Bypass
noun
A road made to go around a crowded area or blockage.
Due to traffic congestion, many drivers prefer the bypass.
Often appears as...
- build a bypass
- use a bypass
verb
To avoid or overlook something.
He decided to bypass traditional method and try something innovative.
Often appears as...
- bypass the system
- bypass restrictions
noun
A surgical procedure to create a new pathway for blood flow.
My grandfather had a heart bypass surgery last month.
Often appears as...
- heart bypass
- bypass surgery
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Technical
verb
To avoid a system or process in a computer.
Hackers often try to bypass the security measures of a system.
Often appears as...
- bypass security
- bypass firewall
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A road made to go around a crowded area or blockage.
Due to traffic congestion, many drivers prefer the bypass.
Often appears as...
- build a bypass
- use a bypass
verb
To avoid or overlook something.
He decided to bypass traditional method and try something innovative.
Often appears as...
- bypass the system
- bypass restrictions
noun
A surgical procedure to create a new pathway for blood flow.
My grandfather had a heart bypass surgery last month.
Often appears as...
- heart bypass
- bypass surgery
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To avoid a system or process in a computer.
Hackers often try to bypass the security measures of a system.
Often appears as...
- bypass security
- bypass firewall
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Detour
Use 'bypass' to describe an alternative path taken to avoid traffic or an obstruction.
Let's take the bypass to dodge the city's morning jam.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Faster
'Bypass' doesn't guarantee a quicker journey; it simply avoids the crowded main routes.
The bypass was so congested this time, it barely saved us any time.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Detour
Use 'bypass' to describe an alternative path taken to avoid traffic or an obstruction.
Let's take the bypass to dodge the city's morning jam.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Faster
'Bypass' doesn't guarantee a quicker journey; it simply avoids the crowded main routes.
The bypass was so congested this time, it barely saved us any time.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Detour
Use 'bypass' to describe an alternative path taken to avoid traffic or an obstruction.
Let's take the bypass to dodge the city's morning jam.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Faster
'Bypass' doesn't guarantee a quicker journey; it simply avoids the crowded main routes.
The bypass was so congested this time, it barely saved us any time.
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Dean Ornish: Healing...
Now, I thought if we just did good science, that would change medical practice. But that was naive. It's important, but not enough, because we doctors do what we get paid to do and trained to do what we get paid to do, so if we change insurance, then we change medical practice and medical education. Insurance will cover the bypass and angioplasty
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How Airbnb designs for...
who will save your life without even knowing you. They will rush you to the hospital in their own car while you're dying and stay in the waiting room while the doctors give you a bypass. They don't want you to feel lonely, they bring you books to read.
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How do ventilators work?...
But mechanical ventilators take over the process, getting oxygen into the body when the respiratory system cannot. These machines can bypass constricted airways, and deliver highly oxygenated air to help damaged lungs diffuse more oxygen.
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How your emotions change...
like heart attacks, coronary bypass surgery and cardiac-related deaths. Now, here's an interesting some patients in the control group adopted diet and exercise plans that were nearly as intense as those in the intensive lifestyle group.
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The world's biggest...
they don't have the waste and cost concerns of traditional batteries. From vast mountain lakes to microscopic bacteria, from seawater batteries that bypass the need for heavy metals to nuclear batteries that power deep space missions,
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Obesity PIPE National...
with you guys today I underwent gastric bypass surgery after one a month Francis has recovered from surgery and is much trimmer even so this surgery is not a miracle if Francis doesn't change his lifestyle he won't continue to lose
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How to see with sound -...
bypassing some tissues while echoing off others. Since longer, low frequency waves actually penetrate deeper than short, high frequency ones, multiple frequencies are often used together and composited into a life-like image.
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How I held my breath for...
It's basically like trying to breathe, as a doctor said, while having an elephant standing on your chest. So, that idea disappeared. Then I started thinking, would it be possible to hook up a heart/lung bypass machine
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Let your eyes do the...
in my visual world but only when I focus and quite in my mind and that's no mean feat as anyone who's explored meditation certainly knows there had to be other ways of bypassing our analytical mind
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A Collection Of Wild...
winter diet for them and their calves unlike other deer a cannibal muzzle is completely third a necessary protection against frostbite and their legs have a built-in arterial bypass that
Video examples
Dean Ornish: Healing...
Now, I thought if we just did good science, that would change medical practice. But that was naive. It's important, but not enough, because we doctors do what we get paid to do and trained to do what we get paid to do, so if we change insurance, then we change medical practice and medical education. Insurance will cover the bypass and angioplasty
Video examples
How Airbnb designs for...
who will save your life without even knowing you. They will rush you to the hospital in their own car while you're dying and stay in the waiting room while the doctors give you a bypass. They don't want you to feel lonely, they bring you books to read.
