passing

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Moving by; going past: The child waved to the passing cars.
2. adj. Of brief duration; transitory: a passing fancy.
3. adj. Cursory or superficial; casual: a passing glance.
4. adj. Allowing one to pass a test, course of study, inspection, or examination; satisfactory: a passing grade.
5. adj. Archaic Very or great; surpassing: "'Tis a passing shame” ( Shakespeare).
6. adv. Very; surpassingly: "I will mention only one particular aspect of the current mess because ... this one is surely something new and passing strange” ( Walker Percy).
7. n. The act of one that passes or the fact of having passed: the passing of another summer.
8. n. A place where or a means by which one can pass.
9. n. Death.
10. idiom. in passing While going by; incidentally.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The act of moving on or by; also, the act of departing; dying.
2. n. Passage; ratification; enactment.
3. n. A gold or silver thread or fine cord produced by twisting a flat and very small ribbon of the metal spirally around a silk thread. Passing is used in embroidery, in couched work, and the like, laid on the foundation and sewed to it with fine silk thread.
4. That is or are now happening; current: as, passing events; the passing hour.
5. Cursory; such as is done, given, etc., while one passes: as, a passing glance.
6. Fleeting; fading away.
7. Exceeding; surpassing; transcendent; egregious; eminent; extraordinary.
8. Surpassingly; wonderfully: exceedingly; very.
9. Exceeding; beyond; over.

Wiktionary

1. adv. Surpassingly, greatly, quite.
2. n. A death.
3. n. A form of juggling where several people pass props between each other, usually clubs or rings.
4. v. present participle of pass.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The act of one who, or that which, passes; the act of going by or away.
2. adj. Relating to the act of passing or going; going by, beyond, through, or away; departing.
3. adj. Exceeding; surpassing, eminent.
4. adv. Exceedingly; excessively; surpassingly.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
2. n. success in satisfying a test or requirement
3. adj. of advancing the ball by throwing it
4. n. the end of something
5. n. the motion of one object relative to another
6. n. a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another
7. adj. allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily
8. adj. lasting a very short time
9. n. (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
10. adv. to an extreme degree
11. n. euphemistic expressions for death
12. n. going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it