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Passing

Passing Meaning & Definition
Passing Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Passing?

[n] success in satisfying a test or requirement; "his future depended on his passing that test"; "he got a pass in introductory chemistry"
[n] 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"
[n] a football play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate; "the coach sent in a passing play on third and long"
[n] a bodily process of passing from one place or stage to another; "the passage of air from the lungs"; "the passing of flatus"
[n] the end of something; "the passing of winter"
[n] the motion of one object relative to another; "stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets"
[n] euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing"
[adv] to an extreme degree or extent; "his eyesight was exceedingly defective"
[adj] enduring a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but at is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Passing: departure | ephemeral | exceedingly | exit | expiration | extremely | fugacious | going | impermanent | loss | overtaking | pass | passage | passage | passing game | passing play | qualifying | release | short-lived | temporary | transient | transitory

Related Terms | Find terms related to Passing: 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 | upgrading | upping | up-trending | upward | urgent | vanishing | vanishing point | volatile | walking | walkout | wayfaring | wipe | withdrawal

See Also | aerial | death | decease | end | final stage | football play | forward pass | last | lateral | lateral pass | motion | movement | reaction | reordering | response | success

Passing In Webster's Dictionary

\Pass"ing\, n. The act of one who, or that which, passes; the act of going by or away. {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.
\Pass"ing\, a. 1. Relating to the act of passing or going; going by, beyond, through, or away; departing. 2. Exceeding; surpassing, eminent. --Chaucer. ``Her passing deformity.'' --Shak. {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.
\Pass"ing\, adv. Exceedingly; excessively; surpassingly; as, passing fair; passing strange. ``You apprehend passing shrewdly.'' --Shak.

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