passing
1. (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate (Freq. 7)
- the coach sent in a passing play on third and long
• Syn:
pass, passing play, passing game
• Derivationally related forms:
pass, pass (for: pass)
• Topics:
American football, American football game
• Hypernyms:
football play
• Hyponyms:
forward pass, aerial, lateral pass, lateral, spot pass
2. euphemistic expressions for death (Freq. 1)
- thousands mourned his passing
• Syn:
loss, departure, exit, expiration, going, release
• Derivationally related forms:
go (for: going), expire (for: expiration), exit (for: exit), depart (for: departure), pass
• Usage Domain:
euphemism
• Hypernyms:
death, decease, expiry
3. the motion of one object relative to another
- stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets
• Syn:
passage
• Derivationally related forms:
pass (for: passage), pass
• Hypernyms:
movement, motion
4. the end of something
- the passing of winter
• Derivationally related forms:
pass
• Hypernyms:
end, last, final stage
5. a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another
- the passage of air from the lungs
- the passing of flatus
• Syn:
passage
• Derivationally related forms:
pass
• Hypernyms:
reaction, response
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
• Derivationally related forms:
overtake (for: overtaking), pass
• Hypernyms:
reordering
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
• Derivationally related forms:
qualify (for: qualifying), pass
• Hypernyms:
success
1. lasting a very short time (Freq. 2)
- the ephemeral joys of childhood
- a passing fancy
- youth's transient beauty
- love is transitory but it is eternal
- fugacious blossoms
• Syn:
ephemeral, short-lived, transient, transitory, fugacious
• Similar to:
impermanent, temporary
• Derivationally related forms:
fugaciousness (for: fugacious), fugacity (for: fugacious), transitoriness (for: transitory), transient (for: transient), transiency (for: transient), transience (for: transient), ephemera (for: ephemeral), ephemeralness (for: ephemeral), ephemerality (for: ephemeral)
2. 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, perfunctory
• Similar to:
careless
• Derivationally related forms:
casualness (for: casual)
3. of advancing the ball by throwing it
- a team with a good passing attack
- a pass play
• Syn:
pass
• Ant:
running
• Topics:
football, football game
4. allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily
- a passing grade
• Similar to:
satisfactory
to an extreme degree
- extremely cold
- extremely unpleasant
• Syn:
extremely, exceedingly, super
• Derived from adjective:
extreme (for: extremely)
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