) To make a lunge or pass; to thrust. [1913 Webster]
- 16. (Card Playing) To decline to play in one's turn; in euchre, to decline to make the trump. [1913 Webster]
- She would not play, yet must not pass. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- To bring to pass, To come to pass. See under Bring, and Come.
- To pass away, to disappear; to die; to vanish. "The heavens shall pass away." --2 Pet. iii. 10. "I thought to pass away before, but yet alive I am." --Tennyson.
- To pass by, to go near and beyond a certain person or place; as, he passed by as we stood there.
- To pass into, to change by a gradual transmission; to blend or unite with.
- To pass on, to proceed.
- To pass on or To pass upon. (a) To happen to; to come upon; to affect. "So death passed upon all men." --Rom. v. 12. "Provided no indirect act pass upon our prayers to define them." --Jer. Taylor. (b) To determine concerning; to give judgment or sentence upon. "We may not pass upon his life." --Shak.
- To pass off, to go away; to cease; to disappear; as, an agitation passes off.
- To pass over, to go from one side or end to the other; to cross, as a river, road, or bridge. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Passing'
From: GCIDE
- Passing \Pass"ing\, n. The act of one who, or that which, passes; the act of going by or away. [1913 Webster]
- Passing bell, a tolling of a bell to announce that a soul is passing, or has passed, from its body (formerly done to invoke prayers for the dying); also, a tolling during the passing of a funeral procession to the grave, or during funeral ceremonies. --Sir W. Scott. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Passing'
From: GCIDE
- Passing \Pass"ing\, a.
- 1. Relating to the act of passing or going; going by, beyond, through, or away; departing. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Exceeding; surpassing, eminent. --Chaucer. "Her passing deformity." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Passing note (Mus.), a character including a passing tone.
- Passing tone (Mus.), a tone introduced between two other tones, on an unaccented portion of a measure, for the sake of smoother melody, but forming no essential part of the harmony. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Passing'
From: GCIDE
- Passing \Pass"ing\, adv. Exceedingly; excessively; surpassingly; as, passing fair; passing strange. "You apprehend passing shrewdly." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'passing'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandonment,
- abrupt,
- accidental,
- accompanying,
- act,
- ado,
- advance,
- advancement,
- afloat,
- afoot,
- aggrandizement,
- ambulant,
- ambulative,
- ambulatory,
- annihilation,
- ascending,
- axial,
- back,
- back-flowing,
- backward,
- bane,
- biological death,
- blackout,
- blocking,
- boost,
- brief,
- brittle,
- by the by,
- by the way,
- capricious,
- casual,
- cessation of life,
- changeable,
- circuit-riding,
- circumstantial,
- clinical death,
- concurrent resolution,
- constitution,
- corruptible,
- crossing the bar,
- current,
- cursory,
- curtains,
- death,
- death knell,
- debt of nature,
- decampment,
- decease,
- deciduous,
- dematerialization,
- demise,
- departure,
- descending,
- disappearance,
- disappearing,
- dismissive,
- dispersion,
- dissipation,
- dissolution,
- dissolving,
- doing,
- doom,
- down-trending,
- downward,
- drifting,
- dying,
- ebb of life,
- eclipse,
- egress,
- elevation,
- elimination,
- en passant,
- enaction,
- enactment,
- end,
- end of life,
- ending,
- ennoblement,
- ephemeral,
- erasure,
- escape,
- eternal rest,
- evacuation,
- evanescence,
- evanescent,
- evaporating,
- evaporation,
- eventuating,
- exaltation,
- exit,
- exodus,
- expeditionary,
- expeditious,
- expiration,
- expiring,
- expiry,
- extinction,
- extinguishment,
- fadeaway,
- fadeout,
- fading,
- festinate,
- feverish,
- fickle,
- final summons,
- finger of death,
- fleeting,
- flight,
- flitting,
- flowing,
- fluent,
