bypass
1. a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center (Freq. 1) • Syn: beltway, ring road, ringway • Regions: Britain (for: ringway), Britain (for: ring road) • Hypernyms: highway, main road 2. a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part) • Hypernyms: shunt 3. a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current • Syn: shunt, electrical shunt • Derivationally related forms: shunt (for: shunt) • Hypernyms: conductor • Part Holonyms: circuit, electrical circuit, electric circuit
avoid something unpleasant or laborious (Freq. 4) - You cannot bypass these rules! • Syn: short-circuit, go around, get around • Hypernyms: avoid • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s something - Somebody ----s somebody
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