bypass

See also: by-pass

English

Alternative forms

• by-pass

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪpæs/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪpɑːs/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: by‧pass

Noun

bypass (plural bypasses)

1. A road that passes around something, such as a residential area or business district.
2. A replacement road for obsolete road that is no longer in use because devastating natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides).
3. The act of going past or around.
4. A section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture.
5. An electrical shunt.
6. (medicine) An alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass.

Derived terms

• bypassability
• bypassable
• microbypass
• postbypass
• prebypass

 

Translations

road

• Bulgarian: обиколен път m (obikolen pǎt)
• Catalan: apartador m, variant (ca) f, camí secundari m, ronda (carretera) (ca) m
• Czech: obchvat (cs) m
• Danish: omfartsvej (da) c
• Dutch: wegomleiding f, rondweg (nl) m, sluipweg (nl) m,
• Finnish: ohikulkutie (fi), ohitustie (fi)
• French: déviation (fr) f, contournement (fr) m, rocade (fr) f
• Galician: variante (gl) f
• German: Umgehungsstraße (de) f
• Greek: πάροδος (el) f (párodos), πλάγια οδός f (plágia odós), παρακαμπτήριος (el) f (parakamptírios)
• Hungarian: elkerülő út (hu), kerülőút (hu), terelőút (hu)
• Indonesian: jalan lingkar (id), jalan elak, by-pass
• Irish: seachbhealach m, seachbhóthar m, seachród m
• Japanese: 迂回路 (ukairo), バイパス (ja) (baipasu)
• Latvian: apvedceļš m
• Malay: pintasan (ms)
• Maori: ara autaki
• Polish: obwodnica (pl) f
• Portuguese: desvio (pt) m, contorno (pt) m
• Romanian: deviație (ro) f, ocolire (ro) f
• Russian: обходно́й путь m (obxodnój putʹ), обходна́я доро́га f (obxodnája doróga)
• Spanish: variante (es) f, libramiento m (Mexico)
• Swedish: förbifart (sv) c, kringled c, förbifartsled (sv) c, omfartsväg

circumvention

• Afrikaans: afvlak
• Bulgarian: заобикаляне (bg) n (zaobikaljane)
• Catalan: desviació (ca) f
• Dutch: omweg (nl) m, rondweg (nl) m
• Finnish: kiertäminen (fi), ohikulku, ohitus (fi)
• French: contournement (fr) m
• German: Umgehung (de) f
• Greek: παράκαμψη (el) f (parákampsi), καταστρατήγηση (el) f (katastratígisi)
• Hungarian: megkerülés (hu), elkerülés (hu)
• Portuguese: desvio (pt) m
• Russian: обхо́д (ru) m (obxód)
• Spanish: puenteo (es) m, baipás (es) m, bypass m

section of pipe

• Bulgarian: байпас m (bajpas)
• Catalan: derivació (ca) f, canal de derivació f, canal d'alimentació f
• Dutch: omleiding (nl) f
• Finnish: ohitusputki
• Russian: байпа́с (ru) m (bajpás)

electrical shunt

• Bulgarian: шунт m (šunt)
• Catalan: canal de derivació f, canal d'alimentació f
• Dutch: parallelschakeling (nl) f, shunt (nl) m
• Finnish: ohituskytkentä
• Hungarian: mellékáramkör (hu), sönt (hu)
• Russian: байпа́с (ru) m (bajpás), шунт (ru) m (šunt)
• Spanish: bypass m, baipás (es) m
• Tagalog: lulos (tl)

alternative passage for a bodily fluid

• Bulgarian: байпас m (bajpas)
• Catalan: bypass (ca) m, anastomosi de derivació per a revascularització cardíaca f (cardiac bypass)
• Czech: bypass ?
• Finnish: ohitus (fi) (passage); ohitusleikkaus (fi) (operation)
• French: pontage (fr) m, dérivation (fr) f
• German: Bypass (de) m
• Greek: παράκαμψη (el) f (parákampsi), αορτοστεφανιαία παράκαμψη f (aortostefaniaía parákampsi) (cardiac bypass)
• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} megkerülő érszakasz, ^{(please verify)} bypass érszakasz, ^{(please verify)} megkerülő érpálya, ^{(please verify)} bypass érpálya
• Irish: seach-chonair f
• Japanese: バイパス (ja) (baipasu)
• Polish: bajpas (pl) m
• Portuguese: ponte (pt) f, bypass (pt) m
• Russian: шунтирование (ru) m (šuntirovanije), байпа́с (ru) m (bajpás), экстракорпоральное кровообращение (ekstrakorporalʹnoje krovoobraščenije)
• Spanish: baipás (es) m, bypass m
• Swedish: bypass (sv) ?
• Tagalog: lulos (tl)

