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passing

English

  1. 🔊 lasting a very short time
    “the ephemeral joys of childhood”
  2. 🔊 success in satisfying a test or requirement
    “his future depended on his passing that test”
  3. 🔊 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”
  4. 🔊 the end of something
    “the passing of winter”
  5. 🔊 the motion of one object relative to another
    “stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets”
  6. 🔊 euphemistic expressions for death
    “thousands mourned his passing”
  7. 🔊 a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another
    “the passage of air from the lungs”
  8. 🔊 (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”
  9. 🔊 to an extraordinary degree
    “she was a surpassingly beautiful woman”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 de pasada passing
  2. 🔊 desenlace passing
  3. 🔊 pasatista passing
  4. 🔊 de quita y pon passing, fleeting
  5. 🔊 pasaje passing, crossing
  6. 🔊 traspaso passing, crossing
  7. 🔊 rebase passing, overtaking (e.g. of a vehicle)

Similar words

pass qualifying overtaking pass passing play passing game passage passage loss departure exit expiration going release ephemeral short-lived transient transitory fugacious surpassingly abandonment abrupt accidental accompanying