Definition of bypass in English:

bypass

nounˈbʌɪpɑːsˈbaɪˌpæs

1A road passing round a town or its centre to provide an alternative route for through traffic.
Example sentencesExamples
- The bypass should cut town centre through-traffic by 40 per cent.
- The road links are a lot better now, but that tends to be more of a bypass than a road bringing things in.
- The town council asked the county to change its mind over its refusal to undertake a traffic census and also asked highway officials to look into the possibility of a bypass for the town.
- He also expressed confidence that further improvements to the city's infrastructure would be witnessed with the commencement of the city bypass and outer ring road.
- Total cost of the new road and the bypass has been estimated at 90m.
- The opportunity of providing a town centre bypass along the former railway line to the east of the buildings in High Street has now disappeared.
- They are also urging the county to undertake a feasibility study to see if a ring road or bypass could be built for the town.
- It reduces th e number of vehicles on the road so eliminating any need to expend billions of the taxpayer's money on new motorways, road widening schemes and bypasses.
- As for the town centre, if traffic would use the bypasses instead of coming through it, everyone would gain, especially the pedestrians!
- He said the old road and bypasses had become ‘almost beyond repair’ following heavy rainfall in August and September.
- More than 10,000 vehicles have been taken out of the town centre and the bypass has delivered on a promise that it would return the streets to the town and the townspeople.
- This points all the more for the urgent need for a bypass to keep heavy traffic out of the town.
- This is yet another example of the same twentypercentism which has us building single lane bypasses around market towns when floodlit motorways, visible from the moon, are needed.
- In my view the money could be much better spent and still leave more than enough to build a first class safe road with bypasses of major towns such as Castledermot and Carlow.
- The town already possessed a bypass, intended to remove much of its traffic.
- Indeed, they may be the developer themselves when it comes to Waste management, sewage treatment and other infrastructural projects such as outer city ring roads and bypasses.
- The road tolls are to pay for motorways and town bypasses.
- For years pressure groups have been calling on the authorities to force wagons to use the bypass rather than the town centre.
- The three-mile bypass will carry traffic away from the heavily congested centre of Alderley Edge.
- It would have saved expensive town bypasses, additional roads and parking facilities, not to mention the benefits to the ozone layer and global warming.
Synonyms
ring road, detour, diversion, circuitous route, roundabout way, alternative route
British relief road
British informal rat run
2A secondary channel, pipe, or connection to allow a flow when the main one is closed or blocked.
Example sentencesExamples
- This might eventually permit a sump bypass and, having looked closely at the depth potential, it is very close to 1km if they manage to resurge in the nearby river.
- Crews hope to have a temporary above ground sewer bypass in place a little later today.
- Seven main Melbourne hospitals went on emergency bypass early this week, straining paramedics and risking patient lives, Victoria's ambulance union said.
- A few hundred metres beyond camp is a sump and a several hundred metres long sump bypass which opens out at the top of a fantastic streamway.
- The Council discounted several land corridors that were home to the fern because it believed the bypass would be blocked by a legal challenge if one of them was chosen.
- Power was restored to the effected racks via a manual bypass onto raw mains at approximately 10: 01 hrs.
- Having come so far we were keen to check every recess in the hope of finding a sneaky sump bypass.
- But Anthony Poole, the council's drainage manager, said the bypass would be designed design to allow the water to pass underneath it.
- The first sump had an easy bypass right next to it.
- The road was closed to traffic until late afternoon when a temporary bypass was established to allow cars past the accident spot.
- There is also a true relay bypass that allows signal to pass even if the unit is off.
- Cut b was to estimate the hydraulic conductance of a leaf where water was prevented from flowing through all the major water paths and any easy bypass of interrupted veins was impeded.
- Contracts for the city's second river crossing and bypass are currently being finalised, while work will begin next year on the dual carriageway linking the city with Dublin.
3A surgical operation in which an alternative channel is created, especially to improve blood flow to the heart when a coronary artery is blocked.
I had a bypass last year so have been building up my strength
as modifier he's just had a triple bypass operation
Example sentencesExamples
- Your surgeon will use one of these methods to perform your coronary bypass.
- A survey in Somerset found that while 99% would allow a smoker to have a coronary bypass, half would refuse a second operation if the patient would not promise to give up.
- Alternative operations, such as a coronary artery bypass, may be considered.
- In 1967, surgical bypass of blocked heart arteries became possible.
- Your artery may be damaged during the procedure, requiring emergency bypass surgery.
- So I wasn't unduly surprised to hear that he was planning to run seven marathons in seven countries in seven days, months after a heart bypass operation, in an attempt to raise money for charity.
- While I was in high school an aneurysm formed near one of those fragments requiring a bypass, thus leading Pop to quip that he had sewer pipe in his leg.
- Patients requiring heart bypasses or angioplasties - a procedure to unblock arteries - are having their operations within three months, she said.
- He has also had a heart bypass, and an operation on his leg arteries for a condition that left him almost crippled.
- A small bowel bypass was performed.
- Recently, my wife joined the heart-attack ranks, with a bypass and valve replacement.
- He was on the waiting list for a triple bypass in his home city of Aberdeen.
- Three additional autopsies were performed on patients who had had their surgical bypass performed at other institutions.
- He was born with a heart defect and underwent three bypasses before eventually receiving a transplant.
- How many bypasses are possible through minimally invasive bypass surgery?
- Four patients had previous open-heart surgery (three aortocoronary bypasses and one surgical repair of a congenital lesion).
- He recovered from his quintuple bypass in record time and resumed his quest to "save" the sport he dearly loves.
- About 500 minimally invasive bypasses have been performed so far.
- 50 per cent of patients would then need surgery such as a bypass or angioplasty.
- A patient using this for an hour a day over a five-week period will see the same beneficial effects as they would from having a heart bypass operation, without having to risk having this major procedure.
- A second bypass wasn't possible and his future looked bleak, not to mention short.
- Techniques have improved greatly here with coronary bypasses to improve blood supply to the heart since 1953 and the replacement of heart valves since the 1960's.
- Technical improvements are helping to reduce some of the risks involved with coronary bypass surgery.
- In April 1996, he underwent quadruple bypass surgery.
- Zara stayed there for a month until just before Christmas then returned to Birmingham for corrective surgery on her gastric bypass.
- I'm told optimism also helps patients recover from coronary bypass surgery.
- Diagnostic tissue was obtained in cases with unresectable lesions that required a surgical bypass.
- Once the circulation is restored, a bypass should be performed to exclude the aneurysm.
- A coronary bypass provides a detour for blood on its way to the heart.
- Not long ago he needed a heart bypass operation.
- Unfortunately, many of us know someone who underwent surgery in the last year, and whether it was a hip operation or a heart bypass, more than likely a blood transfusion was required.
- When he was 45, he had to undergo surgery for five bypasses.
- He hasn't seen her since she underwent a gastric bypass and lost eight stone.
- Surgical bypass of severely occluded vessels has been considered the gold standard for use in symptomatic patients who do not respond to more conservative treatments.
- Though there's a plateau about 18 months after surgery, a gastric bypass usually trims about two-thirds of excess weight in two years.
1. 3.1 An alternative channel created during a bypass operation.
  Example sentencesExamples
  So I wasn't unduly surprised to hear that he was planning to run seven marathons in seven countries in seven days, months after a heart bypass operation, in an attempt to raise money for charity.
  In April 1996, he underwent quadruple bypass surgery.
  He has also had a heart bypass, and an operation on his leg arteries for a condition that left him almost crippled.
  While I was in high school an aneurysm formed near one of those fragments requiring a bypass, thus leading Pop to quip that he had sewer pipe in his leg.
  Though there's a plateau about 18 months after surgery, a gastric bypass usually trims about two-thirds of excess weight in two years.
  A second bypass wasn't possible and his future looked bleak, not to mention short.
  In 1967, surgical bypass of blocked heart arteries became possible.
  Your artery may be damaged during the procedure, requiring emergency bypass surgery.
  50 per cent of patients would then need surgery such as a bypass or angioplasty.
  He was born with a heart defect and underwent three bypasses before eventually receiving a transplant.
  He was on the waiting list for a triple bypass in his home city of Aberdeen.
  Your surgeon will use one of these methods to perform your coronary bypass.
  He hasn't seen her since she underwent a gastric bypass and lost eight stone.
