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Escape

//ɪˈskeɪp// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun

1
The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation. countable, uncountable
"The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel."
2
the act of escaping physically wordnet
3
Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation. countable, uncountable
4
a means or way of escaping wordnet
5
Something that has escaped; an escapee. countable, uncountable
"But what about the flocks of Waxbills? Are they escapes gone feral, or are they spreading from Africa?"

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6
an avoidance of danger or difficulty wordnet
7
A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life. countable, uncountable
8
an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy wordnet
9
escape key countable, uncountable
10
nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do wordnet
11
The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal). countable, uncountable
"You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream."
12
a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level wordnet
13
A successful shot from a snooker position. countable, uncountable
14
the discharge of a fluid from some container wordnet
15
A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility. countable, uncountable
16
a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild wordnet
17
That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"I should have been more accurate, corrected all those former escapes."
18
A sally. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"thousand escapes of wit"
19
An apophyge. countable, uncountable
20
A cultivated plant found growing as though wild, dispersed by some agency. countable, uncountable

Verb

1
To get free; to free oneself. intransitive
"The prisoners escaped by jumping over a wall."
2
issue or leak, as from a small opening wordnet
3
To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from. transitive
"He only got a fine and so escaped going to jail."
4
fail to experience wordnet
5
To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment. intransitive
"Luckily, I escaped with only a fine."

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6
escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action wordnet
7
To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by. transitive
"The name of the hotel escapes me at present."
8
run away from confinement wordnet
9
To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character. transitive
"When using the "bash" shell, you can escape the ampersand character with a backslash."
10
flee; take to one's heels; cut and run wordnet
11
To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
12
remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion wordnet
13
be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English escapen, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French escaper ( = Old French eschaper, modern French échapper), from Vulgar Latin *excappāre (“to escape a garment, get out of one's clothing”, literally “to free oneself from one's cape”), from Latin ex- (“out”) + Late Latin cappa (“cape, cloak”). Cognate with escapade. Also doublet of scape.

Etymology 2

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