[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

pass \pass\ p.as, pa^s, v. i. imp.  p. p. passed; p.
   pr.  vb. n. passing. f. passer, ll. passare, fr. l.
   passus step, or from pandere, passum, to spread out, lay
   open. see pace.
   1. 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. "but now pass over i. e.,
      pass on." --chaucer.
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            on high behests his angels to and fro
            passed frequent.                      --milton.
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            sweet sounds rose slowly through their mouths,
            and from their bodies passed.         --coleridge.
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   2. 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.
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            others, dissatisfied with what they have, . . . pass
            from just to unjust.                  --sir w.
                                                  temple.
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   3. 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.
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            disturb him not, let him pass paceably. --shak.
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            beauty is a charm, but soon the charm will pass.
                                                  --dryden.
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            the passing of the sweetest soul
            that ever looked with human eyes.     --tennyson.
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   4. 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.
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            so death passed upon all men.         --rom. v. 12.
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            our own consciousness of what passes within our own
            mind.                                 --i. watts.
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   5. to go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as,
      their vacation passed pleasantly.
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            now the time is far passed.           --mark vi. 35
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   6. 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. "let him pass for a man." --shak.
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            false eloquence passeth only where true is not
            understood.                           --felton.
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            this will not pass for a fault in him. --atterbury.
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   7. 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.
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   8. to go through any inspection or test successfully; to be
      approved or accepted; as, he attempted the examination,
      but did not expect to pass.
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   9. to be suffered to go on; to be tolerated; hence, to
      continue; to live along. "the play may pass." --shak.
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   10. to go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance
       or opposition; as, we let this act pass.
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   11. to go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess. obs.
       "this passes, master ford." --shak.
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   12. to take heed; to care. obs.
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             as for these silken-coated slaves, i pass not.
                                                  --shak.
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   13. to go through the intestines. --arbuthnot.
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   14. law to be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or
       other instrument of conveyance; as, an estate passes by a
       certain clause in a deed. --mozley  w.
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   15. fencing to make a lunge or pass; to thrust.
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   16. card playing to decline to play in one's turn; in
       euchre, to decline to make the trump.
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             she would not play, yet must not pass. --prior.
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   to bring to pass, to come to pass. see under bring, and
      come.

   to pass away, to disappear; to die; to vanish. "the heavens
      shall pass away." --2 pet. iii. 10. "i thought to pass
      away before, but yet alive i am." --tennyson.

   to pass by, to go near and beyond a certain person or
      place; as, he passed by as we stood there.

   to pass into, to change by a gradual transmission; to blend
      or unite with.

   to pass on, to proceed.

   to pass on or to pass upon.
       a to happen to; to come upon; to affect. "so death
           passed upon all men." --rom. v. 12. "provided no
           indirect act pass upon our prayers to define them."
           --jer. taylor.
       b to determine concerning; to give judgment or sentence
           upon. "we may not pass upon his life." --shak.

   to pass off, to go away; to cease; to disappear; as, an
      agitation passes off.

   to pass over, to go from one side or end to the other; to
      cross, as a river, road, or bridge.
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see also:
passed passing pace to bring to pass to come to pass bring 
come to pass away to pass by to pass into to pass on 
to pass upon to pass off to pass over 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

passing \pass"ing\, n.
   the act of one who, or that which, passes; the act of going
   by or away.
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   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. --sir w. scott. --longfellow.
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see also:
passing bell 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

passing \pass"ing\, a.
   1. relating to the act of passing or going; going by, beyond,
      through, or away; departing.
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   2. exceeding; surpassing, eminent. --chaucer. "her passing
      deformity." --shak.
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   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.
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see also:
passing note passing tone 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

passing \pass"ing\, adv.
   exceedingly; excessively; surpassingly; as, passing fair;
   passing strange. "you apprehend passing shrewdly." --shak.
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[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