  Four patients had previous open-heart surgery (three aortocoronary bypasses and one surgical repair of a congenital lesion).
  Three additional autopsies were performed on patients who had had their surgical bypass performed at other institutions.
  Surgical bypass of severely occluded vessels has been considered the gold standard for use in symptomatic patients who do not respond to more conservative treatments.
  I'm told optimism also helps patients recover from coronary bypass surgery.
  A coronary bypass provides a detour for blood on its way to the heart.
  Patients requiring heart bypasses or angioplasties - a procedure to unblock arteries - are having their operations within three months, she said.
  Diagnostic tissue was obtained in cases with unresectable lesions that required a surgical bypass.
  Techniques have improved greatly here with coronary bypasses to improve blood supply to the heart since 1953 and the replacement of heart valves since the 1960's.
  Technical improvements are helping to reduce some of the risks involved with coronary bypass surgery.
  A survey in Somerset found that while 99% would allow a smoker to have a coronary bypass, half would refuse a second operation if the patient would not promise to give up.
  Alternative operations, such as a coronary artery bypass, may be considered.
  About 500 minimally invasive bypasses have been performed so far.
  Not long ago he needed a heart bypass operation.
  How many bypasses are possible through minimally invasive bypass surgery?
  A patient using this for an hour a day over a five-week period will see the same beneficial effects as they would from having a heart bypass operation, without having to risk having this major procedure.
  Once the circulation is restored, a bypass should be performed to exclude the aneurysm.
  Recently, my wife joined the heart-attack ranks, with a bypass and valve replacement.
  A small bowel bypass was performed.
  He recovered from his quintuple bypass in record time and resumed his quest to "save" the sport he dearly loves.
  Unfortunately, many of us know someone who underwent surgery in the last year, and whether it was a hip operation or a heart bypass, more than likely a blood transfusion was required.
  When he was 45, he had to undergo surgery for five bypasses.
  Zara stayed there for a month until just before Christmas then returned to Birmingham for corrective surgery on her gastric bypass.

verbˈbʌɪpɑːsˈbaɪˌpæs

[with object]

1Go past or round.
bypass the farm and continue to the road
Example sentencesExamples
- As a result it's bypassing some of the slow, tortuous back-roads of development that make Hong Kong feel like somebody took the nineteen fifties and suddenly gave them twenty-first century technology.
- How could people just have bypassed the town without noticing the devastation there?
- Facing determined resistance there, the attackers bypassed the town and advanced on Arracourt.
- We bypass a farm with fine barns and cross another idyllic little stream by way of four large stepping-stones.
- While the Napa Valley is an internationally known wine region, its largest town is often bypassed by visitors.
- Fighting off panic, he raced over to the stairway, and skipped down the stairs as he had done before, bypassing the grieving dragons, who completely ignored him.
- Businessmen have complained that ships have been bypassing Port-of-Spain, due to heavy congestion and the general inefficiency at the port which, they say, in the receipt of containers.
- She explained how any spillage should have drained into interceptor tanks to trap oil, but Environment Agency inspectors using dye discovered that oil was bypassing the safeguards and getting into the watercourse.
- They say too many people bypass the town because too little is done to promote it.
- Today, the picture was bleak, with visitors bypassing the town and its ‘architectural gem’ Selby Abbey.
- Opening or bypassing (getting round) the blocked arteries can help.
- These procedures create a direct connection from the stomach to the lower segment of the small intestine, literally bypassing portions of the digestive tract that absorb calories and nutrients.
- Armed with my home-printed boarding card, I head straight for security, bypassing the hoards of people queueing at the check-in desks.
- ‘Rather than just observing those vessels bypassing our region, we are launching a Cumbria cruise initiative to increase cruise calls to our ports,’ she added.
- I travel all over the UK and it is a pleasure bypassing most towns, looking at countryside instead of built-up areas.
- The railroads, however, had bypassed the town to the east and west.
- Dodging past the pedestrians with his gun drawn, Philip bypassed a bike shop and stopped, leaning on his knees for leverage.
- You will not be able to go around the town or bypass the town on it.
- The road twisted around bypassing a large reindeer farm.
- It is a beautiful city unfortunately often bypassed by rushing tourists on their way from Firenze to Venezia.
Synonyms
go round, go past, make a detour round, pass round
avoid, keep out of, don't go near
1. 1.1 Provide (a town) with a route diverting traffic from its centre.
  the town has been bypassed
  Example sentencesExamples
  When Kildare Town is bypassed it will create traffic chaos in Monasterevin during peak periods as ever rising numbers of vehicles slow down to a crawl through the town.
  Protesters at Shipton-by-Beningbrough, near York, have been calling for the A19 to bypass their village since the 1930s.
  New allegiances came to be forged which bypassed the metropolitan centre.
  People in towns that are bypassed can breathe cleaner air and sleep easier, a scientific survey has found.
  A pressure group is working with campaigners in Westbury to devise a new link road system for traffic to bypass the town.
  The new road will leave the end of the M67 at Hattersley and bypass the four villages to the north before joining the A628 three and a half miles away above Valehouse reservoir.
  The town was bypassed by the M4 at the end of the 1960s but fears of it becoming a ghost town were groundless and the tourist and retail centre is busier today than it was in pre-M4 days.
  The National Roads Authority said the aim of the scheme is to provide a dual carriageway that bypasses Waterford City whilst also catering for the needs of the city.
  If you take Pennsylvania Avenue now, it bypasses the marshy village and the middling town it once served.
  It is a variation of the short tunnel option, which was extended to bypass the garden suburb of Haberfield.
  The site is currently used as a driving range and will be adjacent to the proposed new ring road which will bypass Thurles town centre.
  Whichever route you take you will probably find yourself on the motorway which crosses the Waimakariri River and bypasses the small town of Kaiapoi.
  The route, which would have bypassed the traffic-choked villages of South Newton, Stoford and Steeple Langford, has been deleted from the Wiltshire and Swindon structure plan.
  Work on the bypass has already commenced and the Council expects that the town will be fully bypassed within the next ten years.
  Instead, they would like to see a bridge over the new road, or a scheme, which bypasses the villages altogether allowing them access via roundabouts at either end of the A629.
  She reiterated that she supported the 1998 Roads Needs Study, which stated the N9 needed to be upgraded and Carlow town should be bypassed.
  A study which forecast the level of traffic on Irish roads over the next 20 years was conducted recently and concluded Donegal was best served by an upgraded national road bypassing major towns along the way.
  Kildavin village was bypassed when the new road was built a number of years ago - thus cutting off any aspect of passing trade.
2. 1.2 Avoid or circumvent (an obstacle or problem)
  a manager might bypass formal channels of communication
  Example sentencesExamples
  But the research team have found a way to bypass this problem by training antibodies to neutralise the damaging toxic waste emitted into the blood stream by meningococcal bacteria.
  It is sought so that Indian State can circumvent and bypass the real ideological challenges in the state.
  The goal of grief work is not to find ways to avoid or bypass the emotional turmoil and upsets brought by loss.
  The workshops did not bypass the inherent difficulties posed by the environment but presented anecdotal and experiential accounts related in the first person.
  It seems that the cognitive system has evolved an impressive algorithm that bypasses the problems encountered by formal mathematics.
  This would also bypass the problems of the long, heavy, rough double action trigger pull.
  On the margins, the contest is just as threatening, and bypassing trouble is becoming a preoccupation for many.
  And I think those people handicapped by the lack of a diploma can easily bypass this hurdle so long as the stress is placed more on a certificate than on real abilities.
  To bypass such obstacles, an alternative intelligence group - the Office of Special Plans - was created.
  Tendentious jokes are a way of bypassing the barriers against the direct expression of both obscenity and aggression which civilization has set up.
  But the plastics approach bypasses the problem altogether.
  Once inside, however, users are free to post their scripts and screen their short films, bypassing the usual hurdles and addressing a global audience.
  However, you will find areas that require combat and some that require the Mechanics skill to bypass obstacles.
  In the meantime the software giant is advising users to make changes on a single domain controller, so bypassing the replication problem.
  And if you get that, if you understand who you are as a person, you can bypass the obstacles that come your way.
  Eternal inflation may bypass the complications of extra dimensions and quantum gravity, because these are relegated to the infinite past.
  Many on the left sought to bypass political difficulties in winning support at home by emphasising their moral legitimacy rather than their political support.
  Under the circumstances, the ministry hopes its new policy initiative would bypass the problem.
