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Definition: Passing |
PassingAdjective1. 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". 2. Moving by or going past; "the passing cars". 3. (football) of advancing the ball by throwing it; "a team with a good passing attack"; "a pass play". 4. Allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily; "a passing grade". 5. 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". Adverb1. To an extreme degree or extent; "his eyesight was exceedingly defective". Noun1. A football play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate; "the coach sent in a passing play on third and long". 2. Euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing". 3. The motion of one object relative to another; "stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets". 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". 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". 7. Success in satisfying a test or requirement; "his future depended on his passing that test"; "he got a pass in introductory chemistry". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "passing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Transportation | The overtaking of one vehicle or train by another travelling in the same direction. Source: European Union. (references) |
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In American and Canadian football, a forward pass is a throwing of the football from a member of the team in possession of same to another member of the same team who is closer to the football goal for that team than the member throwing the ball. This is permitted only once during an offensive football play and only from behind the line of scrimmage.The person passing the ball must be a member of the offensive team, the recipient of the forward pass must be an eligible receiver, and must touch the passed ball before any ineligible player.
See also
- American football/Glossary
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Passing is a slang term used when a person appears to be someone or something else or makes others believe that they are. It is attributed, generally, to being able to be accepted as a member of the opposite gender, a different race, or to appear as not having a certain disability.Etymologically, the term may simply come from the idea of satisfying a test requirement, or it may come from the definition of pass meaning to let go unnoticed as in passed by or passed over. It has been in popular use since at least the late 1960s.
It should not be confused with the phrase "passing resemblance." This phrase means that the appearance of being someone or something else is effective only as one literally passes by the subject, but not if one were to stop and study. The origin of this phrase lies in the definition of pass meaning to physically go past.
Gender
Passing describes a transgender person's ability to be accepted as their preferred gender. The term refers primarily to acceptance by people the individual does not know, or who do not know that the individual is transgender. Typically, passing involves a mix of physical gender cues, like hair style and clothing, as well as behavioral attributes, comportment and mode and style of interpersonal communication. For example a female who attempts to pass as a male may be dressed in men's clothing and walk in a masculine manner, but if they speak with a woman's voice or using a traditionally feminine speech pattern, they will not be accepted as a male.
The endeavor of trying to pass is most often practiced by transvestitess and transsexuals. Because most performers, drag queens and those drag kings who consciously perform are open about their natal sex and are not actually trying to appear to be the opposite sex, they are not typically referred to as passing, even though some may be able to or may actually do so at other times. As RuPaul once said, "How many women do you know who wear seven inch heels, four foot wigs, and skintight dresses?"
Similarly, while most cross-dressers and transvestites who venture out into public areas do try to pass, unlike transsexuals, they do not (usually) undergo any permanent physical alterations or live full-time in order to make passing easier. They should be referred to with whatever gender-specific pronouns they wish, but they do not consider themselves the opposite sex or expect others to.
Conversely, almost all transsexuals will attempt to live and work as their preferred gender and be fully accepted as that gender rather than their natal sex. Therefore, passing is not just an option but is seen as a necessity. The majority who have undergone sexual reassignment surgery or who are past the transition stage do not usually refer to themselves as passing, since they now consider themselves to actually be that sex. Those who are completely accepted after transition often choose not to disclose their natal sex and instead live in stealth, a term used because they are so completely invisible within the population of their current sex.
Transgender people who do not describe themselves as either cross dressers/transvestites or transsexuals may have different attitudes towards passing. For example, they might not try to pass at all, they may send consciously mixed signals, or they might be able to pass but do not hide the fact that they are transgender. Personal views on passing and the desire or need to pass are independent of whether an individual has had medical treatment or changed their name or legal gender.
The failure to pass is called being read or being made. A person might say, "When I was out shopping, I could tell that sales girl read me, but she didn't say anything." However, even though a person may be read as being "cross-dressed," it is usually impossible to tell whether the person is actually a cross-dresser, or is actually a non-passing transsexual or another kind of transgender.
Compare the terms passing and stealth with in the closet, and being made or being read with being outed.
In the transgender community, those that pass may sometimes be viewed with jealousy by those that can not pass. Because of this, there may be a tendency for some of those who pass to avoid those that are easily read. There is the perception among many that when one person is read, anyone with that person will be assumed to be transgender by association. This is one reason why people living in stealth rarely if ever associate with other transgender people.
Race
Racial or ethnic passing describes a member of a racial or ethnic minority group who successfully tries to be accepted by others as another race or ethnicity, especially in the case of a person of mixed race or ethnicity being accepted as a member of the racial or ethnic majority. It is usually used derisively and is not considered politically correct to aspire to, attempt or accuse another person. It has therefore been used less often in recent years.
As an example, civil rights leader Walter Francis White, the chief executive of the NAACP from 1929 until his death in 1955, whose ancestry with five-thirty-seconds African mixed with European, went out on investigative assignments of lynchings and hate crimes in which he was forced to pass as Caucasian for his own safety.
African Americans passing brought the possiblity of running afoul of miscegenation laws in several states in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
See also: racial anonymity; white-washing;
Literature
In fiction, Passing is the title of a 1929 novel by Nella Larsen about a light-skinned African American woman posing as white (ISBN 0142437271). (See Nella Larsen for a discussion.) A recent passing narrative is Philip Roth's novel The Human Stain (ISBN 0375726349) (2000). The Sweeter the Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and White by Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black by Gregory Howard Williams, and Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White by Earl Lewis and Heidi Ardizzone are other non-fiction books on the topic.
Ability
In the disabled community, Passing describes those with "invisible disabilities" who can pass for able-bodied: for example those with autism, hearing impairments or depression-spectrum illnesses. As compared with those who have facial disfigurements, motor impairments (Cerebral Palsy) or paraplegia.
There is a certain amount of rivalry between passing and non-passing groups in the various communities. Disabled persons who can pass are viewed as having advantages that those who don't pass do not have -- less discrimination and public attention. This can lead to a view that they are not "properly disabled." Conversely, in many parts of the world, funding and care is less available for invisible disabilities. For example, Medicare in the US provides much less funding for mental than physical disabilities.
Other uses of the term
Passing may also refer to:
- as a student, acheiving an acceptable grade on a test or in a course ("I'm passing English this year.")
- while driving, overtaking a slower car in a separate lane (preferably on the left in countries which drive on the right), or the (passing) lane set aside for doing so ("That car's passing me on the left.")
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Passing."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| PAS | English | Passing aids | Post & Telecom, Transportation |
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Synonyms: PassingSynonyms: casual (adj), cursory (adj), ephemeral (adj), fugacious (adj), pass(a) (adj), passing(a) (adj), perfunctory (adj), short-lived (adj), transient (adj), transitory (adj), exceedingly (adv), extremely (adv), departure (n), exit (n), expiration (n), going (n), loss (n), overtaking (n), pass (n), passage (n), passing game (n), passing play (n), qualifying (n), release (n). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: running(a) (adj), failing (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Greatness | Adjective: great; greater; large, considerable, fair, above par; big, huge; (large in size); Herculean, cyclopean; ample; abundant; (enough) full, intense, strong, sound, passing, heavy, plenary, deep, high; signal, at its height, in the zenith. |
Imperfection | Adverb: almost; to a limited extent, rather; pretty, moderately, passing; only, considering, all things considered, enough. |
Information | Hint, suggestion, innuendo, inkling, whisper, passing word, word in the ear, subaudition, cue, byplay; gesture; (indication); gentle hint, broad hint; verbum sapienti; insinuation; (latency). |
Interment | Funeral, funeral rite, funeral solemnity; kneel, passing bell, tolling; dirge. (lamentation); cypress; orbit, dead march, muffled drum; mortuary, undertaker, mute; elegy; funeral, funeral oration, funeral sermon; epitaph. |
