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bypass

or by-pass

[ bahy-pas, -pahs ]

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noun

a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
a secondary pipe or other channel connected with a main passage, as for conducting a liquid or gas around a fixture, pipe, or appliance.
Electricity. shunt ( def 9 ).
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.

bypassed or (Rare) bypast; bypassed or bypast; bypassing.

to avoid (an obstruction, city, etc.) by following a bypass.
to cause (fluid or gas) to follow a secondary pipe or bypass.
to neglect to consult or to ignore the opinion or decision of:
He bypassed the foreman and took his grievance straight to the owner.

bypass

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a main road built to avoid a city or other congested area
any system of pipes or conduits for redirecting the flow of a liquid
a means of redirecting the flow of a substance around an appliance through which it would otherwise pass
surgery
1. the redirection of blood flow, either to avoid a diseased blood vessel or in order to perform heart surgery See coronary bypass
2. ( as modifier )
  bypass surgery
electronics
1. an electrical circuit, esp one containing a capacitor, connected in parallel around one or more components, providing an alternative path for certain frequencies
2. ( as modifier )
  a bypass capacitor

to go around or avoid (a city, obstruction, problem, etc)
to cause (traffic, fluid, etc) to go through a bypass
to proceed without reference to (regulations, a superior, etc); get round; avoid

bypass

A passage created surgically to divert the flow of blood or other bodily fluid or to circumvent an obstructed or diseased organ.

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Origin of bypass¹

1840–50; apparently back formation from by-passage; by (adj.), passage ¹

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Commercialized saint-making is dehumanizing, and bypasses genuine mourning by reducing people to idols.

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The move appears to bypass a long-running round of UN negotiations on mining in international waters.

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Vanellope is first placed on a bypass machine, which temporarily takes over the functions of the heart and lungs.

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It reveals a chain of lax laws, absent checks and suspected corruption used by traffickers to bypass a UN embargo.

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There was also a "calculated attempt to bypass security systems" by obscuring the contents of the tubes.

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