Overtake vs Bypass - What's the difference?
overtake | bypass |
To pass a more slowly moving object.
To catch up with, but not pass, a more slowly moving vehicle, animal etc.
(economics) To become greater than something else
To occur unexpectedly
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
to avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass
to ignore the usual channels or procedures
As verbs the difference between overtake and bypass
is that overtake is to pass a more slowly moving object while bypass is to avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass.As a noun bypass is
a road that passes around something, such as a residential area.overtake
English
Verb
- "I overtook' and passed the doctor between Woking and Send." '''1898 ,
- "Our plans were overtaken by events."
