passing
noun
- to be perceived as the gender one wishes to present as
- die
- overtake
adverb
- technique in various sports of intentionally transferring the ball from one player to another of the same team
adjective
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Pronunciation: /ˈpɑːsɪŋ/
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peth₂-der. Proto-Italic *pattus Vulgar Latin passus Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Vulgar Latin -ereinflu. Vulgar Latin -āre Vulgar Latin *passāre Old French passerbor. Middle English passen English pass English -ing English passing From pass + -ing.
- That passes away; ephemeral.
“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”
- Pre-eminent, excellent, extreme.
“her passing deformity”
“It was by dint of passing strength, / That he moved the massy stone at length.”
- Vague, cursory.
“to make a passing comment”
“to have a passing acquaintance with somebody or something”
- Going past.
“passing cars”
- That passes in any sense.
“a passing transsexual”
adv
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peth₂-der. Proto-Italic *pattus Vulgar Latin passus Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Vulgar Latin -ereinflu. Vulgar Latin -āre Vulgar Latin *passāre Old French passerbor. Middle English passen English pass English -ing English passing From pass + -ing.
- Surpassingly, greatly.
“[...] for she was called a fair lady, and a passing wise, and her name was called Igraine.”
“How wonderful is Death, / Death and his brother Sleep! / One, pale as yonder waning moon / With lips of lurid blue; / The other, rosy as the morn / When throned on ocean's wave / It blushes o'er the world: / Yet both so passing wonderful!”
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peth₂-der. Proto-Italic *pattus Vulgar Latin passus Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Vulgar Latin -ereinflu. Vulgar Latin -āre Vulgar Latin *passāre Old French passerbor. Middle English passen English pass English -ing English passing From pass + -ing.
- Death, dying; the end of something.
- The fact of going past; a movement from one place to another or a change from one state to another.
“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.”
- The act of approving a bill etc.
“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.”
- The act of passing a ball etc. to another player.
- A form of juggling where several people pass props between each other, usually clubs or rings.
- The ability of a person to be regarded as a member of an identity group or category different from their own.
“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'.”
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peth₂-der. Proto-Italic *pattus Vulgar Latin passus Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Vulgar Latin -ereinflu. Vulgar Latin -āre Vulgar Latin *passāre Old French passerbor. Middle English passen English pass English -ing English passing From pass + -ing.
- present participle and gerund of pass