Definitions for passing
ˈpæs ɪŋ, ˈpɑ sɪŋpass·ing

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. pass, passing play, passing game, passingnoun

   (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, releasenoun

   euphemistic expressions for death

   "thousands mourned his passing"

3. passing, passagenoun

   the motion of one object relative to another

   "stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets"

4. passingnoun

   the end of something

   "the passing of winter"

5. passage, passingnoun

   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, overtakingnoun

   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, qualifyingadjective

   success in satisfying a test or requirement

   "his future depended on his passing that test"; "he got a pass in introductory chemistry"

8. ephemeral, passing, short-lived, transient, transitory, fugaciousadjective

   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"

9. passing(a), pass(a)adjective

   of advancing the ball by throwing it

   "a team with a good passing attack"; "a pass play"

10. passing(a)adjective

    allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily

    "a passing grade"

11. casual, cursory, passing(a), perfunctoryadverb

    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"

12. extremely, exceedingly, super, passingadverb

    to an extreme degree

    "extremely cold"; "extremely unpleasant"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. passingnoun

   Death, dying; the end of something.

2. passingnoun

   The fact of going past; a movement from one place to another or a change from one state to another.

3. passingnoun

   The act of approving a bill etc.

4. passingnoun

   The act of passing a ball etc. to another player.

5. passingnoun

   A form of juggling where several people pass props between each other, usually clubs or rings.

6. passingadverb

   Surpassingly, greatly.

7. passingadjective

   That passes away; ephemeral.

8. passingadjective

   Pre-eminent, excellent.

9. passingadjective

   vague, cursory.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Passing

   of Pass

2. Passingnoun

   the act of one who, or that which, passes; the act of going by or away

3. Passingadjective

   relating to the act of passing or going; going by, beyond, through, or away; departing

4. Passingadjective

   exceeding; surpassing, eminent

5. Passingadverb

   exceedingly; excessively; surpassingly; as, passing fair; passing strange

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Passing

   Passing is the ability of a person to be regarded as a member of social groups other than his or her own, such as a different race, ethnicity, social class, gender, intelligence, age and/or disability status, generally with the purpose of gaining social acceptance. This may take the form of changing only one group from the person's own, such as a person's dressing so as to pretend to be of a higher social class. Etymologically, the term is simply a clipped form of the phrasal verb pass for or pass as, as in a counterfeit passing for the genuine article or an impostor passing as another person. It has been in popular use since at least the late 1920s.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Passing

   pas′ing, adj. going by, through, or away: happening now: surpassing.—adv. exceedingly: very.—ns. Pass′ing-bell, a bell tolled immediately after a person's death, originally to invite prayers for the soul passing into eternity; Pass′ing-note (mus.), a smaller note marking a tone introduced between two others, to effect a smooth passage from the one to the other, but forming no essential part of the harmony.

Matched Categories

1. • End
   • Movement
   • Reordering

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'passing' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3659

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'passing' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3765

3. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'passing' in Adjectives Frequency: #910

How to pronounce passing?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say passing in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of passing in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of passing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of passing in a Sentence

1. Gretchen Borchelt:

   Once again, some members of Congress think politics -- not medical expertise or a woman's health -- should drive important health care decisions, passing an unconstitutional nationwide ban on later abortions does nothing to help women -- instead, it threatens their health and lives and interferes in their personal medical decisions.

2. President Barack Obama:

   I think (Garland) had a pretty good sense of the posture that Majority Leader McConnell took immediately after Justice Scalia's passing.

3. Cometan:

   The passing of Time is the greatest misconception of reparation.

4. William Butler Yeats:

   The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

5. Jesse Greenberg:

   I think one of the misconceptions out there is that a company like ours is somehow going gangbusters at the expense of this virus and that couldn't be farther than the truth, prices have gone up. We're not passing any of those costs on to our customers. In fact, many of the items we handle, we're selling at a loss.

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