| bycatch | (noun) unwanted marine creatures that are caught in the nets while fishing for another species | Synonyms: by-catch |
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| bye | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, arrivederci, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, cheerio, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodby, goodbye, sayonara, so long |
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| (noun) an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent | Synonyms: pass |
| bygone | (noun) past events to be put aside | Synonyms: water under the bridge |
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| bylaw | (noun) a rule adopted by an organization in order to regulate its own affairs and the behavior of its members | - |
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| byname | (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: cognomen, moniker, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet |
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| bypass | (noun) a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center | Synonyms: beltway, ring road, ringway |
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| (noun) a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current | Synonyms: electrical shunt, shunt |
| (noun) a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part) | - |
| bypath | (noun) a side road little traveled (as in the countryside) | Synonyms: byroad, byway |
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| byplay | (noun) incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect | Synonyms: business, stage business |
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| byproduct | (noun) a product made during the manufacture of something else | Synonyms: by-product, spin-off |
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| (noun) a secondary and sometimes unexpected consequence | Synonyms: by-product |
| byre | (noun) a barn for cows | Synonyms: cow barn, cowbarn, cowhouse, cowshed |
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| byrnie | (noun) a long (usually sleeveless) tunic of chain mail formerly worn as defensive armor | Synonyms: hauberk |
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| byroad | (noun) a side road little traveled (as in the countryside) | Synonyms: bypath, byway |
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| byssus | (noun) tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface | Synonyms: beard |
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| bystander | (noun) a nonparticipant spectator | - |
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| byte | (noun) a sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of information | - |
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| byway | (noun) a side road little traveled (as in the countryside) | Synonyms: bypath, byroad |
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| byword | (noun) a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people | Synonyms: adage, proverb, saw |
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| byzant | (noun) a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: bezant, bezzant, solidus |
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