a farewell remark
<noun.communication>   freq. cnt.: 6 freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

adieu

adios

arrivederci

au revoir

auf wiedersehen

bye

bye-bye

cheerio

good day

good-by

good-bye

goodby

goodbye

sayonara

so long

sample sentences

"they said their good-byes"

a special election between regular elections
<noun.act>

by-election

bye-election

well in the past; former
<adj.all>   freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

bygone

bypast

departed

foregone

gone

sample sentences

"bygone days"
"dreams of foregone times"
"sweet memories of gone summers"
"relics of a departed era"

past events to be put aside
<noun.time>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

bygone

water under the bridge

sample sentences

"let bygones be bygones"

a rule adopted by an organization in order to regulate its own affairs and the behavior of its members
<noun.communication>

bylaw

a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)
<noun.communication>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

byname

cognomen

moniker

nickname

sobriquet

soubriquet

sample sentences

"Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph"
"Henry's nickname was Slim"

a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center
<noun.artifact>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

beltway

bypass

ring road

ringway

a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current
<noun.artifact>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

bypass

electrical shunt

shunt

a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part)
<noun.body>

bypass

avoid something unpleasant or laborious
<verb.communication>   freq. cnt.: 6 freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 2

bypass

get around

go around

short-circuit

sample sentences

"You cannot bypass these rules!"

a capacitor that provides low impedance over certain (high) frequencies
<noun.artifact>

bypass capacitor

bypass condenser

a capacitor that provides low impedance over certain (high) frequencies
<noun.artifact>

bypass capacitor

bypass condenser

well in the past; former
<adj.all>   freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

bygone

bypast

departed

foregone

gone

sample sentences

"bygone days"
"dreams of foregone times"
"sweet memories of gone summers"
"relics of a departed era"

a side road little traveled (as in the countryside)
<noun.artifact>

bypath

byroad

byway

incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect
<noun.act>

business

byplay

stage business

sample sentences

"his business with the cane was hilarious"

a product made during the manufacture of something else
<noun.artifact>   freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2

by-product

byproduct

spin-off

a secondary and sometimes unexpected consequence
<noun.phenomenon>   freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 4

by-product

byproduct

a barn for cows
<noun.artifact>

byre

cow barn

cowbarn

cowhouse

cowshed

a long (usually sleeveless) tunic of chain mail formerly worn as defensive armor
<noun.artifact>

byrnie

hauberk

a side road little traveled (as in the countryside)
<noun.artifact>

bypath

byroad

byway

tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface
<noun.animal>

beard

byssus

a nonparticipant spectator
<noun.person>

bystander

a sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of information
<noun.quantity>

byte

a side road little traveled (as in the countryside)
<noun.artifact>

bypath

byroad

byway

a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people
<noun.communication>   freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 3

adage

byword

proverb

saw

a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages
<noun.possession>

bezant

bezzant

byzant

solidus