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passing [a]
 
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"
    Synonyms :ephemeral fugacious short-lived transient transitory 
    See Also: impermanent 
 
2)of advancing the ball by throwing it; "a team with a good passing attack"; "a pass play"
    Synonyms :pass 
    See Also: football  running 
 
3)allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily; "a passing grade"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: satisfactory 
 
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"
    Synonyms :casual cursory perfunctory 
    See Also: careless 
 
passing [r]
 
1)to an extreme degree or extent; "his eyesight was exceedingly defective"
    Synonyms :exceedingly extremely 
    See Also: extreme  exceeding 
 
passing [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"
    Synonyms :pass passing_game passing_play 
    See Also: football_play  american_football  pass  aerial  lateral  spot_pass 
 
2)euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing"
    Synonyms :departure exit expiration going loss release 
    See Also: death  decease  depart  depart  depart 
 
3)the motion of one object relative to another; "stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets"
    Synonyms :passage 
    See Also: motion  overhaul 
 
4)the end of something; "the passing of winter"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: end  blow_over 
 
5)a bodily process of passing from one place or stage to another; "the passage of air from the lungs"; "the passing of flatus"
    Synonyms :passage 
    See Also: reaction  egest 
 
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"
    Synonyms :overtaking 
    See Also: reordering  overhaul  catch 
 
7)success in satisfying a test or requirement; "his future depended on his passing that test"; "he got a pass in introductory chemistry"
    Synonyms :pass qualifying 
    See Also: success  measure_up  make_it  pass  failing 
 




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