Byename

• 1

  A surname.

byenoun詞源 1/baɪ/

• 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.

  • 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.
• 2

  ball-gamescricketgamesAn extra scored when the batsmen take runs after the ball has passed the striker without hitting either the bat or the batsman.

• 3

  obsoleteA 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.
• 4

  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.
  • This was lattin at me, ye ken, for inveetin the coachman an' the gamekeeper up bye.
• 5

  card-gamesgamesA pass.

byeadj詞源 1/baɪ/

• 1

  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.
  • I left Colchester at one o'clock, and had a very agreeable ride from thence to my Uncle's– It is a very bye road , I did not meet a carriage or horse all the way, which is I believe eleven or twelve miles, but however I turned this to good advantage, and availed myself of the rural ride and variegated prospects, which assisted me to meditate.
• 2

  Secondary; supplementary.

  • But the two labourers of whom I am speaking had their allowances, lived on their fixed wages with the profits of their bye labour, one being pig-killer to the village, and, therefore, always busy from Michaelmas to Lady-day, at a shilling a pig, and the offal, on which his family subsisted, wit h the produce of their small curtilage, for half the year.
  • As we shall see presently the wife of a craftsman almost always worked as her husband's assistant in his trade, or if not, she often eked out the family income by some such bye industry as brewing and spinning; sometimes she even practised a separate trade as a femme sole.

byeintj詞源 2/baɪ/

• 1

  Goodbye.

• 2

  slangAn exclamation of disbelief or dismissal.

  • “Okay, busted. But you see all them muscles, girl?” She shakes her head, laughing. “Nope. I only have eyes for my boo.” “Girl, bye. You can still look.” She giggles. “Well, I ain’t lookin’ hard, trust.[…]”
  • 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"

byenoun詞源 2/baɪ/

• 1

  computingengineeringmathematicsA command to exit a session.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• boy
• by
• bee