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English

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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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.
    • 1989, Antonio Strano, Salvatore Novo, editors, Advances in Vascular Pathology 1989: Proceedings of the 15th World Congress of the International Union of Angiology, Rome, 17–22 September 1989, volume 1, Excerpta Medica, →ISBN, page 483, →ISBN:
      Five of the 16 patients required simultaneous FF bypass and iliaco-femoral bypass; 2, required simultaneous FF bypass and iliac thrombo-endoarterectomy (Table II).

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Verb

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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.
    • 1963 April, Robert Silverberg, “To See the Invisible Man”, in Frederik Pohl, editor, Worlds of Tomorrow, volume 1, number 1, New York, N.Y.: The Barmaray Co., Inc., →ISSN, page 155, column 1:
      I never got seated. 1 stood in the entrance half an hour, bypassed again and again by a maitre d’hotel who had clearly been through all this many times before. Walking to a seat, I realized, would gain me nothing. No waiter would take my order.
    • 2000, George Abe, Residential Broadband, Cisco Systems, →ISBN:
      Datacasting bypasses the wired, terrestrial Internet and is a cheaper way to distribute software than pressing and mailing CDs.
    • 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.

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  1. ^ Termcat

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Basque

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Etymology

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From English bypass.

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Noun

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bypass inan

  1. (medicine) bypass

Declension

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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

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

Italian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English bypass.

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bypass m

  1. bypass

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English bypass.

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bypass m (plural bypasses or bypass)

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

Romanian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English bypass.

Noun

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bypass n (plural bypassuri)

  1. (medicine) bypass

Declension

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

Spanish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English bypass.

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bypass m (plural bypass)

  1. bypass

Usage notes

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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.

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