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. Going past or around
3. A section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture
4. An electrical shunt
5. (medicine) An alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass

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
   • 1948 December 15, “Peace Talks”, in Evening Examiner‎, 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.

• antibypass
• bypasser
• coronary artery bypass

• pass by

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

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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014