What does BYE mean?
Definitions for BYE
baɪbye
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word BYE.
Princeton's WordNet
bye, passnoun
you advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent
"he had a bye in the first round"
adieu, adios, arrivederci, auf wiedersehen, au revoir, bye, bye-bye, cheerio, good-by, goodby, good-bye, goodbye, good day, sayonara, so longnoun
a farewell remark
"they said their good-byes"
Wiktionary
byeinterjection
Goodbye: .
Etymology: Variant form of by, from bī (being near).
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Bye Bee
Etymology: come immediately from the Saxon, by, bying , i. e. a dwelling. Edmund Gibson Camden.
ChatGPT
bye
A term used to express farewell or to end a conversation, often when one or both people involved in the conversation are leaving. It can also be used in certain sports contexts to refer to a situation where a player or team advances to the next round without having to compete.
Webster Dictionary
Byenoun
a thing not directly aimed at; something which is a secondary object of regard; an object by the way, etc.; as in on or upon the bye, i. e., in passing; indirectly; by implication
Byenoun
a run made upon a missed ball; as, to steal a bye
Byenoun
a dwelling
Byenoun
in certain games, a station or place of an individual player
Wikidata
Bye
A bye in sports and other competitive activities can have two different meanings. First, in leagues where almost all teams play on the same days, the team that does not play on that day is said to be on bye., which is really a corruption of the older sense of the term "bye" in the context of tournament play. In the traditional and more common usage, a bye is the practice of allowing a player or team to advance to the next round of a single-elimination tournament without playing. It is always necessary to grant byes when the number of entrants in the competition is not a power of two; any such tournament without a power of two in a given round must grant the number of byes indicated by the difference in order to complete the field. In a seeded tournament, the byes are granted to the top seeds, whereas in an unseeded tournament the byes are usually awarded by random draw. For instance, the NCAA Basketball Tournament must grant 60 byes for its "play-in" round, since it has 68 participants and had to grant 16 first-round byes when it had 48 participants. Each of the NFL conferences playoff first rounds must grant two, since there are six teams each, which only confuses matters since they also use the term "bye weeks" to refer to what really should be called "scheduled off weeks" during the regular season. Both of the NCAA tournament and the NFL post-season are seeded, single-elimination tournaments, so the highest-seeded participants are granted the necessary byes.
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
BYE
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Bye is ranked #9496 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Bye surname appeared 3,423 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Bye.
93.4% or 3,198 total occurrences were White.
2.1% or 72 total occurrences were of two or more races.
1.6% or 57 total occurrences were Black.
1.6% or 56 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
0.8% or 30 total occurrences were Asian.
0.2% or 10 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
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Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'BYE' in Written Corpus Frequency: #582
Anagrams for BYE »
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of BYE in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of BYE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of BYE in a Sentence
You go into the bye with that taste in your mouth, it gives you a little bit of an edge, that’s not us. We’re better than that.
I had to call my mom soI put it on mute, he got mad and told me, ‘bye bye.’.
It was a very quiet simple moment, but it was very profound, he leaves and all these Target employees are screaming 'Bye! Good luck! Tell us how it went.' I got so emotional. I got teary.
When they get to be 17, you'll be like 'Bye Felicia!'.
It is important for family members to have their chance to say good-bye, it can be more peaceful and less traumatic, especially if the last time they saw the person they were in intensive care. It helps with the grieving process.
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- إِلَى اللِّقَاء, بَاي بَاي, بَاي, الى اللقاءArabic
- xudafizAzerbaijani
- ча́оBulgarian
- a k'an beBambara
- adéuCatalan, Valencian
- nashleCzech
- farvelDanish
- tschüssGerman
- γειάGreek
- ĝis revidoEsperanto
- chau, adiós, chaoSpanish
- heippa, heiFinnish
- adjø, beiFaroese
- au revoir, salutFrench
- slánIrish
- abur, aburiño, adeusGalician
- שָׁלוֹםHebrew
- विदा, अलविदाHindi
- viszlátHungarian
- բարովArmenian
- sampaiIndonesian
- ngwānụIgbo
- bæIcelandic
- ciaoItalian
- בייHebrew
- では, バイ, じゃ、また, またね, じゃ, バイバイJapanese
- ნახვამდისGeorgian
- 안녕, 잘 가, 잘 있어Korean
- valeLatin
- ໄປກ່ອນ, ສະບາຍດີLao
- ikiLithuanian
- atā, uz redzēšanos, sveiksLatvian
- baiMalay
- ċawMaltese
- doeg, doei, dag, houdoe, tot ziens, hoieDutch
- farvel, ha det bra, adjøNorwegian
- PAPolish
- tchauPortuguese
- paRomanian
- бай-ба́й, увидеться, пока́, ча́оRussian
- ආයුබෝSinhala, Sinhalese
- adíjo, čáoSlovene
- farväl, adjö, hej då, hejSwedish
- வருகிறேன்Tamil
- สวัสดี, บายThai
- خوشUyghur, Uighur
- tạm biệtVietnamese
- 再見Chinese
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