  Instead he is faced with fake holymen peddling religious enmity and the purblind nouveau riche materialism of his family who bypass the country's problems in their smart new cars.
  Perhaps they were feeling above mundane trivials of life, still moving apace, bypassing obstacles such as moss-covered trees through the vast green tunnel.
  Synonyms
  avoid, evade, dodge, escape, elude, circumvent, get round, skirt (round), find a way round, give a wide berth to, sidestep, steer clear of, get out of, shirk
  informal duck

Definition of bypass in US English:

bypass

nounˈbaɪˌpæsˈbīˌpas

1A road passing around a town or its center to provide an alternative route for through traffic.
Example sentencesExamples
- It would have saved expensive town bypasses, additional roads and parking facilities, not to mention the benefits to the ozone layer and global warming.
- This points all the more for the urgent need for a bypass to keep heavy traffic out of the town.
- The town council asked the county to change its mind over its refusal to undertake a traffic census and also asked highway officials to look into the possibility of a bypass for the town.
- The road links are a lot better now, but that tends to be more of a bypass than a road bringing things in.
- Indeed, they may be the developer themselves when it comes to Waste management, sewage treatment and other infrastructural projects such as outer city ring roads and bypasses.
- As for the town centre, if traffic would use the bypasses instead of coming through it, everyone would gain, especially the pedestrians!
- It reduces th e number of vehicles on the road so eliminating any need to expend billions of the taxpayer's money on new motorways, road widening schemes and bypasses.
- Total cost of the new road and the bypass has been estimated at 90m.
- They are also urging the county to undertake a feasibility study to see if a ring road or bypass could be built for the town.
- The opportunity of providing a town centre bypass along the former railway line to the east of the buildings in High Street has now disappeared.
- In my view the money could be much better spent and still leave more than enough to build a first class safe road with bypasses of major towns such as Castledermot and Carlow.
- The bypass should cut town centre through-traffic by 40 per cent.
- For years pressure groups have been calling on the authorities to force wagons to use the bypass rather than the town centre.
- This is yet another example of the same twentypercentism which has us building single lane bypasses around market towns when floodlit motorways, visible from the moon, are needed.
- The three-mile bypass will carry traffic away from the heavily congested centre of Alderley Edge.
- The town already possessed a bypass, intended to remove much of its traffic.
- He said the old road and bypasses had become ‘almost beyond repair’ following heavy rainfall in August and September.
- He also expressed confidence that further improvements to the city's infrastructure would be witnessed with the commencement of the city bypass and outer ring road.
- More than 10,000 vehicles have been taken out of the town centre and the bypass has delivered on a promise that it would return the streets to the town and the townspeople.
- The road tolls are to pay for motorways and town bypasses.
Synonyms
ring road, detour, diversion, circuitous route, roundabout way, alternative route
2A secondary channel, pipe, or connection to allow a flow when the main one is closed or blocked.
Example sentencesExamples
- But Anthony Poole, the council's drainage manager, said the bypass would be designed design to allow the water to pass underneath it.
- Contracts for the city's second river crossing and bypass are currently being finalised, while work will begin next year on the dual carriageway linking the city with Dublin.
- Power was restored to the effected racks via a manual bypass onto raw mains at approximately 10: 01 hrs.
- Seven main Melbourne hospitals went on emergency bypass early this week, straining paramedics and risking patient lives, Victoria's ambulance union said.
- This might eventually permit a sump bypass and, having looked closely at the depth potential, it is very close to 1km if they manage to resurge in the nearby river.
- Having come so far we were keen to check every recess in the hope of finding a sneaky sump bypass.
- The road was closed to traffic until late afternoon when a temporary bypass was established to allow cars past the accident spot.
- Cut b was to estimate the hydraulic conductance of a leaf where water was prevented from flowing through all the major water paths and any easy bypass of interrupted veins was impeded.
- Crews hope to have a temporary above ground sewer bypass in place a little later today.
- The Council discounted several land corridors that were home to the fern because it believed the bypass would be blocked by a legal challenge if one of them was chosen.
- The first sump had an easy bypass right next to it.
- There is also a true relay bypass that allows signal to pass even if the unit is off.
- A few hundred metres beyond camp is a sump and a several hundred metres long sump bypass which opens out at the top of a fantastic streamway.
3The alternative channel created during a bypass operation.
Example sentencesExamples
- He has also had a heart bypass, and an operation on his leg arteries for a condition that left him almost crippled.
- A coronary bypass provides a detour for blood on its way to the heart.
- Your artery may be damaged during the procedure, requiring emergency bypass surgery.
- He was on the waiting list for a triple bypass in his home city of Aberdeen.
- Though there's a plateau about 18 months after surgery, a gastric bypass usually trims about two-thirds of excess weight in two years.
- 50 per cent of patients would then need surgery such as a bypass or angioplasty.
- Recently, my wife joined the heart-attack ranks, with a bypass and valve replacement.
- He recovered from his quintuple bypass in record time and resumed his quest to "save" the sport he dearly loves.
- When he was 45, he had to undergo surgery for five bypasses.
- Diagnostic tissue was obtained in cases with unresectable lesions that required a surgical bypass.
- Technical improvements are helping to reduce some of the risks involved with coronary bypass surgery.
- He hasn't seen her since she underwent a gastric bypass and lost eight stone.
- Patients requiring heart bypasses or angioplasties - a procedure to unblock arteries - are having their operations within three months, she said.
- A second bypass wasn't possible and his future looked bleak, not to mention short.
- I'm told optimism also helps patients recover from coronary bypass surgery.
- A survey in Somerset found that while 99% would allow a smoker to have a coronary bypass, half would refuse a second operation if the patient would not promise to give up.
- In 1967, surgical bypass of blocked heart arteries became possible.
- About 500 minimally invasive bypasses have been performed so far.
- Once the circulation is restored, a bypass should be performed to exclude the aneurysm.
- Three additional autopsies were performed on patients who had had their surgical bypass performed at other institutions.
- How many bypasses are possible through minimally invasive bypass surgery?
- Techniques have improved greatly here with coronary bypasses to improve blood supply to the heart since 1953 and the replacement of heart valves since the 1960's.
- In April 1996, he underwent quadruple bypass surgery.
- He was born with a heart defect and underwent three bypasses before eventually receiving a transplant.
- Not long ago he needed a heart bypass operation.
- Surgical bypass of severely occluded vessels has been considered the gold standard for use in symptomatic patients who do not respond to more conservative treatments.
- While I was in high school an aneurysm formed near one of those fragments requiring a bypass, thus leading Pop to quip that he had sewer pipe in his leg.
- Unfortunately, many of us know someone who underwent surgery in the last year, and whether it was a hip operation or a heart bypass, more than likely a blood transfusion was required.
- Zara stayed there for a month until just before Christmas then returned to Birmingham for corrective surgery on her gastric bypass.
- So I wasn't unduly surprised to hear that he was planning to run seven marathons in seven countries in seven days, months after a heart bypass operation, in an attempt to raise money for charity.
- Your surgeon will use one of these methods to perform your coronary bypass.
- A patient using this for an hour a day over a five-week period will see the same beneficial effects as they would from having a heart bypass operation, without having to risk having this major procedure.
- Alternative operations, such as a coronary artery bypass, may be considered.
- Four patients had previous open-heart surgery (three aortocoronary bypasses and one surgical repair of a congenital lesion).
- A small bowel bypass was performed.
1. 3.1 A surgical operation in which an alternative channel is created, especially to improve blood flow to the heart when a coronary artery is blocked.
  my granddad is well into his eighties and had a bypass
  as modifier he's just had a triple bypass operation
  Example sentencesExamples
  About 500 minimally invasive bypasses have been performed so far.
  Diagnostic tissue was obtained in cases with unresectable lesions that required a surgical bypass.
  Patients requiring heart bypasses or angioplasties - a procedure to unblock arteries - are having their operations within three months, she said.
  I'm told optimism also helps patients recover from coronary bypass surgery.
  In April 1996, he underwent quadruple bypass surgery.
  He was born with a heart defect and underwent three bypasses before eventually receiving a transplant.
  Not long ago he needed a heart bypass operation.
  Unfortunately, many of us know someone who underwent surgery in the last year, and whether it was a hip operation or a heart bypass, more than likely a blood transfusion was required.
