bypass has definitions from the fields of transportation,anatomy,zoology,surgery,physics,electricity
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[ verb ] avoid something unpleasant or laborious

Examples

"You cannot bypass these rules!"

Used in print

(The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans],...)

Barnett , as the titular head of the Democratic_party , apparently must make the move to reestablish relations with the national Democratic_party or see a movement come from the loyalist ranks to completely bypass him as a party functionary .

(The Philadelphia Inquirer,...)

By-passing the military junta which has ruled Turkey since the overthrow of Premier_Adnan_Menderes 17 months ago , the army general_staff , led by Gen._Cedvet_Sunay , had set a deadline for the parties to join in a national coalition government .

(The Christian Science Monitor...)

It is ironic that Washington is having to struggle so for a concept that for six years it bypassed as unreasonable .

(Anne McCaffrey, "The Ship Who Sang," 7th...)

She would work_out a method , by-passing her limitations , whereby she could sing .

Related terms

avoid

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[ noun ] (transportation) a road that takes traffic around the edge of a town

Used in print

(Robert A. Futterman, The Future of Our Cities....)

The drive along Massachusetts ' Route_128 , the by-pass which makes an arc about twenty miles from downtown Boston , may be a vision of the future .

Related terms

road

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[ noun ] (physics,electricity) a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current

Related terms

conductor circuit

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[ noun ] (anatomy,zoology,surgery) a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part)

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shunt

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