Passage | Adjective: passing; Verb: intercurrent; endosmosmic, endosmotic. |
Transientness | Adjective: transient, transitory, transitive; passing, evanescent, fleeting, cursory, short-lived, ephemeral; flying; Verb: fugacious, fugitive; shifting, slippery; spasmodic; instantaneous, momentaneous. |
Wonder | Monstrous, prodigious, stupendous, marvelous; inconceivable, incredible; inimaginable, unimaginable; strange; (uncommon); passing strange. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Passing |
| English words defined with "passing": Passing bell, passing game, Passing note, passing play. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "passing": Continuation Passing Style ♦ message passing, Message Passing Interface ♦ Passing Bell, Passing Fair, Passing Rich, passing track. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "passing": Transgressive. (references) |
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Screenplays | Knew him well enough not to mourn his passing (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) A dallying couple, a passing sheep-rapist (Sleuth; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer) Full of darkness and danger they were And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow Even darkness must pass (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say Ni at will to old ladies (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese) For reasons passing understanding, people do not relate guns to gun-related crime (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) | |
Lyrics | For passing the test of time (Every Heartbeat; performing artist: Amy Grant) Passing through the season, (Turn Back Time; performing artist: Aqua) And count the headlights passing on the road, (At The Stars; performing artist: Better Than Ezra) Used to be my life was just emotions passing by (Baby I'm-A Want You; performing artist: Bread) People passing by would stop and say ("Johnny B. Goode"; performing artist: Chuck Berry) | |
Clever | 1968: Passing the driver's test. 1998: Passing the vision test. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | Pick a partner and practice passing, for if you pass proficiently, perhaps you'll play professionally. (references; author: unknown) Sick thickets thwarted seven thin sinners from passing through. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Prairie: Passing Through (1973) Passing Through Sweden (1969) The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1935) Passing Shadows (1934) The Passing of Mr. Quinn (1928) | |
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 | One of the many uses for the laser in medical research is as a light source to detect premalignant and malignant cells in a Pap smear. Shown here are gynecologic cells passing in a stream through the laser beam where each cell is analyzed. Abnormal-appearing cells can be sorted from the rest of the cells and later examined by a pathologist for evidence of cancer. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Seen is a profile of a woman pathologist viewing a histological slide while sitting at a microscope. This dramatic shot has a blue background, with the microscope and the pathologist's features highlighted with magenta. Light is seen passing through the microscope's condensor to the objectives. See artwork: NCI-22. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |
 | This image shows Jupiter's volcanic moon Io passing above the turbulent clouds of the giant ... Credit: NASA. |  | Early level crew - passing the mallet Rear rodman passing front rodman, recorder pulling Rodman moving ahead will drive spike to steady rod. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Jensen survey launch passing a Maine schooner Launch off of PEIRCE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Preparing Maryland Blue Crabs for the dinner table. Passing on the knowledge of the Chesapeake Bay from generation to generation. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | A shrimp boat headed north along the Intracoastal Waterway passing under the JFK Causeway. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Ice floe passing by loaded with trash and waste from Point Barrow, 80 miles to the west. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Passing through Peltier Channel. 64 52 S Latitude 63 32 W Longitude. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | A bird's eye view of a passing hydrofoil and most of the netting complex. The mouth of the trap and the cod end extending landward can be clearly seen. Credit: Fisheries. |
