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Meaning of passing

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  passing
      adv 1: to an extreme degree; "extremely cold"; "extremely
             unpleasant" [syn: {extremely}, {exceedingly}, {super},
             {passing}]
      adj 1: lasting a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of
             childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient
             beauty"; "love is transitory but it is eternal";
             "fugacious blossoms" [syn: {ephemeral}, {passing},
             {short-lived}, {transient}, {transitory}, {fugacious}]
      2: 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)}]
      3: allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection)
         satisfactorily; "a passing grade"
      4: 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: (American football) a 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}, {passing}]
      2: euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his
         passing" [syn: {passing}, {loss}, {departure}, {exit},
         {expiration}, {going}, {release}]
      3: the motion of one object relative to another; "stellar
         passings can perturb the orbits of comets" [syn: {passing},
         {passage}]
      4: the end of something; "the passing of winter"
      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}, {passing}]
      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: {passing}, {overtaking}]
      7: success in satisfying a test or requirement; "his future
         depended on his passing that test"; "he got a pass in
         introductory chemistry" [syn: {passing}, {pass},
         {qualifying}] [ant: {failing}, {flunk}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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