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noun
1.
a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
2.
a secondary pipe or other channel connected with a main passage, as for conducting a liquid or gas around a fixture, pipe, or appliance.
3.
Electricity. shunt (def. 9).
4.
a surgical procedure in which a diseased or obstructed hollow organ is temporarily or permanently circumvented. Compare coronary bypass, gastric bypass, heart-lung machine, intestinal bypass.
verb (used with object)
5.
to avoid (an obstruction, city, etc.) by following a bypass.
6.
to cause (fluid or gas) to follow a secondary pipe or bypass.
7.
to neglect to consult or to ignore the opinion or decision of: He bypassed the foreman and took his grievance straight to the owner.
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By-pass
is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
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Word Origin & History
bypass
1848, of certain pipes in a gasworks, from by + pass. First used 1922 for "road for the relief of congestion;" fig. sense is from 1928. The heart operation was first so-called 1957.
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Medical Dictionary
bypass by·pass (bī'pās')
n.
A passage created surgically to divert the flow of blood or other bodily fluid or to circumvent an obstructed or diseased organ.
A surgical procedure to create such a channel.
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Science Dictionary
bypass  (bī'pās') Pronunciation Key
(click for larger image in new window) A passage created surgically to divert the flow of blood or other bodily fluid or to circumvent an obstructed or diseased organ. |
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