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pass completion

pæs kəmˈpliʃən
WordNet
  1. (n) pass completion
    (American football) a successful forward pass in football
Quotations
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Usage in the news

Conditions at Lexington, Blue Grass Airport, KY. Last season, Western Kentucky's KawaunJakes struggled to find his rhythm with new coach Willie Taggart'sWest Coast offense, completing 51 percent of his passes for 140yards per game. kyt.com

The San Francisco 49ers' Alex Smith completed 18 of 19 passes with three touchdowns in Week 8. espn.go.com

QB Wilson completes 16 of 24 passes for 173 yards. koat.com

Saints star quarterback Drew Brees had a rough night in Denver on Sunday, completing only 22-of-42 passes against the Broncos. denverpost.com

In his final two preseason games, Colin Kaepernick completed for 16 of 22 passes for 238 yards with two touchdowns. blog.sfgate.com

On Morrison 's next drive, Collins completed a pass to Conklin that would have put it inside the Wynnewood 30. stwnewspress.com

Freeman has completed 8 of 14 passes of 15 yards or more and is averaging 15.9 yards per attempt in those situations. espn.go.com

Trinity quarterback Allen Wood completed his first 16 passes and the red-hot Wildcat offense scored on its first three possessions to defeat Northside 34-13 in the first round of the Class 3A playoffs at Boykin Field on Friday night. montgomeryadvertiser.com

In the 10th game, the creative passing game was almost completely absent. elpasotimes.com

Denver wide receiver Rod Smith pulls in a 32-yard pass as Pittsburgh safety Troy Polamalu tries to break up the completion. ktuu.com

With the combination of McBryde's instruction, working as an EMT and receiving help from the paramedics on staff at OCH, Smith completed the program and passed the rigorous national registry exam for paramedics . meridianstar.com

Answering a mailbag question about Kalil, ESPN's Adam Schefter believes that the Vikings will pass on Kalil completely. gr550.com

Quarterback Matt Christian completed seven of seven pass attempts for 150 yards in the first quarter. lcsun-news.com

As a punter, Johnny Hekker has a perfect passer rating of 158.3 after completing two more passes during Sunday's 24-24 tie to the 49ers. kmov.com

Stave only passed six times, completing two. jsonline.com

Usage in scientific papers

As in the proof of Lemma 4.8 we pass to the completion of the local ring at a in Y .
Resolution of singularities of pairs preserving semi-simple normal crossings

Vilenchik: Complete convergence of message passing algorithms for some satisfiability probl ems.
Catching the k-NAESAT Threshold

By passing to the completion, we may assume that R = V /H , where (V, n) is a regular local ring.
Generalized Hilbert Functions

To complete the inductive step, we take (X, Y ) = ((X ′ ∪ L, Y ′ ∪ R2 ) (X ′ ∪ R1 , Y ′ ) Here, R1 is a rational normal curve of degree r that is (r + 2)-secant to X ′ , and L is a 1-secant line to X ′ , and R2 is a rational normal curve of degree r − 1 intersecting Y ′ in r + 1 points and passing through L ∩ H .
The Maximal Rank Conjecture for Sections of Curves

By faithfully flat descent, we may pass to the completion of R, and therefore assume from the start that R is complete.
Semi-addivitity and acyclicity

Usage in literature

Lunch, the afternoon, tea, all passed by, and I was completely undisturbed. "The Five Jars" by Montague Rhodes James

But long hours passed ere complete consciousness returned, and the poor wayfarer was able to tell her simple story. "Chatterbox, 1906" by Various

And even now he was bringing to pass its completion. "The Return of Peter Grimm" by David Belasco

And now it remained for the nation, through a Presidential election, to pass upon the completed work. "The Negro and the Nation" by George S. Merriam

Afterwards, in the excitement of our cousins' visit, the matter passed out of my mind completely. "Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901" by Lucy Maud Montgomery

A branch of this road is completed through Bolan Pass nearly to Kandahar. "Commercial Geography" by Jacques W. Redway

This place is completely overrun by soldiers passing and repassing. "A Confederate Girl's Diary" by Sarah Margan Dawson

Before these last two surrenders completed the long list of captured ships, Nelson had passed away. "Famous Sea Fights" by John Richard Hale

The thick foliage so completely concealed him, however, that an Indian spy might have passed under the tree without suspecting his presence. "The Tiger Hunter" by Mayne Reid

Cracks, large enough for bees to pass through, are sometimes completely filled with it. "Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained" by M. Quinby

Usage in poetry
No upstart hero may usurp
That honoured swinging seat;
His seasons pass with pipe and glass
Until the tale's complete.
His rounded day, a pearl complete,
Gleams on the unknown night that lowers;
O summer time so passing sweet,
But languid with the fervent heat!
Telephus? Oh, tush! Pass him up completely!
Telly's such a swell; Telly doesn't love you;
Telly is a trifler; Telly's running round with
Some other fairy.
"And hung in the heavenly orchard, bright,
None-such, complete.
Then, while the Ewe
Slow passed the Bend, a blur of light,
The Shepherd's face in sadness grew:
The shades of night were falling fast,
As through an Eastern village passed
A youth who bore, through dust and heat,
A stencil-plate, that read complete--"SAPOLIO."
This new Katterfelto, his show to complete,
Means his boats should all sink as they pass by our fleet;
Then, as under the ocean their course they steer right on,
They can pepper their foes from the bed of old Triton.
Derry down.