By-product

Definition: By-product

By-product

Adverb

1. By a great deal; "he is the best by a long shot"; "his labors haven't ended there--not by a long shot" by all means adv : (informal) definitely or cert.

Noun

1. A secondary and sometimes unexpected consequence.

2. A product made during the manufacture of something else by a long shot.

Date "by-product" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references)

Domain	Definition
Business	Product of minor importance develloped simultaneously with another product in a manufacturing process or a working operation ; a secondary product obtained from the same raw materials during the manufacture of a main product or produced from residual materials. Source: European Union. (references)
Environment	Material, other than the principal product, generated as a consequence of an industrial process or as a breakdown product in a living system. (references)
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Synonyms: By-product

Synonyms: byproduct (n), spin-off (n). (additional references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Justice is a by-product of winning. (Law & Order; writing credit: Peter Yeldham)
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Domain	Title
Periodicals	Hydrocarbon And By-product Reserves In British Columbia (reference) (more periodical examples)
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	Hemosiderin, revealed here using PAS stain and H&E counterstain, is a normal by-product produced during the breakdown of red blood cells, and the decomposition of the hemoglobin molecule contained in these blood components. Credit: CDC.		Steel production. A steel mill worker. The operator at the controls of a pushing machine is responsible for cleaning coke from the ovens of an Eastern by-product plant. Republic, Youngstown. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Production. Copper. One of the gas-heater roasters at the Arthur mill of the Utah Copper Company where molybdenum concentrates are treated. Molybdenum is recovered as a by-product of the copper ore. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Yellow-colored substances produced by the human body as a by-product of digestion. (references)
		Although researchers still do not know whether amyloid plaques themselves cause AD or whether they are a by-product of the AD process, there is evidence that amyloid deposition may be a central process in the disease. (references)
		Is waste storage or transport a problem? Cobalt 60 is manufactured in a commercial nuclear reactor, by exposing non-radioactive cobalt to intense radiation in the reactor core. Cesium 137 is a by-product of the manufacture of weapons-grade radioactive substances. (references)
Business		Sulfur, a by-product of this process, is sent to a palletizing facility in Jubail for both the domestic and export market. (references)
		With a new Korean government policy prohibiting bottom ash from being dumped into landfills in place, this by-product is rapidly accumulating in the areas adjacent to the Seoul metropolitan area's incineration facilities, threatening the environment and arousing the concern of local residents. (references)
		As a pure cost without a useful end or by-product, battery recycling will not voluntarily be undertaken in the UK. The battery industry is of the view, however, that local recycling will become a more commercial proposition when mixed battery feedstock becomes mercury-free, and the recent adoption of lower mercury tolerances across the EU will hasten this prospect. (references)
Economic History	Uae	The petrochemical plant will use as feedstock the ethane that the NGL plant produces as a by-product. (references)
	Kenya	Molasses, a by-product from sugar production, is processed into power alcohol, potable alcohol, and baker's yeast. (references)
	Russia	The region also has tremendous agricultural potential, and is considered one of the top areas of petroleum by-product and machinery production in Russia. (references)
Trade	Spain	While some agricultural commodities are duty free or subject to minimal duties, such as soybeans, sunflower seed, corn by-product and lumber, the great majority of agricultural products covered by the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and food products are subject to high duties or variable import levies which significantly restrict access to the Spanish market. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity. The student of history who has not been taught to expect the unexpected may justly boast himself inaccessible to the light. "In time of peace prepare for war" has a deeper meaning than is commonly discerned; it means, not merely that all things earthly have an end -- that change is the one immutable and eternal law -- but that the soil of peace is thickly sown with the seeds of war and singularly suited to their germination and growth. It was when Kubla Khan had decreed his "stately pleasure dome" -- when, that is to say, there were peace and fat feasting in Xanadu -- that he heard from afar Ancestral voices prophesying war. One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he read us this parable. Let us have a little less of "hands across the sea," and a little more of that elemental distrust that is the security of nations. War loves to come like a thief in the night; professions of eternal amity provide the night.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"By-product" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "By-product" is used about 178 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	178	23,220

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "by-product": product-by-product.
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Language		Translations for "by-product"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		副产物 (byproduct). (various references)

Danish		biprodukt. (various references)

Dutch		bij-produkt, bijprodukt. (various references)

Finnish		sivutuote (joint products). (various references)

French		sous-produit, produits accessoires, produit fatal. (various references)

German		Nebenprodukte (byproducts), Nebenprodukt (by product, byproduct, spin-off), Nebennutzung (accessory product, secondary yield), Nebenerzeugnis, Kuppelprodukt, Koppelprodukt. (various references)

Greek		παραπροϊόν, υποπροϊόν,παραπροϊόν, υποπροϊόν (by product). (various references)

Italian		sottoprodotto (by product, waste, waste product), prodotto secondario (spin-off), prodotto accessorio (accessory product, secondary yield). (various references)

Korean		부산물 (byproduct). (various references)

Manx		fo-hroar (catch crop). (various references)

Pig Latin		y-productbay

Portuguese		sub-produto, subproduto (byproduct, spinoff). (various references)

Russian		побочный продукт (attendee, by product, byproduct). (various references)

Spanish		subproducto (by product, spin-off), producto fatal, aprovechamientos secundarios (accessory product, secondary yield). (various references)

Swedish		biprodukt (by product, byproduct, spin-off). (various references)

Thai		กาก (dregs, lees, sludge). (various references)

Vietnamese		sản phẩm phụ. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	duh. (various references)
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: byproduct.
	Words within the letters "b-c-d-o-p-r-t-u-y"
	-2 letters: product.
	-3 letters: croupy, crypto, outcry.
	-4 letters: borty, corby, court, coypu, croup, crypt, curdy, dorty, doubt, dropt, duroc, outby, pouty, proud, roupy, turbo, updry.
	-5 letters: body, bort, bout, brut, buoy, burd, burp, bury, copy, cord, cory, coup, crop, crud, curb, curd, curt, doby, dopy, dorp, dory, doty, dour, drop, drub, duct, duro, duty, orby, port.
	Words containing the letters "b-c-d-o-p-r-t-u-y"
	+1 letter: byproducts.
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