byen.1
/bʌɪ/, U.S. /baɪ/ 1. A term used in various games and sports:
a. Cricket. A run credited to the batting side as an extra (see extra n. 1), scored when a ball delivered by the bowler (not being called a wide) passes the striker without touching the bat or person, and the batters cross safely or the ball reaches the boundary. In early use also †bye ball, †bye run. Cf. boundary-bye at boundary n. 3c, leg bye n. at leg n. Compounds 2a.The definition of the bye has changed slightly over the history of the game. Byes were implied but not explicity named in the Laws until 1884, though leg byes had been defined since 1850. Before c 1850, byes as reckoned on scorecards could include leg-byes and wides. to steal a bye: to score a bye by starting to run early in anticipation of being able to make one's ground.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > [noun] > running > not off bat
bye1744
extra1855
sundry1860
extra1884
boundary-bye1887
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (intransitive)] > run as soon as ball passes
to steal a bye1857
1744 Scorecard: Slindon v. London 2 June (West Sussex Rec. Office: Goodwood 1885) Saved by bye Balls 8... They runnd Bye Balls 4.
1749 London Evening-post 6 July Five of Addington Club challenge any Five in England for Fifty Guineas, to play By-Balls and Overthrows.
1773 Surry Triumphant 21 Of near three hundred notches made..eight were byes.
1773 Kentish Gaz. 28 Aug. Bye Runs 7.
1838 Leeds Times 4 Aug. 5/4 Cobough..Wides, byes, and no balls 3.
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. viii. 388 He has stolen three byes in the first ten minutes.
1880 Times 28 Sept. 11/5 When a bye was obtained stumps were drawn.
1930 B. Johnston Let. 1 June in B. Johnston Letters Home 1926–45 (1998) 47 I didn't keep wicket badly, and let only 2 byes.
1971 Times 19 July 6/4 Although Glamorgan ran a bye, Surrey won by one run.
2005 D. Fraser Cricket & Law xiii. 135 Pakistan ran a bye off the last ball to win.
b. in Tennis, Boxing, Coursing, Cockfighting, etc.: The position of an individual, who, in consequence of the numbers being odd, is left without a competitor after the rest have been drawn in pairs. Hence the phrases to draw a bye, to run a bye, etc.
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society > leisure > sport > match or competition > take part in match or competition [verb (intransitive)] > engage in match or competition > types of
handicap1839
to run a bye1848
to run off1866
to play off1901
society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [noun] > position of player in competition
scratch1867
bye1883
1848 J. Craig New Universal Dict. (at cited word) In Coursing, a dog is said to ‘run a bye’ when it runs a course against another not in the match—thus equalising its runnings to the other dogs in the match.
1883 Field 22 Dec. 863 To do away with byes in the penultimate and final rounds of [lawn-tennis] matches.
1883 Field 22 Dec. 857 Sabrina then ran her bye, which she won.
1887 Daily News 23 Feb. 3/7 The latter had had the benefit of drawing the bye in the second round.
c. in Association Football, Lacrosse, etc.: A goal; a starting line. Also bye-line, the line extending the alignment of the goalposts.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > lacrosse > [noun] > parts of pitch
bye1841
goal crease1868
crease1897
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > marbles > [noun] > line from which players shoot
taw1735
bye1841
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > association football > [noun] > line extending alignment of goal-posts
bye-line1928
1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians II. xlix. 124 Erecting the ‘byes’ or goals which were to guide the play.
1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words By, the point or mark from which boys emit the marbles or taws. Yorksh.
1928 Sunday Express 16 Dec. 21/1 There was scarcely one who was not positive that the ball had passed the bye-line.
1959 Times 23 Feb. 3/2 Viollet pulled his pass back from the by-line.
1962 Times 6 Feb. 4/6 As is usual at the universities nowadays, the game [lacrosse] was played with side-lines and bye-lines.
d. A by-match or ‘event’; one not in the programme. esp. in Cockfighting: in full bye-battle (also transferred and figurative), as distinguished from the ‘main’: see main n.2 3.
