bye
IPA: bˈaɪ
noun
- The position of a person or team in a tournament or competition who draws no opponent in a particular round so advances to the next round unopposed, or is awarded points for a win in a league table; also the phantom opponent of such a person or team.
- (cricket) An extra scored when the batsmen take runs after the ball has passed the striker without hitting either the bat or the batsman.
- (obsolete) A thing not directly aimed at; a secondary or subsidiary object, course, path, undertaking, issue, etc.
- (Scotland) An unspecified way or place.
- (card games) A pass.
- A surname.
- Eye dialect spelling of boy. [A young male human.]
- Obsolete spelling of bee [A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey.]
adjective
- Out of the way; remote.
- Secondary; supplementary.
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Examples of "bye" in Sentences
- They received a bye in the first round.
- The team received a bye to the playoff finals.
- ♫♫ Let the circle be unbroken, by & by Lord, bye& bye ♫♫
- He received a bye in the first round of the preliminaries.
- By the bye, I still prefer the large size for the picture.
- This garnered them a bye in the first round of the playoffs.
- Bye the way, the article is beautifully written on the whole.
- The Buccaneers had their scheduled bye the weekend of November 11.
- In the finals, the Young Guns were given a bye in the first round.
- Akratopoulos had a bye in the first round of the singles tournament.
- The top 4 teams during the regular season receive a bye to the quarterfinals.
- February 11th, 2010 at 6: 42 pm tombaker says: mr. bye bye is ruled by fear. what a shame.
- • Maybe a playoff bye is like key lime pie: looks great, but not necessarily good for you.
- An acceptance to an anthology and a personal good-bye from a person who moved away instead of just an invite to the going away party.
- One was essentially an obituary, a fond and sympathetic good-bye from a fellow writer who admired his talent and thought of him as a friend.
- Saying good bye is really really really really really really hard but its a little bit easier the more hugs you give and if you know you will see them again … Soon Durnit!
- In Marshallese, the language of Bikini Atoll, hello and bye alike are conveyed in the word kwe, which also means love.i In English, the expression bye was once similarly fulsome: God be with you.
- During the first hour I felt pain, but during the rest of the evening pride kindly came to my assistance and from that moment instead of feeling myself little, I grew to a most noble and patagonian [3] nature, from which I could scarcely reduce myself for many days after; and which enabled me at the moment to turn a deaf ear to the contended merits of Demosthenes and Cicero, the Borhavians in medicine, and the &c &c &c &c — and to set and compose verses 'to my Old Oak table', which by the bye is a far better companion to me, as I will make appear, than Dr. A and his son put together.
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