bypass

• by-pass

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

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪpæs/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪpɑːs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: by‧pass

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.
   • 1989, Antonio Strano, Salvatore Novo, editors, Advances in Vascular Pathology 1989: Proceedings of the 15th World Congress of the International Union of Angiology, Rome, 17–22 September 1989, volume 1, Excerpta Medica, →ISBN, page 483, →ISBN:

     Five of the 16 patients required simultaneous FF bypass and iliaco-femoral bypass; 2, required simultaneous FF bypass and iliac thrombo-endoarterectomy (Table II).

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.

   • 1963 April, Robert Silverberg, “To See the Invisible Man”, in Frederik Pohl, editor, Worlds of Tomorrow, volume 1, number 1, New York, N.Y.: The Barmaray Co., Inc., →ISSN, page 155, column 1:

     I never got seated. 1 stood in the entrance half an hour, bypassed again and again by a maitre d’hotel who had clearly been through all this many times before. Walking to a seat, I realized, would gain me nothing. No waiter would take my order.

   • 2000, George Abe, Residential Broadband, Cisco Systems, →ISBN:

     Datacasting bypasses the wired, terrestrial Internet and is a cheaper way to distribute software than pressing and mailing CDs.

   • 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.

   • 2023 June 14, Brenda Goodman, “Scientists report creation of first human synthetic model embryos”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     A team of researchers in the United States and United Kingdom say they have created the world’s first synthetic human embryo-like structures from stem cells, bypassing the need for eggs and sperm.

• pass by

From English bypass.

• IPA^(key): /bai̯pas̺/ [bai̯.pas̺]
• Rhymes: -ai̯pas̺, -as̺

bypass inan

1. (medicine) bypass

• “bypass”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

Unadapted borrowing from English bypass.

bypass m

1. bypass

• bypassare (verb)

Unadapted borrowing from English bypass.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌbaj.ˈpɛs/

bypass m (plural bypasses or bypass)

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

   Synonym: ponte

Unadapted borrowing from English bypass.

bypass n (plural bypassuri)

1. (medicine) bypass

• baipás

Unadapted borrowing from English bypass.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaipas/ [ˈbai̯.pas]
• Rhymes: -aipas

bypass m (plural bypass)

1. bypass

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.

• “bypass”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024