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| "Train passing in dark landscap" by Remco Oostlander Commentary: "Photo of a landscape made at night with a train moving across." | "Time is passing by" by Jozsef Szoke Commentary: "Erechteion with the karyatids evia/greece, 2003." |
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 | Low-flying propeller plan passing by; biplane flying by. | | A low-flying propeller plane passing by. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Christina Rossetti | Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by. |
Conor Cruise O'Brien | Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation. |
Henry David Thoreau | He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past. |
Horace | Let us my friends snatch our opportunity form the passing day. |
Lady Nancy Astor | In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on a woman. |
Soren Kierkegaard | It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite. |
Tupper | Be not looking for evil. Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling. |
William Shakespeare | All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity. |
| The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may have in the sworn twelve a thief or two guiltier than him they try. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
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Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | She further undertakes that persons or goods passing through a port or using a vessel of any of the Allied and Associated Powers shall not be subjected to any formality or delay whatever to which such persons or goods would not be subjected if they passed through a German port or a port of any other Power, or used a German vessel or a vessel of any other Power. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | She felt that half this folly must be drunkenness, and therefore could hope that it might belong only to the passing hour |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | Even a porter passing, with a barrow piled with luggage, seemed so realistic that one was tempted to applaud |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Passing through the wall of mud and stone, they found a cheerful company assembled round a glowing fire |
Young Zaphod Plays It Safe | Douglas Adams | Zaphod wondered what to do about all this, and after a brief but hectic internal debate decided that passing out would be the very thing |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The soul beheld its features in the mirror of the passing moment |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The woman was arrested for passing the first piece that he had made |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The telegraphpoles were passing, passing |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Passing the time of day. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Next I saw Hannibal passing the Alps, who told me he had not a drop of vinegar in his camp |
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Health | The first step in treating the problem is passing the built-up stool. (references) | |
Everyone has gas and eliminates it by burping or passing it through the rectum. (references) | ||
Safe sexual practices can help prevent the passing of diseases between partners. (references) | ||
Business | China's newly-elected NPC reportedly has assigned a high priority to passing this law within the next year or two. (references) | |
The program involved setting up around 37 checkpoints throughout the city daily for a 3-hour period to test passing vehicles seen emitting black smoke. (references) | ||
Some U.S. product shipments experience problems in passing the coli-form testing that is administered by Korean customs and the National Quarantine Office. (references) | ||
Children | Mozambique | In addition a number of schools were destroyed or converted to emergency shelters during the floods in 2000. Newspapers frequently reported that the parents of school children had to bribe teachers or officials to enroll their children in school and that girls exchanged or were forced to exchange sex with teachers for passing grades. (references) |
Armenia | Some teachers are known to demand bribes from parents in return for good or passing grades for their children. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Cote d'Ivoire | However, police, gendarmes, and water, forestry, and customs officials commonly erect and operate roadblocks on major roads, where they demand that passing motorists or passengers produce identity and vehicle papers and regularly extort small amounts of money or goods for contrived or minor infractions. (references) |
Economic History | Kenya | Resumption of aid is tied to the government passing the Public Service Code of Conduct Bill, the Anti-Corruption and Economics Crimes Bill, and the privatization of Telkom Kenya, among others. (references) |