passing
     adj 1: 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
     2: of advancing the ball by throwing it; "a team with a good
        passing attack"; "a pass play" syn: passinga, passa
        ant: runninga
     3: allowing you to pass e.g., an examination or inspection
        satisfactorily; "a passing grade" syn: passinga
     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, passinga,
         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
     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
     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
     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
     adv : to an extreme degree or extent; "his eyesight was
           exceedingly defective" syn: exceedingly, extremely
see also:
ephemeral short-lived transient transitory fugacious passinga 
passa runninga casual cursory perfunctory 
pass passing play passing game loss departure 
exit expiration going release passage 
overtaking qualifying failing exceedingly extremely 

[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

280 moby thesaurus words for "passing":
   abandonment, abrupt, accidental, accompanying, act, ado, advance,
   advancement, afloat, afoot, aggrandizement, ambulant, ambulative,
   ambulatory, annihilation, ascending, axial, back, back-flowing,
   backward, bane, biological death, blackout, blocking, boost, brief,
   brittle, by the by, by the way, capricious, casual,
   cessation of life, changeable, circuit-riding, circumstantial,
   clinical death, concurrent resolution, constitution, corruptible,
   crossing the bar, current, cursory, curtains, death, death knell,
   debt of nature, decampment, decease, deciduous, dematerialization,
   demise, departure, descending, disappearance, disappearing,
   dismissive, dispersion, dissipation, dissolution, dissolving,
   doing, doom, down-trending, downward, drifting, dying, ebb of life,
   eclipse, egress, elevation, elimination, en passant, enaction,
   enactment, end, end of life, ending, ennoblement, ephemeral,
   erasure, escape, eternal rest, evacuation, evanescence, evanescent,
   evaporating, evaporation, eventuating, exaltation, exit, exodus,
   expeditionary, expeditious, expiration, expiring, expiry,
   extinction, extinguishment, fadeaway, fadeout, fading, festinate,
   feverish, fickle, final summons, finger of death, fleeting, flight,
   flitting, flowing, fluent, fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail,
   fugacious, fugitive, furious, getaway, glancing, globe-girdling,
   globe-trotting, going, going off, going on, graduation, grave,
   gyrational, gyratory, hand of death, happening, hasty, hegira,
   hurried, immediate, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, in hand,
   in passing, in the wind, incidental, incidentally, inconstant,
   instant, insubstantial, itinerant, itinerary, jaws of death,
   joint resolution, journeying, knell, knighting, last debt,
   last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, last-minute,
   lawmaking, leaving, leaving life, legislation, legislature,
   locomotive, loss, loss of life, making an end, melting, momentary,
   mortal, mounting, moving, mundivagant, mutable, nondurable,
   nonpermanent, occasional, occultation, occurring, on, on foot,
   on the spot, on tour, ongoing, parenthetically, parting, passage,
   passing away, passing over, pay raise, pedestrian, perambulating,
   perambulatory, peregrinative, peregrine, peripatetic, perishable,
   perishing, pilgrimlike, plunging, preferment, prevailing,
   prevalent, progressing, progressive, promotion, prompt, quick,
   quietus, raise, reflowing, refluent, regressive, release, removal,
   resolution, rest, resultant, retirement, retreat, retrogressive,
   reward, rise, rising, rotary, rotational, rotatory, running,
   rushing, sentence of death, shades of death, shadow of death,
   short-lived, sideward, silence, sinking, slap-bang, slapdash,
   sleep, slipping away, snap, soaring, somatic death, speedy,
   streaming, strolling, summary, summons of death, superficial,
   swift, taking place, temporal, temporary, touring, touristic,
   touristy, transient, transitional, transitive, transitory,
   traveling, trekking, under way, undurable, unenduring, unstable,
   up-trending, upgrading, upping, upward, urgent, vanishing,
   vanishing point, volatile, walking, walkout, wayfaring, wipe,
   withdrawal

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