Nouns in english

• byname — Noun – English ～ a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name); "Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph"; "Henry's nickname was Slim"
• bypass — Noun – English ～ a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current
• bypass — Noun – English ～ a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center
• bypass — Noun – English ～ a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part)
• bypath — Noun – English ～ a side road little traveled (as in the countryside)
• byplay — Noun – English ～ incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect; "his business with the cane was hilarious"
• byproduct — Noun – English ～ a secondary and sometimes unexpected consequence
• byproduct — Noun – English ～ a product made during the manufacture of something else
• Byrd — Noun – English ～ English organist and composer of church music; master of 16th century polyphony; was granted a monopoly in music printing with Thomas Tallis (1543-1623)
• Byrd — Noun – English ～ explorer and United States naval officer; led expeditions to explore Antarctica (1888-1957)
• Admiral Byrd — Noun – English ～ explorer and United States naval officer; led expeditions to explore Antarctica (1888-1957)
• byre — Noun – English ～ a barn for cows
• byrnie — Noun – English ～ a long (usually sleeveless) tunic of chain mail formerly worn as defensive armor
• byroad — Noun – English ～ a side road little traveled (as in the countryside)
• Byron — Noun – English ～ English romantic poet notorious for his rebellious and unconventional lifestyle (1788-1824)
• byssus — Noun – English ～ tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface
• bystander — Noun – English ～ a nonparticipant spectator
• byte — Noun – English ～ a sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of information
• byway — Noun – English ～ a side road little traveled (as in the countryside)
• byword — Noun – English ～ a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people

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