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Definition: Bypass |
BypassNoun1. A road that takes traffic around the edge of a town. 2. A surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part). 3. A conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current. Verb1. Avoid something unpleasant or laborious; "You cannot bypass these rules!". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bypass" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
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Energy | An alternative path. In a heating duct or pipe, an alternative path for the flow of the heat transfer fluid from one point to another, as determined by the opening or closing of control valves both in the primary line and the bypass line. (references) |
Health | A surgical procedure in which the doctor creates a new pathway for the flow of body fluids. (references) |
Industry | Suitable --. . . show that one, two or three cleaning elements. . instead of six. . in the opening-cleaning lines may be used as required by the stock being processed. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Recent opening installation have generally shown a tendency toward multiple feeders and arrangements whereby some cleaning stages could be bypassed when the condition of the cotton. . . justified less c leaning. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A. A short passage used to get by or around a place it is not advisable to cross; e.g., a mine shaft. Also spelled byepass. b. To pass to the side of an obstruction in a borehole by deflecting the hole. Syn:drill by c. An alternative path, in a duct or pipe, for a fluid to flow from one point to another, with the direction determined by the opening or closing of valves or dampers in the main line as well as in the bypass d. An arrangement of screens and chutes, or of piping, allowing material to be passed around a given part of a flow line. Much used to avoid feeding fine ore through a relatively coarse crusher, thus reducing load, wear, and chance of blockage e.g., a mine shaft. Also spelled byepass. b. To pass to the side of an obstruction in a borehole by deflecting the hole. Syn:drill by c. An alternative path, in a duct or pipe, for a fluid to flow from one point to another, with the direction determined by the opening or closing of valves or dampers in the main line as well as in the bypass. (references) |
Post & Telecom | The direct connection to customer-premises equipment by an IC. This occurs when an IC connects its own facilities(or facilities leased from a non-BOC entity)directly to an end user's premises, circumventing the use of the BOC network. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A Bypass is a highway that avoids (passes by) an urbanized area to allow through traffic to flow without interference from local traffic. However, in the absence of strong land use controls, the bypass may become just as congested as the local streets it was intended to avoid.
In telecommunication, the term bypass has the following meanings:
1. The use of any telecommunications facilities or services that circumvents those of the local exchange common carrier.
Note: Bypass facilities or services may be either customer-provided or vendor-supplied.
2. An alternate circuit that is routed around equipment or system component.
Note: Bypasses are often used to allow system operation to continue when the bypassed equipment or a system component is inoperable or unavailable.
Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188
A heart bypass is a surgical procedure. See Coronary artery bypass surgery.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bypass."
Synonyms: BypassSynonyms: circumferential (n), electrical shunt (n), ring road (n), shunt (n), get around (v), go around (v), short-circuit (v). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | Homer, I'm afraid you'll have to undergo a coronary bypass operation. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bypass to Happiness (1935) | |
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Health | These studies show, for example, how well patients do after having heart bypass surgery. (references) | |
If angioplasty does not widen the artery or if complications occur, bypass surgery may be needed. (references) | ||
Biliary-pancreatic bypass includes a gastric restriction and diverts bile and pancreatic juice into the distal ileum. (references) | ||
Business | This situation provides present enterprises with the opportunity to bypass outdated technology in favor of modern solutions. (references) | |
To meet the exploding demand for high-speed Internet (and other data services), InfoSat chose to use satellites to bypass the terrestrial network. (references) | ||
In order to attain, and then lengthen, medical consultations from quality doctors at high end hospitals, many Chinese patients must use connections (guanxi) to bypass standard procedures- they choose to "zuo hou menr" or "use the backdoor"- and pass on the hong bao. One informed source stated that some doctors in Southern China are reported to earn between RMB1-2 million a year from the hong bao, while the average doctor's salary is RMB2,000-3,000 per month. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Indonesia | Customs forms require entrants into the country to declare possession of Chinese publications, although significant amounts of material bypass customs and censorship procedures. (references) |
Belarus | On September 9, the day of the Presidential election, many media Web sites were inaccessible within Belarus until midday, when a technical bypass was found and access was resumed. (references) | |
