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
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