[
UK
/bˈaɪpɑːs/
]
[ US /ˈbaɪˌpæs/ ]
[ US /ˈbaɪˌpæs/ ]
NOUN
- a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center
- a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part)
- a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current
VERB
-
avoid something unpleasant or laborious
You cannot bypass these rules!
How To Use bypass In A Sentence
- In the postwar years, we have seen some tendencies bypass Stalinism and register important achievements.
- The group rapidly bypassed disciplinary differences to focus on a common set of preferred aptitudes and abilities associated with critical thinking, reading, and writing.
- A scientist who discovered that by holding down the shift key on your PC can bypass the copyright protection on music CDs has been threatened with legal action under America's infamous Millennium Act.
- A recent heart attack, bypass or valve surgery will result in a drop in insurability and an increase of 25% to 100% or more in premiums over standard, or average, risk policies. Getting Life Insurance
- I fear that bypassing the United Nations and demanding regime change by force instead of working toward peaceful disarmament is a dangerous step for our nation.
- They were caught using an electronic tone pad to bypass call charges at kiosks on their campus.
- recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine has raised a number of questions about the long term patency of endoscopically harvested saphenous veins that are collected and used for coronary artery bypass grafts. Medgadget
- Crews hope to have a temporary above ground sewer bypass in place a little later today.
- This is yet another example of the same twentypercentism which has us building single lane bypasses around market towns when floodlit motorways, visible from the moon, are needed.
- An adequate environmental impact assessment was not carried out on the bypass project.