Passing

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  • adjective. Moving by; going past.
  • adjective. Of brief duration; transitory.
  • adjective. Cursory or superficial; casual.
  • adjective. Allowing one to pass a test, course of study, inspection, or examination; satisfactory.
  • adjective. Extreme or great; surpassing.
  • adverb. Very; surpassingly.
  • noun. The act of one that passes or the fact of having passed.
  • noun. A place where or a means by which one can pass.
  • noun. Death.
  • idiom. (in passing) While going by; incidentally.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Surpassingly; wonderfully: exceedingly; very.
  • That is or are now happening; current: as, passing events; the passing hour.
  • Cursory; such as is done, given, etc., while one passes: as, a passing glance.
  • Fleeting; fading away.
  • Exceeding; surpassing; transcendent; egregious; eminent; extraordinary.
  • noun. The act of moving on or by; also, the act of departing; dying.
  • noun. Passage; ratification; enactment.
  • noun. A gold or silver thread or fine cord produced by twisting a flat and very small ribbon of the metal spirally around a silk thread. Passing is used in embroidery, in couched work, and the like, laid on the foundation and sewed to it with fine silk thread.
  • Exceeding; beyond; over.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Relating to the act of passing or going; going by, beyond, through, or away; departing.
  • adjective. Exceeding; surpassing, eminent.
  • adjective. a character including a passing tone.
  • adjective. 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.
  • noun. The act of one who, or that which, passes; the act of going by or away.
  • noun. 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.
  • adverb. Exceedingly; excessively; surpassingly
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. Present participle of pass.
  • noun. A form of juggling where several people pass props between each other, usually clubs or rings.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
  • noun. success in satisfying a test or requirement
  • adjective. of advancing the ball by throwing it
  • noun. the end of something
  • noun. the motion of one object relative to another
  • noun. a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another
  • adjective. allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily
  • adjective. lasting a very short time
  • noun. (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
  • adverb. to an extreme degree
  • noun. euphemistic expressions for death
  • noun. going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it
  • Word Usage
    "And now one had touched him so completely that a mere glance over her shoulder without a word passing between them had made him follow her."