bypass

Meaning

Noun

1. A road that passes around something, such as a residential area or business district.
2. A replacement road for obsolete road that is no longer in use because devastating natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides).
3. The act of going past or around.
4. A section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture.
5. An electrical shunt.
6. An alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass.

Verb

1. To avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass.
2. To ignore the usual channels or procedures.

Synonyms

detour

roundabout way

go around

get around

pass

short-circuit

go round

ring road

circumvent

shunt

skirt

branch

side road

ringway

round

leg

🦵

beltway

elude

by

avoid

pass round

crossroad

byway

electrical shunt

circle

⭕

circumnavigate

omit

outflank

outpace

outperform

outstrip

overhaul

overtake

pass off

pass over

push aside

service road

shun

surpass

tributary

tributary stream

workaround

bystreet

keep away from

leave aside

side-way

slur over

turning movement

send around

access lanes

Translations

Umgehungsstraße

contourner

circonvallazione

contornar

desviación

contournement

umgehen

court-circuiter

evitar

tangenziale

Umgehung

déviation

desvio

Kurzschluss

παράκαμψη

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbaɪpæs/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: *bypassen

In summary

From Middle English *bypassen, *bipassen (suggested by past participle by-past, bipast), equivalent to by- + pass.