bye

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a farewell remark

   they said their good-byes

2. 2
   noun

   advancement to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent

   We had a bye in the first round.

3. 3
   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.

   Craig's Crew plays the bye next week.

4. 4
   noun

   A thing not directly aimed at; a secondary or subsidiary object, course, path, undertaking, issue, etc.

   The Synod of Dort in some points condemneth, upon the by, even the discipline of the Church of England.

5. 5
   noun

   An unspecified way or place.

   Frank Kennedy will shew you the penalties in the act, and ye ken yoursell they used to put their run goods into the auld Place of Ellangowan up bye there.

6. 6
   adj

   Out of the way; remote.

   At length having gained a very bye Alley, where he thought he might enter into a Conference unnoticed by any who knew him.

7. 7
   adj

   Secondary; supplementary.

   But the two labourers of whom I am speaking had their allowances, lived on their fixed wages with the profits of their bye labour, one being pig-killer to the village, and, therefore, always busy from Michaelmas to Lady-day, at a shilling a pig, and the offal, on which his family subsisted, wit h the produce of their small curtilage, for half the year.

8. 8
   intj

   An exclamation of disbelief or dismissal.

   “Okay, busted. But you see all them muscles, girl?” She shakes her head, laughing. “Nope. I only have eyes for my boo.” “Girl, bye. You can still look.” She giggles. “Well, I ain’t lookin’ hard, trust.[…]”

Etymology

Variant form of by, from Old English bī (“being near”).