Zambia | The media have criticized these provisions as a clear infringement of press freedom and as a means for parliamentarians to bypass the court system in dealing with libel suits against the media. (references) | |
Economic History | Ecuador | Call-back and bypass services are illegal. (references) |
India | The FII's can bypass brokers and deal directly with companies in open offers. (references) | |
France | The arrival of the next generation satellite networks will allow competitors to bypass the local loop without requiring circuit switching. (references) | |
Human Rights | Haiti | In his address, he called on police and citizens to bypass the judicial system if they caught persons in the act of committing a crime. (references) |
Political Economy | Haiti | In June President Aristide, reacting to a sharp increase in crime and insecurity, announced a policy of "zero tolerance," urging police and citizens to bypass the judicial system if they caught alleged perpetrators in the commission of a crime. (references) |
Political Rights | Russia | Campaigns pay "under the table" for stories favorable to their candidate, which allows them to bypass limits on campaign spending. (references) |
Worker Rights | China | As in other areas of the country, officials have admitted that some foreign investors in the SEZ's are able to negotiate "sweetheart" deals with local partners that effectively bypass labor regulations. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | New laser techniques could revolutionize heart bypass surgery, cut diagnosis time for viruses linked to cancer from weeks to minutes, reduce hospital costs dramatically, and hold out new promise for saving human lives. |
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| "Bypass" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 71.01% of the time. "Bypass" is used about 582 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) | 71.01% | 414 | 13,664 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 21.27% | 124 | 28,785 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.29% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.26% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.17% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 582 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "bypass": bypass capacitor ♦ bypass condenser ♦ bypass diode ♦ bypass engine ♦ bypass operation ♦ bypass ratio ♦ bypass taxiway ♦ bypass valve ♦ Cardiopulmonary Bypass ♦ Coronary Artery Bypass ♦ coronary artery bypass graft ♦ coronary bypass ♦ coronary bypass surgery ♦ Gastric bypass ♦ have bypass surgery ♦ HP bypass station ♦ intestinal bypass ♦ Jejunoileal Bypass ♦ minimally invasive coronary bypass surgery ♦ Roux-en-Y bypass ♦ to bypass. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "bypass": bypass-lopper. | |
Ending with "bypass": cardiac-bypass, heart-bypass, triple-bypass. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "bypass"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | bie rrotull (double), bajpas, shunt, shmang (avert, avoid, deflect, elude, evade, fend off, help, obviate, shun, ward off), rrugë anësore (byroad, bystreet, byway, turning), kapërcej (climb over, cross, exceed, fight off, get over, go one better than, hop, lap, leap, leave out, miss out, outdo, overbalance, overcome, overmaster, overpower, span, surmount, transcend, turn, vault), kaloj në rrugë anësore, kalim anësor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مجزئ التيار, مجرى جانبى, تجنب (avert, avoid, avoidance, ditch, duck, eschew, eschewal, evade, evasion, fence, fight shy of, flee, get round, give a wide berth, hide, miss, obviate, outrun, parry, put off, save, shirk, shuffle, shun, shy, sidestep, steer clear of, waive), طريق جانبي (side road, sideway, turnoff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | шунт (shunt), околовръстен канал, околен път (meanders), обходна пътека, не вземам под внимание (write off), заобикалям (beat, begird, beset, bridge, circumambulate, circumnavigate, circumvent, compass, double, elude, encircle, environ, evade, get round, gird, girdle, leapfrog, make a detour, pass round, round, short circuit, sidestep, skirt, stretch, surround, work round), задминавам (distance, gain on, leave behind, outrival, overhaul, pass, ride down), подминавам (omit, skip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 旁路 (By-pass). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | bypass, vyhnout se (dodge, elude, evade, fend off, gloss over, head off, obviate, opt, put by, shirk, sidestep), vybudovat objízdnou komunikaci, objet (skirt), objízdná komunikace, obcházet (circumvent, get round, go round, walk about, walk around), mimobìžná silnice. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | bypass-operation (bypass operation), bypass-anastomose (bypass operation), bypass (bypass operation), omfoering, forgrening (branch, branching, junction, leg, ramification, side chain, side road, signing intersection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | bypass operatie (bypass operation), bypass (bypass operation), shuntoperatie (bypass operation), shunt (shunt), parallelplastiek (bypass operation), omloopleiding, omleiden (bypassing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | shuntti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | by-pass (by-pass, bypass bore), by pass, bretelle de contournement (pass by), bi-pass, route de contournement, pontage (bypass operation), opération de dérivation (bypass operation), dérivation (by-pass, bypass operation), court-circuiter, chemin de contournement, éviter d'utiliser. