bypass

UK /ˈbaɪpæs/ US /ˈbaɪpæs/
noun 5verb 2

Definitions

noun

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.

verb

1

To avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass.

2

To ignore the usual channels or procedures.

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

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.

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