Etymology : Middle English, from Old French passer, from Vulgar Latin passare, from Latin passus step; more at PACE
Pronunciation : 'pas
Function : verb
Date : 13th century
1. going by, crossing; exit; death. going by; coming and going; momentary. adexceedingly, very; quite, extremely. passing\pass"ing\, adv. exceedingly; excessively; surpassingly; as, passing fair; passing strange. "you apprehend passing shrewdly."passing \pass"ing\ , n. the act of one who, or that which, passes; the act of going by or away.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. w. scott.passing \pass"ing\, a.
2. relating to the act of passing or going; going by, beyond, through, or away; departing.
3. exceeding; surpassing, eminent. "her passing deformity."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.passing adj.
4. 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].
5. moving by or going past; "the passing cars" [syn: passing(a) ].
6. (football) 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) ].
7. allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily; "a passing grade" [syn: passing(a) ].
8. 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: a football 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].
9. 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].
10. 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] to an extreme degree or extent; "his eyesight was exceedingly defective" [syn: exceedingly, extremely].
11. The act of one who, or that which, passes; the act of going by or away.
12. Relating to the act of passing or going; going by, beyond, through, or away; departing.
13. Exceeding; surpassing, eminent.
14. Exceedingly; excessively; surpassingly; as, passing fair; passing strange. success in satisfying a test or requirement; "his future depended on his passing that test"; "he got a pass in introductory chemistry" 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" the end of something; "the passing of winter" the motion of one object relative to another; "stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets" euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing".
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as, their vacation passed pleasantly.
20. 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.
21. 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.
22. To go through any inspection or test successfully; to be approved or accepted; as, he attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.
23. To be suffered to go on; to be tolerated; hence, to continue; to live along.
24. To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance or opposition; as, we let this act pass.
25. To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.
26. To go by, beyond, over, through, or the like; to proceed from one side to the other of; as, to pass a house, a stream, a boundary, etc.
27. To go from one limit to the other of; to spend; to live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
28. To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
29. To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
30. To go successfully through, as an examination, trail, test, etc.; to obtain the formal sanction of, as a legislative body; as, he passed his examination; the bill passed the senate.
31. To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another; to transmit; to deliver; to hand; to make over; as, the waiter passed bisquit and cheese; the torch was passed from hand to hand.
32. To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce; hence, to promise; to pledge; as, to pass sentence.
33. To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just; as, he passed the bill through the committee; the senate passed the law.
34. To put in circulation; to give currency to; as, to pass counterfeit money.
35. To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance; as, to pass a person into a theater, or over a railroad.
36. To emit from the bowels; to evacuate.
37. To take a turn with , as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
38. To make, as a thrust, punto, etc.
39. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier; a passageway; a defile; a ford; as, a mountain pass.
40. A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
41. A movement of the hand over or along anything; the manipulation of a mesmerist.
42. A single passage of a bar, rail, sheet, etc., between the rolls.
43. State of things; condition; predicament.
44. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come; a psssport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission; as, a railroad or theater pass; a military pass.
45. Fig.: a thrust; a sally of wit.
46. Estimation; character.
47. A part; a division.
48. In football, hockey, etc., a transfer of the ball, etc., to another player of one's side, usually at some distance.
49. In football, hockey, etc., to make pass; to transfer the ball, etc., to another player of one's own side. the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team; "the pass was fumbled" a flight or run by an aircraft over a target; "the plane turned to make a second pass" a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate; "the coach sent in a passing play on third and long" a complementary ticket; "the start got passes for his family" a permit to enter or leave a military installation; "he had to show his pass in order to get out" a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions; "the media representatives had special passes" any authorization to pass or go somewhere; "the pass to visit had a strict time limit" one complete cycle of operations ; "it was not possible to complete the computation in a single pass" a difficult juncture; "a pretty pass"; "matters came to a head yesterday" the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks; "we got through the pass before it started to snow" a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs a written leave of absence; "he had a pass for three days" travel past; "The sports car passed all the trucks" go across or through; "We passed the point where the police car had parked"; "A terrible thought went through his mind" cause to pass; "She passed around the plates" transfer to another; of rights or property; "Our house passed under his official control" place into the hands or custody of; "hand me the spoon, please"; "Turn the files over to me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers" throw to another player; "Smith passed" allow to go without comment or censure; "the insult passed as if unnoticed" go unchallenged; be approved; "The bill cleared the House" accept or judge as acceptable; "The teacher passed the student although he was weak" go successfully through a test or a selection process; "She passed the new Jersey Bar Exam and can practice law now" be identified, regarded, accepted, or mistaken for someone or something else; as by denying one's own ancestry or background; "He could pass as his twin brother"; "She passed as a White woman even though her grandfather was Black".
50. 1. A passing fashion, activity, or feeling lasts for only a short period of time and is not worth taking very seriously. Hamnett does not believe environmental concern is a passing fad ¡Ù lasting.
51. The passing of something such as a time or system is the fact of its coming to an end. It was an historic day, yet its passing was not marked by the slightest excitement.
52. You can refer to someone's death as their passing, if you want to avoid using the word `death' because you think it might upset or offend people. His passing will be mourned by many people.
53. The passing of a period of time is the fact or process of its going by. The passing of time brought a sense of emptiness = passage.
54. A passing mention or reference is brief and is made while you are talking or writing about something else. It was just a passing comment, he didn't go on about it = casual see also:
pass.
55. If you mention something in passing, you mention it briefly while you are talking or writing about something else. The army is only mentioned in passing. = incidentally.
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