bypass

See also: by-pass

English

Alternative forms

• by-pass

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪpæs/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪpɑːs/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: by‧pass

Noun

bypass (plural bypasses)

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. (medicine) An alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass.
   • 1989, Antonio Strano, Salvatore Novo, editors, Advances in Vascular Pathology 1989: Proceedings of the 15th World Congress of the International Union of Angiology, Rome, 17–22 September 1989, volume 1, Excerpta Medica, →ISBN, page 483, →ISBN:

     Five of the 16 patients required simultaneous FF bypass and iliaco-femoral bypass; 2, required simultaneous FF bypass and iliac thrombo-endoarterectomy (Table II).

Derived terms

• bypassability
• bypassable
• bypass duct
• microbypass
• postbypass
• prebypass
• spiritual bypass

Translations

road

• Bulgarian: обиколен път m (obikolen pǎt)
• Catalan: apartador m, variant (ca) f, camí secundari m, ronda (carretera) (ca) m
• Czech: obchvat (cs) m
• Danish: omfartsvej (da) c
• Dutch: wegomleiding f, rondweg (nl) m, sluipweg (nl) m,
• Finnish: ohikulkutie (fi), ohitustie (fi)
• French: déviation (fr) f, contournement (fr) m, rocade (fr) f
• Galician: variante (gl) f
• German: Umgehungsstraße (de) f
• Greek: πάροδος (el) f (párodos), πλάγια οδός f (plágia odós), παρακαμπτήριος (el) f (parakamptírios)
• Hungarian: elkerülő út (hu), kerülőút (hu), terelőút (hu)
• Indonesian: jalan lingkar (id), jalan elak, by-pass
• Irish: seachbhealach m, seachbhóthar m, seachród m
• Japanese: 迂回路 (ukairo), バイパス (ja) (baipasu)
• Latvian: apvedceļš m
• Malay: pintasan (ms)
• Maori: ara autaki
• Persian: کنارگذر (fa) sg (kenār gozar)
• Polish: obwodnica (pl) f
• Portuguese: desvio (pt) m, contorno (pt) m
• Romanian: deviație (ro) f, ocolire (ro) f
• Russian: обходно́й путь m (obxodnój putʹ), обходна́я доро́га f (obxodnája doróga)
• Spanish: variante (es) f, libramiento m (Mexico)
• Swedish: förbifart (sv) c, kringled c, förbifartsled (sv) c, omfartsväg
• Welsh: ffordd osgoi f

circumvention

• Afrikaans: afvlak
• Bulgarian: заобикаляне (bg) n (zaobikaljane)
• Catalan: desviació (ca) f
• Dutch: omweg (nl) m, rondweg (nl) m
• Finnish: kiertäminen (fi), ohikulku, ohitus (fi)
• French: contournement (fr) m
• German: Umgehung (de) f
• Greek: παράκαμψη (el) f (parákampsi), καταστρατήγηση (el) f (katastratígisi)
• Hungarian: megkerülés (hu), elkerülés (hu)
• Portuguese: desvio (pt) m
• Russian: обхо́д (ru) m (obxód)
• Spanish: puenteo (es) m, baipás (es) m, bypass m
• Welsh: dargyfeiriad m

section of pipe

• Bulgarian: байпас m (bajpas)
• Catalan: derivació (ca) f, canal de derivació f, canal d'alimentació f
• Dutch: omleiding (nl) f
• Finnish: ohitusputki
• Russian: байпа́с (ru) m (bajpás)

electrical shunt

• Bulgarian: шунт m (šunt)
• Catalan: canal de derivació f, canal d'alimentació f
• Dutch: parallelschakeling (nl) f, shunt (nl) m
• Finnish: ohituskytkentä
• Hungarian: mellékáramkör (hu), sönt (hu)
• Russian: байпа́с (ru) m (bajpás), шунт (ru) m (šunt)
• Spanish: bypass m, baipás (es) m
• Tagalog: lulos (tl)

alternative passage for a bodily fluid

• Bulgarian: байпас m (bajpas)
• Catalan: bypass (ca) m, anastomosi de derivació per a revascularització cardíaca f (cardiac bypass)
• Czech: bypass ?
• Finnish: ohitus (fi) (passage); ohitusleikkaus (fi) (operation)
• French: pontage (fr) m, dérivation (fr) f
• German: Bypass (de) m
• Greek: παράκαμψη (el) f (parákampsi), αορτοστεφανιαία παράκαμψη f (aortostefaniaía parákampsi) (cardiac bypass)
• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} megkerülő érszakasz, ^{(please verify)} bypass érszakasz, ^{(please verify)} megkerülő érpálya, ^{(please verify)} bypass érpálya
• Irish: seach-chonair f
• Japanese: バイパス (ja) (baipasu)
• Polish: bajpas (pl) m
• Portuguese: ponte (pt) f, bypass (pt) m
• Russian: шунтирование (ru) m (šuntirovanije), байпа́с (ru) m (bajpás), экстракорпоральное кровообращение (ekstrakorporalʹnoje krovoobraščenije)
• Spanish: baipás (es) m, bypass m
• Swedish: bypass (sv) ?
• Tagalog: lulos (tl)

Verb

bypass (third-person singular simple present bypasses, present participle bypassing, simple past and past participle bypassed)

1. To avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass.
2. To ignore the usual channels or procedures.
   • 1606, William Warner, “The Fourteenth Booke. Chapter LXXXII.”, in A Continuance of Albions England: […], London: […] Felix Kyngston [and Richard Bradock?] for George Potter, […], →OCLC, page 344:

     More to theyr proper Elements inaugurated none, / Than ſhee to hers by-paſſed, he to his poſſeſſed Throne.

