buy/(by/bye)

buy (bī)

Verb. _{^{bought (bôt), buy·ing, buys.}}

Verb. Transitive

• To acquire in exchange for money or its equivalent; purchase.
• To be capable of purchasing.
• To acquire by sacrifice, exchange, or trade: wanted to buy love with gifts.
• To bribe: tried to buy a judge.
• Informal. To accept the truth or feasibility of: The officer didn't buy my lame excuse for speeding.

Verb. Intransitive

• To purchase something; act as a purchaser.

Noun

• Something bought or for sale; a purchase.
• An act of purchasing: a drug buy.
• Something that is under priced; a bargain.

by (bī)

Preposition.

• Close to; next to: the window by the door.
• With the use or help of; through: We came by the back road.
• Up to and beyond; past: We drove by the house.
• At or to: stopped by the bakery; came by the house.
• In the period of; during: sleeping by day.

Adverb.

• On hand; nearby: Stand by.
• Aside; away: We put it by for later.
• Up to, alongside, and past: The car raced by.
• At or to one's home or current location: Stop by later today.
• Into the past: as years go by.

Noun

• Variant of bye.

bye also by (bī)

Noun

• A secondary matter; a side issue.
• Sports. The position of one who draws no opponent for a round in a tournament and so advances to the next round.