bypass

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to avoid something unpleasant or laborious

   You cannot bypass these rules!

2. 2
   noun

   An alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass.

   Five of the 16 patients required simultaneous FF bypass and iliaco-femoral bypass; 2, required simultaneous FF bypass and iliac thrombo-endoarterectomy (Table II).

3. 3
   verb

   To ignore the usual channels or procedures.

   More to theyr proper Elements inaugurated none, / Than ſhee to hers by-paſſed, he to his poſſeſſed Throne.

4. 4
   noun

   a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center

5. 5
   noun

   a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current

6. 6
   noun

   a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part)

7. 7
   noun

   A road that passes around something, such as a residential area or business district.

8. 8
   noun

   A replacement road for obsolete road that is no longer in use because devastating natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides).

Etymology

From Middle English *bypassen, *bipassen (suggested by past participle by-past, bipast), equivalent to by- + pass.