Passing and Transit

Passing

Passing noun - The permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities.

Transit is a synonym for passing in movement topic. In some cases you can use "Transit" instead a noun "Passing".

Nearby Words: pass, passage, passed, passable, passingly

Transit

Transit noun - A journey usually by ship.
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Synonyms for Transit

Passing is a synonym for transit in moving topic. You can use "Passing" instead the word "Transit" as a noun or an adjective.

Nearby Words: transport, transition, transited, transitive, transitively

How words are described

complicated complicated passing complicated transit
nuclear nuclear passing nuclear transit

Both words in one sentence

  • Gratuitous Latin: While lamenting the passing of Summer and the return of school, the children sing the phrase "Sic transit gloria mundi" which translates to "Thus passes the glory of the world".
  • And to reach the place you have to transit through the Great Nebula, where the locals treat you as an invader in spite of being just passing through and willing to leave without damaging anything.
  • Vein-O-Vision Pulse oximeters evaluate a person's oxygen saturation by passing paired beams of light through the subject's fingertip to a photodetector, then calculating how much light from each beam - one the color of oxygenated blood, the other lacking that hue - was blocked in transit.
    Source: Vein-O-Vision
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