(pref.) In the neighborhood of; near or next to; not far from; close to; along with; as, come and sit by me.
(pref.) On; along; in traversing. Compare 5.
(pref.) Near to, while passing; hence, from one to the other side of; past; as, to go by a church.
(pref.) Used in specifying adjacent dimensions; as, a cabin twenty feet by forty.
(pref.) Against.
(pref.) With, as means, way, process, etc.; through means of; with aid of; through; through the act or agency of; as, a city is destroyed by fire; profit is made by commerce; to take by force.
(adv.) Near; in the neighborhood; present; as, there was no person by at the time.
(adv.) Passing near; going past; past; beyond; as, the procession has gone by; a bird flew by.
(adv.) Aside; as, to lay by; to put by.
(a.) Out of the common path; aside; -- used in composition, giving the meaning of something aside, secondary, or incidental, or collateral matter, a thing private or avoiding notice; as, by-line, by-place, by-play, by-street. It was formerly more freely used in composition than it is now; as, by-business, by-concernment, by-design, by-interest, etc.
Example Sentences:
Bystander
Definition:
(n.) One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seconds later the camera turns away as what sounds like at least 15 gunshots are fired amid bystanders’ screams.
(2) We initiated a program of telephone CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) instruction provided by emergency dispatchers to increase the percentage of bystander-initiated CPR for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
(3) Preliminary murder charges have been lodged against two men – both students at Islamic religious schools, who were arrested at the scene after being overpowered by bystanders – and against a third assailant who fled and has yet to be found, an officer said.
(4) The UK is far from a neutral bystander in this conflict.
(5) The semi-allogeneic human conceptus therefore appears to be effectively protected from maternal complement-mediated damage arising either from alternative or classical pathway activation or in a bystander fashion following a response to microbial infection in the mother.
(6) The action starts in traditional Law & Order fashion, with an innocent bystander discovering a bloody body while he’s out walking his dog.
(7) Survival was significantly better (P less than 0.05) in the bystander-CPR group (32%) than in the delayed-CPR group (22%).
(8) Furthermore, this type of bystander killing of target cells could also be induced by the Ca2+ ionophore A23187.
(9) Joe Hart 6 A bystander throughout but that will not trouble the Manchester City man.
(10) Patient characteristics (sex and age), circumstances of arrest (place, whether arrest was witnessed and cardiac rhythm), citizen response (whether cardiopulmonary resuscitation [CPR] was started by a bystander, time to access to emergency medical services and time to initiation of CPR), emergency medical services response (ambulance response time, time to initiation of CPR and time to rhythm analysis with defibrillator) and survival rates.
(11) Bystanders and people on buses liked us; we didn't look threatening and they recognised some film and TV stars among us.
(12) Thus, as demonstrated for older patients, coronary artery disease is an important cause of sudden death in this age group, and bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation and early defibrillation are important for survival.
(13) Canine distemper virus-immune complex-induced oligodendroglial pathology is thought to be mediated by toxic factors released from stimulated macrophages, this bystander effect demonstrated here in vitro may be relevant to the mechanisms of demyelination in vivo, in which virus persistence plays an important role.
(14) The thyroid appears to be an "innocent bystander" in an immune mediated antiviral attack.
(15) Once microbial colonisation is established, the host responds exuberantly with non-specific and immune inflammatory responses which fail to clear the microbial flora but damage the 'innocent bystander' lung.
(16) It is proposed that the ability of the eye to make a compromise with the immune system and thereby arrange for the selective suppression of delayed hypersensitivity results from the need to avoid intraocular inflammatory reactions that are intense and productive of nonspecific "innocent bystander" injury.
(17) "What hurts the most is that Europe is a bystander."
(18) Finally I'd always recommend bystander action - it's difficult to know how you might react as a victim, but we can all keep our eyes open and calmly step in when we see somebody else being harassed - and this kind of collective action is likely to be safer and have a big impact on changing the cultural normalisation that lets harassers think they will get away with it in the future For those who are interested, Laura has previously written a great piece for us on street harassment, which can be found here.
(19) The protein antigen that was taken up into the circulation appeared to be intact and thus may have an influence on the development of the immune response, or lack thereof, to this bystander antigen.
(20) One officer approached the bystander who had been recording and, after confirming he had captured the entire thing, told him: “I’m going to take your phone.” The footage was later obtained by a local TV news station.