bypass

noun

1. 1

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

2. 2

   A replacement road for obsolete road that is no longer in use because devastating natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides).

3. 3

   The act of going past or around.

4. 4

   A section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture.

5. 5

   An electrical shunt.

6. 6

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

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

verb

1. 1

   To avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass.

2. 2

   To ignore the usual channels or procedures.

   More to theyr proper Elements inaugurated none, / Than ſhee to hers by-paſſed, he to his poſſeſſed Throne.

   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.

   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.

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

Forms

plural

bypasses

past tense

bypassed

past participle

bypassed

present participle

bypassing

third person singular

bypasses