Morocco | However, the slow progress of the highway between Casablanca and Marrakech is a frustration to residents, tourists and distributors, and the road between Casablanca and Jorf Lasfar, passing through the resort town of El Jadida has been the scene of frequent traffic accidents involving fatalities. (references) | |
Morocco | The reorganization of the Moroccan Ministries and the Department of Environment, in the fall of 2000, resulted in delaying the passing of the environment draft bill. (references) | |
Human Rights | China | In early 2000 a court sentenced Uighur businesswoman Rebiya Kadeer to 8 years in prison for passing "state intelligence" information to foreigners. (references) |
Israel and the occupied territories | The ICRC and various medical organizations stated that the prolonged closure of Palestinian cities has caused significant problems in the delivery of medical care, and that even in some cases in which urgent treatment is critical to life and death, the IDF has prevented patients from passing through checkpoints in order to get treatment. (references) | |
Lesotho | In passing the sentences, the trial judge took into account the 41 months that the defendants had spent in prison prior to convictions, and their sentences were reduced accordingly. (references) | |
Minorities | China | In March 2000, a Xinjiang court sentenced Rebiya Kadeer, a prominent Uighur businesswoman and former member of the provincial-level Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, to 8 years in prison on charges of "passing state intelligence" to foreigners; according to an official press report, the intelligence she was accused of passing included newspaper articles and a list of names of persons whose cases had been handled by the courts. (references) |
Sri Lanka | While the two main political groupings, the PA and UNP, reached consensus on many aspects of the devolution proposals, when the Government introduced the draft Constitution to Parliament in August 2000 in hopes of passing the measures, it had to suspend debate on the new Constitution due to political opposition. (references) | |
Political Economy | RUSSIA | The Russian government has made impressive strides to implement its reform program, passing a major tax reform, simplifying the tariff system, reducing administrative barriers to business, and allowing for the sale of commercial and residential land in cities and villages. (references) |
Political Rights | India | Debate continues over the Women's Reservation Bill, first introduced in Parliament in late 1998. The Government spoke of passing this legislation in the November parliamentary session; however, debate continued at year's end. (references) |
Travel | Egypt | A new line now runs from Tahrir Square passing by the Cairo Opera House and ending at Cairo University in Giza. (references) |
Women | Pakistan | In Karachi only 28 percent of girls completing matriculation (10th grade) exams in science during the year would be able to find places in government-run colleges, as opposed to 83 percent of boys passing the same tests. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FAIRY, n. A creature, variously fashioned and endowed, that formerly inhabited the meadows and forests. It was nocturnal in its habits, and somewhat addicted to dancing and the theft of children. The fairies are now believed by naturalist to be extinct, though a clergyman of the Church of England saw three near Colchester as lately as 1855, while passing through a park after dining with the lord of the manor. The sight greatly staggered him, and he was so affected that his account of it was incoherent. In the year 1807 a troop of fairies visited a wood near Aix and carried off the daughter of a peasant, who had been seen to enter it with a bundle of clothing. The son of a wealthy bourgeois disappeared about the same time, but afterward returned. He had seen the abduction been in pursuit of the fairies. Justinian Gaux, a writer of the fourteenth century, avers that so great is the fairies' power of transformation that he saw one change itself into two opposing armies and fight a battle with great slaughter, and that the next day, after it had resumed its original shape and gone away, there were seven hundred bodies of the slain which the villagers had to bury. He does not say if any of the wounded recovered. In the time of Henry III, of England, a law was made which prescribed the death penalty for "Kyllynge, wowndynge, or mamynge" a fairy, and it was universally respected. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Joe Esposito | Unbelievable. I mean, this was all new to me, too, because I never saw the big crowds like this. It was just like you see it on television. People were screaming and yelling, passing out, fainting. |
