passing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *peth₂-der.
Proto-Italic *pattus
Vulgar Latin passus
Proto-Italic *-āzi
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Vulgar Latin -ereinflu.
Vulgar Latin -āre
Vulgar Latin *passāre
Old French passerbor.
Middle English passen
English pass
English -ing
English passing
From pass + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more passing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most passing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: passings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That passes away; ephemeral.
pos: adj
examples: And solace sought he none from priest nor leech, / And soon the same in movement and in speech / As heretofore he fill'd the passing hours […]
[…]this is just a passing thing
But I believe in your sweet loving, loving, babe
With every summer falling rain
It might be possible to dismiss #dittowatch as just another passing internet fancy. After all, hashtags are ephemeral.
gloss: Pre-eminent, excellent, extreme.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
literary
examples: her passing deformity
It was by dint of passing strength, / That he moved the massy stone at length.
That parliament was destined, in one short hour of convulsive strength, in one short hour of passing glory, to humble the pride and alarm the fears of England.
gloss: Vague, cursory.
pos: adj
examples: to make a passing comment
to have a passing acquaintance with somebody or something
Ardent pro-lifer Rick Santorum made one passing reference to "authenticity" as a litmus test for a conservative candidate, but if he was obliquely referring to Romney (and he was), you could be excused for missing the dig.
gloss: Going past.
pos: adj
examples: passing cars
gloss: That passes in any sense.
pos: adj
examples: a passing transsexual
gloss: Death, dying; the end of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The fact of going past; a movement from one place to another or a change from one state to another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And since he did not see Louie by the folding door, Louie knew that in his former passings and repassings he could not have seen her either.
gloss: The act of approving a bill etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But capital was proving difficult to raise; rumours were in the air that the G.W.R. and L.S.W.R. were about to patch up their quarrel, and the people of Southampton, who twelve months earlier had staged a torch-light procession to celebrate the passing of the D.N.S.R. Act, were increasingly loath to part with their cash.
gloss: The act of passing a ball etc. to another player.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A form of juggling where several people pass props between each other, usually clubs or rings.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The ability of a person to be regarded as a member of an identity group or category different from their own.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: When there is a discrepancy between an individual's actual social identity and his virtual one, it is possible for this fact to be known to us before we normals contact him, or to be quite evident when he presents himself before us. He is a discredited person, and it is mainly he I have been dealing with until now.
… However, when his differentness is not immediately apparent, and is not known beforehand, … he is a discreditable, not a discredited person …. The issue is … that of managing information about his failing. To display or not to display; to tell or not to tell; to let on or not to let on; to lie or not to lie; and in each case, to whom, how, when, and where.
… It is this second general issue, the management of undisclosed discrediting information about self, that I am focusing on in these notes - in brief, 'passing'.
Related words: buck-passing
continuation passing style
continuation-passing style
in passing
passing bell
passing-bell
passing grade
passing loop
passing note
passing off
passing place
passing shot
passing show
passing tone
Derived words: non-passing
passing game
passing of time
with the passing of time
passingly
passingness
Korea Passing
passing lane
passing pocket
Translations:
lang: Khiamniungan Naga
word: thò
lang: Spanish
word: para aprobar / pasar
lang: Spanish
word: de aprobación
lang: Spanish
word: aprobante
lang: Spanish
word: pasante
lang: Spanish
word: aprobador