Verb

bypass (third-person singular simple present bypasses, present participle bypassing, simple past and past participle bypassed)

1. To avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass.
2. To ignore the usual channels or procedures.
   • 1606, William Warner, “The Fourteenth Booke. Chapter LXXXII.”, in A Continuance of Albions England: […], London: […] Felix Kyngston [and Richard Bradock?] for George Potter, […], →OCLC, page 344:

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

   • 1948 December 15, “Peace Talks”, in Evening Examiner‎^[1], volume XCVII, number 139, Petersborough, page 2, column 1:

     Another force, also from the east, has by-passed Peiping and is striking southward. It apparently intends to swing eastward to form a junction, which probably will be effected near Langfang, on the railroad 30 miles southeast of Peiping.

   • 2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 52:

     Thanks to Brexit, many ferry companies now run direct from Ireland to the EU mainland, bypassing UK ports such as Fishguard, with an impact on traffic.

Derived terms

• unbypassed

 

Translations

to avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass

• Finnish: sivuuttaa (fi), ohittaa (fi), väistää (fi)
• French: contourner (fr)
• German: umgehen (de), ausweichen (de)
• Greek: παρακάμπτω (el) (parakámpto)
• Hebrew: עָקַף (he)
• Hungarian: elkerül (hu), megkerül (hu), kikerül (hu)
• Italian: aggirare (it), bypassare (it), evitare (it), scavalcare (it)
• Japanese: 迂回する (ukai-suru)
• Maori: tīpoka, hohoni
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: omgå

  Nynorsk: omgå

• Portuguese: contornar (pt)
• Spanish: baipasear, circunvalar (es)

to ignore the usual channels or procedures

• Bulgarian: заобикалям (bg) (zaobikaljam)
• Dutch: omzeilen (nl)
• Finnish: sivuuttaa (fi), ohittaa (fi), kiertää (fi)
• French: contourner (fr), passer outre (fr)
• Greek: παρακάμπτω (el) (parakámpto)
• Hungarian: megkerül (hu), kikerül (hu), figyelmen kívül hagy (hu)
• Italian: ignorare (it), bypassare (it)
• Maori: tīpoka
• Portuguese: contornar (pt)
• Spanish: puentear (es), baipasear

Derived terms

• antibypass
• bleach bypass
• bypass air
• bypass duct
• bypasser
• bypass ratio
• coronary artery bypass

Anagrams

• pass by

Basque

Etymology

From English bypass.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bai̯pas̺/ [bai̯.pas̺]
• Rhymes: -ai̯pas̺

Noun

bypass inan

1. (medicine) bypass

Declension

Declension of bypass (inanimate, ending in consonant)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	bypass	bypass-a	bypass-ak
ergative	bypass-ek	bypass-ak	bypass-ek
dative	bypass-i	bypass-ari	bypass-ei
genitive	bypass-en	bypass-aren	bypass-en
comitative	bypass-ekin	bypass-arekin	bypass-ekin
causative	bypass-engatik	bypass-arengatik	bypass-engatik
benefactive	bypass-entzat	bypass-arentzat	bypass-entzat
instrumental	bypass-ez	bypass-az	bypass-ez
inessive	bypass-etan	bypass-ean	bypass-etan
locative	bypass-etako	bypass-eko	bypass-etako
allative	bypass-etara	bypass-era	bypass-etara
terminative	bypass-etaraino	bypass-eraino	bypass-etaraino
directive	bypass-etarantz	bypass-erantz	bypass-etarantz
destinative	bypass-etarako	bypass-erako	bypass-etarako
ablative	bypass-etatik	bypass-etik	bypass-etatik
partitive	bypass-ik	—	—
prolative	bypass-tzat	—	—

Further reading

• “bypass”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bypass.

Noun

bypass m

1. bypass

Derived terms

• bypassare (verb)

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bypass.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌbaj.ˈpɛs/

Noun

bypass m (plural bypasses or bypass)

1. (medicine) bypass (a passage created around a damaged organ)

   Synonym: ponte

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bypass.

Noun

bypass n (plural bypassuri)

1. (medicine) bypass

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	bypass	bypassul		bypassuri	bypassurile
genitive-dative	bypass	bypassului		bypassuri	bypassurilor
vocative	bypassule			bypassurilor

Spanish

Alternative forms

• baipás

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bypass.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaipas/ [ˈbai̯.pas]
• Rhymes: -aipas

Noun

bypass m (plural bypass)

1. bypass

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “bypass”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10