1. (

• pass ,
• passing_play ,
• passing_game ,
• passing ,

) (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. (

• passing ,
• pass ,
• qualifying

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

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. (

• pass ,
• overtake ,
• overhaul

) 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. (

• communicate ,
• pass_on ,
• pass ,
• pass_along ,
• put_across

) 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. (

• authorize ,
• authorise ,
• pass ,
• clear ,

) 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" ;

1. (

• ephemeral ,
• passing ,
• short-lived ,
• transient ,
• transitory ,
• fugacious

) 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. (

• casual ,
• cursory ,
• passing ,
• perfunctory ,
• superficial

) 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" ;

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";