Bypass

English

Etymology

From by- +‎ pass.

Noun

Bypass (plural bypasses)

1. a road that passes around something, such as a residential area
2. a circumvention
3. a section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture
4. an electrical shunt
5. (medicine) an alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass

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

Thesaurus

Autobahn, US highway, alley, alleyway, ambages, arterial, arterial highway, arterial street, artery, autoroute, autostrada, avenue, avoid, back door, back road, back stairs, back street, back way, belt highway, bestride, blind alley, boulevard, burke, by-lane, bypath, byroad, bystreet, byway, camino real, carriageway, causeway, causey, chaussee, circuit, circumbendibus, circumferential, circumnavigate, circumvent, close, corduroy road, county road, court, crescent, cross, cul-de-sac, dead-end street, detour, deviate, deviation, digress, digression, dike, dirt road, drive, driveway, evade, excursion, expressway, ford, freeway, get ahead of, get round, give the go-by, go across, go around, go by, go round, go round about, gravel road, highroad, highway, highways and byways, ignore, interstate highway, lane, local road, main drag, main road, make a detour, mews, motorway, overstride, parkway, pass, pass by, pass over, pave, paved road, pike, place, plank road, primary highway, private road, right-of-way, ring road, road, roadbed, roadway, roundabout, roundabout way, route nationale, row, royal road, secondary road, shoot ahead of, side door, side road, side street, sidestep, skirt, speedway, state highway, step over, straddle, street, superhighway, terrace, thoroughfare, through street, thruway, toll road, township road, turnpike, wynd