# bypass
## 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: /ˈbaɪpæs/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈbaɪpɑːs/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Hyphenation: by‧pass

### Noun

bypass (plural bypasses)
* A road that passes around something, such as a residential area or business district.
* A replacement road for obsolete road that is no longer in use because devastating natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides).
* The act of going past or around.
* A section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture.
* An electrical shunt.
* (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
* microbypass
* postbypass
* prebypass

#### Translations
### Verb

bypass (third-person singular simple present bypasses, present participle bypassing, simple past and past participle bypassed)
* To avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass.
* 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, 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.

#### Derived terms

* unbypassed

#### Translations
### Derived terms

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

### References

* ↑ Termcat

### Anagrams

* pass by

## Basque
### Etymology

From English bypass.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bai̯pas̺/ [bai̯.pas̺]
* Rhymes: -ai̯pas̺

### Noun

bypass inan
* (medicine) bypass

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “bypass”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bypass.

### Noun

bypass m
* bypass

#### Derived terms

* bypassare (verb)

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bypass.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˌbaj.ˈpɛs/

### Noun

bypass m (plural bypasses or bypass)
* (medicine) bypass (a passage created around a damaged organ)
    Synonym: ponte

## Romanian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bypass.

### Noun

bypass n (plural bypassuri)
* (medicine) bypass

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Alternative forms

* baipás

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bypass.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbaipas/ [ˈbai̯.pas]
* Rhymes: -aipas

### Noun

bypass m (plural bypass)
* 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], 2024 December 10