Definition of bypasses Bypasses
/bajˈpæˌsɪz/ - [baypatsiz] -
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What does bypasses mean?
Wiktionary 
- bypasses (Noun)
Plural of bypass.
Part of speech
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NounPlural: bypasses |
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| bypass - a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part) | ||
| bypass - a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center | ||
| beltway, ring road, ringway | ||
| highway, main road a major road for any form of motor transport | ||
| britain, u.k., uk, united kingdom, united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, great britain a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom | ||
| bypass - a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current | ||
| shunt, electrical shunt | ||
| conductor a device designed to transmit electricity, heat, etc. | ||
| electric circuit, electrical circuit, circuit an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow | ||
Verb |
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| bypass - avoid something unpleasant or laborious; "You cannot bypass these rules!" | ||
| short-circuit, go around, get around | ||
| avoid stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something; "Her former friends now avoid her" | ||
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Wiktionary
- bypass (Noun)
A road that passes around something, such as a residential area. - bypass (Noun)
A circumvention. - bypass (Noun)
A section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture. - bypass (Noun)
An electrical shunt. - bypass (Noun)
An alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass. - bypass (Verb)
To avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass. - bypass (Verb)
To ignore the usual channels or procedures.
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bypass
To avoid an obstacle by going around it. -
bypass
To avoid something unpleasant or laborious. -
bypass
(Medicine) An alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ. -
bypass
A road that passes around something, such as a residential area.
Wikipedia 
- Bypass can have several meanings. It always means: going round something in order to avoid it.
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road
A bypass is a road or highway that goes round a town or village so that traffic which is passing that town does not have to go through the town centre.
Bypasses are good because it reduces the amount of traffic in the centre where the people live and work. It makes it much safer for them to cross the roads, and reduces pollution. It is better for the vehicles passing the town because their journey is made quicker.
Not everyone is always happy when a bypass is built. The main objections people sometimes have is that a new road uses up a lot of land. Also, some people who have businesses in the town (especially filling stations and restaurants) may think that they will not get so many customers.
If there are no strong rules that control the use of land, buildings are built along a bypass, making it an ordinary town road so that it might become just as busy as a town street again.
A road that goes all the way round the town in a large circle is called a Ring Road. The M25 is a Ring Road for London. -
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In medicine, a bypass usually means making another route for the blood to flow. Sometimes an artery, the channel through which the blood flows, becomes blocked up. The patient has a bypass operation. Very often the surgeon will take part of a vein from the patient's leg and move it to the place with the blockage so that the blood can flow round the blocked part.
