different between bypass vs forego

English

Etymology

by- +? pass

Alternative forms

• by-pass

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ba?pæs/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ba?p??s/
• Hyphenation: by?pass

Noun

bypass (plural bypasses)

1. a road that passes around something, such as a residential area
2. a circumvention
3. a section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture
4. an electrical shunt
5. (medicine) an alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass

Translations

Verb

bypass (third-person singular simple present bypasses, present participle bypassing, simple past and past participle bypassed)

1. to avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass
2. to ignore the usual channels or procedures

Translations

Related terms

• antibypass
• bypasser
• coronary artery bypass

References

Anagrams

• pass by

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English bypass.

Noun

bypass m (plural bypass)

1. bypass

Derived terms

• bypassare (verb)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English bypass.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?baj.?p?s/

Noun

bypass m (plural bypasses or bypass)

1. (medicine) bypass (a passage created around a damaged organ)

   Synonym: ponte

Spanish

Noun

bypass m (plural bypass)

1. bypass

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f??????/
• Homophone: forgo

Etymology 1

From Middle English forgan, from Old English foreg?n, equivalent to fore- +? go.

Verb

forego (third-person singular simple present foregoes, present participle foregoing, simple past forewent, past participle foregone)

1. To precede, to go before.
   • 1815, William Wordsworth, Methought I saw

     pleasing remembrance of a thought foregone

Usage notes

• The sense to precede is usually found in the form of the participles foregone (especially in the phrase "a foregone conclusion") and foregoing (usually used either attributively, as in "the foregoing discussion", or substantively, as in "subject to the foregoing").

Synonyms

• antecede, come before; see also Thesaurus:precede

Translations

Etymology 2

See forgo

Verb

forego (third-person singular simple present foregoes, present participle foregoing, simple past forewent, past participle foregone)

1. Alternative spelling of forgo; to abandon, to relinquish
   • 1762, Waller, T., The White Witch of the Wood, or the Devil of Broxbon, in The Beauties of all the Magazines Selected, for the Year 1762, Vol. I (February), page 34:

     […] for on no other terms does she desire a reconciliation, but will sooner forego all the hopes to which her birth entitles her, and get her bread by service, than ever yield to become the wife of the ——.

Usage notes

• Many writers prefer the spelling forgo for this sense, on the grounds that it avoids ambiguity with forego "to precede", especially in aspects such as "forgoing"/"foregoing" and "forgone"/"foregone".

References

• forego in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• forego in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• goofer