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Definition of PASSING

noun : PASSING

Source:WordNet 3.1

1. (
) (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" ;

2. (
- passing ,
- loss ,
- departure ,
- exit ,
- expiration ,
- going ,
- release
) euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing" ;

3. (
- passing ,
- passage
) the motion of one object relative to another; "stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets" ;

4. (
- passing ,
) the end of something; "the passing of winter" ;

5. (
- passage ,
- passing ,
) a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another; "the passage of air from the lungs"; "the passing of flatus" ;

6. (
- passing ,
- overtaking
) 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" ;

7. (
) success in satisfying a test or requirement; "his future depended on his passing that test"; "he got a pass in introductory chemistry" ;

verb : PASSING

Source:WordNet 3.1

1. (
- pass
) go across or through; "We passed the point where the police car had parked"; "A terrible thought went through his mind" ;

2. (
- travel_by ,
- pass_by ,
- surpass ,
- go_past ,
- go_by ,
- pass ,
) move past; "A black limousine passed by when she looked out the window"; "He passed his professor in the hall"; "One line of soldiers surpassed the other" ;

3. (
- legislate ,
- pass ,
) make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation; "They passed the amendment"; "We cannot legislate how people spend their free time" ;

4. (
- elapse ,
- lapse ,
- pass ,
- slip_by ,
- glide_by ,
- slip_away ,
- go_by ,
- slide_by ,
- go_along ,
) pass by; "three years elapsed" ;

5. (
- pass ,
- hand ,
- reach ,
- pass_on ,
- turn_over ,
- give ,
) place into the hands or custody of; "hand me the spoon, please"; "Turn the files over to me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers" ;

6. (
- run ,
- go ,
- pass ,
- lead ,
- extend ,
) stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point; "Service runs all the way to Cranbury"; "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; "The sports car passed all the trucks" ;

8. (
- happen ,
- hap ,
- go_on ,
- pass_off ,
- occur ,
- pass ,
- fall_out ,
- come_about ,
- take_place
) come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important" ;

9. (
- pass ,
- clear ,
) go unchallenged; be approved; "The bill cleared the House" ;

10. (
- spend ,
- pass
) use up a period of time in a specific way; "how are you spending your summer vacation?" ;

11. (
- guide ,
- run ,
- draw ,
- pass
) pass over, across, or through; "He ran his eyes over her body"; "She ran her fingers along the carved figurine"; "He drew her hair through his fingers" ;

12. (
) transmit information; "Please communicate this message to all employees"; "pass along the good news" ;

13. (
- evanesce ,
- fade ,
- blow_over ,
- pass_off ,
- fleet ,
- pass ,
) disappear gradually; "The pain eventually passed off" ;

14. (
- pass ,
- make_it ,
) go successfully through a test or a selection process; "She passed the new Jersey Bar Exam and can practice law now" ;

15. (
- exceed ,
- transcend ,
- overstep ,
- pass ,
- go_past ,
- top
) be superior or better than some standard; "She exceeded our expectations"; "She topped her performance of last year" ;

16. (
- pass ,
) accept or judge as acceptable; "The teacher passed the student although he was weak" ;

17. (
- pass ,
) allow to go without comment or censure; "the insult passed as if unnoticed" ;

18. (
- pass ,
) transfer to another; of rights or property; "Our house passed under his official control" ;

19. (
- sink ,
- pass ,
- lapse ,
) pass into a specified state or condition; "He sank into nirvana" ;

20. (
- pass ,
) throw (a ball) to another player; "Smith passed" ;

21. (
- fall ,
- return ,
- pass ,
- devolve ,
) be inherited by; "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead" ;

22. (
- pass ,
- make_pass
) cause to pass; "She passed around the plates" ;

23. (
) grant authorization or clearance for; "Clear the manuscript for publication"; "The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography" ;

24. (
- die ,
- decease ,
- perish ,
- go ,
- exit ,
- pass_away ,
- expire ,
- pass ,
- kick_the_bucket ,
- cash_in_one's_chips ,
- buy_the_farm ,
- conk ,
- give-up_the_ghost ,
- drop_dead ,
- pop_off ,
- choke ,
- croak ,
- snuff_it
) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102" ;

25. (
- excrete ,
- egest ,
- eliminate ,
- pass
) eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone" ;

Adjective : PASSING

Source:WordNet 3.1

1. (
) 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" ;

2. (
- passing ,
- pass
) of advancing the ball by throwing it; "a team with a good passing attack"; "a pass play" ;

3. (
- passing
) allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily; "a passing grade" ;

4. (
) 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"; "In his paper, he showed a very superficial understanding of psychoanalytic theory" ;

Adverb : PASSING

Source:WordNet 3.1

1. (
- surpassingly ,
- passing
) to an extraordinary degree; "she was a surpassingly beautiful woman"; "I will mention only one particular aspect of the current mess because ... this one is surely something new and passing strange";

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