  Surgical bypass of severely occluded vessels has been considered the gold standard for use in symptomatic patients who do not respond to more conservative treatments.
  While I was in high school an aneurysm formed near one of those fragments requiring a bypass, thus leading Pop to quip that he had sewer pipe in his leg.
  Zara stayed there for a month until just before Christmas then returned to Birmingham for corrective surgery on her gastric bypass.
  Your artery may be damaged during the procedure, requiring emergency bypass surgery.
  Three additional autopsies were performed on patients who had had their surgical bypass performed at other institutions.
  He was on the waiting list for a triple bypass in his home city of Aberdeen.
  A patient using this for an hour a day over a five-week period will see the same beneficial effects as they would from having a heart bypass operation, without having to risk having this major procedure.
  A second bypass wasn't possible and his future looked bleak, not to mention short.
  Four patients had previous open-heart surgery (three aortocoronary bypasses and one surgical repair of a congenital lesion).
  He has also had a heart bypass, and an operation on his leg arteries for a condition that left him almost crippled.
  A small bowel bypass was performed.
  A coronary bypass provides a detour for blood on its way to the heart.
  He recovered from his quintuple bypass in record time and resumed his quest to "save" the sport he dearly loves.
  He hasn't seen her since she underwent a gastric bypass and lost eight stone.
  So I wasn't unduly surprised to hear that he was planning to run seven marathons in seven countries in seven days, months after a heart bypass operation, in an attempt to raise money for charity.
  Your surgeon will use one of these methods to perform your coronary bypass.
  Alternative operations, such as a coronary artery bypass, may be considered.
  Recently, my wife joined the heart-attack ranks, with a bypass and valve replacement.
  50 per cent of patients would then need surgery such as a bypass or angioplasty.
  When he was 45, he had to undergo surgery for five bypasses.
  Technical improvements are helping to reduce some of the risks involved with coronary bypass surgery.
  Once the circulation is restored, a bypass should be performed to exclude the aneurysm.
  Though there's a plateau about 18 months after surgery, a gastric bypass usually trims about two-thirds of excess weight in two years.
  Techniques have improved greatly here with coronary bypasses to improve blood supply to the heart since 1953 and the replacement of heart valves since the 1960's.
  How many bypasses are possible through minimally invasive bypass surgery?
  A survey in Somerset found that while 99% would allow a smoker to have a coronary bypass, half would refuse a second operation if the patient would not promise to give up.
  In 1967, surgical bypass of blocked heart arteries became possible.

verbˈbaɪˌpæsˈbīˌpas

[with object]

1Go past or around.
bypass the farm and continue to the road
Example sentencesExamples
- Opening or bypassing (getting round) the blocked arteries can help.
- They say too many people bypass the town because too little is done to promote it.
- Businessmen have complained that ships have been bypassing Port-of-Spain, due to heavy congestion and the general inefficiency at the port which, they say, in the receipt of containers.
- Fighting off panic, he raced over to the stairway, and skipped down the stairs as he had done before, bypassing the grieving dragons, who completely ignored him.
- The railroads, however, had bypassed the town to the east and west.
- The road twisted around bypassing a large reindeer farm.
- Facing determined resistance there, the attackers bypassed the town and advanced on Arracourt.
- How could people just have bypassed the town without noticing the devastation there?
- ‘Rather than just observing those vessels bypassing our region, we are launching a Cumbria cruise initiative to increase cruise calls to our ports,’ she added.
- We bypass a farm with fine barns and cross another idyllic little stream by way of four large stepping-stones.
- While the Napa Valley is an internationally known wine region, its largest town is often bypassed by visitors.
- As a result it's bypassing some of the slow, tortuous back-roads of development that make Hong Kong feel like somebody took the nineteen fifties and suddenly gave them twenty-first century technology.
- Dodging past the pedestrians with his gun drawn, Philip bypassed a bike shop and stopped, leaning on his knees for leverage.
- It is a beautiful city unfortunately often bypassed by rushing tourists on their way from Firenze to Venezia.
- I travel all over the UK and it is a pleasure bypassing most towns, looking at countryside instead of built-up areas.
- You will not be able to go around the town or bypass the town on it.
- Armed with my home-printed boarding card, I head straight for security, bypassing the hoards of people queueing at the check-in desks.
- She explained how any spillage should have drained into interceptor tanks to trap oil, but Environment Agency inspectors using dye discovered that oil was bypassing the safeguards and getting into the watercourse.
- Today, the picture was bleak, with visitors bypassing the town and its ‘architectural gem’ Selby Abbey.
- These procedures create a direct connection from the stomach to the lower segment of the small intestine, literally bypassing portions of the digestive tract that absorb calories and nutrients.
Synonyms
go round, go past, make a detour round, pass round
1. 1.1 Provide (a town) with a route diverting traffic from its center.
  the town has been bypassed
  Example sentencesExamples
  Work on the bypass has already commenced and the Council expects that the town will be fully bypassed within the next ten years.
  Whichever route you take you will probably find yourself on the motorway which crosses the Waimakariri River and bypasses the small town of Kaiapoi.
  The site is currently used as a driving range and will be adjacent to the proposed new ring road which will bypass Thurles town centre.
  She reiterated that she supported the 1998 Roads Needs Study, which stated the N9 needed to be upgraded and Carlow town should be bypassed.
  People in towns that are bypassed can breathe cleaner air and sleep easier, a scientific survey has found.
  Kildavin village was bypassed when the new road was built a number of years ago - thus cutting off any aspect of passing trade.
  New allegiances came to be forged which bypassed the metropolitan centre.
  Protesters at Shipton-by-Beningbrough, near York, have been calling for the A19 to bypass their village since the 1930s.
  A pressure group is working with campaigners in Westbury to devise a new link road system for traffic to bypass the town.
  The route, which would have bypassed the traffic-choked villages of South Newton, Stoford and Steeple Langford, has been deleted from the Wiltshire and Swindon structure plan.
  The National Roads Authority said the aim of the scheme is to provide a dual carriageway that bypasses Waterford City whilst also catering for the needs of the city.
  Instead, they would like to see a bridge over the new road, or a scheme, which bypasses the villages altogether allowing them access via roundabouts at either end of the A629.
  The town was bypassed by the M4 at the end of the 1960s but fears of it becoming a ghost town were groundless and the tourist and retail centre is busier today than it was in pre-M4 days.
  A study which forecast the level of traffic on Irish roads over the next 20 years was conducted recently and concluded Donegal was best served by an upgraded national road bypassing major towns along the way.
  The new road will leave the end of the M67 at Hattersley and bypass the four villages to the north before joining the A628 three and a half miles away above Valehouse reservoir.
  If you take Pennsylvania Avenue now, it bypasses the marshy village and the middling town it once served.
  When Kildare Town is bypassed it will create traffic chaos in Monasterevin during peak periods as ever rising numbers of vehicles slow down to a crawl through the town.
  It is a variation of the short tunnel option, which was extended to bypass the garden suburb of Haberfield.
2. 1.2 Avoid or circumvent (an obstacle or problem)
  a manager might bypass formal channels of communication
  Example sentencesExamples
  Under the circumstances, the ministry hopes its new policy initiative would bypass the problem.
  To bypass such obstacles, an alternative intelligence group - the Office of Special Plans - was created.
  And if you get that, if you understand who you are as a person, you can bypass the obstacles that come your way.
  On the margins, the contest is just as threatening, and bypassing trouble is becoming a preoccupation for many.
  Instead he is faced with fake holymen peddling religious enmity and the purblind nouveau riche materialism of his family who bypass the country's problems in their smart new cars.
  The goal of grief work is not to find ways to avoid or bypass the emotional turmoil and upsets brought by loss.
  But the plastics approach bypasses the problem altogether.
  The workshops did not bypass the inherent difficulties posed by the environment but presented anecdotal and experiential accounts related in the first person.
  But the research team have found a way to bypass this problem by training antibodies to neutralise the damaging toxic waste emitted into the blood stream by meningococcal bacteria.
  Tendentious jokes are a way of bypassing the barriers against the direct expression of both obscenity and aggression which civilization has set up.
  This would also bypass the problems of the long, heavy, rough double action trigger pull.
  Many on the left sought to bypass political difficulties in winning support at home by emphasising their moral legitimacy rather than their political support.
  In the meantime the software giant is advising users to make changes on a single domain controller, so bypassing the replication problem.
