passing reference

collocation in English

meaningsofpassingandreference

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passing
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈpɑː.sɪŋ/us
/ˈpæs.ɪŋ/
moving ...
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reference
noun
uk
/ˈref.ər.əns/us
/ˈref.ɚ.əns/
a mention ...
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(Definition ofpassingandreferencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpassing reference

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This book describes how current diagnostic approaches in children are based on adult criteria for schizophrenia with only apassingreferenceto developmental issues.
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Also, this article makes onlypassingreferenceto large commercial, financial and industrial entrepreneurs, and to the relationship between them and the great landowners.
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Africans are irrelevant and there is scarcely evenpassingreferenceto the more serious scholarship of the past forty years.
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There ispassingreferenceto trance and the use of musical instruments in rituals and more shamanic traditions.
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The published paper includes only apassingreferenceto immunocomputing as such but is an interesting application of the general approach that is presumably relevant to many robotics applications.
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I am less confident though that thepassingreferenceto computer-based methods of producing final maps, sections and reports will see the book through another ten years.
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This paper has made onlypassingreferenceto the challenges involved in interpreting research and using it in practice.
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Some of the big issues of the day, such as technological feasibility, environmental impact or the role of women in rural development, receive onlypassingreference.
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Trabant'spassingreferenceto an ' exaptive ' step lifts a corner of the carpet on a set of problems in evolutionary theory.
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His onlypassingreferencewas to a return of plenty.
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There has been only the briefestpassingreferencein the debate so far to cathedrals.
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I was concerned to find that the onlypassingreferencewas one to amending the criminal law, especially in relation to conspiracy.
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I am surprised that there has been onlypassingreferenceto it.
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Apassingreferenceis one thing, but choosing the dispute in the coal industry as the theme of a speech is quite another.
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That concerns the millions of families which are affected by unemployment and low pay—and time permits me to make only apassingreferenceto them.
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I start with apassingreferenceto the universities.
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To many of us it may appear a little unholy, but that is only apassingreference.
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Passingreferenceis one thing, but detail is another.
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I made apassingreferenceto what had already been said.
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