Meaning

6 senses
  1. A road that passes around something, such as a residential area or business district.

    Umgehung, Umgehungsstraße

    обхо́дobxód, обходно́й путьobxodnój putʹ, обходна́я доро́гаobxodnája doróga

  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.

    байпа́сbajpás

  5. An electrical shunt.

    байпа́сbajpás, шунтšunt

  6. An alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass.

    Bypass

    шунтированиеšuntirovanije, байпа́сbajpás, экстракорпоральное кровообращениеekstrakorporalʹnoje krovoobraščenije

    a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part)

Examples

16 sentences
  1. Tom needed bypass surgery.

  2. I managed to bypass the geoblocking on that site.

    Мені вдалося обійти геоблокування на цьому сайті. — ninefi

    ruМне удалось обойти геоблокировку на этом сайте. — ninefi

  3. It's no good trying to bypass the problem.

  4. Yanni wants to bypass all that small talk.

  5. A bypass allows more blood to flow to the heart.

    deEin Bypass ermöglicht einen höheren Blutfluss zum Herzen. — bigfellow68

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 5
circumvention:
road:
section of pipe:
electrical shunt:
alternative passage for a bodily fluid:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
circumvention:
road:
alternative passage for a bodily fluid:

Origin

From Middle English *bypassen, *bipassen (suggested by past participle by-past, bipast), e

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

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Forms

plural: bypasses

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center:beltwayring roadringway
  • a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current:shuntelectrical shunt

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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