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Meaning of passing
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
passing
adv 1: to an extreme degree; "extremely cold"; "extremely
unpleasant" [syn: {extremely}, {exceedingly}, {super},
{passing}]
adj 1: 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" [syn: {ephemeral}, {passing},
{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"
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}]
n 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}, {passing}]
2: euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his
passing" [syn: {passing}, {loss}, {departure}, {exit},
{expiration}, {going}, {release}]
3: the motion of one object relative to another; "stellar
passings can perturb the orbits of comets" [syn: {passing},
{passage}]
4: the end of something; "the passing of winter"
5: a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to
another; "the passage of air from the lungs"; "the passing of
flatus" [syn: {passage}, {passing}]
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: {passing}, {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: {passing}, {pass},
{qualifying}] [ant: {failing}, {flunk}]
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