See also: by-pass

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From Middle English *bypassen, *bipassen (suggested by past participle by-past, bipast), equivalent to by- +‎ pass.

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bypass (plural bypasses)

  1. A road that passes around something, such as a residential area or business district.
  2. A replacement road for obsolete road that is no longer in use because devastating natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides).
  3. The act of going past or around.
  4. A section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture.
  5. An electrical shunt.
  6. (medicine) An alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass.

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bypass (third-person singular simple present bypasses, present participle bypassing, simple past and past participle bypassed)

  1. To avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass.
  2. To ignore the usual channels or procedures.
    • 1606, William Warner, “The Fourteenth Booke. Chapter LXXXII.”, in A Continuance of Albions England: [], London: [] Felix Kyngston [and Richard Bradock?] for George Potter, [], →OCLC, page 344:
      More to theyr proper Elements inaugurated none, / Than ſhee to hers by-paſſed, he to his poſſeſſed Throne.
    • 1948 December 15, “Peace Talks”, in Evening Examiner[1], volume XCVII, number 139, Petersborough, page 2, column 1:
      Another force, also from the east, has by-passed Peiping and is striking southward. It apparently intends to swing eastward to form a junction, which probably will be effected near Langfang, on the railroad 30 miles southeast of Peiping.
    • 2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 52:
      Thanks to Brexit, many ferry companies now run direct from Ireland to the EU mainland, bypassing UK ports such as Fishguard, with an impact on traffic.

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Basque

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From English bypass.

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bypass inan

  1. (medicine) bypass

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Italian

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Unadapted borrowing from English bypass.

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bypass m

  1. bypass

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Portuguese

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Unadapted borrowing from English bypass.

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bypass m (plural bypasses or bypass)

  1. (medicine) bypass (a passage created around a damaged organ)
    Synonym: ponte

Romanian

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Unadapted borrowing from English bypass.

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bypass n (plural bypassuri)

  1. (medicine) bypass

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Spanish

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Unadapted borrowing from English bypass.

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bypass m (plural bypass)

  1. bypass

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According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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