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society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [noun] > types of
all comersc1450
after-gamea1500
fore-game1594
revenge1616
plate1639
set-to1743
return match1753
bye1754
scrub-race1791
anybody's game (also race, match)1826
return1834
barney1843
bonspiel1858
handicap1861
pennant1865
home-and-home1868
benefit match1871
run-off1873
international1877
American tournament1878
Grand Prix1879
single1884
friendly1885
all-comers1889
pair1890
championship1893
round robin1894
replay1895
Olympiad1896
junior varsity1902
lightning tournament1903
rematch1903
road trip1903
pickup1905
freestyle1906
marathon1908
test1908
Derby1909
scrimmage1910
eliminator1911
twosome1911
triala1914
quadrangular1916
slug-fest1916
varsity match1921
needle contest1922
curtain jerker1923
needle match1923
open1926
needle fight1927
knock-out1928
shirt1930
masters1933
pro-amateur1934
tune-up1934
World Cup1934
pro-am1937
state1941
sizzler1942
runathon1943
mismatch1954
run-out1955
match-up1959
squeaker1961
triple-header1961
Super Bowl1967
invitational1968
needle game1970
major1976
slobberknocker1986
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > fighting between animals > [noun] > cock-fighting > types of fight
Welsh main1744
bye1754
stag-match1758
1716 London Gaz. No. 5429/4 There will be By-Battles,..And in the Afternoon will begin the main Match.]
1754 Connoisseur (1755) No. 30. 178 Our present race of spindle-shanked beaux had rather close with an orange wench at the playhouse, than engage in a bye battle at Tottenham Court.
1859 W. P. Lennox Pict. Sporting Life I. 175 Eleven a-head on the main and byes seven.
1859 W. P. Lennox Pict. Sporting Life I. 175 On the usual fighting night..at the same pit, for bye-battles.
1882 R. Caldecott ‘Graphic’ Picts. I. 13/1 There were carpet-dances on off-nights by way of byes.
1884 Liverpool Daily Post 30 June 6/5 [Cockfighting] Some byes afterwards took place.
e. Golf. The hole or holes of the stipulated course that are unplayed when the match is finished.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > golf course > [noun] > hole for ball > unplayed when match is finished
bye1887
1887 Golfing 92 Bye. Any hole or holes that remain to be played after the match is finished, are played for singly; unless the sides agree to make another match of them.
1890 Sat. Rev. 31 May 666/1 Prestwick golfers of to-day do not play for such stakes as a soul on the round and a nose on the bye.
2. The name of a plot against the government of James I. (So called in opposition to the Main plot: the relation between the two is one of the disputed points in English history. Cf. by n.2 1.)
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the mind > will > intention > planning > plotting > [noun] > a plot > specific plots
bye1603
vault-treasona1610
Screw Plot1710
Gunpowder Plot1796
1603 in T. B. Howell State Trials (1816) II. 14 You are fools, you are on the bye, Raleigh and I are on the main; we mean to take away the king and his cubs.
1885 S. J. M. Low & F. S. Pulling Dict. Eng. Hist. (ed. 2) at Bye Plot It is certain that the Bye Plot had no connection with the Main or Raleigh's Plot.]
1886 C. E. Doble in T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1886) II. 436 Wm. Clarke was executed at Winchester, for his participation in ‘the Bye’, Nov. 29, 1603.
3. = bywater n.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > diamond > [noun] > inferior
bywater1878
bye1928
1928 J. R. Sutton Diamond 34 Yellow Diamond... Fine White. White. First Cape... First Bye.
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† byebyv.
Obsolete.
1. transitive. To pay for, atone for, make amends for; = abye v. 2, buy v. 3.See buy v. 3, for other examples.
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society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > atonement > atone for [verb (transitive)]
beetc897
i-bye10..
abyelOE
answer?a1300
buya1300
amendc1300
mendc1330
forbuy1340
redressa1387
answera1400
byea1400
filla1400
peasea1400
ransoma1400
to pay for——c1400
recompense?a1439
abidea1450
satisfyc1460
redeema1464
repaira1513
syth1513
reconcile1535
acquit1567
dispense1590
assoil1596
propitiate1610
expiatea1626
atone1661
retrievea1679
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 1146 Þou sal bye [Vesp. bi] hit selcouþ dere.
1561 T. Norton & T. Sackville Gorboduc (R.) Thou, Porrex, thou, shalt dearly bye the same.
2. absol. To pay the penalty, suffer; = abye v. 3.
