bypass
or by-pass
a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
a secondary pipe or other channel connected with a main passage, as for conducting a liquid or gas around a fixture, pipe, or appliance.
Electricity. shunt (def. 9).
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.
to avoid (an obstruction, city, etc.) by following a bypass.
to cause (fluid or gas) to follow a secondary pipe or bypass.
to neglect to consult or to ignore the opinion or decision of: He bypassed the foreman and took his grievance straight to the owner.
Origin of bypass
1Other words from bypass
- bypasser, by-passer, noun
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How to use bypass in a sentence
Floating in the fog of privilege, all sorts of voguish developments in language control bypassed me.
While most industries have added jobs over the past three years, the recovery has largely bypassed the government sector.
Michael Grunwald's The New New Deal is an important book in danger of being bypassed by events.
Room canceled, fee bypassed, integrity (virtually) unharmed.
12 Hotel Secrets by Hotel Staffs, From Minibar ‘Refills’ to Ritz-Carlton Largesse | Abby Haglage | August 22, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIn the last 24 hours, two boats bypassed Lampedusa and limped into the port of Catania on the Sicilian island.
Somehow, the signal wire had been bypassed, to keep the operators from knowing the drone control was inoperative.
The Scarlet Lake Mystery | Harold Leland GoodwinA check on diverging evolutions, they had called it—uncounted thousands of suns without planets, bypassed.
An Empty Bottle | Mari WolfTo the whites' disappointment, the Indians had bypassed Saukenuk, doubtless aware that the militia had come out against them.
Shaman | Robert SheaThen the bespectacled customs official who had bypassed quarantine for Black Eyes, got in touch with the authorities.
Black Eyes and the Daily Grind | Milton LesserValleyview had been bypassed quite some time ago by one of the new super-duper highways.
The Servant Problem | Robert F. Young
British Dictionary definitions for bypass
/ (ˈbaɪˌpɑːs) /
a main road built to avoid a city or other congested area
any system of pipes or conduits for redirecting the flow of a liquid
a means of redirecting the flow of a substance around an appliance through which it would otherwise pass
surgery
the redirection of blood flow, either to avoid a diseased blood vessel or in order to perform heart surgery: See coronary bypass
(as modifier): bypass surgery
electronics
an electrical circuit, esp one containing a capacitor, connected in parallel around one or more components, providing an alternative path for certain frequencies
(as modifier): a bypass capacitor
to go around or avoid (a city, obstruction, problem, etc)
to cause (traffic, fluid, etc) to go through a bypass
to proceed without reference to (regulations, a superior, etc); get round; avoid
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Scientific definitions for bypass
[ bī′păs′ ]
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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