  It seems that the cognitive system has evolved an impressive algorithm that bypasses the problems encountered by formal mathematics.
  And I think those people handicapped by the lack of a diploma can easily bypass this hurdle so long as the stress is placed more on a certificate than on real abilities.
  It is sought so that Indian State can circumvent and bypass the real ideological challenges in the state.
  Once inside, however, users are free to post their scripts and screen their short films, bypassing the usual hurdles and addressing a global audience.
  Perhaps they were feeling above mundane trivials of life, still moving apace, bypassing obstacles such as moss-covered trees through the vast green tunnel.
  Eternal inflation may bypass the complications of extra dimensions and quantum gravity, because these are relegated to the infinite past.
  However, you will find areas that require combat and some that require the Mechanics skill to bypass obstacles.
  Synonyms
  avoid, evade, dodge, escape, elude, circumvent, get round, skirt, skirt round, find a way round, give a wide berth to, sidestep, steer clear of, get out of, shirk

单词	bypass
释义	Definition of bypass in English: bypass nounˈbʌɪpɑːsˈbaɪˌpæs 1A road passing round a town or its centre to provide an alternative route for through traffic. Example sentencesExamples The bypass should cut town centre through-traffic by 40 per cent. The road links are a lot better now, but that tends to be more of a bypass than a road bringing things in. The town council asked the county to change its mind over its refusal to undertake a traffic census and also asked highway officials to look into the possibility of a bypass for the town. He also expressed confidence that further improvements to the city's infrastructure would be witnessed with the commencement of the city bypass and outer ring road. Total cost of the new road and the bypass has been estimated at 90m. The opportunity of providing a town centre bypass along the former railway line to the east of the buildings in High Street has now disappeared. They are also urging the county to undertake a feasibility study to see if a ring road or bypass could be built for the town. It reduces th e number of vehicles on the road so eliminating any need to expend billions of the taxpayer's money on new motorways, road widening schemes and bypasses. As for the town centre, if traffic would use the bypasses instead of coming through it, everyone would gain, especially the pedestrians! He said the old road and bypasses had become ‘almost beyond repair’ following heavy rainfall in August and September. More than 10,000 vehicles have been taken out of the town centre and the bypass has delivered on a promise that it would return the streets to the town and the townspeople. This points all the more for the urgent need for a bypass to keep heavy traffic out of the town. This is yet another example of the same twentypercentism which has us building single lane bypasses around market towns when floodlit motorways, visible from the moon, are needed. In my view the money could be much better spent and still leave more than enough to build a first class safe road with bypasses of major towns such as Castledermot and Carlow. The town already possessed a bypass, intended to remove much of its traffic. Indeed, they may be the developer themselves when it comes to Waste management, sewage treatment and other infrastructural projects such as outer city ring roads and bypasses. The road tolls are to pay for motorways and town bypasses. For years pressure groups have been calling on the authorities to force wagons to use the bypass rather than the town centre. The three-mile bypass will carry traffic away from the heavily congested centre of Alderley Edge. It would have saved expensive town bypasses, additional roads and parking facilities, not to mention the benefits to the ozone layer and global warming. Synonyms ring road, detour, diversion, circuitous route, roundabout way, alternative route British relief road British informal rat run 2A secondary channel, pipe, or connection to allow a flow when the main one is closed or blocked. Example sentencesExamples This might eventually permit a sump bypass and, having looked closely at the depth potential, it is very close to 1km if they manage to resurge in the nearby river. Crews hope to have a temporary above ground sewer bypass in place a little later today. Seven main Melbourne hospitals went on emergency bypass early this week, straining paramedics and risking patient lives, Victoria's ambulance union said. A few hundred metres beyond camp is a sump and a several hundred metres long sump bypass which opens out at the top of a fantastic streamway. The Council discounted several land corridors that were home to the fern because it believed the bypass would be blocked by a legal challenge if one of them was chosen. Power was restored to the effected racks via a manual bypass onto raw mains at approximately 10: 01 hrs. Having come so far we were keen to check every recess in the hope of finding a sneaky sump bypass. But Anthony Poole, the council's drainage manager, said the bypass would be designed design to allow the water to pass underneath it. The first sump had an easy bypass right next to it. The road was closed to traffic until late afternoon when a temporary bypass was established to allow cars past the accident spot. There is also a true relay bypass that allows signal to pass even if the unit is off. Cut b was to estimate the hydraulic conductance of a leaf where water was prevented from flowing through all the major water paths and any easy bypass of interrupted veins was impeded. Contracts for the city's second river crossing and bypass are currently being finalised, while work will begin next year on the dual carriageway linking the city with Dublin. 3A surgical operation in which an alternative channel is created, especially to improve blood flow to the heart when a coronary artery is blocked. I had a bypass last year so have been building up my strength as modifier he's just had a triple bypass operation Example sentencesExamples Your surgeon will use one of these methods to perform your coronary bypass. A survey in Somerset found that while 99% would allow a smoker to have a coronary bypass, half would refuse a second operation if the patient would not promise to give up. Alternative operations, such as a coronary artery bypass, may be considered. In 1967, surgical bypass of blocked heart arteries became possible. Your artery may be damaged during the procedure, requiring emergency bypass surgery. So I wasn't unduly surprised to hear that he was planning to run seven marathons in seven countries in seven days, months after a heart bypass operation, in an attempt to raise money for charity. While I was in high school an aneurysm formed near one of those fragments requiring a bypass, thus leading Pop to quip that he had sewer pipe in his leg. Patients requiring heart bypasses or angioplasties - a procedure to unblock arteries - are having their operations within three months, she said. He has also had a heart bypass, and an operation on his leg arteries for a condition that left him almost crippled. A small bowel bypass was performed. Recently, my wife joined the heart-attack ranks, with a bypass and valve replacement. He was on the waiting list for a triple bypass in his home city of Aberdeen. Three additional autopsies were performed on patients who had had their surgical bypass performed at other institutions. He was born with a heart defect and underwent three bypasses before eventually receiving a transplant. How many bypasses are possible through minimally invasive bypass surgery? Four patients had previous open-heart surgery (three aortocoronary bypasses and one surgical repair of a congenital lesion). He recovered from his quintuple bypass in record time and resumed his quest to "save" the sport he dearly loves. About 500 minimally invasive bypasses have been performed so far. 50 per cent of patients would then need surgery such as a bypass or angioplasty. A patient using this for an hour a day over a five-week period will see the same beneficial effects as they would from having a heart bypass operation, without having to risk having this major procedure. A second bypass wasn't possible and his future looked bleak, not to mention short. Techniques have improved greatly here with coronary bypasses to improve blood supply to the heart since 1953 and the replacement of heart valves since the 1960's. Technical improvements are helping to reduce some of the risks involved with coronary bypass surgery. In April 1996, he underwent quadruple bypass surgery. Zara stayed there for a month until just before Christmas then returned to Birmingham for corrective surgery on her gastric bypass. I'm told optimism also helps patients recover from coronary bypass surgery. Diagnostic tissue was obtained in cases with unresectable lesions that required a surgical bypass. Once the circulation is restored, a bypass should be performed to exclude the aneurysm. A coronary bypass provides a detour for blood on its way to the heart. Not long ago he needed a heart bypass operation. Unfortunately, many of us know someone who underwent surgery in the last year, and whether it was a hip operation or a heart bypass, more than likely a blood transfusion was required. When he was 45, he had to undergo surgery for five bypasses. He hasn't seen her since she underwent a gastric bypass and lost eight stone. Surgical bypass of severely occluded vessels has been considered the gold standard for use in symptomatic patients who do not respond to more conservative treatments. Though there's a plateau about 18 months after surgery, a gastric bypass usually trims about two-thirds of excess weight in two years. 3.1 An alternative channel created during a bypass operation. Example sentencesExamples So I wasn't unduly surprised to hear that he was planning to run seven marathons in seven countries in seven days, months after a heart bypass operation, in an attempt to raise money for charity. In April 1996, he underwent quadruple bypass surgery. He has also had a heart bypass, and an operation on his leg arteries for a condition that left him almost crippled. While I was in high school an aneurysm formed near one of those fragments requiring a bypass, thus leading Pop to quip that he had sewer pipe in his leg. Though there's a plateau about 18 months after surgery, a gastric bypass usually trims about two-thirds of excess weight in two years. A second bypass wasn't possible and his future looked bleak, not to mention short. In 1967, surgical bypass of blocked heart arteries became possible. Your artery may be damaged during the procedure, requiring emergency bypass surgery. 