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English to English adjective
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of advancing the ball by throwing it |  | Example: a team with a good passing attack
a pass play
source: wordnet30
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Relating to the act of passing or going; going by, beyond, through, or away; departing. | | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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lasting a very short time | | Example: the ephemeral joys of childhood
a passing fancy
youth's transient beauty
love is transitory but it is eternal
fugacious blossoms
source: wordnet30
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allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily | | Example: a passing grade
source: wordnet30
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hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | | Example: a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws
a passing glance
perfunctory courtesy
source: wordnet30 adverb
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to an extreme degree | | Example: extremely cold
extremely unpleasant
source: wordnet30
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Exceedingly; excessively; surpassingly; as, passing fair; passing strange. | | source: webster1913 noun
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(American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate | | Example: the coach sent in a passing play on third and long
source: wordnet30
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euphemistic expressions for death | | Example: thousands mourned his passing
source: wordnet30
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the motion of one object relative to another | | Example: stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets
source: wordnet30
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the end of something | | Example: the passing of winter
source: wordnet30
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a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another | | Example: the passage of air from the lungs
the passing of flatus
source: wordnet30
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going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it | | Example: she drove but well but her reckless passing of every car on the road frightened me
source: wordnet30
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success in satisfying a test or requirement | | Example: his future depended on his passing that test
he got a pass in introductory chemistry
source: wordnet30
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The act of one who, or that which, passes; the act of going by or away. | | source: webster1913
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