passing adj

1 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" [syn: ephemeral, short-lived, transient, transitory, fugacious]

2 of advancing the ball by throwing it; "a team with a good passing attack"; "a pass play" [syn: passing(a), pass(a)] [ant: running(a)]

3 allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily; "a passing grade" [syn: passing(a)]

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" [syn: casual, cursory, passing(a), perfunctory]

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" [syn: pass, passing play, passing game]

2 euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing" [syn: loss, departure, exit, expiration, going, release]

3 the motion of one object relative to another; "stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets" [syn: passage]

4 the end of something; "the passing of winter"

5 a bodily process of passing from one place or stage to another; "the passage of air from the lungs"; "the passing of flatus" [syn: passage]

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" [syn: overtaking]

7 success in satisfying a test or requirement; "his future depended on his passing that test"; "he got a pass in introductory chemistry" [syn: pass, qualifying] [ant: failing] adv : to an extreme degree or extent; "his eyesight was exceedingly defective" [syn: exceedingly, extremely]

English

Pronunciation

Adverb

1. Surpassingly, greatly, quite.
   • 1995, William Patrick Kinsella, The Winter Helen Dropped By, chapter 1, excerpted in George Melnyk and Tamara Palmer Seiler (editors), The Wild Rose Anthology of Alberta Prose, University of Calgary Press (2003), ISBN 1552380793, page 155,

     “Every story,” Daddy said, “is about sex or death, or sometimes both.”

     “What about your baseball stories?” said I, thinking myself more than passing clever.

Noun

1. A death.

Verb

passing

1. present participle of pass

Pass(ing) may refer to:

Movement or route past an object

• Half-pass, a movement in dressage, in which the horse moves forward and sideways at the same time
• Mountain pass, a lower place in a mountain range allowing easier passage
• Pass, of a compiler, is a run of a code processor in a computer programming language compiler
• Pass (sleight of hand), a sleight of hand move
• The Pass, a sleight of hand move
• Making a pass, an attempt at romantic seduction
• First pass effect, a phenomenon of drug metabolism whereby the concentration of a drug is greatly reduced before it reaches the systemic circulation
• Passing or overtaking, when a faster vehicle moves in front of a slower one on a road
  • Passing lane, a lane on a road for use while overtaking
  • Passing loop, a section of double track on a single-line railway where trains can pass each other
• Passing feces, defecation
• Passing water, urination
• Passing, approval of a proposed law by a legislative body
• Passing away, a euphemism for dying
• Passing out, losing consciousness
• Passing out, graduation from a military academy
• Two pass verification or double data entry, a data entry quality control method

Permit

• Pass, a ticket for unlimited admission, discounts, etc
• Backstage pass, an employee pass for backstage areas of a performance venue
• Press pass or press card, a document granting special privilege or access to journalists
• Transit pass or bus pass, a ticket for unlimited travel on buses, trains etc
  • Eurail pass, a pass issued by Eurail Group for trains and buses in Europe
  • E-ZPass, an electronic toll collection system used on most tolled roads, bridges, and tunnels in the northeastern United States
  • Indrail Pass, a railway pass for Indian railways available to foreign nationals
  • I-PASS, an electronic toll-collection system used by the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority
  • Railroad Pass, a ticket that can be used to travel on a railroad
  • Universal Transit Pass or U-Pass, unlimited access to local transit for students
• Pass (United States military), permission for military personnel to be away from their unit for a short period in the U.S. military
• Pass laws, laws in apartheid South Africa designed to segregate the population and limit the movements of the non-white populace
• Hall pass, a token allowing a pupil to visit the restroom in school

Passing from one person or thing to another

• Buck passing, passing responsibility from one person to another
• Message passing, a form of communication in computer science
• Variational message passing, a mathematical technique for continuous-valued Bayesian networks
• Passing (sports), to pass the ball or puck between members of the same team
  • Passing (Association Football)
  • Passing (American football)
• Passing (juggling), when two or more people share a juggling pattern
• Token passing, a channel access method in telecommunications where a "token" authorizes nodes to communicate

Passing off or passing as

• Passing off, in law, presenting one product as another
• Passing (sociology), to present oneself off as a member of another sociological group, such as:
  • Passing (disability), a disabled person presenting themselves as not being disabled or as being less disabled than they really are
  • Passing (ethnic group), a member of one ethnic group presenting themselves as a member of another
  • Passing (gender), a person of one sex presenting themselves as a member of the opposite gender, or an intersexed person presenting themselves as a chosen gender
  • Passing (racial identity), a person of one race presenting themselves as a member of another
  • Passing (sexual orientation), a person of one sexual orientation presenting themselves as another
  • Passing (social class), a person of one social class presenting themselves as a member of another

Culture

Music

• All Things Must Pass, a triple album by George Harrison
• Far Away Trains Passing By, an album by Ulrich Schnauss
• "Is she not passing fair?", a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar
• "Like An Angel Passing Through My Room", a song by ABBA
• A Painter Passing Through, an album by Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot
• Pass The Flask, an album by post-hardcore band The Bled
• "Passing Afternoon", a single by band Iron and Wine
• "Passing By", a song written by Brian Wilson for the American pop band The Beach Boys
• The Ever Passing Moment, an album by MxPx
• A Passing Fancy, a Toronto band
• "Passing Friend", a song written by Boy George and Roy Hay, and recorded by The Beach Boys
• "Passing Strangers", an Ultravox single
• Passing Through (album), an album by American singer/songwriter Owen Temple
• Slip Stitch and Pass, a live album by Phish

Books

• A Dark Night's Passing, a novel by Japanese writer Shiga Naoya
• The Passing of the Armies, a Civil War memoir by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
• The Passing of the Great Race, a 1916 book of scientific racism by Madison Grant
• Passing (novel), a novel by Nella Larsen
• Passing Time in the Loo, a series of books of facts and trivia

Films and theatre

• The Passing of Hell's Crown, a 1916 Western film featuring Harry Carey
• Passing Glory, a baseball drama film
• Passing Parade, a long-running series of MGM short films
• Winter Passing, a 2005 American film written and directed by Adam Rapp
• The Passing Show of 1916, a Broadway musical revue
• The Passing Show of 1918, a Broadway musical revue

Television

• Passing Through Gethsemane, an episode from the science-fiction television series Babylon 5

Places

• Pass Christian, a city in Harrison County, Mississippi

People

• Joe Pass (Joseph Anthony Passalaqua, 1929–1994), jazz musician

See also

• Bypass (disambiguation)
• Parsing
• PASS (disambiguation)
• Passage (disambiguation)

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