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bye
1[ bahy ]
noun
- Sports. in a tournament, the preferential status of a player or team not paired with a competitor in an early round and thus automatically advanced to play in the next round:
The top three seeded players received byes in the first round.
- Golf. the holes of a stipulated course still unplayed after the match is finished.
- Cricket. a run made on a ball not struck by the batsman.
- something subsidiary, secondary, or out of the way.
adjective
- by.
bye
2[ bahy ]
interjection
bye-
3- variant of by-:
bye-election.
bye
1/ ɪ /
noun
- sport the situation in which a player or team in an eliminatory contest wins a preliminary round by virtue of having no opponent
- golf one or more holes of a stipulated course that are left unplayed after the match has been decided
- cricket a run scored off a ball not struck by the batsman: allotted to the team as an extra and not to the individual batsman See also leg bye
- something incidental or secondary
- by the byeincidentally; by the way: used as a sentence connector
bye
2sentence substitute
- informal.goodbye
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of bye1
Idioms and Phrases
- by the bye, by the way; incidentally: Also by the by.
By the bye, how do you spell your name?
Example Sentences
Price is up to third after receiving a bye in the quarters following Michael van Gerwen's withdrawal with a shoulder injury.
Qualification for the event ends on 16 April and if 'The Rocket' were to withdraw on the eve of the tournament, it would mean a qualifier receiving a bye to the second round.
Having received a first-round bye, world number three Alcaraz was completely out of sorts - making a host of sloppy mistakes which pointed to a drop in concentration and confidence.
Boulter was playing in her first tournament since January's Australian Open because of a foot injury and received a first-round bye as the 25th seed.
But, having been given a first-round bye, he fell in his opening match after producing a string of ugly mistakes.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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