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Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | On the Mobile, our commerce passing through that river continues to be obstructed by arbitrary duties and vexatious searches. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Connecting the Atlantic with the Western country in a line passing through the seat of the National Government, it would contribute essentially to strengthen the bond of union itself. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | The people of the Dominican Republic, with our firm encouragement and help, and those of our sister Republics of this Hemisphere are safely passing through the treacherous course from dictatorship through disorder towards democracy. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | In passing this office to the Vice President I also do so with the profound sense of the weight of responsibility that will fall on his shoulders tomorrow, and therefore of the understanding, the patience, the cooperation he will need from all Americans. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | I'm sure all of you join me in expressing heartfelt condolences on his passing. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Passing a law, even the best possible law, is only a first step. |
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| "Passing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 73.96% of the time. "Passing" is used about 3,667 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 73.96% | 2,712 | 3,386 |
| Noun (singular) | 14.03% | 514 | 11,807 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 11.88% | 436 | 13,209 |
| Adverb (general) | 0.08% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.05% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,667 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "passing". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Gazez | N/A | Biblical | A passing over |
| Heleph | N/A | Biblical | Passing over |
| Ibri | N/A | Biblical | Passing over |
| Jehoadah | N/A | Biblical | Passing over |
| Joed | N/A | Biblical | Passing over |
| Jogli | N/A | Biblical | Passing over |
| Laadah | N/A | Biblical | Passing over |
| Paseah | N/A | Biblical | Passing over |
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Expressions using "passing": continuation Passing Style ♦ controlled passing ♦ customs that are passing ♦ in passing ♦ message passing ♦ message Passing Interface ♦ Passing a worm ♦ passing away ♦ passing bay ♦ passing bell ♦ passing by ♦ passing comment ♦ passing fair ♦ passing fashion ♦ passing game ♦ passing glance ♦ passing lane ♦ passing measure ♦ passing note ♦ passing of water ♦ passing on ♦ passing out parade ♦ passing over ♦ passing place ♦ passing play ♦ passing prohibited ♦ passing shot ♦ passing showers ♦ passing strange ♦ passing the night ♦ passing time ♦ passing tone ♦ passing track ♦ passing water ♦ passing zone ♦ the passing of time ♦ way of passing the time ♦ with the passing of time. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "passing": passing-bell, passing-motorist, passing-notes, passing-off, passing-out, passing-out-parade, passing-place, passing-track. | |
Ending with "passing": buck-passing, exam-passing. | |
Containing "passing": johnny-passing-throughs. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "passing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zhdukje (abolition, disappearance, evanescence, evaporation, exit, extinction, liquidation, obliteration), vendkalim (crossing, ferriage, passageway, walkway), tepër (beastly, confoundedly, damnably, dearly, excessively, extremely, frightfully, greatly, highly, most, overly, overmuch, overwhelmingly, parlous, pathetically, precious, so, too, too much, unduly, very), shumë (amount, awful, awfully, badly, confoundedly, considerably, consumedly, damnably, dearly, deep, deuced, devilish, ever so, far, far and away, good few, greatly, heap, heartily, highly, jolly, largely, like mad, lot, lots of, lump, many, million, most, much, no end of, not a few, notedly, number, oodles, passingly, Peck, poly-, precious, price, proceeds, quantum, quite, really, remarkably, scrip, so, sorely, sum, summation, thumping, too, tot, total, totality, umpteen, vastly, very, very much, widely), që kalon pranë, mjet kalimi, kalues (short lived), kalimtar (ephemeral, evanescent, goer, momentary, passerby, pedestrian, temporal, temporary, transitional, transitive, transitory, unabiding), kalim (crossing, cut, devolution, escape, going, jump, lapse, negotiation, orifice, pass, passage, passageway, release, switch over, transfer, transference, transit, transition), jetëshkurtër (ephemeral, short lived, transitory), ikje (back track, backtrack, departure, escape, exit, getaway, go off, leg-bail, outgo, parting, recession), i rastit (adventitious, casual, chance, coincidental, contingent, fortuitous, haphazard, incident, incidental, makeshift, occasional, odd, random, scratch, stray, transient), humbje (blow, come down, damage, defeat, deprivation, disappearance, draft, draught, flight, forfeiture, leak, leakage, losing, losings, loss, losses, Miss, privation, wastage, waste). (various references) | |
