Bypass Meaning
/ˈbaɪpæs/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA road that passes around something, such as a residential area or business district.
nounA replacement road for obsolete road that is no longer in use because devastating natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides).
Sentence Examples
Let's bypass the protection circuit.
It's no good trying to bypass the problem.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
To avoid traffic, we took a narrow road that served as a ____.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
They built a new road to ____ the city center and reduce traffic.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English *bypassen, *bipassen (suggested by past participle by-past, bipast), equivalent to by- + pass.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Five of the 16 patients required simultaneous FF bypass and iliaco-femoral bypass; 2, required simultaneous FF bypass and iliac thrombo-endoarterectomy (Table II)."
— 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:
"More to theyr proper Elements inaugurated none, / Than ſhee to hers by-paſſed, he to his poſſeſſed Throne."
— 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:
"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."
— 1948 December 15, “Peace Talks”, in Evening Examiner, volume XCVII, number 139, Petersborough, page 2, 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."
— 1963 April 26, 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:
"Datacasting bypasses the wired, terrestrial Internet and is a cheaper way to distribute software than pressing and mailing CDs."
— 2000, George Abe, Residential Broadband, Cisco Systems, →ISBN:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
To avoid traffic, we took a narrow road that served as a ____.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
They built a new road to ____ the city center and reduce traffic.