Word Meanings - PASSING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of one who, or that which, passes; the act of going by or away. 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

Additional info about word: PASSING

The act of one who, or that which, passes; the act of going by or away. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PASSING)

• Transient
• Fleeting
• fugitive
• transitory
• temporary
• passing
• evanescent
• ephemeral
• momentary
• brief

Related words: (words related to PASSING)

• PASS
  passer, LL. passare, fr. L. passus step, or from pandere, passum, to 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
• FUGITIVELY
  In a fugitive manner.
• PASSUS
  A division or part; a canto; as, the passus of Piers Plowman. See 2d Fit.
• PASSOVER
  A feast of the Jews, instituted to commemorate the sparing of the Hebrews in Egypt, when God, smiting the firstborn of the Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites which were marked with the blood of a lamb. The sacrifice offered at
• PASSIBILITY
  The quality or state of being passible; aptness to feel or suffer; sensibility. Hakewill.
• PASSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
• PASSIVE FLIGHT
  Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power.
• BRIEFLY
  Concisely; in few words.
• FLEET-FOOT
  Swift of foot. Shak.
• PASSENGER MILE
  A unit of measurement of the passenger transportation performed by a railroad during a given period, usually a year, the total of which consists of the sum of the miles traversed by all the passengers on the road in the period in question.
• FLEETINGLY
  In a fleeting manner; swiftly.
• PASSIFLORA
  A genus of plants, including the passion flower. It is the type of the order Passifloreæ, which includes about nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species.
• FLEETING
  Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments. Syn. -- Evanescent; ephemeral. See Transient.
• PASSEGARDE
  A ridge or projecting edge on a shoulder piece to turn the blow of a lance or other weapon from the joint of the armor.
• FLEET
  To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; - - said of a cable or hawser. (more info) vlieten to flow, OS. fliotan, OHG. fliozzan, G. fliessen, Icel. fljota to float, flow, Sw. flyta, D. flyde, L. pluere to rain, Gr. plu to swim,
• FLEETEN
  Fleeted or skimmed milk. Fleeten face, a face of the color of fleeten, i. e., blanched; hence, a coward. "You know where you are, you fleeten face." Beau. & Fl.
• PASSERINE
  Of or pertaining to the Passeres. The columbine, gallinaceous, and passerine tribes people the fruit trees. Sydney Smith.
• PASSIBLE
  Susceptible of feeling or suffering, or of impressions from external agents. Apolinarius, which held even deity itself passible. Hooker.
• PASSAGEWAY
  A way for passage; a hall. See Passage, 5.
• PASSER-BY
  One who goes by; a passer.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• CONTEMPORARY
  1. Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous. This king was contemporary with the greatest monarchs of Europe. Strype. 2. Of the same age; coeval. A grove born with himself he sees,
• SURPASS
  To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel. This would surpass Common revenge and interrupt his joy. Milton. Syn. -- To exceed; excel; outdo; outstrip.
• SEA BRIEF
  See LETTER
• OUTPASSION
  To exceed in passion.
• INCOMPASSIONATE
  Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
• REPASS
  To pass again; to pass or travel over in the opposite direction; to pass a second time; as, to repass a bridge or a river; to repass the sea.
• SURPASSING
  Eminently excellent; exceeding others. "With surpassing glory crowned." Milton. -- Sur*pass"ing*ly, adv. -- Sur*pass"ing*ness, n.
• IMPASSIVE
  Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved. Impassive as the marble in the quarry. De Quincey. On the impassive ice the lightings play. Pope. -- Im*pas"sive*ly, adv. -- Im*pas"sive*ness, n.
• IMPASSABLE
  Incapable of being passed; not admitting a passage; as, an impassable road, mountain, or gulf. Milton. -- Im*pass"a*ble*ness, n. -- Im*pass"a*bly, adv.
• UNPASSABLE
  Impassable. E. A. Freeman. -- Un*pass"a*ble*ness, n. Evelyn.