by

Please Stand By.

pronounced 'by' but people spell it different ways: boi, biy, bi...and so on.
It is a term we cork (ireland) people use when referring to each other. It would be the equivalent of 'homeboy' or 'homie' and so on..!!
1st person: 'Are you coming down to...tonight?'
2nd person: 'Naw by' (no!)

1st person: 'Story by?'
2nd person: 'S'crack?'

near ; at the side of ; beside :◆ a house by the river ◆ The telephone is by the window. ◆ Come and sit by me.
Officer Crabtree: I was pissing by the door when I heard a shat.

usually after a passive verb, who or what does, creates or causes : ◆He was knocked down by a bus. ◆ a play by Ibsen ◆ Who's that book by? ◆ I was frightened by the noise.
Officer Crabtree: The troon has been bummed by the RAF.
Maria Recamier: We were both aroused by the banging.
Host: Are frogs happier than people? This is the question just posed by the play you've just seen
Host: Our play, strangely enough, is called "The Croaker" by Phil Reisman Jr. and, of course, is Way Out.
Roald Dahl: I have a maiden aunt in Norway who was actually rolled out of bed onto the floor three nights running, by a ghost.
Jess Mastriani: Easy for you to say, you were not grabbed by a hand from the grave!

how or in what way sth is done:◆ The house is heated by gas. ◆ May I pay by cheque? ◆ I will contact you by letter. ◆ to travel by boat / bus / car / plane ◆ to travel by air / land / sea ◆ Switch it on by pressing this button.
Capt. Hans Geering: Do you not see? That if you kill him with the pill from the till by making with it the drug in the jug, you need not light the candle with the handle on the gâteau from the château.
Host: The frog, whenever he feels a trifle amorous, calls to his female by blowing out his dewlap and letting it go with a burp.

not later than the time mentioned; before: ◆Can you finish the work by five o'clock? ◆ I'll have it done by tomorrow. ◆ By this time next week we'll be in New York. ◆ He ought to have arrived by now / by this time. ◆ By the time (that) this letter reaches you I will have left the country.
Jess Mastriani: But he was running around between four wives, you would think that by the time he met number five she would figure out that there was something wrong.