Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense bypasses, present participle bypassing, past tense, past participle bypassed
1. verb
If you bypass someone or something that you would normally have to get involved with, you ignore them, often because you want to achieve something more quickly.
A growing number of employers are trying to bypass the unions altogether. [VERB noun]
Regulators worry that controls could easily be bypassed. [beVERB-ed]
Synonyms: get round, avoid, evade, circumvent [formal] More Synonyms of bypass
2. countable noun [oft NOUN noun]
A bypass is a surgical operation performed on or near the heart, in which the flow of blood is redirected so thatit does not flow through a part of the heart which is diseased or blocked.
...heart bypass surgery.
3. verb
If a surgeon bypasses a diseased artery or other part of the body, he or she performs an operation so that blood or otherbodily fluids do not flow through it.
Small veins are removed from the leg and used to bypass the blocked stretch of coronaryarteries. [VERB noun]
4. countable noun [oft in names]
A bypass is a main road which takes traffic around the edge of a town rather than through its centre.
A new bypass around the city is being built.
...the Hereford bypass.
Synonyms: ringroad, detour, alternative route, relief road More Synonyms of bypass
5. verb
If a road bypasses a place, it goes around it rather than through it.
...money for new roads to bypass cities. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: go round, skirt, circumvent, depart from More Synonyms of bypass
6. verb
If you bypass a place when you are travelling, you avoid going through it.
The rebel forces simply bypassed Zwedru on their way further south. [VERB noun]
bypass in British English
(ˈbaɪˌpɑːs)
noun
1.
a main road built to avoid a city or other congested area
2.
any system of pipes or conduits for redirecting the flow of a liquid
3.
a means of redirecting the flow of a substance around an appliance through which it would otherwise pass
4. surgery
a.
the redirection of blood flow, either to avoid a diseased blood vessel or in order to perform heart surgery
coronary bypass
b.
(as modifier)
bypass surgery
5. electronics
a.
an electrical circuit, esp one containing a capacitor, connected in parallel around one or more components, providing an alternative path for certain frequencies
b.
(as modifier)
a bypass capacitor
verbWord forms: -passes, -passing, -passed or -past(transitive)
6.
to go around or avoid (a city, obstruction, problem, etc)
7.
to cause (traffic, fluid, etc) to go through a bypass
8.
to proceed without reference to (regulations, a superior, etc); get round; avoid
bypass in American English
(ˈbaɪˌpæs)
noun
1.
a way, path, etc. between two points that avoids or is auxiliary to the main way; specif., an alternative highway route, as for skirting an urban area
2.
a pipe or channel providing an auxiliary passage for gas or liquid, as that leading to the pilot light in a gas stove
3. Electricity
shunt (sense 7)
4.
a.
a surgical operation to provide passage for a fluid, as blood, around a diseasedor blocked part or organ
: in full bypass operation
b.
such a passage
verb transitive
5.
to go around instead of through; use a bypass to avoid
6.
to furnish with a bypass
7.
to ignore, fail to consult, etc.
bypass in Mechanical Engineering
(baɪpæs)
Word forms: (plural) bypasses
noun
(Mechanical engineering: Fluid engineering)
A bypass is a way of diverting a flow of fluid around a system.
There has to be a bypass - another way for water to flow around the system if all the valves are closed.
A bypass is a system of pipes and valves permitting the diversion of flow or pressure arounda line valve.
A bypass is a way of diverting a flow of fluid around a system.
Examples of 'bypass' in a sentence
bypass
Then came quadruple heart bypass surgery, throat cancer and further heart attacks.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
They wanted to figure out if they improved (at an operation called coronary artery bypass graft) with each procedure performed.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The party chairman was seriously ill after a heart bypass operation when he signed them.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
They preferred to recruit their own personnel and bypass the government altogether.
Ogden, Philip E & White, Paul E (eds.) Migrants in Modern France: Population Mobility in the Later Nineteenth and TwentiethCenturies (1989)
It will encourage more and more to bypass the system for asylum.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
You are deftly bypassing this strenuous part of the process.
Vera Peiffer POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but wereafraid to put into practice (2001)
Who then should have coronary artery bypass grafting?
Petch, Dr Michael BMA Family Doctor Guide - Heart Disease (1989)
Are there any other new ways to bypass cash?
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The regulations after bypass surgery are similar.
Petch, Dr Michael BMA Family Doctor Guide - Heart Disease (1989)
Recently he had a heart bypass operation.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The man who once had heart bypass surgery declines to take a lift upstairs to his office.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
How much improvement can be expected from bypass surgery?
Pantano, James A. (MD) Living with Angina (1991)
Some of these commuters will end up with worse train services thanks to being bypassed by the new line.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The old cart road was bypassed in 1903 when the railway opened.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
She underwent coronary bypass surgery and was back in the classroom in six weeks, free of angina.
Pantano, James A. (MD) Living with Angina (1991)
Subsequent testing showed badly clogged coronary arteries, and it was time for my first coronary artery bypass surgery.
Kowalski, Robert E The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure (1990)
Second, they are already thinking about the coronary bypass surgery that is sure to be recommended at the end of the test.
