As nouns the difference between bye and kye
is that
bye is (sports) the position of a person or team in a tournament or competition who draws no opponent in a particular round so advances to the next round unopposed, or is awarded points for a win in a league table; also the phantom opponent of such a person or team or
bye can be while
kye is (
cow) or
kye can be a korean fundraising meeting.
As an interjection bye
is (colloquial) goodbye.
As a preposition bye
is .
Other Comparisons: What's the difference?
bye English
Etymology 1
Variant form of (by), from (etyl) (being near) .
Noun
( en noun)
(sports) The position of a person or team in a tournament or competition who draws no opponent in a particular round so advances to the next round unopposed, or is awarded points for a win in a league table; also the phantom opponent of such a person or team.
- Craig's Crew plays the bye next week.
(cricket) An extra scored when the batsmen take runs after the ball has passed the striker without hitting either the bat or the batsman.
(obsolete) A dwelling.
- (Gibson)
(obsolete) A thing not directly aimed at; something which is a secondary object of regard; an object by the way, etc.
* Fuller
- The Synod of Dort condemneth upon the bye even the discipline of the Church of England.
Derived terms
* (cricket) leg bye
Etymology 2
Shortened form of (goodbye).
Derived terms
* tatty bye
Etymology 3
Alternative forms.
Noun
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kye English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ky, kye, from (etyl) . More at (l).
Noun
(head)
(cow)
*1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 23:
*:devil the move would the factor at Meikle House make to […] mend the roof of the byre that leaked like a sieve on the head of Mistress Munro when she milked the kye on a stormy night.
Etymology 2
From (etyl).
Noun
( en noun)
A Korean fundraising meeting.
Anagrams
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