50 per cent of patients would then need surgery such as a bypass or angioplasty. He was born with a heart defect and underwent three bypasses before eventually receiving a transplant. He was on the waiting list for a triple bypass in his home city of Aberdeen. Your surgeon will use one of these methods to perform your coronary bypass. He hasn't seen her since she underwent a gastric bypass and lost eight stone. Four patients had previous open-heart surgery (three aortocoronary bypasses and one surgical repair of a congenital lesion). Three additional autopsies were performed on patients who had had their surgical bypass performed at other institutions. Surgical bypass of severely occluded vessels has been considered the gold standard for use in symptomatic patients who do not respond to more conservative treatments. I'm told optimism also helps patients recover from coronary bypass surgery. A coronary bypass provides a detour for blood on its way to the heart. Patients requiring heart bypasses or angioplasties - a procedure to unblock arteries - are having their operations within three months, she said. Diagnostic tissue was obtained in cases with unresectable lesions that required a surgical bypass. Techniques have improved greatly here with coronary bypasses to improve blood supply to the heart since 1953 and the replacement of heart valves since the 1960's. Technical improvements are helping to reduce some of the risks involved with coronary bypass surgery. A survey in Somerset found that while 99% would allow a smoker to have a coronary bypass, half would refuse a second operation if the patient would not promise to give up. Alternative operations, such as a coronary artery bypass, may be considered. About 500 minimally invasive bypasses have been performed so far. Not long ago he needed a heart bypass operation. How many bypasses are possible through minimally invasive bypass surgery? A patient using this for an hour a day over a five-week period will see the same beneficial effects as they would from having a heart bypass operation, without having to risk having this major procedure. Once the circulation is restored, a bypass should be performed to exclude the aneurysm. Recently, my wife joined the heart-attack ranks, with a bypass and valve replacement. A small bowel bypass was performed. He recovered from his quintuple bypass in record time and resumed his quest to "save" the sport he dearly loves. Unfortunately, many of us know someone who underwent surgery in the last year, and whether it was a hip operation or a heart bypass, more than likely a blood transfusion was required. When he was 45, he had to undergo surgery for five bypasses. Zara stayed there for a month until just before Christmas then returned to Birmingham for corrective surgery on her gastric bypass. verbˈbʌɪpɑːsˈbaɪˌpæs [with object] 1Go past or round. bypass the farm and continue to the road Example sentencesExamples As a result it's bypassing some of the slow, tortuous back-roads of development that make Hong Kong feel like somebody took the nineteen fifties and suddenly gave them twenty-first century technology. How could people just have bypassed the town without noticing the devastation there? Facing determined resistance there, the attackers bypassed the town and advanced on Arracourt. We bypass a farm with fine barns and cross another idyllic little stream by way of four large stepping-stones. While the Napa Valley is an internationally known wine region, its largest town is often bypassed by visitors. Fighting off panic, he raced over to the stairway, and skipped down the stairs as he had done before, bypassing the grieving dragons, who completely ignored him. Businessmen have complained that ships have been bypassing Port-of-Spain, due to heavy congestion and the general inefficiency at the port which, they say, in the receipt of containers. She explained how any spillage should have drained into interceptor tanks to trap oil, but Environment Agency inspectors using dye discovered that oil was bypassing the safeguards and getting into the watercourse. They say too many people bypass the town because too little is done to promote it. Today, the picture was bleak, with visitors bypassing the town and its ‘architectural gem’ Selby Abbey. Opening or bypassing (getting round) the blocked arteries can help. These procedures create a direct connection from the stomach to the lower segment of the small intestine, literally bypassing portions of the digestive tract that absorb calories and nutrients. Armed with my home-printed boarding card, I head straight for security, bypassing the hoards of people queueing at the check-in desks. ‘Rather than just observing those vessels bypassing our region, we are launching a Cumbria cruise initiative to increase cruise calls to our ports,’ she added. I travel all over the UK and it is a pleasure bypassing most towns, looking at countryside instead of built-up areas. The railroads, however, had bypassed the town to the east and west. Dodging past the pedestrians with his gun drawn, Philip bypassed a bike shop and stopped, leaning on his knees for leverage. You will not be able to go around the town or bypass the town on it. The road twisted around bypassing a large reindeer farm. It is a beautiful city unfortunately often bypassed by rushing tourists on their way from Firenze to Venezia. Synonyms go round, go past, make a detour round, pass round avoid, keep out of, don't go near 1.1 Provide (a town) with a route diverting traffic from its centre. the town has been bypassed Example sentencesExamples When Kildare Town is bypassed it will create traffic chaos in Monasterevin during peak periods as ever rising numbers of vehicles slow down to a crawl through the town. Protesters at Shipton-by-Beningbrough, near York, have been calling for the A19 to bypass their village since the 1930s. New allegiances came to be forged which bypassed the metropolitan centre. People in towns that are bypassed can breathe cleaner air and sleep easier, a scientific survey has found. A pressure group is working with campaigners in Westbury to devise a new link road system for traffic to bypass the town. The new road will leave the end of the M67 at Hattersley and bypass the four villages to the north before joining the A628 three and a half miles away above Valehouse reservoir. The town was bypassed by the M4 at the end of the 1960s but fears of it becoming a ghost town were groundless and the tourist and retail centre is busier today than it was in pre-M4 days. The National Roads Authority said the aim of the scheme is to provide a dual carriageway that bypasses Waterford City whilst also catering for the needs of the city. If you take Pennsylvania Avenue now, it bypasses the marshy village and the middling town it once served. It is a variation of the short tunnel option, which was extended to bypass the garden suburb of Haberfield. The site is currently used as a driving range and will be adjacent to the proposed new ring road which will bypass Thurles town centre. Whichever route you take you will probably find yourself on the motorway which crosses the Waimakariri River and bypasses the small town of Kaiapoi. The route, which would have bypassed the traffic-choked villages of South Newton, Stoford and Steeple Langford, has been deleted from the Wiltshire and Swindon structure plan. Work on the bypass has already commenced and the Council expects that the town will be fully bypassed within the next ten years. Instead, they would like to see a bridge over the new road, or a scheme, which bypasses the villages altogether allowing them access via roundabouts at either end of the A629. She reiterated that she supported the 1998 Roads Needs Study, which stated the N9 needed to be upgraded and Carlow town should be bypassed. A study which forecast the level of traffic on Irish roads over the next 20 years was conducted recently and concluded Donegal was best served by an upgraded national road bypassing major towns along the way. Kildavin village was bypassed when the new road was built a number of years ago - thus cutting off any aspect of passing trade. 1.2 Avoid or circumvent (an obstacle or problem) a manager might bypass formal channels of communication Example sentencesExamples But the research team have found a way to bypass this problem by training antibodies to neutralise the damaging toxic waste emitted into the blood stream by meningococcal bacteria. It is sought so that Indian State can circumvent and bypass the real ideological challenges in the state. The goal of grief work is not to find ways to avoid or bypass the emotional turmoil and upsets brought by loss. The workshops did not bypass the inherent difficulties posed by the environment but presented anecdotal and experiential accounts related in the first person. It seems that the cognitive system has evolved an impressive algorithm that bypasses the problems encountered by formal mathematics. This would also bypass the problems of the long, heavy, rough double action trigger pull. On the margins, the contest is just as threatening, and bypassing trouble is becoming a preoccupation for many. And I think those people handicapped by the lack of a diploma can easily bypass this hurdle so long as the stress is placed more on a certificate than on real abilities. To bypass such obstacles, an alternative intelligence group - the Office of Special Plans - was created. Tendentious jokes are a way of bypassing the barriers against the direct expression of both obscenity and aggression which civilization has set up. But the plastics approach bypasses the problem altogether. Once inside, however, users are free to post their scripts and screen their short films, bypassing the usual hurdles and addressing a global audience. However, you will find areas that require combat and some that require the Mechanics skill to bypass obstacles. In the meantime the software giant is advising users to make changes on a single domain controller, so bypassing the replication problem. And if you get that, if you understand who you are as a person, you can bypass the obstacles that come your way. Eternal inflation may bypass the complications of extra dimensions and quantum gravity, because these are relegated to the infinite past. Many on the left sought to bypass political difficulties in winning support at home by emphasising their moral legitimacy rather than their political support. Under the