bypass

Speech parts

1. bypass - Noun

2. bypass - Verb

Meaning

a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center

a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current

a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part)

avoid something unpleasant or laborious

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

beltway shunt get around ring road miss burke dodge duck cut shun weasel avoid escape slight deviation
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Antonyms

center centre sleuth process line study
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Hypernyms

highway conductor avoid shunt main road

Phrases with the word

Bypass surgery bypass passage femoral artery bypass coronary artery bypass grafting bypass trust non-bypass

Derivatives

bypast

Examples

Finding a mechanism does not bypass the problem of induction. Simon Blackburn

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be developing new technologies to bypass government sensors and barriers to the Internet; but instead, they agreed to guard the gates themselves. Tom Lantos

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity. Tom Lehrer

Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything. Ornette Coleman

If you run too fast you bypass a safe place you would have hidden yourself. African Proverb

Bypass monks with a big stride; have nothing to do with priests, except at Mass. Sicilian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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