Overview of noun passing

The noun passing has 7 senses

• pass, passing play, passing game, passing -- ((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")


• passing, loss, departure, exit, expiration, going, release -- (euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing")


• passing, passage -- (the motion of one object relative to another; "stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets")


• passing -- (the end of something; "the passing of winter")


• passage, passing -- (a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another; "the passage of air from the lungs"; "the passing of flatus")


• passing, overtaking -- (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")


• passing, pass, qualifying -- (success in satisfying a test or requirement; "his future depended on his passing that test"; "he got a pass in introductory chemistry")

Overview of verb pass

The verb pass has 25 senses

• pass, go through, go across -- (go across or through; "We passed the point where the police car had parked"; "A terrible thought went through his mind")


• travel by, pass by, surpass, go past, go by, pass -- (move past; "A black limousine passed by when she looked out the window"; "He passed his professor in the hall"; "One line of soldiers surpassed the other")


• legislate, pass -- (make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation; "They passed the amendment"; "We cannot legislate how people spend their free time")


• elapse, lapse, pass, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go along -- (pass by; "three years elapsed")


• pass, hand, reach, pass on, turn over, give -- (place into the hands or custody of; "hand me the spoon, please"; "Turn the files over to me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers")


• run, go, pass, lead, extend -- (stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point; "Service runs all the way to Cranbury"; "His knowledge doesn't go very far"; "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life"; "The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets")


• pass, overtake, overhaul -- (travel past; "The sports car passed all the trucks")


• happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place -- (come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important")


• pass, clear -- (go unchallenged; be approved; "The bill cleared the House")


• spend, pass -- (pass time in a specific way; "how are you spending your summer vacation?")


• guide, run, draw, pass -- (pass over, across, or through; "He ran his eyes over her body"; "She ran her fingers along the carved figurine"; "He drew her hair through his fingers")


• communicate, pass on, pass, pass along, put across -- (transmit information ; "Please communicate this message to all employees"; "pass along the good news")


• evanesce, fade, blow over, pass off, fleet, pass -- (disappear gradually; "The pain eventually passed off")


• pass, make it -- (go successfully through a test or a selection process; "She passed the new Jersey Bar Exam and can practice law now")


• exceed, transcend, overstep, pass, go past, top -- (be superior or better than some standard; "She exceeded our expectations"; "She topped her performance of last year")


• pass -- (accept or judge as acceptable; "The teacher passed the student although he was weak")


• pass -- (allow to go without comment or censure; "the insult passed as if unnoticed")


• pass -- (transfer to another; of rights or property; "Our house passed under his official control")


• sink, pass, lapse -- (pass into a specified state or condition; "He sank into nirvana")


• pass -- (throw (a ball) to another player; "Smith passed")


• fall, return, pass, devolve -- (be inherited by; "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead")


• pass, make pass -- (cause to pass; "She passed around the plates")


• authorize, authorise, pass, clear -- (grant authorization or clearance for; "Clear the manuscript for publication"; "The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography")


• die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it -- (pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102")


• excrete, egest, eliminate, pass -- (eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone")

Overview of adj passing

The adj passing has 4 senses

• ephemeral, passing, short-lived, transient, transitory, fugacious -- (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")


• passing, pass -- (of advancing the ball by throwing it; "a team with a good passing attack"; "a pass play")


• passing -- (allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily; "a passing grade")


• casual, cursory, passing, perfunctory -- (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")

Overview of adv passing

The adv passing has 1 sense

• extremely, exceedingly, super, passing -- (to an extreme degree; "extremely cold"; "extremely unpleasant")