Arabic | عابر (ephemeral, fleeting, in transit, parlous, precarious, sneak, stealthy, tenuous, transient, transitory), بالصدفة (accidentally, casual, fortuitously, haply, indiscriminate, random), بلا توقف (in passing, non-stop), إجتياز (crossing), إختفاء (disappearance), المتجاوز (transgressor), بإفراط (beastly, deadly, exceedingly, excessively, extremely, hard, overmuch, unduly), عرضي (accidental, adventitious, casual, circumstantial, episodic, extraneous, extrinsic, incident, incidental, occasional, odd, symptomatic, transverse, venial), فوات (elapsing), تجاوز (cap, encroach, encroachment, exceed, excuse, jut, leapfrog, obtrude, omission, outbalance, outmatch, outrun, outstrip, overreach, override, overrun, overtake, overtaking, pass, project, rise, span, surpass, transcend, transcendence, transgress, trespass), وقتي (precarious, temporary, transient), هروب (efflux, evasion, flight, outflow), مرور (passage, transit), مار, موت (bane, death, decease, demise, dissolution, ending, exit, expiration, expiry, fate, quietus), جريان (circulation, current, flow, inflow). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | минаване (efflux, pass), извънредно (amain, exceedingly, extremely, immensely, mightily, mortally, most, notably, only too, over, overly, overtime, remarkably, sorely, supremely, terrifically, ultra-, unco, unusually, utterly, vastly), изчезване (disappearance, evanescence), подаване (handing over, lodgement, lodgment, pass, pitch, presentation, serve, submission), приемане (acceptance, admission, adoption, assumption, enrollment, entertainment, espousal, inspection, passage, receipt, reception, recognition), преминаване (crossing, pass, passage, transit), преходен (caducous, deciduous, fleeting, fugitive, in between, intermediate, temporal, temporary, transient, transit, transition, transitional, transitive, transitory, unabiding), произнасяне (articulation, enunciation, pronouncing, vocalization), протичане, издържане на изпит, мимолетен (evanescent, evasive, fugacious, short lived, swift, transient, vaporous), смърт (curtains, death, decease, demise, departure, divide, doom, dust, dying, end, ending, exit, expiration, fatality, fate, grave, happy release, last, quietus, tomb), минаващ, много (almighty, amain, awfully, bally, deep, dozens, ever so, good deal, great deal, greatly, heartily, high, highly, hundreds, immensely, jolly, loads of, lot, lots of, many, mint, much, nice and, only too, plenty, power, quantities, quantity, real, right, sight, simply, sopping, sorely, terrifically, thumping, to a large degree, to death, unco, unusually, vastly, very, very many, very much indeed), нетраен (adjective, corruptible, infirm, perishable, spoilable, weak), одобрение (acceptance, acclaim, accolade, approbation, approval, authorization, confirmation, fiat, imprimatur, okay, plaudit, sanction, thumbs up), отмиране, крайно (extremely, highly, intolerable, miserably, sopping, terribly, to death, ultra-, unco, unmercifully, unusually, utterly), текущ (current, going, running, topical), ход (action, bat, course, current, foot, gait, going, lapse, motion, move, movement, operation, pace, passage, play, ploy, process, race, rate, run, running, stream, swing, tenor, tide, track, train, tread, twist, walk, way), злободневен (burning issue). (various references) | |
Chinese | 通过 (Passed, Past, through, Thru, VIA), 苒 (luxuriant growth), 冉 . (various references) | |
Czech | pomíjivý (perishable, transient), přechodný (fugacious, intermediate, momentary, temporary, transient, transitional, transitive, transitory), přechod (crossing, pass, passage, transit, transition), smrt (death), schválení (adoption, approbation, approval, endorsement, ratification, sanction, say so), nestálý (changeable, erratic, fickle, floating, impermanent, inconstant, unceasing, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, volatile), náhodný (accidental, adventitious, arbitrary, casual, coincidental, contingent, fortuitous, haphazard, hit or miss, incidental, random, stray), jdoucí mimo, chod (action, course, dish, gait, going, motion, run). (various references) | |
Danish | overhaling (overtaking). (various references) | |
Dutch | inhalen (accomplish, achieve, attain, earn back, get, overhaul, overtake, pass, reach, regain, win back). (various references) | |
