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Bypass vs Bygone - What's the difference?

bypass | bygone |

As nouns the difference between bypass and bygone

is that bypass is a road that passes around something, such as a residential area while bygone is a person or occurrence that took place in the past.

As a verb bypass

is to avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass.

As an adjective bygone is

having been or happened in the far past.

bypass

English

Noun

(wikipedia bypass) (bypasses)
  • a road that passes around something, such as a residential area
  • a circumvention
  • a section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture
  • an electrical shunt
  • (medicine) an alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass
  • Verb

    (es)
  • to avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass
  • to ignore the usual channels or procedures
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    References

    bygone

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having been or happened in the far past.
  • * 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
  • Near by he could see the thicket of raspberry canes, growing tall and close like a tropical jungle, in whose shadow he had played with the Boy on bygone mornings.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person or occurrence that took place in the past.
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