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Noun: passing pãsing- (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"
- pass, passing play, passing game - Euphemistic expressions for death
"thousands mourned his passing"
- loss, departure, exit, expiration, going, release - The motion of one object relative to another
"stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets"
- passage - The end of something
"the passing of winter" - A bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another
"the passing of flatus"
- passage - 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"
- overtaking - Success in satisfying a test or requirement
"his future depended on his passing that test"
- pass, qualifying
Adjective: passing pãsing- Lasting a very short time
"a passing fancy"
- ephemeral, short-lived, transient, transitory, fugacious, here today gone tomorrow, here today and gone tomorrow - Of advancing the ball by throwing it
"a team with a good passing attack"
- pass - Allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily
"a passing grade" - Hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
"a passing inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance"
- casual, cursory, perfunctory
Adverb: passing pãsing- To an extreme degree
- extremely, exceedingly, super
Verb: pass pãs- Go across or through
"We passed the point where the police car had parked"
- go through, go across - Move past
"A black limousine passed by when she looked out the window"; "He passed his professor in the hall"
- travel by, pass by, surpass, go past, go by - Make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation
"They passed the amendment"
- legislate - Pass by
- elapse, lapse, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go along - Place into the hands or custody of
- hand, reach, pass on, turn over, give - Stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- run, go, lead, extend - Travel past
"The sports car passed all the trucks"
- overtake, overhaul - Come to pass
- happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, fall out, come about, take place - Go unchallenged; be approved
- clear - Pass time in a specific way
- spend - Pass over, across, or through
- guide, run, draw - Transmit information
"pass along the good news"
- communicate, pass on, pass along, put across - Disappear gradually
"The pain eventually passed off"
- evanesce, fade, blow over, pass off, fleet - Go successfully through a test or a selection process
"She passed the new Jersey Bar Exam and can practice law now"
- make it, make the grade [N. Amer] - Be superior or better than some standard
- exceed, transcend, overstep, go past, top - Accept or judge as acceptable
"The teacher passed the student although he was weak" - Allow to go without comment or censure
"the insult passed as if unnoticed" - Transfer to another; of rights or property
"Our house passed under his official control" - Pass into a specified state or condition
- sink, lapse - Throw (a ball) to another player
"Smith passed" - Be inherited by
- fall, return, devolve - Cause to pass
"She passed around the plates"
- make pass - Grant authorization or clearance for
- authorize, authorise [Brit], clear - Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm [N. Amer], conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it, pop one's clogs - Eliminate from the body
"Pass a kidney stone"
- excrete, egest, eliminate
Derived forms: passings See also: careless, impermanent, pass around, pass on, pass over, passage, passer, satisfactory, temporary Type of: advance, allow, be, bring home the bacon, change, change hands, change owners, change state, come through, communicate, convey, countenance, death, decease, deliver the goods, disappear, discharge, eject, enact, end, evaluate, excel, exhaust, expel, expiry, final stage, football play, go, go away, go on, judge, last, let, locomote, march on, motion, move, move on, movement, ordain, pass judgment, pass on, permit, progress, reaction, release, reordering, response, stand out, succeed, success, surpass, throw, transfer, transmit, travel, turn, vanish, win Antonym: fail, failing, running Encyclopedia: Pass Passing |