Finnish | tuvainen (ethereal, evanescent, fleeting, fugitive, volatile), tuva (ethereal, evanescent, fleeting, fugitive, volatile), ohimenevä (transient, transitory), ohimatka (transient, transitory). (various references) | |
French | dépassement. (various references) | |
German | vorübergehend (momentary, short, temporarily, temporary, transient, transiently, transitional, transitorily, transitory), überholen (ferry, keel over, outstrip, overhaul, overtake, overtaken, pass, refit, revise, revision, to outdistance, to outstrip, to overhaul, to overtake, to recondition, to refit). (various references) | |
Greek | πέρασμα (course, fly-by, pass, passage, way). (various references) | |
Hebrew | זמני (interim, pro tempore, provisional, temporal, temporary, tentative), חולף (ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, fugitive, transient, transitory), העברה (communication, conveyance, removal, shift, transference), רגעי (instantaneous, momentary). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nagyon (badly, bally, bloody, covetous, ever so much, exceedingly, greatly, have one's nerves on edge, heavily, highly, immensely, jolly, jolly well, like hell, like mad, mightily, most, much, much to be desired, pretty, quite, real, right, severely, sorely, thundering, to be broke for sg, to be down with a cold, to be in a fine way about sg, to be rejoiced at sg, to be rejoiced by sg, to feel used up, to get to look very slack, to take pains to do sg, to think the world of sy, to want sg badly, too, very, very much, very much indeed, wondrous), futólagos (cursory, momentary, non-persistent, obiter dictum), elhaladás. (various references) | |
Indonesian | lalu-lalang (passing by), daulat-daulatan (passing the buck). (various references) | |
Italian | passeggero (ephemeral, fare, passenger, voyager), passante (passer by), passaggio (aisle, arcade, changeover, conduit, crossing, entry, gangway, gateway, handing, lift, pass, passage, transfer, transit, transition, way out), sorpasso (overtaking), scomparsa (atrophy, death, disappearance), morte (death, demise, end, exit, fatality), incidentale (incidental, minor), guado (Ford, woad), di passaggio (through), casuale (accidental, casual, chance, coincidental, factitive, fortuitous, haphazard, incidental, odd, random, stray). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 長逝 (death). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おいこし, パッシング , くれゆく (darkening), つうか (currency, passage through), つうこう (friendly relations, navigation, passage, sailing), ほうまつてき (ephemeral, fleeting, like a bubble on liquid, transient), ごうかく (eligibility, success), ゆきずり (casual), とおりすがり (on the way, that happen to pass by), とおりがかり, とおりがけ, ちょうせい (adjustment, death, execution, government by the imperial court, lengthy military expedition, longevity, manufacture, preparation, regulation, the Long March, tonal mark, town administration, town organization, tuning). (various references) | |
Korean | 통과. (various references) | |
Manx | shaghnagh (avoidable, circumventory, elusive, evasive, preventable), paartail (departure, die, dying, part, pop off), neuveayn (ephemeral, fluid, impermanent, non-durable, short-lived, temporary, transient, transitory). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | assingpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ultrapassagem (overdrive, override). (various references) | |
Romanian | provizoriu (flying, interim, makeshift, provisionally, temporarily, temporary), trecere (alley, credit, cropper, crossing, influence, Lane, March, pass, passage, passage way, transit, transition, way, weight), trecãtor (bystander, evanescent, foot passenger, fugacious, fungous, goer, momentary, passer, passer by, pedestrian, temporary, transient, transitory), treacãt, superficial (cursory, external, facile, flimsy, flippant, gossamer, perfunctory, shallow, skin deep, slight, sublime, superficial, superficially, thin, tinsel, trivial, yeasty), scurgere (course, discharge, drain, drainage, effluence, effluent, efflux, escape, flow, issue, lapse, leakage, leaking, loss, March, overflow, passage, running, trickling), moarte (death, decease, disappearance, doom, dying, end, exit, fatality, fate, grave, parting, passage, slaughter, the tomb), minunat (beautiful, beautifully, best, brave, bright, capital, champion, charming, delightfully, exceptional, jolly, lovely, magic, magical, marvellous, miraculous, paradisaic, paradisaical, proud, royal, special, splendid, strange, superb, superbly, supernatural, tiptop, wonderful, wonder-working), excelent (a1, best, capital, champion, clinking, consummate, crack, excellent, excellently, exquisite, fine, first rate, golden, great, noble, roaring, special, splendid, that's capital, tiptop, topping), efemer (diurnal, ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, fugitive, fungous, momentary, short lived, temporary, transient), de o clipã, care trece, în treacãt. ( |
