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passing one’s time

passing

— noun (= pass, passing play) (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 — adjective (= ephemeral, transient, transitory, fugacious) lasting a very short time the ephemeral joys of childhood a passing fancy youth's transient beauty love is transitory but it is eternal fugacious blossoms — noun euphemistic expressions for death thousands mourned his passing — noun the motion of one object relative to another stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets — noun the end of something the passing of winter — noun (= pass) success in satisfying a test or requirement his future depended on his passing that test he got a pass in introductory chemistry — noun 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 — adjective (= pass) of advancing the ball by throwing it a team with a good passing attack a pass play — adjective allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily a passing grade — noun (= passage) a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another the passage of air from the lungs the passing of flatus — adjective (= casual, cursory, perfunctory) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws a passing glance perfunctory courtesy — adverb (= extremely) to an extreme degree extremely cold extremely unpleasant

passing one’s time

passing

time Noun

time Verb