bypass
IPA: bˈaɪpæs
noun
- 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.
verb
- To avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass.
- To ignore the usual channels or procedures.
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Examples of "bypass" in Sentences
- The town is bypassed to the east.
- The aim of sigils is to bypass the conscious mind.
- As a result, excrement bypasses the anal stricture.
- The Wellington bypass road and the Waterfront race.
- The bridge over the upper thoroughfare was bypassed.
- This allows the exhaled gas to bypass the absorbent.
- It was the thing about the Sutter Bypass and the acreage.
- To the northeast is the Northern Bypass of the ring road.
- He was rushed to emergency surgery for a quintuple bypass.
- The main thoroughfare through the area is the North Carolina Highway 11 Bypass.