circumstances, the ministry hopes its new policy initiative would bypass the problem. Instead he is faced with fake holymen peddling religious enmity and the purblind nouveau riche materialism of his family who bypass the country's problems in their smart new cars. Perhaps they were feeling above mundane trivials of life, still moving apace, bypassing obstacles such as moss-covered trees through the vast green tunnel. Synonyms avoid, evade, dodge, escape, elude, circumvent, get round, skirt (round), find a way round, give a wide berth to, sidestep, steer clear of, get out of, shirk informal duck Definition of bypass in US English: bypass nounˈbaɪˌpæsˈbīˌpas 1A road passing around a town or its center to provide an alternative route for through traffic. Example sentencesExamples It would have saved expensive town bypasses, additional roads and parking facilities, not to mention the benefits to the ozone layer and global warming. This points all the more for the urgent need for a bypass to keep heavy traffic out of the town. The town council asked the county to change its mind over its refusal to undertake a traffic census and also asked highway officials to look into the possibility of a bypass for the town. The road links are a lot better now, but that tends to be more of a bypass than a road bringing things in. Indeed, they may be the developer themselves when it comes to Waste management, sewage treatment and other infrastructural projects such as outer city ring roads and bypasses. As for the town centre, if traffic would use the bypasses instead of coming through it, everyone would gain, especially the pedestrians! It reduces th e number of vehicles on the road so eliminating any need to expend billions of the taxpayer's money on new motorways, road widening schemes and bypasses. Total cost of the new road and the bypass has been estimated at 90m. They are also urging the county to undertake a feasibility study to see if a ring road or bypass could be built for the town. The opportunity of providing a town centre bypass along the former railway line to the east of the buildings in High Street has now disappeared. In my view the money could be much better spent and still leave more than enough to build a first class safe road with bypasses of major towns such as Castledermot and Carlow. The bypass should cut town centre through-traffic by 40 per cent. For years pressure groups have been calling on the authorities to force wagons to use the bypass rather than the town centre. This is yet another example of the same twentypercentism which has us building single lane bypasses around market towns when floodlit motorways, visible from the moon, are needed. The three-mile bypass will carry traffic away from the heavily congested centre of Alderley Edge. The town already possessed a bypass, intended to remove much of its traffic. He said the old road and bypasses had become ‘almost beyond repair’ following heavy rainfall in August and September. He also expressed confidence that further improvements to the city's infrastructure would be witnessed with the commencement of the city bypass and outer ring road. More than 10,000 vehicles have been taken out of the town centre and the bypass has delivered on a promise that it would return the streets to the town and the townspeople. The road tolls are to pay for motorways and town bypasses. Synonyms ring road, detour, diversion, circuitous route, roundabout way, alternative route 2A secondary channel, pipe, or connection to allow a flow when the main one is closed or blocked. Example sentencesExamples But Anthony Poole, the council's drainage manager, said the bypass would be designed design to allow the water to pass underneath it. Contracts for the city's second river crossing and bypass are currently being finalised, while work will begin next year on the dual carriageway linking the city with Dublin. Power was restored to the effected racks via a manual bypass onto raw mains at approximately 10: 01 hrs. Seven main Melbourne hospitals went on emergency bypass early this week, straining paramedics and risking patient lives, Victoria's ambulance union said. This might eventually permit a sump bypass and, having looked closely at the depth potential, it is very close to 1km if they manage to resurge in the nearby river. Having come so far we were keen to check every recess in the hope of finding a sneaky sump bypass. The road was closed to traffic until late afternoon when a temporary bypass was established to allow cars past the accident spot. Cut b was to estimate the hydraulic conductance of a leaf where water was prevented from flowing through all the major water paths and any easy bypass of interrupted veins was impeded. Crews hope to have a temporary above ground sewer bypass in place a little later today. The Council discounted several land corridors that were home to the fern because it believed the bypass would be blocked by a legal challenge if one of them was chosen. The first sump had an easy bypass right next to it. There is also a true relay bypass that allows signal to pass even if the unit is off. A few hundred metres beyond camp is a sump and a several hundred metres long sump bypass which opens out at the top of a fantastic streamway. 3The alternative channel created during a bypass operation. Example sentencesExamples He has also had a heart bypass, and an operation on his leg arteries for a condition that left him almost crippled. A coronary bypass provides a detour for blood on its way to the heart. Your artery may be damaged during the procedure, requiring emergency bypass surgery. He was on the waiting list for a triple bypass in his home city of Aberdeen. Though there's a plateau about 18 months after surgery, a gastric bypass usually trims about two-thirds of excess weight in two years. 50 per cent of patients would then need surgery such as a bypass or angioplasty. Recently, my wife joined the heart-attack ranks, with a bypass and valve replacement. He recovered from his quintuple bypass in record time and resumed his quest to "save" the sport he dearly loves. When he was 45, he had to undergo surgery for five bypasses. Diagnostic tissue was obtained in cases with unresectable lesions that required a surgical bypass. Technical improvements are helping to reduce some of the risks involved with coronary bypass surgery. He hasn't seen her since she underwent a gastric bypass and lost eight stone. Patients requiring heart bypasses or angioplasties - a procedure to unblock arteries - are having their operations within three months, she said. A second bypass wasn't possible and his future looked bleak, not to mention short. I'm told optimism also helps patients recover from coronary bypass surgery. A survey in Somerset found that while 99% would allow a smoker to have a coronary bypass, half would refuse a second operation if the patient would not promise to give up. In 1967, surgical bypass of blocked heart arteries became possible. About 500 minimally invasive bypasses have been performed so far. Once the circulation is restored, a bypass should be performed to exclude the aneurysm. Three additional autopsies were performed on patients who had had their surgical bypass performed at other institutions. How many bypasses are possible through minimally invasive bypass surgery? Techniques have improved greatly here with coronary bypasses to improve blood supply to the heart since 1953 and the replacement of heart valves since the 1960's. In April 1996, he underwent quadruple bypass surgery. He was born with a heart defect and underwent three bypasses before eventually receiving a transplant. Not long ago he needed a heart bypass operation. Surgical bypass of severely occluded vessels has been considered the gold standard for use in symptomatic patients who do not respond to more conservative treatments. While I was in high school an aneurysm formed near one of those fragments requiring a bypass, thus leading Pop to quip that he had sewer pipe in his leg. Unfortunately, many of us know someone who underwent surgery in the last year, and whether it was a hip operation or a heart bypass, more than likely a blood transfusion was required. Zara stayed there for a month until just before Christmas then returned to Birmingham for corrective surgery on her gastric bypass. So I wasn't unduly surprised to hear that he was planning to run seven marathons in seven countries in seven days, months after a heart bypass operation, in an attempt to raise money for charity. Your surgeon will use one of these methods to perform your coronary bypass. A patient using this for an hour a day over a five-week period will see the same beneficial effects as they would from having a heart bypass operation, without having to risk having this major procedure. Alternative operations, such as a coronary artery bypass, may be considered. Four patients had previous open-heart surgery (three aortocoronary bypasses and one surgical repair of a congenital lesion). A small bowel bypass was performed. 3.1 A surgical operation in which an alternative channel is created, especially to improve blood flow to the heart when a coronary artery is blocked. my granddad is well into his eighties and had a bypass as modifier he's just had a triple bypass operation Example sentencesExamples About 500 minimally invasive bypasses have been performed so far. Diagnostic tissue was obtained in cases with unresectable lesions that required a surgical bypass. Patients requiring heart bypasses or angioplasties - a procedure to unblock arteries - are having their operations within three months, she said. I'm told optimism also helps patients recover from coronary bypass surgery. In April 1996, he underwent quadruple bypass surgery. He was born with a heart defect and underwent three bypasses before eventually receiving a transplant. Not long ago he needed a heart bypass operation. Unfortunately, many of us know someone who underwent surgery in the last year, and whether it was a hip operation or a heart bypass, more than likely a blood transfusion was required. Surgical bypass of severely occluded vessels has been considered the gold standard for use in symptomatic patients who do not respond to more conservative treatments. While I was in high school an aneurysm formed near one of those fragments requiring a bypass, thus leading Pop to quip that he had sewer pipe in his leg. Zara stayed there for a month until just before Christmas then returned to Birmingham for corrective surgery on her gastric bypass. Your artery may be damaged during the procedure, requiring emergency bypass surgery. Three additional autopsies were performed on patients who had had their surgical bypass performed at other institutions. He was on the waiting list for a triple bypass in his home city of Aberdeen. A patient using this for an hour a day over a five-week period will see the same beneficial effects as they would from having a heart bypass operation, without having to risk having this major procedure. A second bypass wasn't possible and his future looked bleak, not to mention short. Four patients had previous open-heart surgery (three aortocoronary bypasses and one surgical repair of a congenital lesion). He has also had a heart bypass, and an operation on his leg arteries for a condition that left him almost crippled. A small bowel bypass was performed. A coronary bypass provides a detour for blood on its way to the heart. He recovered from his quintuple bypass in record time and resumed his quest to "save" the sport he dearly loves. He hasn't seen her since she underwent a gastric bypass and lost eight stone. So I wasn't unduly surprised to hear that he was planning to run seven marathons in seven countries in seven days, months after a heart bypass operation, in an attempt to raise money for charity. Your surgeon will use one of these methods to perform your coronary bypass. Alternative operations, such as a coronary artery bypass, may be considered. Recently, my wife joined the heart-attack ranks, with a bypass and valve replacement. 