   • 1948 December 15, “Peace Talks”, in Evening Examiner‎^[1], volume XCVII, number 139, Petersborough, page 2, column 1:

     Another force, also from the east, has by-passed Peiping and is striking southward. It apparently intends to swing eastward to form a junction, which probably will be effected near Langfang, on the railroad 30 miles southeast of Peiping.

   • 1963 April, Robert Silverberg, “To See the Invisible Man”, in Frederik Pohl, editor, Worlds of Tomorrow, volume 1, number 1, New York, N.Y.: The Barmaray Co., Inc., →ISSN, page 155, column 1:

     I never got seated. 1 stood in the entrance half an hour, bypassed again and again by a maitre d’hotel who had clearly been through all this many times before. Walking to a seat, I realized, would gain me nothing. No waiter would take my order.

   • 2000, George Abe, Residential Broadband, Cisco Systems, →ISBN:

     Datacasting bypasses the wired, terrestrial Internet and is a cheaper way to distribute software than pressing and mailing CDs.

   • 2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 52:

     Thanks to Brexit, many ferry companies now run direct from Ireland to the EU mainland, bypassing UK ports such as Fishguard, with an impact on traffic.

   • 2023 June 14, Brenda Goodman, “Scientists report creation of first human synthetic model embryos”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     A team of researchers in the United States and United Kingdom say they have created the world’s first synthetic human embryo-like structures from stem cells, bypassing the need for eggs and sperm.

Derived terms

• unbypassed

Translations

to avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass

• Finnish: sivuuttaa (fi), ohittaa (fi), väistää (fi)
• French: contourner (fr)
• German: umgehen (de), ausweichen (de)
• Greek: παρακάμπτω (el) (parakámpto)
• Hebrew: עָקַף (he)
• Hungarian: elkerül (hu), megkerül (hu), kikerül (hu)
• Italian: aggirare (it), evitare (it), scavalcare (it), bypassare (it)
• Japanese: 迂回する (ukai-suru)
• Maori: tīpoka, hohoni
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: omgå

  Nynorsk: omgå

• Portuguese: contornar (pt)
• Spanish: baipasear, circunvalar (es), bypasear
• Swedish: kringgå (sv), omgå

to ignore the usual channels or procedures

• Bulgarian: заобикалям (bg) (zaobikaljam)
• Dutch: omzeilen (nl)
• Finnish: sivuuttaa (fi), ohittaa (fi), kiertää (fi)
• French: contourner (fr), passer outre (fr)
• Greek: παρακάμπτω (el) (parakámpto)
• Hungarian: megkerül (hu), kikerül (hu), figyelmen kívül hagy (hu)
• Italian: ignorare (it), bypassare (it)
• Maori: tīpoka
• Portuguese: contornar (pt)
• Spanish: puentear (es), baipasear, bypasear
• Swedish: kringgå (sv)

Derived terms

• antibypass
• bleach bypass
• bypass air
• bypass duct
• bypasser
• bypass ratio
• coronary artery bypass

Anagrams

• pass by

Basque

Etymology

From English bypass.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bai̯pas̺/ [bai̯.pas̺]
• Rhymes: -ai̯pas̺, -as̺

Noun

bypass inan

1. (medicine) bypass

Declension

Declension of bypass (inan C-stem¹)

	indefinite	singular	plural	proximal plural
absolutive	bypass	bypassa	bypassak	bypassok
ergative	bypassek	bypassak	bypassek	bypassok
dative	bypassi	bypassari	bypassei	bypassoi
genitive	bypassen	bypassaren	bypassen	bypasson
comitative	bypassekin	bypassarekin	bypassekin	bypassokin
causative	bypassengatik	bypassarengatik	bypassengatik	bypassongatik
benefactive	bypassentzat	bypassarentzat	bypassentzat	bypassontzat
instrumental	bypassez	bypassaz	bypassez	bypassotaz
innesive	bypassetan	bypassean	bypassetan	bypassotan
locative	bypassetako	bypasseko	bypassetako	bypassotako
allative	bypassetara	bypassera	bypassetara	bypassotara
terminative	bypassetaraino	bypasseraino	bypassetaraino	bypassotaraino
directive	bypassetarantz	bypasserantz	bypassetarantz	bypassotarantz
destinative	bypassetarako	bypasserako	bypassetarako	bypassotarako
ablative	bypassetatik	bypassetik	bypassetatik	bypassotatik
partitive	bypassik	—	—	—
prolative	bypasstzat	—	—	—

1. Optionally, case suffixes can be separated from the root with a hyphen.

Further reading

• “bypass”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bypass.

Noun

bypass m

1. bypass

Derived terms

• bypassare (verb)

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bypass.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌbaj.ˈpɛs/

Noun

bypass m (plural bypasses or bypass)

1. (medicine) bypass (a passage created around a damaged organ)

   Synonym: ponte

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bypass.

Noun

bypass n (plural bypassuri)

1. (medicine) bypass

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	bypass	bypassul		bypassuri	bypassurile
genitive-dative	bypass	bypassului		bypassuri	bypassurilor
vocative	bypassule			bypassurilor

Spanish

Alternative forms

• baipás

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bypass.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaipas/ [ˈbai̯.pas]
• Rhymes: -aipas

Noun

bypass m (plural bypass)

1. bypass

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “bypass”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024