If you do something by yourself, you succeed in doing it without anyone helping you. I didn't know if I could raise a child by myself. Belarus (in Internet addresses). Variant of bye
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
If something happens by a particular time, it happens at or before that time. By eight o'clock he had arrived at my hotel We all knew by then that the affair was practically over
If you say that something such as a book, a piece of music, or a painting is by a particular person, you mean that this person wrote it or created it. a painting by Van Gogh `Jacob's Ladder', the newest film by Adrian Lyne, is a post-Vietnam horror story
If something must be done by law, it happens according to the (Hukuk) If something is the case by particular standards, it is the case according to the standards. Pharmacists are required by law to give the medicine prescribed by the doctor. evening wear that was discreet by his standards