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| 1. | [ noun ] (sport,american football) a football play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate | |
| Synonyms: | pass passing_game passing_play | |
| Examples: | "the coach sent in a passing play on third and long" |
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| Related terms: | football_play forward_pass lateral_pass spot_pass American_football | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] enduring a very short time | |
| Synonyms: | short-lived ephemeral transitory fugacious transient | |
| Examples: | "the ephemeral joys of childhood" "a passing fancy" "youth's transient beauty" "love is transitory but at is eternal" "fugacious blossoms" |
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| Related terms: | impermanent | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] moving by or going past | |
| Examples: | "the passing cars" |
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| Related terms: | moving | |
| 4. | [ adjective ] enduring a very short time | |
| Synonyms: | short-lived ephemeral transient transitory fugacious | |
| Examples: | "the ephemeral joys of childhood" "a passing fancy" "youth's transient beauty" "love is transitory but at is eternal" "fugacious blossoms" |
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| Related terms: | impermanent | |
| 5. | [ noun ] euphemistic expressions for death | |
| Synonyms: | loss release expiration going exit departure | |
| Examples: | "thousands mourned his passing" |
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| Related terms: | death die go depart depart | |
| 6. | [ adjective ] (football) of advancing the ball by throwing it | |
| Synonyms: | pass | |
| Examples: | "a team with a good passing attack" "a pass play" |
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| Related terms: | running football | |
| 7. | [ noun ] (biology) a bodily process of passing from one place or stage to another | |
| Synonyms: | passage | |
| Examples: | "the passage of air from the lungs" "the passing of flatus" |
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| Related terms: | reaction excrete | |
| 8. | [ noun ] the motion of one object relative to another | |
| Synonyms: | passage | |
| Examples: | "stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets" |
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| Related terms: | movement pass | |
| 9. | [ noun ] going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it | |
| Synonyms: | overtaking | |
| Examples: | "she drove but well but her reckless passing of every car on the road frightened me" |
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| Related terms: | reordering pass | |
| 10. | [ adjective ] allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily | |
| Examples: | "a passing grade" |
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| Related terms: | satisfactory | |
| 11. | [ noun ] the end of something | |
| Examples: | "the passing of winter" |
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| Related terms: | end evanesce | |
| 12. | [ adverb ] to an extreme degree or extent | |
| Synonyms: | exceedingly extremely | |
| Examples: | "his eyesight was exceedingly defective" |
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| Related terms: | extreme exceeding extreme exceeding | |
| 13. | [ adjective ] hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | |
| Synonyms: | cursory perfunctory casual | |
| Examples: | "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws" "a passing glance" "perfunctory courtesy" |
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| Related terms: | careless | |
| 14. | [ noun ] success in satisfying a test or requirement | |
| Synonyms: | qualifying pass | |
| Examples: | "his future depended on his passing that test" "he got a pass in introductory chemistry" |
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| Related terms: | failing success qualify | |
| Similar spelling: |
pasang paging pacing packing passenger pissing pachinko |
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