ESCAPE

escape, flight

(noun) the act of escaping physically; “he made his escape from the mental hospital”; “the canary escaped from its cage”; “his flight was an indication of his guilt”

escape

(noun) a means or way of escaping; “hard work was his escape from worry”; “they installed a second hatch as an escape”; “their escape route”

escape

(noun) an avoidance of danger or difficulty; “that was a narrow escape”

escape, escapism

(noun) an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy; “romantic novels were her escape from the stress of daily life”; “his alcohol problem was a form of escapism”

evasion, escape, dodging

(noun) nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; “his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible”; “that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive”

escape, leak, leakage, outflow

(noun) the discharge of a fluid from some container; “they tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe”; “he had to clean up the leak”

escape

(noun) a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild

escape

(verb) issue or leak, as from a small opening; “Gas escaped into the bedroom”

miss, escape

(verb) fail to experience; “Fortunately, I missed the hurricane”

escape, get away, break loose

(verb) run away from confinement; “The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison”

scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away

(verb) flee; take to one’s heels; cut and run; “If you see this man, run!”; “The burglars escaped before the police showed up”

escape, get away

(verb) remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion; “We escaped to our summer house for a few days”; “The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer”

elude, escape

(verb) be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by; “What you are seeing in him eludes me”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Verb

escape (third-person singular simple present escapes, present participle escaping, simple past and past participle escaped)

(intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.

(transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.

(intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.

(transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.

(transitive, computing) 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.

(computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.

Usage notes

• In senses 2. and 3. this is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See English catenative verbs

Noun

escape (plural escapes)

The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.

Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.

(computing) escape key

(programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).

(snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.

(manufacturing) A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.

(obsolete) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.

(obsolete) A sally.

(architecture) An apophyge.

Anagrams

• Peaces, espace, peaces

Source: Wiktionary

Es*cape", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Escaped; p. pr. & vb. n. Escaping.] Etym: [OE. escapen, eschapen, OF. escaper, eschaper, F. echapper, fr. LL. ex cappa out of one's cape or cloak; hence, to slip out of one's cape and escape. See 3d Cape, and cf. Scape, v.]

1. To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger. "Sailors that escaped the wreck." Shak.

2. To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention. They escaped the search of the enemy. Ludlow.

Es*cape", v. i.

1. To flee, and become secure from danger; -- often followed by from or out of. Haste, for thy life escape, nor look behindKeble.

2. To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm. Such heretics . . . would have been thought fortunate, if they escaped with life. Macaulay.

3. To get free from that which confines or holds; -- used of persons or things; as, to escape from prison, from arrest, or from slavery; gas escapes from the pipes; electricity escapes from its conductors. To escape out of these meshes. Thackeray.

Es*cape", n.

1. The act of fleeing from danger, of evading harm, or of avoiding notice; deliverance from injury or any evil; flight; as, an escape in battle; a narrow escape; also, the means of escape; as, a fire escape. I would hasten my escape from the windy storm. Ps. lv. 8.

2. That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake; an oversight; also, transgression. [Obs.] I should have been more accurate, and corrected all those former escapes. Burton.

3. A sally. "Thousand escapes of wit." Shak.

4. (Law)

Definition: The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody.

Note: Escape is technically distinguishable from prison breach, which is the unlawful departure of the prisoner from custody, escape being the permission of the departure by the custodian, either by connivance or negligence. The term escape, however, is applied by some of the old authorities to a departure from custody by stratagem, or without force. Wharton.

5. (Arch.)

Definition: An apophyge.

6. Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid.

7. (Elec.)

Definition: Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation. Escape pipe (Steam Boilers), a pipe for carrying away steam that escapes through a safety valve.

– Escape valve (Steam Engine), a relief valve; a safety valve. See under Relief, and Safety.

– Escape wheel (Horol.), the wheel of an escapement.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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