Meaning of Bye | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
2. A surname.
3. Eye dialect spelling of boy.
   alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
4. Obsolete spelling of bee.
   alt-of, obsolete
5. An extra scored when the batsmen take runs after the ball has passed the striker without hitting either the bat or the batsman.
6. A thing not directly aimed at; a secondary or subsidiary object, course, path, undertaking, issue, etc.
   obsolete
7. An unspecified way or place.
   Scotland
8. A pass.

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Examples

“Craig's Crew plays the bye next week.”

“The Patriots were in the unique situation of having to play 16 straight games, then have their bye in week 17, whether they needed it or not.”

“The Synod of Dort in some points condemneth, upon the by, even the discipline of the Church of England.”

“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.”

“This was lattin at me, ye ken, for inveetin the coachman an' the gamekeeper up bye.”

“No word of a new house-keeper down bye, Wull?”

“There's a friend of yours up bye that would be blithe to see you—up the rig from the auld aik on the road to the Greenshiel.”

“"So what shall I do, now, Patric? Can you think of any plan? "Bedad!" said Pat , as he scratched his head , “ I'm the very bye that can."”

“'Och,' sez I, 'there's many a bye that's lonely livin' rite wid his friends an' naybors. Sure an' I'm lonesome mesilf.'”

“There a bye has his hand toorn off, and there a bye loses his eyesight complately, and over yan a bye has his joogular vein torn wid a whistlin' boom, and forninst that is the bye who thinks his gun isn't loaded and kills his little sisther.”

“In thim days the bye who wint to work in the foundhry to learn the thrade, in goin' into the shop in the morning would meet a big, ruffneck boss wit his blue faunel shirt on and his schleeves rolled up to his ilbows, who could show him the mishtakes he made the day befoor, if he made any.”

“I know a nice bye who's goin' to git two cookies fer thim worrds.”

“Hardy, weatherbeaten, intimately familiar with the winds and tides of his local shore, capable of turning his hand to many things, squeezing a hard living from the treacherous sea—a figure rendered familiar by the words “Ise the bye who builds the boat / And ise the bye that sails her / Ise the bye who catches the fish / And takes them home to Liza."”

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