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | umgehung (avoidance, by passing, bypassing, circumvention, evasion, getting round, going round, outflanking, ring road), umgehen (avoid, be about, circulate, circumvent, close in, coddle, elude, evade, get round, go about, go around, go round, haunt, obviate, outflank, to bypass, to circumvent, to elude, walk), bypass (bypass operation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πάροδοσ (by road, bystreet, byway, crossroad, side road), πλάγια οδόσ, παράκαμψη (by-passing, circumvention, detour), παρακαμπτήριοσ οδόσ, εγχείρηση παράκαμψης (bypass operation), εγχείρηση αναστόμωσης (bypass operation), αναστόμωση (anastomosis, bypass operation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מעקף (detour), לעקוף (by pass, detour, evade, go round, surround), עקיפ" (circumvention, evasion, overtaking), עקוף (circumvention, roundabout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mellékút (by-pass, by-pass road, byroad, byway, feeder, off road, side road), megkerül (be found, compass, get around, outflank, put by, to by-pass, to circle, to circumvent, to compass, to get around, to get round, to pass round, to round), kitérõ (elusory, evasive), kikerül (eschew, to by-pass, to dodge, to emerge, to eschew, to jink, to sidestep), kerülõút (detour, indirection, roundabout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | derivazione (derivation, derivative, derive, lineage, origin, shunt, shunting), bipasso. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | バイキング料理 (bicology, bicycle motocross, bike, binary, binary dump, binary file, bin-aural, binder, bisexual, bite, byte, byte swap, byte-code, byte-compile, motorcycle, smorgasbord, viper, vitality, work), 抜け裏 (byway). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | バイパス , ぬけうら (byway). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 우회 (By-pass, Detour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ypassbay vereda (Lane, path, pathetic, patience), passar por cima de (go right home, override, overstock), passagem secundária, não cumprir, iludir (avoid, baffle, beguile, bluff, catch, cheat, deceive, delude, dodger, double cross, elude, ensoul, evade taxes, hocus pocus, humbug, impose, lie, mystify, outwit, sklent, trick, wile), ignorar (disregard, dissembler, ignore, leave this matter, turn a blind eye to), evitar (abstain, avert, avoid, elude, eschew, evade, fence, flee, foil, forbear, funky, give a cold shoulder to, keep off, Parry, preclude, prevent, refrain, shirk, shun, stave off, to avoid, turn a cold shoulder to), escapar (come off, dodge, escape, evade, flee, get away, get away with, leave out, omit, overlook, run away, run off), derivação (bifurcation, derivation, offshoot, twig), dar a volta, /abocamento (shunt). (various references) шунт, объезжать (detoured), обходить (circumvent, envelop, evade, get around, get over, get round, outflank, sidestep, sidestepped, sidesteps), обход (encircling manoeuvre, flanker, go round, go-round, pass-by, perambulation, round, visiting round, workarounds), обводный канал, идти обходным путем (fetch a compass, go a compass). (various references) baj-pas, zaobilazak (circumvention, detour, indirection), zaobići (circumvent, outflank), šant (shunt). (various references) derivación (branch, branching, derivation, shunt, tap). (various references) förbikoppla. (various references) ทางอ้อม. (various references) bertaraf etmek (eliminate), yan geçit, kestirme yol (beeline, cutoff, shortcut), kanın geçebileceği ikinci yol, ikinci yol yapmak, dolambaçlı yoldan gitmek (make a detour, meander), atlatmak (beat smb. to it, circumvent, come through, dish, dodge, escape, get over, give smb. the slip, jump, let down, outride, outwit, overcome, Parry, pull through, put off, shake, skip, slip, stall off, take, throw off, tide over, turn, ward off), atlatma (circumvention, overcome, Parry, run around, scoop), aşma borusu. (various references) sun lỗ phun hơi đốt phụ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bypass": bypassed, bypasses, bypassing. (additional references) | |
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"Bypass" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bfpos, Bipasha, Bpas, bpsa, byass, bypas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bypass" (pronounced bī"pa's) |
| 3 | -p a' s | overpass, trespass, underpass. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-p-s-s-y" | |
-1 letter: abyss, bassy, spays. | |
-2 letters: abys, asps, baps, bass, bays, pass, pays, pyas, sabs, saps, says, spas, spay, yaps. | |
-3 letters: abs, aby, asp, ass, ays, bap, bas, bay, bys, pas, pay, pya, sab, sap, say, spa, spy, yap. | |
-4 letters: ab, as, ay, ba, by, pa, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-p-s-s-y" | |
+2 letters: bypassed, bypasses, passably, passerby, paystubs. | |
+3 letters: bypassing, passersby. | |
+4 letters: hypabyssal, hypoblasts, impassably, impassibly, supposably. | |
+5 letters: bathyscaphs, cyberspaces, presbyopias. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 79 70 61 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... -.--. .--. .- ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01111001 01110000 01100001 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B y p a s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0079 0070 0061 0073 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)369182678585 |
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