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Bypass vs Highway - What's the difference?

bypass | highway |

As nouns the difference between bypass and highway

is that bypass is a road that passes around something, such as a residential area while highway is a main, direct public road, especially a multi-lane, high speed thoroughfare connecting major population centers.

As a verb bypass

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

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

    • Related terms

    * antibypass * bypasser * coronary artery bypass

    Anagrams

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    References

    highway

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A main, direct public road, especially a multi-lane, high speed thoroughfare connecting major population centers.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=7 citation , passage=The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.}}
  • (rail)  Any public road for vehicular traffic.

    • Hyponyms

    * (main public road) expressway, motorway

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