To avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass.
To ignore the usual channels or procedures.
The act of going past or around.
An electrical shunt.
A road that passes around something, such as a residential area or business district.
An alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass.
A section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture.
To avoid, deflect, or ward off (an attack, a blow, an argument, etc.).
A simple defensive action designed to deflect an attack, performed with the forte of the blade.
A defensive move intended to change the direction of an incoming strike to make it miss its intended target, rather than block and absorb it; and typically performed with an open hand in a downward or sideways slapping motion.
A defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying.