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Passels
- noun - (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
Passero
- noun - a naval battle in the Mediterranean Sea off Cape Passero in which the Spanish navy was destroyed by France and England while attempting to recover Sicily and Sardinia from Italy (1719)
Passing
- verb -
- (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"
- a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another; "the passage of air from the lungs"; "the passing of flatus"
- accept or judge as acceptable; "The teacher passed the student although he was weak"
- allow to go without comment or censure; "the insult passed as if unnoticed"
- allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily; "a passing grade"
- be inherited by; "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead"
- cause to pass; "She passed around the plates"
- come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place without incident"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"
- disappear gradually; "The pain eventually passed off"
- eliminat
Passion
- noun - a feeling of strong sexual desire
- a strong feeling or emotion
- an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
- any object of warm affection or devotion; "the theater was her first love"; "he has a passion for cock fighting";
- something that is desired intensely; "his rage for fame destroyed him"
- the suffering of Jesus at the Crucifixion
- the trait of being intensely emotional
Passive
- adjective - expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb; "academics seem to favor passive sentences"
- lacking in energy or will; "Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself"- George Meredith
- peacefully resistant in response to injustice; "passive resistance"
- the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb; "`The ball was thrown by the boy' uses the passive voice"; "`The ball was thrown' is an abbreviated passive"
Passkey
- noun - key that secures entrance everywhere
Passman
- - One who passes for a degree, without honors. See Classman, 2.
Pastels
- noun - any of various pale or light colors
Pastern
- noun - the part between the fetlock and the hoof
Pasters
- noun - a workman who pastes
- an adhesive label