Passing

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pass \Pass\ (p[.a]s, p[a^]s), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Passed}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Passing}.] [F. passer, LL. passare, fr. L.
     passus step, or from pandere, passum, to spread out, lay
     open. See {Pace}.]
     1. To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred
        from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually


        with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the
        kind or manner of motion; as, to pass on, by, out, in,
        etc.; to pass swiftly, directly, smoothly, etc.; to pass
        to the rear, under the yoke, over the bridge, across the
        field, beyond the border, etc. "But now pass over [i. e.,
        pass on]." --Chaucer.
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              On high behests his angels to and fro
              Passed frequent.                      --Milton.
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              Sweet sounds rose slowly through their mouths,
              And from their bodies passed.         --Coleridge.
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     2. To move or be transferred from one state or condition to
        another; to change possession, condition, or
        circumstances; to undergo transition; as, the business has
        passed into other hands.
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              Others, dissatisfied with what they have, . . . pass
              from just to unjust.                  --Sir W.
                                                    Temple.
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     3. To move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge; to
        pass away; hence, to disappear; to vanish; to depart;
        specifically, to depart from life; to die.
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              Disturb him not, let him pass paceably. --Shak.
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              Beauty is a charm, but soon the charm will pass.
                                                    --Dryden.
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              The passing of the sweetest soul
              That ever looked with human eyes.     --Tennyson.
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     4. To move or to come into being or under notice; to come and
        go in consciousness; hence, to take place; to occur; to
        happen; to come; to occur progressively or in succession;
        to be present transitorily.
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              So death passed upon all men.         --Rom. v. 12.
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              Our own consciousness of what passes within our own
              mind.                                 --I. Watts.
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     5. To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as,
        their vacation passed pleasantly.
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              Now the time is far passed.           --Mark vi. 35
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     6. To go from one person to another; hence, to be given and
        taken freely; as, clipped coin will not pass; to obtain
        general acceptance; to be held or regarded; to circulate;
        to be current; -- followed by for before a word denoting
        value or estimation. "Let him pass for a man." --Shak.
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              False eloquence passeth only where true is not
              understood.                           --Felton.
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              This will not pass for a fault in him. --Atterbury.
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     7. To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to
        validity or effectiveness; to be carried through a body
        that has power to sanction or reject; to receive
        legislative sanction; to be enacted; as, the resolution
        passed; the bill passed both houses of Congress.
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     8. To go through any inspection or test successfully; to be
        approved or accepted; as, he attempted the examination,
        but did not expect to pass.
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     9. To be suffered to go on; to be tolerated; hence, to
        continue; to live along. "The play may pass." --Shak.
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     10. To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance
         or opposition; as, we let this act pass.
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     11. To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess. [Obs.]
         "This passes, Master Ford." --Shak.
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     12. To take heed; to care. [Obs.]
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               As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not.
                                                    --Shak.
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     13. To go through the intestines. --Arbuthnot.
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     14. (Law) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or
         other instrument of conveyance; as, an estate passes by a
         certain clause in a deed. --Mozley & W.
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     15. (Fencing) To make a lunge or pass; to thrust.
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     16. (Card Playing) To decline to play in one's turn; in
         euchre, to decline to make the trump.
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               She would not play, yet must not pass. --Prior.
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     {To bring to pass}, {To come to pass}. See under {Bring}, and
        {Come}.
  
     {To pass away}, to disappear; to die; to vanish. "The heavens
        shall pass away." --2 Pet. iii. 10. "I thought to pass
        away before, but yet alive I am." --Tennyson.
  
     {To pass by}, to go near and beyond a certain person or
        place; as, he passed by as we stood there.
  
     {To pass into}, to change by a gradual transmission; to blend
        or unite with.
  
     {To pass on}, to proceed.
  
     {To pass on} or {To pass upon}.
         (a) To happen to; to come upon; to affect. "So death
             passed upon all men." --Rom. v. 12. "Provided no
             indirect act pass upon our prayers to define them."
             --Jer. Taylor.
         (b) To determine concerning; to give judgment or sentence
             upon. "We may not pass upon his life." --Shak.
  
     {To pass off}, to go away; to cease; to disappear; as, an
        agitation passes off.
  
     {To pass over}, to go from one side or end to the other; to
        cross, as a river, road, or bridge.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Passing \Pass"ing\, n.
     The act of one who, or that which, passes; the act of going
     by or away.
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     {Passing bell}, a tolling of a bell to announce that a soul
        is passing, or has passed, from its body (formerly done to
        invoke prayers for the dying); also, a tolling during the
        passing of a funeral procession to the grave, or during
        funeral ceremonies. --Sir W. Scott. --Longfellow.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Passing \Pass"ing\, a.
     1. Relating to the act of passing or going; going by, beyond,
        through, or away; departing.
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     2. Exceeding; surpassing, eminent. --Chaucer. "Her passing
        deformity." --Shak.
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     {Passing note} (Mus.), a character including a passing tone.
        
