bypass
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English *bypassen, *bipassen (suggested by past participle by-past, bipast), equivalent to by- + pass.
PronunciationEdit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbaɪpæs/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbaɪpɑːs/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Hyphenation: by‧pass
NounEdit
bypass (plural bypasses)
- A road that passes around something, such as a residential area or business district.
- The act of going past or around.
- A section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture.
- An electrical shunt.
- (medicine) An alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass.
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VerbEdit
bypass (third-person singular simple present bypasses, present participle bypassing, simple past and past participle bypassed)
- To avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass.
- To ignore the usual channels or procedures.
- 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.
- 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.
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ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unadapted borrowing from English bypass.
NounEdit
bypass m
Derived termsEdit
- bypassare (verb)
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unadapted borrowing from English bypass.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bypass m (plural bypasses or bypass)
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unadapted borrowing from English bypass.
NounEdit
bypass n (plural bypassuri)
DeclensionEdit
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) bypass | bypassul | (niște) bypassuri | bypassurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) bypass | bypassului | (unor) bypassuri | bypassurilor |
vocative | bypassule | bypassurilor |
SpanishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unadapted borrowing from English bypass.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bypass m (plural bypass)
Usage notesEdit
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.
Further readingEdit
- “bypass”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014