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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024bye1 /baɪ/USA pronunciation n. [countable]Also, by. - Sporta secondary matter.
Idioms- Idioms by the bye, by the way;
incidentally.
bye2 or by /baɪ/USA pronunciation interj. - good-bye.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024bye1 (bī),USA pronunciation n. Also, by. - Sportin a tournament, the preferential status of a player or team not paired with a competitor in an early round and thus automatically advanced to play in the next round:The top three seeded players received byes in the first round.
- Sport[Golf.]the holes of a stipulated course still unplayed after the match is finished.
- Sport[Cricket.]a run made on a ball not struck by the batsman.
- something subsidiary, secondary, or out of the way.
- Idioms by the bye, by the way;
incidentally:Bythe bye, how do you spell your name? Also, by the by. adj. - by1.
- variant spelling, spelled of by1 in its noun, nominal sense "side way'' 1710–20
- by2.
bye-, - var. of by-: bye-election.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: bye /baɪ/ n - the situation in which a player or team in an eliminatory contest wins a preliminary round by virtue of having no opponent
- one or more holes of a stipulated course that are left unplayed after the match has been decided
- a run scored off a ball not struck by the batsman: allotted to the team as an extra and not to the individual batsman
- something incidental or secondary
- by the bye ⇒ incidentally; by the way: used as a sentence connector
Etymology: 16th Century: a variant of by bye, bye-bye sentence substitute - Brit informal goodbye
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: by-, bye- prefix - near: bystander
- secondary or incidental: by-effect, by-election, by-path, by-product
Etymology: from by |