noun : PASSING
Source: WordNet 3.1
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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" ;
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2. (
) euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing" ;
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4. (
) the end of something; "the passing of winter" ;
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6. (
) 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" ;
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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
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1. (
) go across or through; "We passed the point where the police car had parked"; "A terrible thought went through his mind" ;
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3. (
) make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation; "They passed the amendment"; "We cannot legislate how people spend their free time" ;
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4. (
) pass by; "three years elapsed" ;
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6. (
) 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" ;
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7. (
) travel past; "The sports car passed all the trucks" ;
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8. (
) come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important" ;
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12. (
) transmit information; "Please communicate this message to all employees"; "pass along the good news" ;
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13. (
) disappear gradually; "The pain eventually passed off" ;
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15. (
) be superior or better than some standard; "She exceeded our expectations"; "She topped her performance of last year" ;
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16. (
) accept or judge as acceptable; "The teacher passed the student although he was weak" ;
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17. (
) allow to go without comment or censure; "the insult passed as if unnoticed" ;
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18. (
) transfer to another; of rights or property; "Our house passed under his official control" ;
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20. (
) throw (a ball) to another player; "Smith passed" ;
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23. (
) grant authorization or clearance for; "Clear the manuscript for publication"; "The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography" ;
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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" ;
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25. (
) eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone" ;
Adjective : PASSING
Source: WordNet 3.1
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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" ;
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3. (
) allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily; "a passing grade" ;
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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
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1. (
) 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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