Noun
1. (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate;
"the coach sent in a passing play on third and long"2. euphemistic expressions for death;
"thousands mourned his passing"3. the motion of one object relative to another;
"stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets"4. the end of something;
"the passing of winter"5. a bodily process of passing from one place or stage to another;
"the passage of air from the lungs""the passing of flatus"6. going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it;
"she drove but well but her reckless passing of every car on the road frightened me"7. success in satisfying a test or requirement;
"his future depended on his passing that test""he got a pass in introductory chemistry"