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Sitting vs Passing - What's the difference?

sitting | passing |

As nouns the difference between sitting and passing

is that sitting is a period during which one is seated for a specific purpose while passing is death, dying; the end of something.

As verbs the difference between sitting and passing

is that sitting is while passing is .

As adjectives the difference between sitting and passing

is that sitting is executed from a sitting position while passing is that passes away; ephemeral.

As an adverb passing is

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sitting

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.
    • Due to the sheer volume of guests, we had to have two sittings for the meal.
    The Queen had three sittings for her portrait.
  • A legislative session.
  • The act (of a bird) of incubating eggs; the clutch of eggs under a brooding bird.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * sitting pretty

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Executed from a sitting position.
  • Occupying a specific official or legal position; incumbent.
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    • , title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.

    Derived terms

    * sitting duck * sitting tenant

    Statistics

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    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.