- fly-by-night,
- flying,
- fragile,
- frail,
- fugacious,
- fugitive,
- furious,
- getaway,
- glancing,
- globe-girdling,
- globe-trotting,
- going,
- going off,
- going on,
- graduation,
- grave,
- gyrational,
- gyratory,
- hand of death,
- happening,
- hasty,
- hegira,
- hurried,
- immediate,
- impermanent,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- in hand,
- in passing,
- in the wind,
- incidental,
- incidentally,
- inconstant,
- instant,
- insubstantial,
- itinerant,
- itinerary,
- jaws of death,
- joint resolution,
- journeying,
- knell,
- knighting,
- last debt,
- last muster,
- last rest,
- last roundup,
- last sleep,
- last-minute,
- lawmaking,
- leaving,
- leaving life,
- legislation,
- legislature,
- locomotive,
- loss,
- loss of life,
- making an end,
- melting,
- momentary,
- mortal,
- mounting,
- moving,
- mundivagant,
- mutable,
- nondurable,
- nonpermanent,
- occasional,
- occultation,
- occurring,
- on,
- on foot,
- on the spot,
- on tour,
- ongoing,
- parenthetically,
- parting,
- passage,
- passing away,
- passing over,
- pay raise,
- pedestrian,
- perambulating,
- perambulatory,
- peregrinative,
- peregrine,
- peripatetic,
- perishable,
- perishing,
- pilgrimlike,
- plunging,
- preferment,
- prevailing,
- prevalent,
- progressing,
- progressive,
- promotion,
- prompt,
- quick,
- quietus,
- raise,
- reflowing,
- refluent,
- regressive,
- release,
- removal,
- resolution,
- rest,
- resultant,
- retirement,
- retreat,
- retrogressive,
- reward,
- rise,
- rising,
- rotary,
- rotational,
- rotatory,
- running,
- rushing,
- sentence of death,
- shades of death,
- shadow of death,
- short-lived,
- sideward,
- silence,
- sinking,
- slap-bang,
- slapdash,
- sleep,
- slipping away,
- snap,
- soaring,
- somatic death,
- speedy,
- streaming,
- strolling,
- summary,
- summons of death,
- superficial,
- swift,
- taking place,
- temporal,
- temporary,
- touring,
- touristic,
- touristy,
- transient,
- transitional,
- transitive,
- transitory,
- traveling,
- trekking,
- under way,
- undurable,
- unenduring,
- unstable,
- up-trending,
- upgrading,
- upping,
- upward,
- urgent,
- vanishing,
- vanishing point,
- volatile,
- walking,
- walkout,
- wayfaring,
- wipe,
- withdrawal
Words containing 'Passing'
- Pass,
- Passed,
- Passingly,
- To pass by,
- To pass into,
- To pass off,
- To pass on,
- To pass over,
- in passing,
- pass by,
- pass for,
- pass off,
- pass on,
- pass out,
- pass over,
- pass through,
- pass up,
- passe,
- passing by,
- Alto Pass,
- Anaktuvuk Pass,
- Aransas Pass,
- By-pass,
- Eagle Pass,
- False Pass,
- Ferry Pass,
- Grand Pass,
- Grants Pass,
- Grants Pass, OR,
- Moose Pass,
- Pass Christian,
- Pass boat,
- Pass book,
- Pass box,
- Pass check,
- Pass'e,
- Pass'ee,
- Passe partout,
- Passed midshipman,
- Passing bell,
- Passing note,
- Passing tone,
- Pippa Passes,
- Sea pass,
- Snoqualmie Pass,
- To bring to pass,
- To come to pass,
- To pass a dividend,
- To pass away,
- To pass muster,
- To pass upon,
- Whale Pass,
- boarding pass,
- brenner pass,
- bring to pass,
- come to pass,
- donner pass,
- flare pass,
- forward pass,
- hall pass,
- khyber pass,
- lateral pass,
- let pass,
- make pass,
- mountain pass,
- pass across,
- pass along,
- pass around,
- pass away,
- pass catcher,
- pass completion,
- pass judgment,
- pass muster,
- pass receiver,
- pass the buck,
- pass water,
- pass-through,
- passed ball,
- passing comment,
- passing fancy,
- passing game,
- passing measure,
- passing play,
- passing shot,
- passing water,
- screen pass,
- spot pass,
- to pass the Rubicon,
- Alto Pass, IL,
- Anaktuvuk Pass, AK,
- Aransas Pass, TX,
- Eagle Pass, TX,
- False Pass, AK,
- Ferry Pass, FL,
- Grand Pass, MO,
- Moose Pass, AK,
- Pass Christian, MS,
- Pass-key,
- Pass-parole,
- Pippa Passes, KY,
- Snoqualmie Pass, WA,
- To pass around the hat,
- To pass something on some one,
- Whale Pass, AK,
- pass with flying colors,
- passe-partout,
- To pass something upon some one,
- high-pass filter,
- low-pass filter