  
     {Passing tone} (Mus.), a tone introduced between two other
        tones, on an unaccented portion of a measure, for the sake
        of smoother melody, but forming no essential part of the
        harmony.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Passing \Pass"ing\, adv.
     Exceedingly; excessively; surpassingly; as, passing fair;
     passing strange. "You apprehend passing shrewdly." --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  passing
       adj 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" [syn: {ephemeral}, {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" [syn: {passing(a)}]
       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}]
       2: euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his
          passing" [syn: {loss}, {departure}, {exit}, {expiration},
          {going}, {release}]
       3: the motion of one object relative to another; "stellar
          passings can perturb the orbits of comets" [syn: {passage}]
       4: the end of something; "the passing of winter"
       5: a bodily process of passing from one place or stage to
          another; "the passage of air from the lungs"; "the passing
          of flatus" [syn: {passage}]
       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: {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: {pass}, {qualifying}] [ant:
          {failing}]
       adv : to an extreme degree or extent; "his eyesight was
             exceedingly defective" [syn: {exceedingly}, {extremely}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  280 Moby Thesaurus words for "passing":
     abandonment, abrupt, accidental, accompanying, act, ado, advance,
     advancement, afloat, afoot, aggrandizement, ambulant, ambulative,
     ambulatory, annihilation, ascending, axial, back, back-flowing,
     backward, bane, biological death, blackout, blocking, boost, brief,
     brittle, by the by, by the way, capricious, casual,
     cessation of life, changeable, circuit-riding, circumstantial,
     clinical death, concurrent resolution, constitution, corruptible,
     crossing the bar, current, cursory, curtains, death, death knell,
     debt of nature, decampment, decease, deciduous, dematerialization,
     demise, departure, descending, disappearance, disappearing,
     dismissive, dispersion, dissipation, dissolution, dissolving,
     doing, doom, down-trending, downward, drifting, dying, ebb of life,
     eclipse, egress, elevation, elimination, en passant, enaction,
     enactment, end, end of life, ending, ennoblement, ephemeral,
     erasure, escape, eternal rest, evacuation, evanescence, evanescent,
     evaporating, evaporation, eventuating, exaltation, exit, exodus,
     expeditionary, expeditious, expiration, expiring, expiry,
     extinction, extinguishment, fadeaway, fadeout, fading, festinate,
     feverish, fickle, final summons, finger of death, fleeting, flight,
     flitting, flowing, fluent, fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail,
     fugacious, fugitive, furious, getaway, glancing, globe-girdling,
     globe-trotting, going, going off, going on, graduation, grave,
     gyrational, gyratory, hand of death, happening, hasty, hegira,
     hurried, immediate, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, in hand,
     in passing, in the wind, incidental, incidentally, inconstant,
     instant, insubstantial, itinerant, itinerary, jaws of death,
     joint resolution, journeying, knell, knighting, last debt,
     last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, last-minute,
     lawmaking, leaving, leaving life, legislation, legislature,
     locomotive, loss, loss of life, making an end, melting, momentary,
     mortal, mounting, moving, mundivagant, mutable, nondurable,
     nonpermanent, occasional, occultation, occurring, on, on foot,
     on the spot, on tour, ongoing, parenthetically, parting, passage,
     passing away, passing over, pay raise, pedestrian, perambulating,
     perambulatory, peregrinative, peregrine, peripatetic, perishable,
     perishing, pilgrimlike, plunging, preferment, prevailing,
     prevalent, progressing, progressive, promotion, prompt, quick,
     quietus, raise, reflowing, refluent, regressive, release, removal,
     resolution, rest, resultant, retirement, retreat, retrogressive,
     reward, rise, rising, rotary, rotational, rotatory, running,
     rushing, sentence of death, shades of death, shadow of death,
     short-lived, sideward, silence, sinking, slap-bang, slapdash,
     sleep, slipping away, snap, soaring, somatic death, speedy,
     streaming, strolling, summary, summons of death, superficial,
     swift, taking place, temporal, temporary, touring, touristic,
     touristy, transient, transitional, transitive, transitory,
     traveling, trekking, under way, undurable, unenduring, unstable,
     up-trending, upgrading, upping, upward, urgent, vanishing,
     vanishing point, volatile, walking, walkout, wayfaring, wipe,
     withdrawal