bye

noun

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.

(cricket) An extra scored when the batsmen take runs after the ball has passed the striker without hitting either the bat or the batsman.

(card games) A pass.

(Scotland) An unspecified way or place.

A surname.

Eye dialect spelling of boy. [A male child.]

Obsolete spelling of bee. [A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey.]

(obsolete) A thing not directly aimed at; a secondary or subsidiary object, course, path, undertaking, issue, etc.

adjective

Out of the way; remote.

Secondary; supplementary.

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