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Passing
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- 1 That passes away; ephemeral.
"And solace sought he none from priest nor leech, / And soon the same in movement and in speech / As heretofore he fill'd the passing hours […]"
- 2 Pre-eminent, excellent, extreme. archaic, literary
"her passing deformity"
- 3 Vague, cursory.
"to make a passing comment"
- 4 Going past.
"passing cars"
- 5 That passes in any sense.
"a passing transsexual"
- 1 hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough wordnet
- 2 of advancing the ball by throwing it wordnet
- 3 lasting a very short time wordnet
- 4 allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily wordnet
- 1 Surpassingly, greatly. archaic, literary, not-comparable
"[...] for she was called a fair lady, and a passing wise, and her name was called Igraine."
- 1 to an extraordinary degree wordnet
- 1 Death, dying; the end of something. countable, uncountable
- 2 success in satisfying a test or requirement wordnet
- 3 The fact of going past; a movement from one place to another or a change from one state to another. countable, uncountable
"And since he did not see Louie by the folding door, Louie knew that in his former passings and repassings he could not have seen her either."
- 4 going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it wordnet
- 5 The act of approving a bill etc. countable, uncountable
"But capital was proving difficult to raise; rumours were in the air that the G.W.R. and L.S.W.R. were about to patch up their quarrel, and the people of Southampton, who twelve months earlier had staged a torch-light procession to celebrate the passing of the D.N.S.R. Act, were increasingly loath to part with their cash."
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- 6 (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate wordnet
- 7 The act of passing a ball etc. to another player. countable, uncountable
- 8 a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another wordnet
- 9 A form of juggling where several people pass props between each other, usually clubs or rings. countable, uncountable
- 10 the end of something wordnet
- 11 The ability of a person to be regarded as a member of an identity group or category different from their own. countable, uncountable
"When there is a discrepancy between an individual's actual social identity and his virtual one, it is possible for this fact to be known to us before we normals contact him, or to be quite evident when he presents himself before us. He is a discredited person, and it is mainly he I have been dealing with until now. … However, when his differentness is not immediately apparent, and is not known beforehand, … he is a discreditable, not a discredited person …. The issue is … that of managing information about his failing. To display or not to display; to tell or not to tell; to let on or not to let on; to lie or not to lie; and in each case, to whom, how, when, and where. … It is this second general issue, the management of undisclosed discrediting information about self, that I am focusing on in these notes - in brief, 'passing'."
- 12 the motion of one object relative to another wordnet
- 13 euphemistic expressions for death wordnet
- 1 present participle and gerund of pass form-of, gerund, participle, present
Etymology
From pass + -ing.
From pass + -ing.
From pass + -ing.
From pass + -ing.
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