Bypass vs. Highway — What's the Difference?

A highway or section of a highway that passes around an obstructed or congested area.

A highway is any public or private road or other public way on land. It is used for major roads, but also includes other public roads and public tracks.

A pipe or channel used to conduct gas or liquid around another pipe or a fixture.

A main road, especially one connecting major towns or cities

An alternative passage created surgically to divert the flow of blood or other bodily fluid or circumvent an obstructed or diseased organ.

A main public road, especially one connecting towns and cities.

A means of circumvention.

(historical) A road that is higher than the surrounding land and has drainage ditches at the sides

(Electricity)See shunt.

A main public road, especially a multi-lane, high-speed thoroughfare.

A surgical procedure to create such a channel

(figurative) A way; a path that leads to a certain destiny

To avoid (an obstacle) by using an alternative channel, passage, or route.

Any public road for vehicular traffic.

To be heedless of; ignore

(computing) bus

To channel (piped liquid, for example) through a bypass.

To travel on a highway

A road that passes around something, such as a residential area or business district.

A road or way open to the use of the public, especially a paved main road or thoroughfare between towns; in the latter sense it contrasts with local street; as, on the highways and byways.

The act of going past or around.

A major road for any form of motor transport

A section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture.

An electrical shunt.

(medicine) An alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass.

To avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass.

To ignore the usual channels or procedures.

A road that takes traffic around the edge of a town

A surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part)

A conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current

Avoid something unpleasant or laborious;