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society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > atonement > atone [verb (intransitive)]
abyelOE
amendc1330
to make or do asseth1340
to make a seth(e1387
make amends and sethec1420
satisfyc1425
byec1440
to do or make greec1492
syth1513
reconcile1539
respond1789
repair1886
c1440 Sir Degrev. xlvii. 737 Sche said, Tratur, thou shalt bye! Why were thou so hardye To do me this vylanye?
3. intransitive. To remain, stay, abide; = abye v. 5 (confused with abide n.).
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the world > movement > absence of movement > [verb (intransitive)] > remain as opposed to go
bidec893
yleaveOE
leaveOE
wonc1000
abideOE
worthOE
beliveOE
atstutte-nc1220
stuttea1225
atstuntc1230
astinta1250
beleavea1325
lasta1325
stounda1325
stinta1340
joukc1374
restaya1382
to leave over1394
liec1400
byec1425
onbidec1430
keep1560
stay1575
delay1655
to wait on1773
stop1801
to sit on1815
to hang around1830
to stick around1878
to sit tight1897
remain1912
stay-down1948
c1425 Seven Sag. (P.) 1202 The fyve were out wente, And the twa at home thay byeth, For to do that he thaym bydeth.
1594 True Trag. Richard III 57 Captain Blunt, Peter Landoyse and you Shall by in quarters.
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byeint.n.2
/bʌɪ/, U.S. /baɪ/ A. int.
= goodbye int. Cf. bye-bye int.2 and n.2
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > courteous expressions [interjection] > expressions of farewell
farewell1377
farewell itc1385
adieua1393
vale?1555
da-da1573
addio1577
goodbye1578
bye1618
adios1635
bye-bye1639
day-day1697
ta-ta1823
ave1850
sayonara1863
hooray1898
cheero1903
toodle-oo1907
hurroo1913
cheerio1914
pip-pip1919
tooraloo1922
cheery-bye1930
cheers1937
tara1958
ciao1961
toodles1965
tatty-bye1971
toodle-pip1977
1618 N. Field Amends for Ladies ii. i. sig. C2v Fie, fie, you haue mistooke me quite, They are not for my turne (b'y mistris Seldome).
a1643 W. Cartwright Siedge ii. iv, in Comedies (1651) sig. H7 B'w'y' Lady of the Fan.
1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour v. i. 50 B'w'y' George.
1709 Tatler No. 2 For Hat and Sword He'd call, Then, after a faint Kiss,—cry, B'y, Dear Moll: Supper and Friends expect me.
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. iii. 18 B'wye, old gentleman, you're bound for the other world.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. ii. 239 Taking an amorous leave with By'e sweet Socrates, and By'e little Searchy.
1825 J. Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. 29 Bwye, and good-bwye, are, therefore, how vulgar soever they may seem, more analogous than bye and good-bye.
1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 151 Just as the door was closing, Mr O'Connor who had been staring moodily into the fire, called out suddenly: ‘'Bye, Joe.’
1955 A. Atkinson Exit Charlie (1957) v. 205 She drew out the envelope and gave it to him... ‘What's this?’ ‘Don't know! He just said to give it to you. 'Bye now—I have to go or I'll get shot!’
2005 J. Singleton Skinny B, Skaz & Me xv. 227 About five in the afternoon I slipped out of the house at the back, calling bye to Dad from the kitchen.
B. n.2
An utterance of ‘Bye’. Cf. goodbye n. 1, bye-bye n.2
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > [noun] > parting salutation
farewell1393
adieua1425
bonally1488
goodbye1575
vale1583
adios1592
valediction1619
ave1634
vale-dictum1638
sayonara1872
bye-bye1875
hasta la vista1888
valedictory1892
bye1935
arrivederci1938
1935 N. G. White Fields of Gomorrah i. xii. ii. 106 She seemed to want to say something else, but was unable to do so, and with a brief: ‘Bye!’ was gone.
1970 ‘M. Trotter’ in G. W. Goethals & D. S. Klos Experiencing Youth xxiii. 285 We exchanged ‘byes’, and I walked..back to the dorm, feeling sorry for myself.
2003 K. J. Harvey Town that forgot how to Breathe (2006) 171 He hung up just as Kim gave a slow heartfelt ‘Bye’.
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