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by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

noun

  • American football. ( a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate)
    • usage: "the coach sent in a passing play on third and long"
  • Euphemistic expressions for death.
    • usage: "thousands mourned his passing"
  • The motion of one object relative to another.
    • usage: "stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets"
  • The end of something.
    • usage: "the passing of winter"
  • A bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another.
    • usage: "the passage of air from the lungs"; "the passing of flatus"
  • Going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it.
    • usage: "she drove but well but her reckless passing of every car on the road frightened me"
  • Success in satisfying a test or requirement.
    • usage: "his future depended on his passing that test"; "he got a pass in introductory chemistry"

verb

  • Go across or through.
    • usage: "We passed the point where the police car had parked"; "A terrible thought went through his mind"
  • Move past.
    • usage: "A black limousine passed by when she looked out the window"; "He passed his professor in the hall"; "One line of soldiers surpassed the other"
  • Make laws, bills, etc. Or bring into effect by legislation.
    • usage: "They passed the amendment"; "We cannot legislate how people spend their free time"
  • Pass by.
    • usage: "three years elapsed"
  • Place into the hands or custody of.
    • usage: "hand me the spoon, please"; "Turn the files over to me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers"
  • Stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point.
    • usage: "Service runs all the way to Cranbury"; "His knowledge doesn't go very far"; "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life"; "The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets"
  • Travel past.
    • usage: "The sports car passed all the trucks"
  • Come to pass.
    • usage: "What is happening"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"
  • Go unchallenged; be approved.
    • usage: "The bill cleared the House"
  • Pass time in a specific way.
    • usage: "how are you spending your summer vacation"
  • Pass over, across, or through.
    • usage: "He ran his eyes over her body"; "She ran her fingers along the carved figurine"; "He drew her hair through his fingers"
  • Transmit information .
    • usage: "Please communicate this message to all employees"; "pass along the good news"
  • Disappear gradually.
    • usage: "The pain eventually passed off"
  • Go successfully through a test or a selection process.
    • usage: "She passed the new Jersey Bar Exam and can practice law now"
  • Be superior or better than some standard.
    • usage: "She exceeded our expectations"; "She topped her performance of last year"
  • Accept or judge as acceptable.
    • usage: "The teacher passed the student although he was weak"
  • Allow to go without comment or censure.
    • usage: "the insult passed as if unnoticed"
  • Transfer to another; of rights or property.
    • usage: "Our house passed under his official control"
  • Pass into a specified state or condition.
    • usage: "He sank into nirvana"
  • Throw (a ball) to another player.
    • usage: "Smith passed"
  • Be inherited by.
    • usage: "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead"
  • Cause to pass.
    • usage: "She passed around the plates"
  • Grant authorization or clearance for.
    • usage: "Clear the manuscript for publication"; "The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography"
  • Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life.
    • usage: "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"
  • Eliminate from the body.
    • usage: "Pass a kidney stone"

adjective

  • Lasting a very short time.
    • usage: "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but it is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms"
  • Of advancing the ball by throwing it.
    • usage: "a team with a good passing attack"; "a pass play"
  • Allowing you to pass (e. G., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily.
    • usage: "a passing grade"
  • Hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough.
    • usage: "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy"

adverb

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