50 per cent of patients would then need surgery such as a bypass or angioplasty. When he was 45, he had to undergo surgery for five bypasses. Technical improvements are helping to reduce some of the risks involved with coronary bypass surgery. Once the circulation is restored, a bypass should be performed to exclude the aneurysm. Though there's a plateau about 18 months after surgery, a gastric bypass usually trims about two-thirds of excess weight in two years. Techniques have improved greatly here with coronary bypasses to improve blood supply to the heart since 1953 and the replacement of heart valves since the 1960's. How many bypasses are possible through minimally invasive bypass surgery? A survey in Somerset found that while 99% would allow a smoker to have a coronary bypass, half would refuse a second operation if the patient would not promise to give up. In 1967, surgical bypass of blocked heart arteries became possible. verbˈbaɪˌpæsˈbīˌpas [with object] 1Go past or around. bypass the farm and continue to the road Example sentencesExamples Opening or bypassing (getting round) the blocked arteries can help. They say too many people bypass the town because too little is done to promote it. Businessmen have complained that ships have been bypassing Port-of-Spain, due to heavy congestion and the general inefficiency at the port which, they say, in the receipt of containers. Fighting off panic, he raced over to the stairway, and skipped down the stairs as he had done before, bypassing the grieving dragons, who completely ignored him. The railroads, however, had bypassed the town to the east and west. The road twisted around bypassing a large reindeer farm. Facing determined resistance there, the attackers bypassed the town and advanced on Arracourt. How could people just have bypassed the town without noticing the devastation there? ‘Rather than just observing those vessels bypassing our region, we are launching a Cumbria cruise initiative to increase cruise calls to our ports,’ she added. We bypass a farm with fine barns and cross another idyllic little stream by way of four large stepping-stones. While the Napa Valley is an internationally known wine region, its largest town is often bypassed by visitors. As a result it's bypassing some of the slow, tortuous back-roads of development that make Hong Kong feel like somebody took the nineteen fifties and suddenly gave them twenty-first century technology. Dodging past the pedestrians with his gun drawn, Philip bypassed a bike shop and stopped, leaning on his knees for leverage. It is a beautiful city unfortunately often bypassed by rushing tourists on their way from Firenze to Venezia. I travel all over the UK and it is a pleasure bypassing most towns, looking at countryside instead of built-up areas. You will not be able to go around the town or bypass the town on it. Armed with my home-printed boarding card, I head straight for security, bypassing the hoards of people queueing at the check-in desks. She explained how any spillage should have drained into interceptor tanks to trap oil, but Environment Agency inspectors using dye discovered that oil was bypassing the safeguards and getting into the watercourse. Today, the picture was bleak, with visitors bypassing the town and its ‘architectural gem’ Selby Abbey. These procedures create a direct connection from the stomach to the lower segment of the small intestine, literally bypassing portions of the digestive tract that absorb calories and nutrients. Synonyms go round, go past, make a detour round, pass round 1.1 Provide (a town) with a route diverting traffic from its center. the town has been bypassed Example sentencesExamples Work on the bypass has already commenced and the Council expects that the town will be fully bypassed within the next ten years. Whichever route you take you will probably find yourself on the motorway which crosses the Waimakariri River and bypasses the small town of Kaiapoi. The site is currently used as a driving range and will be adjacent to the proposed new ring road which will bypass Thurles town centre. She reiterated that she supported the 1998 Roads Needs Study, which stated the N9 needed to be upgraded and Carlow town should be bypassed. People in towns that are bypassed can breathe cleaner air and sleep easier, a scientific survey has found. Kildavin village was bypassed when the new road was built a number of years ago - thus cutting off any aspect of passing trade. New allegiances came to be forged which bypassed the metropolitan centre. Protesters at Shipton-by-Beningbrough, near York, have been calling for the A19 to bypass their village since the 1930s. A pressure group is working with campaigners in Westbury to devise a new link road system for traffic to bypass the town. The route, which would have bypassed the traffic-choked villages of South Newton, Stoford and Steeple Langford, has been deleted from the Wiltshire and Swindon structure plan. The National Roads Authority said the aim of the scheme is to provide a dual carriageway that bypasses Waterford City whilst also catering for the needs of the city. Instead, they would like to see a bridge over the new road, or a scheme, which bypasses the villages altogether allowing them access via roundabouts at either end of the A629. The town was bypassed by the M4 at the end of the 1960s but fears of it becoming a ghost town were groundless and the tourist and retail centre is busier today than it was in pre-M4 days. A study which forecast the level of traffic on Irish roads over the next 20 years was conducted recently and concluded Donegal was best served by an upgraded national road bypassing major towns along the way. The new road will leave the end of the M67 at Hattersley and bypass the four villages to the north before joining the A628 three and a half miles away above Valehouse reservoir. If you take Pennsylvania Avenue now, it bypasses the marshy village and the middling town it once served. When Kildare Town is bypassed it will create traffic chaos in Monasterevin during peak periods as ever rising numbers of vehicles slow down to a crawl through the town. It is a variation of the short tunnel option, which was extended to bypass the garden suburb of Haberfield. 1.2 Avoid or circumvent (an obstacle or problem) a manager might bypass formal channels of communication Example sentencesExamples Under the circumstances, the ministry hopes its new policy initiative would bypass the problem. To bypass such obstacles, an alternative intelligence group - the Office of Special Plans - was created. And if you get that, if you understand who you are as a person, you can bypass the obstacles that come your way. On the margins, the contest is just as threatening, and bypassing trouble is becoming a preoccupation for many. Instead he is faced with fake holymen peddling religious enmity and the purblind nouveau riche materialism of his family who bypass the country's problems in their smart new cars. The goal of grief work is not to find ways to avoid or bypass the emotional turmoil and upsets brought by loss. But the plastics approach bypasses the problem altogether. The workshops did not bypass the inherent difficulties posed by the environment but presented anecdotal and experiential accounts related in the first person. But the research team have found a way to bypass this problem by training antibodies to neutralise the damaging toxic waste emitted into the blood stream by meningococcal bacteria. Tendentious jokes are a way of bypassing the barriers against the direct expression of both obscenity and aggression which civilization has set up. This would also bypass the problems of the long, heavy, rough double action trigger pull. Many on the left sought to bypass political difficulties in winning support at home by emphasising their moral legitimacy rather than their political support. In the meantime the software giant is advising users to make changes on a single domain controller, so bypassing the replication problem. It seems that the cognitive system has evolved an impressive algorithm that bypasses the problems encountered by formal mathematics. And I think those people handicapped by the lack of a diploma can easily bypass this hurdle so long as the stress is placed more on a certificate than on real abilities. It is sought so that Indian State can circumvent and bypass the real ideological challenges in the state. Once inside, however, users are free to post their scripts and screen their short films, bypassing the usual hurdles and addressing a global audience. Perhaps they were feeling above mundane trivials of life, still moving apace, bypassing obstacles such as moss-covered trees through the vast green tunnel. Eternal inflation may bypass the complications of extra dimensions and quantum gravity, because these are relegated to the infinite past. However, you will find areas that require combat and some that require the Mechanics skill to bypass obstacles. Synonyms avoid, evade, dodge, escape, elude, circumvent, get round, skirt, skirt round, find a way round, give a wide berth to, sidestep, steer clear of, get out of, shirk
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