BYPASS (bypast)

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected form: bypast   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does bypass mean? 

• BYPASS (noun)
  The noun BYPASS has 3 senses:

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

2. a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part)

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

  Familiarity information: BYPASS used as a noun is uncommon.

• BYPASS (verb)
  The verb BYPASS has 1 sense:

1. avoid something unpleasant or laborious

  Familiarity information: BYPASS used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BYPASS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

beltway; bypass; ring road; ringway

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 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)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bypass; electrical shunt; shunt

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)

• BYPASS (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they bypass    ... he / she / it bypasses   
Past simple: bypassed   
Past participle: bypassed   
-ing form: bypassing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Avoid something unpleasant or laborious

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

bypass; get around; go around; short-circuit

Context example:

You cannot bypass these rules!

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)

 Context examples 

Also called: Coronary Artery Bypass Graft, CABG, Bypass surgery, Coronary artery bypass graft

(Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Surgery performed to bypass partially or completely occluded coronary arteries, thereby increasing the blood supply of the heart.

(Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called aortocoronary bypass and CAB.

(Coronary artery bypass, NCI Dictionary)

The most common type of heart surgery for adults is coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).

(Heart Surgery, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

IRES allows the ribosomes to be recruited to an initiator AUG, which is some distance from the 5' end of the message RNA to bypass the Kozak scanning mechanism.

(Internal Ribosome Entry Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

These are inappropriately expressed and stimulate constitutive signaling, bypassing the need for receptor activation by growth factors.

(Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Urostomy - the tubes that carry urine to the bladder are attached to the stoma. This bypasses the bladder.

(Ostomy, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

Presumably, these breast cancers become estrogen independent through genetic alterations that bypass the requirement for ER-dependent stimulation of cell proliferation.

(MTA3 Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

This includes use of cardiopulmonary bypass, left ventricular assist device (LVAD), intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) and/or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).

(Mechanical Circulatory Support, NCI Thesaurus)

The passage of a catheter into the aortic root or other great vessel for the purpose of angiography of the native coronary arteries or bypass grafts supplying native coronary arteries.

(Coronary Angiography, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)