Thwart vs Bypass - What's the difference?
thwart | bypass |
To prevent; to halt; to cause to fail; to foil; to frustrate.
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, title= (obsolete) To move across or counter to; to cross.
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(nautical) A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (breadth) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail.
(nautical) A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.
Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.
* Milton
(figurative) Perverse; crossgrained.
Obliquely; transversely; athwart.
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 thwart and bypass
is that thwart is to prevent; to halt; to cause to fail; to foil; to frustrate while bypass is to avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass.As nouns the difference between thwart and bypass
is that thwart is (nautical) a brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (breadth) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail while bypass is a road that passes around something, such as a residential area.As an adjective thwart
is situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.As an adverb thwart
is obliquely; transversely; athwart.thwart
English
Verb
(en verb)- The proposals of the one never thwarted the inclinations of the other.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.
citation, passage=More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.}}
Arsenal 1-0 Everton, passage=Everton were now firmly on the back foot and it required some sharp work from Johnny Heitinga and Phil Jagielka to thwart Walcott and Thomas Vermaelen.}}
- Swift as a shooting star / In autumn thwarts the night.
Synonyms
* See also * foil, frustrate, impede, spoilDerived terms
* athwart * athwartships * thwarter * thwartsomeNoun
(en noun)- A well made doughout canoe rarely needs a thwart .
- The fisherman sat on the aft thwart to row.
Adjective
(en adjective)- Moved contrary with thwart obliquities.
- (Shakespeare)
Adverb
(-)- (Milton)
