亚洲网紅露点

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bypass

or by-pass

[ bahy-pas, -pahs ]

noun

  1. a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
  2. a secondary pipe or other channel connected with a main passage, as for conducting a liquid or gas around a fixture, pipe, or appliance.
  3. Electricity. shunt ( def 9 ).
  4. a surgical procedure in which a diseased or obstructed hollow organ is temporarily or permanently circumvented. Compare coronary bypass, gastric bypass, heart-lung machine, intestinal bypass.


verb (used with object)

bypassed or (Rare) bypast; bypassed or bypast; bypassing.
  1. to avoid (an obstruction, city, etc.) by following a bypass.
  2. to cause (fluid or gas) to follow a secondary pipe or bypass.
  3. to neglect to consult or to ignore the opinion or decision of:

    He bypassed the foreman and took his grievance straight to the owner.

bypass

/ 藞产补瑟藢辫蓱藧蝉 /

noun

  1. a main road built to avoid a city or other congested area
  2. any system of pipes or conduits for redirecting the flow of a liquid
  3. a means of redirecting the flow of a substance around an appliance through which it would otherwise pass
  4. surgery
    1. the redirection of blood flow, either to avoid a diseased blood vessel or in order to perform heart surgery See coronary bypass
    2. ( as modifier )

      bypass surgery

  5. electronics
    1. an electrical circuit, esp one containing a capacitor, connected in parallel around one or more components, providing an alternative path for certain frequencies
    2. ( as modifier )

      a bypass capacitor

鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. to go around or avoid (a city, obstruction, problem, etc)
  2. to cause (traffic, fluid, etc) to go through a bypass
  3. to proceed without reference to (regulations, a superior, etc); get round; avoid
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

bypass

  1. A passage created surgically to divert the flow of blood or other bodily fluid or to circumvent an obstructed or diseased organ.
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 产测顎僷补蝉蝉顎卐谤 产测顎-辫补蝉蝉顎卐谤 noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of bypass1

1840鈥50; apparently back formation from by-passage; by (adj.), passage 1
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The move appears to bypass a long-running round of UN negotiations on mining in international waters.

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Vanellope is first placed on a bypass machine, which temporarily takes over the functions of the heart and lungs.

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It reveals a chain of lax laws, absent checks and suspected corruption used by traffickers to bypass a UN embargo.

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There was also a "calculated attempt to bypass security systems" by obscuring the contents of the tubes.

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Brighton would then kick it long, bypassing half the team.

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