The Collaborative International Dictionary
By-pass \By"-pass\, n. (Mech.) A by-passage, for a pipe, or other channel, to divert circulation from the usual course.
Usage examples of "by-pass".
Now, though, he understood that geometers and word-wrights alike were nothing more than degraded and by-passed off-shoots of the South Asian weapons industry.
The facts could be explained by the view that, after the Eastern Polynesians left Western Polynesia, some random migrants who had by-passed Western Polynesia introduced the art of tanging into Eastern Polynesia.
It is apparent how modern reflection, as soon as the first shoot of this analytic appears, by-passes the display of representation, together with its culmination in the form of a table as ordered by Classical knowledge, and moves towards a certain thought of the Same - in which Difference is the same thing as Identity.
While his electric arc sputtered its rain of minute drops, another worker close by plated another disk with granulated silver by-passed into an exoacetylene flame and thus blast-driven into the preheated surface.
The modernization project that had swept up the Avenue Neuilly and was extending the smart side of Paris to the west had by-passed the dingy Quartier des Ternes.
William Swayne, alias Willie the Twig, the forestry officer from the plantations beyond the Hallowmount, had driven down in the Land-Rover, Eli Platt had closed his by-pass fruit and flower stands early, and come in from the market-garden on the fringe of Comerbourne, Joe Lyon, smelling warmly of his own sheep, steamed gently by the fire with a pint of home-brewed in one hand.
The Soviets have by-passed Gorlitz and pushed on beyond Bautzen, which is encircled with its German garrison, in the hope of reaching Dresden by way of Bischofswerda.
The facts could be explained by the view that, after the Eastern Polynesians left Western Polynesia, some random migrants who had by-passed Western Polynesia introduced the art of tanging into Eastern Polynesia.
We by-passed the town of Narok, no more trees now, just tussocky grass and ochre dust, a flock of goats which might explain why the trees had gone, and a couple of ostriches.
Vickson had known that the robot doctor in the control room would do the only thing possible to save his life while under full acceleration: by-pass his heart with a mechanical heart, and put it in conjunction with a mechanical lung that frothed and aerated his blood.
Certain persons, however, seem to be born with a kind of by-pass that circumvents the reducing valve.
And so a race had by-passed the entire machine age of man, with its penetration of the secrets of matter and energy.
A race had by-passed the entire machine-age of man, with its penetration of the secrets of matter’.
As Grantville has examples of fully developed draft animal and tractor-powered mechanized farming equipment, this developmental phase will be by-passed.
They went to Mull, Sky, Cape Wrath, Inverness, Aberdeen, Dunfermline - where they stayed with Stewart and Shona - then by-passed the Bridges and the city to head via Culross and Stirling, Blyth Bridge and Peebles to the borders.