Sekirov Dictionary

bye

/baɪ/

exclamation 2
noun 6
adjective 2
forms 3
phrases 1

exclamation2

(informal) a word said last to someone when you or they are leaving
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(slang) An exclamation of disbelief or dismissal.
- Rowlings-Blake responded: "Girl bye, if he can't take criticism from 'a joke', what's he gonna do when somebody real comes for him? #notready" — 2016

noun6

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The position of a person or team in a tournament or competition who draws no opponent in a particular round so advances to the next round unopposed, or is awarded points for a win in a league table; also the phantom opponent of such a person or team.
- Craig's Crew plays the bye next week.
An extra scored when the batsmen take runs after the ball has passed the striker without hitting either the bat or the batsman.
A command to exit a session.
A pass.
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(Scotland) An unspecified way or place.
- Frank Kennedy will shew you the penalties in the act, and ye ken yoursell they used to put their run goods into the auld Place of Ellangowan up bye there. — 1815
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(no longer used) A thing not directly aimed at; a secondary or subsidiary object, course, path, undertaking, issue, etc.
- The Synod of Dort in some points condemneth, upon the by, even the discipline of the Church of England. — 1655

adjective2

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Out of the way; remote.
- At length having gained a very bye Alley, where he thought he might enter into a Conference unnoticed by any who knew him. — 1765
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Secondary; supplementary.
- It is the custom in some provinces to pay only according to the basic crops produced, but in others the share is calculated out of the total produce of the farm, both bye and main products. — 2018

forms

byes · more bye · most bye

Phrases with bye

beddy-bye
Bedtime for a toddler, going to sleep, going to bed, sleeping; bed.

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