Pantano, James A. (MD) Living with Angina (1991)
Bank officials say the US system would have bypassed the problem.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
They are usually paid directly, the money bypassing the tenant's pocket.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
While disruptive, these changes also expose you to ideas and offers that otherwise you'd have ignored or bypassed as being too troublesome.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
QE made it possible for larger businesses to raise money, bypassing banks, and made it cheaper for them to do so.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
In other languages
bypass
British English: bypass /ˈbaɪˌpɑːs/ NOUN
A bypass is a surgical operation performed on or near the heart, in which the flow of blood is redirected so that it does not flow through a part of the heart that is diseased or blocked.
...heart bypass surgery.
American English: bypass
Arabic: جِرَاحَةُ تـَحْوِيلِ مَجْرى الشَرْيان
Brazilian Portuguese: ponte de safena
Chinese: 旁路 医
Croatian: srčana premosnica
Czech: obchvat
Danish: bypassoperation
Dutch: bypass
European Spanish: bypass
Finnish: ohitustie
French: rocade
German: Umgehungsstraße
Greek: παράκαμψη
Italian: bypass
Japanese: バイパス
Korean: 우회로
Norwegian: omkjøring
Polish: bypass
European Portuguese: bypass
Romanian: by-pass
Russian: шунтирование
Latin American Spanish: bypass
Swedish: förbifartsled
Thai: ทางอ้อม
Turkish: çevre yolu
Ukrainian: шунтування
Vietnamese: đường vòng
British English: bypass VERB
ignore If you bypass someone or something that you would normally have to get involved with, you ignore them, often because you want to achieve something more quickly.
A growing number of employers are trying to bypass the unions altogether.
American English: bypass
Brazilian Portuguese: ignorar
Chinese: > 不顾为了更快地达成某事而
European Spanish: evitar
French: court-circuiter
German: umgehen
Italian: bypassare
Japanese: 無視する
Korean: 무시하다
European Portuguese: ignorar
Latin American Spanish: evitar
British English: bypass VERB
road If a road bypasses a place, it goes around it rather than through it.
...money for new roads to bypass cities.
American English: bypass
Brazilian Portuguese: evitar
Chinese: > 绕过为了更快地达成某事而
European Spanish: circunvalar
French: éviter
German: umgehen
Italian: girare attorno a
Japanese: 迂回する
Korean: 우회하다
European Portuguese: evitar
Latin American Spanish: circunvalar
All related terms of 'bypass'
bypass engine
a gas turbine in which a part of the compressor delivery bypasses the combustion zone , flowing directly into or around the main exhaust gas flow to provide additional thrust
bypass ratio
the ratio of the amount of air that bypasses the combustion chambers of an aircraft gas turbine to that passing through them
coronary bypass
the surgical bypass of a narrowed or blocked coronary artery by grafting a section of a healthy blood vessel taken from another part of the patient's body
gastric bypass
a surgical procedure by which all or part of the stomach is circumvented by anastomosis to the small intestine , performed to overcome obstruction or in the treatment of morbid obesity
bypass capacitor
a capacitor which provides a low-impedance path for alternating current while not passing any direct current
bypass operation
an operation involving redirection of blood flow , either to avoid a diseased blood vessel or in order to perform heart surgery
high bypass ratio engine
a type of by-pass engine in which a large fan driven by a turbine and housed in a short duct forces air rearwards around the exhaust gases in order to increase the propulsive thrust
turbofan
a type of bypass engine in which a large fan driven by a turbine and housed in a short duct forces air rearwards around the exhaust gases in order to increase the propulsive thrust
Chinese translation of 'bypass'
bypass
(ˈbaɪpɑːs)
n(c)
(Aut) 旁道 (pángdào) (条(條), tiáo)
(Med, = operation) 分流术(術) (fēnliúshù)
vt
[town][road, driver]绕过(過) (ràoguò)
(= ignore)[person, problem etc]避开(開) (bìkāi)
1 (verb)
Definition
to go around or avoid (a city, obstruction, problem, etc.)
Regulators worry that controls could easily be bypassed.
Synonyms
get round
avoid
He had ample time to swerve and avoid the hedgehog.
evade
He managed to evade the police for six months.
circumvent (formal)
Military rulers tried to circumvent the treaty.
outmanoeuvre
She has shown once again that she is capable of outmanoeuvring her opponents.
body-swerve
2 (verb)
Definition
to proceed without reference to (regulations or a superior)
Money for new roads to bypass cities.
Synonyms
go round
skirt
She skirted around the edge of the room to the door.
circumvent
depart from
deviate from
pass round
detour round
Opposites
meet
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unite
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join
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cross
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link
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touch
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connect
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come together
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adjoin
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converge
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intersect
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abut
(noun)
Definition
a main road built to avoid a city
A new bypass around the city is being built.
Synonyms
ringroad
detour
He made a detour around the outskirts of the city.
alternative route
relief road
Additional synonyms
in the sense of avoid
Definition
to keep out of the way of
He had ample time to swerve and avoid the hedgehog.
Synonyms
keep away from,
dodge,
shun,
evade,
steer clear of,
sidestep,
circumvent (formal),
bypass,
slip through the net,
body-swerve,
give a wide berth to
in the sense of circumvent
Definition
to avoid or get round (a rule, restriction, etc.)
Military rulers tried to circumvent the treaty.
Synonyms
evade,
bypass,
elude,
steer clear of,
sidestep
in the sense of detour
Definition
a deviation from a direct route or course of action
He made a detour around the outskirts of the city.