passing

Meanings

• (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"
• euphemistic expressions for death
  • "thousands mourned his passing"
• the motion of one object relative to another
  • "stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets"
• the end of something
  • "the passing of winter"
• a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another
  • "the passing of flatus"
• 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"
• success in satisfying a test or requirement
  • "his future depended on his passing that test"
• go across or through
• move past
• make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation
• pass by
• place into the hands or custody of
• stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
• travel past
• come to pass
• go unchallenged; be approved
• pass time in a specific way
• pass over, across, or through
• transmit information
• disappear gradually
• go successfully through a test or a selection process
• be superior or better than some standard
• accept or judge as acceptable
• allow to go without comment or censure
• transfer to another; of rights or property
• pass into a specified state or condition
• throw (a ball) to another player
• be inherited by
• cause to pass
• grant authorization or clearance for
• pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
• eliminate from the body
• lasting a very short time
  • "a passing fancy"
• of advancing the ball by throwing it
  • "a team with a good passing attack"
• allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily
  • "a passing grade"
• hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
  • "a passing glance"
• to an extreme degree

Synonyms

authorise, authorize, blow over, buy the farm, cash in one's chips, casual, choke, clear, come about, communicate, conk, croak, cursory, decease, departure, devolve, die, draw, drop dead, egest, elapse, eliminate, ephemeral, evanesce, exceed, exceedingly, excrete, exit, expiration, expire, extend, extremely, fade, fall, fall out, fleet, fugacious, give, give-up the ghost, glide by, go, go across, go along, go by, go on, go past, go through, going, guide, hand, hap, happen, kick the bucket, lapse, lead, legislate, loss, make it, make pass, occur, overhaul, overstep, overtake, overtaking, pass, pass along, pass away, pass by, pass off, pass on, passage, passing game, passing play, perfunctory, perish, pop off, put across, qualifying, reach, release, return, run, short-lived, sink, slide by, slip away, slip by, snuff it, spend, super, surpass, take place, top, transcend, transient, transitory, travel by, turn over