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| bypass [ b paass ] |
noun (plural bypasses) |
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1. road round place: a road built round a town or city to keep through traffic away from the centre
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2. surgery operation to reroute blood: a surgical operation to redirect the blood, usually via a grafted blood vessel, carried out when the existing blood vessel has become blocked
  a heart bypass
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3. medicine new route for blood: a new route for the blood, created by a bypass operation
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4. electrical engineering
Same as shuntn (sense 4)
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5. utilities emergency channel: a channel such as a pipe carrying gas or water that is brought into use when the main channel is blocked
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transitive verb (3rd person present singular bypasses, present participle bypassing, past and past participle bypassed) |
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1. go round place: to avoid a place by travelling round it
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2. roads build road round place: to build a bypass round a town or city
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3. avoid something: to avoid an obstacle, obstruction, or problem by using an alternative route or method
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4. avoid standard procedure: to ignore or avoid a standard procedure for doing something, or ignore somebody who is usually consulted
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