Video examples
How do ventilators work?...
But mechanical ventilators take over the process, getting oxygen into the body when the respiratory system cannot. These machines can bypass constricted airways, and deliver highly oxygenated air to help damaged lungs diffuse more oxygen.
Video examples
How your emotions change...
like heart attacks, coronary bypass surgery and cardiac-related deaths. Now, here's an interesting some patients in the control group adopted diet and exercise plans that were nearly as intense as those in the intensive lifestyle group.
Video examples
The world's biggest...
they don't have the waste and cost concerns of traditional batteries. From vast mountain lakes to microscopic bacteria, from seawater batteries that bypass the need for heavy metals to nuclear batteries that power deep space missions,
Video examples
Obesity PIPE National...
with you guys today I underwent gastric bypass surgery after one a month Francis has recovered from surgery and is much trimmer even so this surgery is not a miracle if Francis doesn't change his lifestyle he won't continue to lose
Video examples
How to see with sound -...
bypassing some tissues while echoing off others. Since longer, low frequency waves actually penetrate deeper than short, high frequency ones, multiple frequencies are often used together and composited into a life-like image.
Video examples
How I held my breath for...
It's basically like trying to breathe, as a doctor said, while having an elephant standing on your chest. So, that idea disappeared. Then I started thinking, would it be possible to hook up a heart/lung bypass machine
Video examples
Let your eyes do the...
in my visual world but only when I focus and quite in my mind and that's no mean feat as anyone who's explored meditation certainly knows there had to be other ways of bypassing our analytical mind
Video examples
A Collection Of Wild...
winter diet for them and their calves unlike other deer a cannibal muzzle is completely third a necessary protection against frostbite and their legs have a built-in arterial bypass that
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David Goggins
American Athlete
Remembering what you've been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you're feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.
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Michael Greger
American Author
When I was a child, doctors sent my grandmother home in a wheelchair to die. Diagnosed with end-stage heart disease, she already had so much scar tissue from bypass operations that the surgeons had essentially run out of plumbing. There was nothing more to do, they said; her life was over at 65.
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Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Brazilian Politician
The financial system has to be regulated, we have to end with the tax havens, and it's necessary that the central banks in the world should control a little bit the banks' financing because they cannot bypass a certain range of leverage.
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Jane McGonigal
American Designer
We've been playing games since humanity had civilization - there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games. It's so deep-seated that it can bypass latter-day cultural norms and biases.
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Bobcat Goldthwait
American Comedian
If I was a young man, I might have bypassed the whole comedian-actor thing and just been a filmmaker. Then I'd probably have spent my whole life going, 'I wonder if I could have been a comedian.
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Jeremy Rifkin
American Economist
What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes it both powerful and exciting.
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Colm Toibin
Irish Novelist
I feel just fine about ignoring or bypassing the rights of people I have known and loved to be rendered faithfully, or to be left in peace, and out of novels.
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Blake Farenthold
American Politician
I took an oath to protect the Constitution, and protecting the Constitution means not letting the president bypass the separation of powers.
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Josh McDaniels
American Coach
Your job, as a head coach and general manager, is to listen and not bypass any opportunity to help your team improve.
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Dick Cavett
American Entertainer
Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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David Goggins
American Athlete
Remembering what you've been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you're feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.
Quote examples
Michael Greger
American Author
When I was a child, doctors sent my grandmother home in a wheelchair to die. Diagnosed with end-stage heart disease, she already had so much scar tissue from bypass operations that the surgeons had essentially run out of plumbing. There was nothing more to do, they said; her life was over at 65.
Quote examples
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Brazilian Politician
The financial system has to be regulated, we have to end with the tax havens, and it's necessary that the central banks in the world should control a little bit the banks' financing because they cannot bypass a certain range of leverage.
Quote examples
Jane McGonigal
American Designer
We've been playing games since humanity had civilization - there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games. It's so deep-seated that it can bypass latter-day cultural norms and biases.
Quote examples
Bobcat Goldthwait
American Comedian
If I was a young man, I might have bypassed the whole comedian-actor thing and just been a filmmaker. Then I'd probably have spent my whole life going, 'I wonder if I could have been a comedian.
Quote examples
Jeremy Rifkin
American Economist
What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes it both powerful and exciting.
Quote examples
Colm Toibin
Irish Novelist
I feel just fine about ignoring or bypassing the rights of people I have known and loved to be rendered faithfully, or to be left in peace, and out of novels.
Quote examples
Blake Farenthold
American Politician
I took an oath to protect the Constitution, and protecting the Constitution means not letting the president bypass the separation of powers.
Quote examples
Josh McDaniels
American Coach
Your job, as a head coach and general manager, is to listen and not bypass any opportunity to help your team improve.
Quote examples
Dick Cavett
American Entertainer
Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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