Definitions for bypass

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bypass by·pass

Spelling: [bahy-pas, -pahs]

IPA: /ˈbaɪˌpæs, -ˌpɑs/

Bypass is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in bypass (abpssy).

Definitions for bypass

noun

1. a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
2. a secondary pipe or other channel connected with a main passage, as for conducting a liquid or gas around a fixture, pipe, or appliance.
3. Electricity. shunt (def 9).
4. a surgical procedure in which a diseased or obstructed hollow organ is temporarily or permanently circumvented. Compare coronary bypass, gastric bypass, heart-lung machine, intestinal bypass.

verb (used with object)

1. to avoid (an obstruction, city, etc.) by following a bypass.
2. to cause (fluid or gas) to follow a secondary pipe or bypass.
3. to neglect to consult or to ignore the opinion or decision of:

Origin of bypass

1840-50; apparently back formation from by-passage; see by¹ (adj.), passage¹

Examples for bypass

With that audience in mind, I hope to hear how the President will bypass Washington gridlock and get some things done.

It didn't matter whether he found the bypass circuit or not.

First, Obama offered that there is “no short-cut to democracy” and that he could not utilize executive orders to bypass Congress.

Problems so big it only makes common sense for Bieber to bypass any plea offer and move forward with a trial.

The gas passes from the generator through the pipe J and seal-pot D, or bypass F, to the gasholder.

It has allowed the project to bypass normal due diligence and environmental impact assessments.

We planned to bypass the Medicouncil and take our case directly to the Solar Government.

Had to bypass him, because as he went through this way, Oswald went through this way and ducked into the theatre there.

One of the other characters just had bypass surgery, and we cooked food to send him.

They had to pull off to bypass a wagon and the carriage sank to the hubs.