1. passing

noun. ['ˈpæsɪŋ'] (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate.

Rhymes with Passing

• harassing
• classing
• amassing
• massing
• maseng
• kassing
• hassing
• gassing

Sentences with passing

1. Verb, gerund or present participle
This air gap helps to cool the inner pipe by passing air around it.

2. Noun, singular or mass
Keep a chart and work toward accomplishing your goal of freedom -- and a passing grade.

Quotes about passing

1. Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2. Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.
- Theodore Sturgeon

3. The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.
- Henry Rollins

2. passing

adjective. ['ˈpæsɪŋ'] lasting a very short time.

3. passing

noun. ['ˈpæsɪŋ'] euphemistic expressions for death.

4. passing

adjective. ['ˈpæsɪŋ'] of advancing the ball by throwing it.

5. passing

adjective. ['ˈpæsɪŋ'] hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough.

6. passing

adjective. ['ˈpæsɪŋ'] allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily.

7. passing

noun. ['ˈpæsɪŋ'] success in satisfying a test or requirement.

8. passing

noun. ['ˈpæsɪŋ'] a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another.

9. passing

noun. ['ˈpæsɪŋ'] the end of something.

10. passing

adverb. ['ˈpæsɪŋ'] to an extreme degree.