| bypass | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. beltway, bypass, ring road, ringway | a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center. |
| ~ highway, main road | a major road for any form of motor transport. |
| n. (body) | 2. bypass | a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part). |
| ~ shunt | a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another.; "an arteriovenus shunt" |
| n. (artifact) | 3. bypass, electrical shunt, shunt | a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current. |
| ~ circuit, electric circuit, electrical circuit | an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow. |
| ~ conductor | a device designed to transmit electricity, heat, etc.. |
| v. (communication) | 4. bypass, get around, go around, short-circuit | avoid something unpleasant or laborious.; "You cannot bypass these rules!" |
| ~ avoid | stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something.; "Her former friends now avoid her" |
| omit | | |
| v. (cognition) | 1. except, exclude, leave off, leave out, omit, take out | prevent from being included or considered or accepted.; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece" |
| ~ do away with, eliminate, get rid of, extinguish | terminate, end, or take out.; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts" |
| ~ elide | leave or strike out.; "This vowel is usually elided before a single consonant" |
| v. (cognition) | 2. drop, leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit | leave undone or leave out.; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten" |
| ~ forget | forget to do something.; "Don't forget to call the chairman of the board to the meeting!" |
| ~ pass over, skip, skip over, jump | bypass.; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible" |
| skip over | | |
| v. (cognition) | 1. jump, pass over, skip, skip over | bypass.; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible" |
| ~ neglect, leave out, omit, pretermit, overleap, overlook, miss, drop | leave undone or leave out.; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten" |
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