bye

«bye» in Mova's school dictionary: a short, friendly way to say goodbye — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

interjection (bye, bye-bye); noun (a bye, byes)

meaning for a pupil

1) Bye is a short, friendly way to say goodbye. tree →

2) In sport, a bye is when a team or player goes on to the next round without playing because there is no opponent. tree →

3) In cricket, a bye is a run scored when the ball passes the batter without being hit. tree →

4) By and bye is an old phrase meaning after a while or soon. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life and manners, bye is said when leaving or ending a phone call; bye-bye is often said to small children. Phrases: bye for now, bye-bye, say bye, by the way (different word).

examples

• Bye, see you tomorrow! tree →
• Say bye-bye to Grandma. tree →
• Bye for now! tree →
• She waved and said bye. tree →
• Our team got a bye into the next round. tree →
• The batters ran two byes. tree →
• Bye, Mum, I'm going to school! tree →
• By and bye he called again. tree →

note

Homophones: bye (goodbye), by (next to, or done by), buy (pay for). Bye is informal; goodbye is a bit more polite. Bye-bye is used mostly with young children.

In the corpora

• yìbǎi fēn («ee-BYE FUN») means a hundred marks, full marks; fēn also means minute and penny.
• "Buy" means pay for, "by" means near or through, and "bye" means goodbye.
• BUvai is an informal bye to friends; to a granny you would say do pobAchennya instead.
• poKA means bye or see ya between kids; on its own it can also mean «for now» or «while».

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bye» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.