passing
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
passing/ˈpɑːsɪŋ/
▶adjective
- 1 going past.
- 2 (of a period of time) going by.
- 3 carried out quickly and lightly: a passing glance.
- 4 (of a resemblance or similarity) slight.
- 1 the action of passing.
- 2 the passage of something, especially time.
- 3 the end of something.
■ euphemistic a person's death.
– phrases
in passing briefly and casually.
in passing briefly and casually.
– derivatives
passingly adverb.
passingly adverb.
'passing' also found in these Oxford entries:
achalasia
- agonic line
- air filter
- allude
- axle
- backward
- barbershop
- birth sign
- blanket
- brace
- breastplate
- breeching
- bremsstrahlung
- bur-marigold
- bypass
- cash flow
- caterpillar
- choke chain
- chromatography
- clove hitch
- colure
- critical angle
- cross-
- crossfire
- diameter
- diffraction
- diploma
- distributor
- diuretic
- Dormition
- drive-by
- drop
- electrolysis
- en passant
- enteral
- extinction
- filter
- fluidize
- flush
- flux
- free association
- galactic equator
- goose barnacle
- gradient
- gravitational lens
- graze
- great circle
- Greenwich meridian
- guard
- half hitch
