(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:
Byway
Definition:
(n.) A secluded, private, or obscure way; a path or road aside from the main one.
Example Sentences:
(1) The closest town of any size is Burns, population 2,806, where you should stock up on petrol, food and water before heading south into the wilderness on the 66-mile Steens Mountain Backcountry Byway.
(2) But only Victoria, the monarch, found much use for it and long before the second world war the Hoo line had become a little-used byway.
(3) It was, I recall, an anarchic traffic jam of ex-squatters, ravers, and proponents of free love that chuntered slowly and messily through the byways and sometimes the highways of Thatcher’s Britain.
(4) The organisers are expecting 3 million people to line Yorkshire's highways and byways for the two stages – 2 million more than turned out for the Prologue of the 2007 tour, a time trial around London.
(5) Press TV announced its intention to broadcast an interview with Mohammadi Ashtiani on its Iran Today programme tonight which wil "shed light on the highways and byways of the murder account, with multiple interviews with people and individuals involved in the case."
(6) Miss Telfer also glances down the byways of the medicine of the market place.
(7) You’ll often hear a director or production designer complaining that a particular neighbourhood “does not look enough like itself”, and making various cosmetic changes – a nondescript wall in the East Village might be gussied up with flyers for punk shows, for example, or a Chinatown byway given additional Chinese signage and decoration, as was done on Disney’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
(8) I am not an economist but I believe that these steps would save Egypt: • Make sure that all trading deliveries in large trucks over a certain size take place between 10pm and 5am to avoid crippling the highways and byways.
(9) Nationwide, there are schemes such as the National Cycle Network ( sustrans.org.uk ) and the National Byway ( thenationalbyway.org ), which direct cyclists towards traffic-free roads.
(10) Most appalling and ominous, though, is that the vice-like grip of the Zetas on their territory means that these executions and mass burials had been carried out in open country, the byways heaving with bodies, without a word leaking out to police, authorities or military with a mind to investigate, nor any member of the public prepared to report them.
(11) For eight years, Mexico has been brutalised by the near-daily news of further bodies uncovered in mass graves, hung decapitated from motorway bridges, strewn mutilated along the byways and across the deserts – even tourist resorts.
(12) I pressed on, however, crossing into Oregon on Highway 199, one of the US’s 120 national scenic byways .
(13) Press TV hinted that Mohammadi Ashtiani will appear on its "Iran Today" programme on Friday night to "shed light on the higways and byways of the murder account with multiple interviews with people and individuals involved in the case."
(14) It's the possible removal of this byway, together with the display of human remains at the visitor centre, that is most exercising the man we might think of as Stonehenge's alternative archon, Arthur Uther Pendragon (born John Rothwell), the leader of the Loyal Arthurian Warband – a neo-druidic order with strong political and environmentalist tendencies – and the self-proclaimed reincarnation of King Arthur.
(15) Neither she nor Thurley will thank me for writing this, but it remains a byway open to traffic, so, at least in principle, it's still possible for trippers to park adjacent to Stonehenge, and in the time-honoured way munch sandwiches, drink tea from a Thermos, and perhaps scatter a few crumpled papery offerings.