Disguise vs Passing - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between disguise and passing

is that disguise is attire (eg clothing, makeup) used to hide one's identity or assume another while passing is death, dying; the end of something.

As verbs the difference between disguise and passing

is that disguise is to change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity while passing is .

As an adjective passing is

that passes away; ephemeral.

As an adverb passing is

disguise

English

Noun

(en noun)

Attire (e.g. clothing, makeup) used to hide one's identity or assume another.

''That cape and mask complete his disguise .

(figuratively) The appearance of something on the outside which masks what's beneath.

The act of disguising, notably as a ploy

''Any disguise may expose soldiers to be deemed enemy spies.

Synonyms

* camouflage * guise * mask * pretense

Verb

To change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity.

Spies often disguise themselves.

* Macaulay

Bunyan was forced to disguise himself as a wagoner.

To avoid giving away or revealing (something secret); to hide by a false appearance.

He disguised his true intentions.

(archaic) To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.

* Spectator

I have just left the right worshipful, and his myrmidons, about a sneaker or five gallons; the whole magistracy was pretty well disguised before I gave them the ship.

Synonyms

* cloak * mask * hide

Derived terms

* disguisedly * disguisement * disguiser

passing

English

Verb

(head)

Adjective

(en adjective)

That passes away; ephemeral.

* 1814 , (Lord Byron), Lara , I.15:

And solace sought he none from priest nor leech, / And soon the same in movement and in speech / As heretofore he fill'd the passing hours

* 2010 , Marianne Kirby, The Guardian , 21 Sep 2010:

It might be possible to dismiss

dittowatch as just another passing internet fancy. After all, hashtags are ephemeral.

* Shakespeare

her passing deformity

* 1835 , (Washington Irving), The Crayon Miscellany :

It was by dint of passing strength, / That he moved the massy stone at length.

* 1847 , Robert Holmes, The Case of Ireland Stated :

That parliament was destined, in one short hour of convulsive strength, in one short hour of passing glory, to humble the pride and alarm the fears of England.

vague, cursory.

* 2011 , Stewart J Lawrence, The Guardian , 14 Jun 2011:

Ardent pro-lifer Rick Santorum made one passing reference to "authenticity" as a litmus test for a conservative candidate, but if he was obliquely referring to Romney (and he was), you could be excused for missing the dig.

going past - passing cars.

Adverb

(-)

* 1813 , (Percy Bysshe Shelley), Queen Mab , I:

One, pale as yonder waning moon, / With lips of lurid blue; / The other, rosy as the morn / When throned on ocean's wave, / It blushes o'er the world: / Yet both so passing wonderful!

* 2010 , Simon Hattenstone, The Guardian , 30 Oct 2010:

‘I find it passing strange that convicts understand honest folk, but honest folk don't understand convicts.’

Usage notes

* This use is sometimes misconstrued as meaning "vaguely" or "slightly" (perhaps by confusion with such phrases as "passing fancy", under Adjective, above), leading to formations such as "more than passing clever" etc.

Noun

Death, dying; the end of something.

The fact of going past; a movement from one place to another or a change from one state to another.

* (Oliver Onions), The Story of Louie

And since he did not see Louie by the folding door, Louie knew that in his former passings and repassings he could not have seen her either.

(legal) The act of approving a bill etc.

(sports) The act of passing a ball etc. to another player.

A form of juggling where several people pass props between each other, usually clubs or rings.