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BYPASS

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Irregular inflected form: bypast   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center

Synonyms:

beltway; bypass; ring road; ringway

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("bypass" is a kind of...):

highway; main road (a major road for any form of motor transport)

Derivation:

bypass (avoid something unpleasant or laborious)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current

Synonyms:

bypass; electrical shunt; shunt

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("bypass" is a kind of...):

conductor (a device designed to transmit electricity, heat, etc.)

Holonyms ("bypass" is a part of...):

circuit; electric circuit; electrical circuit (an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("bypass" is a kind of...):

shunt (a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Avoid something unpleasant or laborious

Example:

You cannot bypass these rules!

Synonyms:

bypass; get around; go around; short-circuit

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "bypass" is one way to...):

avoid (stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

bypass (a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center)

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 Context examples: 

Buccal route bypasses first pass metabolism and avoids pre-systemic elimination in the gastrointestinal tract.

(Buccal Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called CAB and coronary artery bypass.

(Aortocoronary bypass, NCI Dictionary)

They also found that this inhibits another key molecule in parasite control, NLRP3, allowing LRV to "bypass" our immune system.

(Study uncovers cause of aggressive leishmaniasis strain, SciDev.Net)

Surgical procedure in which the stomach is connected to the jejunum, bypassing the duodenum.

(Bypass Gastrojejunostomy, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called aortocoronary bypass and coronary artery bypass.

(CAB, NCI Dictionary)

An electrocardiographic finding of a regular supraventricular tachycardia which utilizes an atrioventricular bypass tract as its retrograde limb (orthodromic tachycardia) or as its antegrade limb (antidromic tachycardia).

(Atrioventricular Reentrant Tachycardia by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Aorto-iliac occlusive disease reconstruction, peripheral vascular bypass surgery, angioplasty or stent; or percutaneous intervention to the extremities; 4.

(History of Peripheral Vascular Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

The placement of an angioplasty guide wire, balloon, or other device (e.g. stent, atherectomy, brachytherapy, or thrombectomy catheter) into a native coronary artery or coronary artery bypass graft for the purpose of mechanical coronary revascularization.

(Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, NCI Thesaurus)

The infrared images from WISE, the infrared spectra from LBT and the X-ray images from Chandra bypass this issue, because infrared and X-ray light pierce clouds of gas much more easily than optical light.

(Three Black Holes on Collision Course, NASA)

Administration of drugs directly into spinal subarachnoid space in the cerebrospinal fluid, at any level of the cerebrospinal axis, including injection into the cerebral ventricles, in order to bypass the blood-brain barrier and achieve local, rapid effects on the meninges or cerebrospinal axis.

(Intrathecal Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)