Going vs Passing - What's the difference?
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A departure.
* Thy going is not lonely, with thee goes thy Husband
The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc.
progress
(figurative) Conditions for advancing in any way.
(obsolete) pregnancy; gestation; childbearing
* (Crew)
(in the plural) Course of life; behaviour; doings; ways.
* Bible, Job 34.21:
Likely to continue; viable.
That attends habitually or regularly.
Current, prevailing.
(after a noun phrase with a superlative) Available.
That passes away; ephemeral.
* 1814 , (Lord Byron), Lara , I.15:
* 2010 , Marianne Kirby, The Guardian , 21 Sep 2010:
* Shakespeare
* 1835 , (Washington Irving), The Crayon Miscellany :
* 1847 , Robert Holmes, The Case of Ireland Stated :
vague, cursory.
* 2011 , Stewart J Lawrence, The Guardian , 14 Jun 2011:
going past - passing cars.
* 1813 , (Percy Bysshe Shelley), Queen Mab , I:
* 2010 , Simon Hattenstone, The Guardian , 30 Oct 2010:
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
(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.
As verbs the difference between going and passing
is that going is present participle of lang=en while passing is present participle of lang=en.As nouns the difference between going and passing
is that going is a departure while passing is death, dying; the end of something.As adjectives the difference between going and passing
is that going is likely to continue; viable while passing is that passes away; ephemeral.As an adverb passing is
surpassingly, greatly.going
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(head)Etymology 2
From (etyl), present participle ofNoun
(en noun)- The going was very difficult over the ice.
- We made good going for a while, but then we came to the price.
- Not only weren't the streets paved with gold, but the going was difficult for an immigrant.
- His eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings .
Adjective
(-)- He didn't want to make an unsecured loan to the business because it didn't look like a going concern.
- The going rate for manual snow-shoveling is $25 an hour.
- He has the easiest job going .
See also
* going toStatistics
*Anagrams
*passing
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- 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
- It might be possible to dismiss
- dittowatch as just another passing internet fancy. After all, hashtags are ephemeral.
- her passing deformity
- It was by dint of passing strength, / That he moved the massy stone at length.
- 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.
- 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.
Adverb
(-)- 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!
- ‘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
- 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.