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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bye/#m1)

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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bye/#m2)

3) In cricket, a bye is a run scored when the ball passes the batter without being hit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bye/#m3)

4) By and bye is an old phrase meaning after a while or soon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bye/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bye/#x1)
- Say bye-bye to Grandma. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bye/#x2)
- Bye for now! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bye/#x3)
- She waved and said bye. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bye/#x4)
- Our team got a bye into the next round. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bye/#x5)
- The batters ran two byes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bye/#x6)
- Bye, Mum, I'm going to school! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bye/#x7)
- By and bye he called again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bye/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/15-school-words/14/)
- ["Buy" means pay for, "by" means near or through, and "bye" means goodbye.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/27-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same/12/)
- [BUvai is an informal bye to friends; to a granny you would say do pobAchennya instead.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/1-hi-hello-and-how-are-you/15/)
- [poKA means bye or see ya between kids; on its own it can also mean «for now» or «while».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/1-hi-hello-and-how-are-you/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bye» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bye/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.