Rye vs Bye - What's the difference?
rye | bye |
A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder.
The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained.
Rye bread.
(US, Canada) Rye whiskey.
* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 159:
Caraway
Ryegrass, any of the species of Lolium .
A disease of hawks.
(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.
(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.
(obsolete) A thing not directly aimed at; something which is a secondary object of regard; an object by the way, etc.
* Fuller
As nouns the difference between rye and bye
is that rye is a grain used extensively in europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder while 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 .As an interjection bye is
(colloquial) goodbye.As a preposition bye is
.rye
English
(wikipedia rye)Noun
- I bought a pint of rye at the liquor counter and carried it over to the stools and set it down on the cracked marble counter.
- (Ainsworth)
Derived terms
* ryegrassAnagrams
* English three-letter wordsbye
English
Etymology 1
Variant form of (by), from (etyl) (being near) .Noun
(en noun)- Craig's Crew plays the bye next week.
- (Gibson)
- The Synod of Dort condemneth upon the bye even the discipline of the Church of England.