does, etc. (    A &  ) : He’s

German by birth. #, Je IS HI iftL 0L Eft „ O They’re both doctors by profession, ftfe j|] M A 3R ik U fk E £ n 14 used when swearing to mean ‘in the name of’ (   I swear by Almighty God ...

icX & tf 15 used to show the

measurements of sth () :    The room

measures fifteen feet by twenty feet. 15 HRjIl 20 ^ R-£0 16 used when multiplying or dividing (

&i5# ) : 6 multiplied by 2 equals 12. *6 ^lii 1 12 o 0 6 divided by 2 equals 3. *6RfcBJl2^:F30 FiTCl by the by/' bye = by the way at way n. madv. 1 past MM: Tust drive by. Don’t stop. SIf JfM £ o £ij ^ 0 o He hurried by without speaking to me. ftfekfnlfci&hii*0 Excuse me, I can’t get by.

, it it Jf   0 Time goes by so quickly.

gr 0  2 used to say that sth is saved so that it can be

used in the future (      H?   ) : I’ve put

some money by for college fees. B M # T li;        A ^

3 in order to visit sb for a short time MW&ifi: I’ll come by this evening and pick up the books.

^3X^0 IETO1 by and 'by (old-fashioned) before long; soon A A;    By and by she met an old man with a

beard.

by- (also bye-) /bai/ prefix (in nouns and verbs 7) f$L # iw] TH^jil]) 1 less important     : a by-product

2 near pftjfi: a bystander

by-catch /'baikaetf/ noun [U] fish that are caught by ships by accident when other types of fish are being caught iUMlttM     ) :

Thousands of small fish are thrown back into the sea as bycatch, jfc’f«j/J>&fJil|;fci$**7o bye Otw /bai/ exclamation, noun

mexclamation (also ,bye-'bye, 'bye-bye) (informal) good­bye #JE; : Bye! See you next week. ! Til

#£-0 0 She waved bye-bye and got into the car. at$J^tfc&&7?^o 0 Bye for now Dad! #J)tL7 mnoun (sport IT) a situation in which a player or team does not have an opponent in one part of the competi­tion and continues to the next part as if they had won

H3EJ see by

prep.

'bye-byes noun IR71 go (to) 'bye-byes (BrE, informal) used by small children or to small children, to mean ‘go to sleep’ ( JLMif )

' bye-law = by-law

' by-election noun [BrE) an election of a new Member of Parliament to replace sb who has died or left parlia­ment (       Ihj&s — compare general

ELECTION

by-gone /'baigDn; NAmE -go:n; -gain/ adj. [only before noun] happening or existing a long time ago ISAlUlu ft!; UA&(HJ; a bygone age/era —TMl Wft /

nm

by gones /'baignnz; NAmE -goinz; -gainz/ noun [pi.] let .bygones be 'bygones to decide to forget about disagreements that happened in the past

Dcih'BMABE

'by-law (also 'bye-law) noun 1 (BrE) a law that is made by a local authority and that applies only to that area (NAmE) a law or rule of a club or company

() rnmrn

by-line /'bailain/ noun a line at the beginning or end of a piece of writing in a newspaper or magazine that gives the writer’s name (      ) If^Tr

by-name /'bameim/ noun a name given to sb who has the same first name as sb else, so that it is clear who is being referred to ( by-pass /'baipais/ noun, verb

sb noun 1 (especially BrE) a road that passes around a town or city rather than through the centre (    rfr )

2 a medical operation on the heart in which blood is directed along a different route so that it does not flow through a part that is damaged or blocked; the new route that the blood takes (  7J®;3f

If#A;      heart bypass surgery >L'

o a triple bypass operation ]f m verb [VN] 1 to go around or avoid a place |&M; iSTF: