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 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

onflow

stay away from

wave off

bypass road

coronary bypass

coronary bypass surgery

branch pipe

pipe branch

subcircuit

side stream

side tube

additional pipe

tributary waterway

tributary flow

tributary drain

tributary course

stub arm

ring road

affluent

beltway

border

bp

branch circuit

brush aside

brush off

by pass

bypassing

by road

confluent

contributory

cut through

dispense with

distributary

diversion

drive round

edge

evade

feeder

feeder road

fringe

get by

gloss over

go by

jump up

leapfrog

Hyphenated as

by‧pass

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.