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See also:escapé

English

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Pelicansescaping from slamming wave

Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishescapen, fromAnglo-Norman andOld Northern Frenchescaper ( = Old Frencheschaper, modern Frenchéchapper), fromVulgar Latin*excappāre(“to escape a garment, get out of one's clothing”, literally“to free oneself from one's cape”), fromLatinex-(“out”) +Late Latincappa(“cape, cloak”). Cognate withescapade. Alsodoublet ofscape.

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Verb

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escape (third-person singular simple presentescapes,present participleescaping,simple past and past participleescaped)

  1. (intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.
    The prisonersescaped by jumping over a wall.
    The factory was evacuated after toxic gasesescaped from a pipe.
  2. (transitive) Toavoid (any unpleasant person or thing); toelude, get away from.
    • c.1596–1598 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act III, scene i]:
      sailors thatescaped the wreck
    • 2011 March 1, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Man Utd”, inBBC:
      Luiz was Chelsea's stand-out performer, although Ferguson also had a case when he questioned how the £21m defenderescaped a red card after the break for a hack at Rooney, with the Brazilian having already been booked.
    • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, inThe Guardian Weekly, volume188, number26, page36:
      It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire toescape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].
    He only got a fine and soescaped going to jail.
    The children climbed out of the window toescape the fire.
  3. (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
    Luckily, Iescaped with only a fine.
  4. (transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
    The name of the hotelescapes me at present.
    • c. 1698-1699 (year published)Edmund Ludlow,Memoirs
      Theyescaped the search of the enemy.
  5. (transitive, computing) To cause (a singlecharacter, or all such characters in astring) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the samecontext, often by prefixing with another character.
    • 1998 August,Tim Berners-Leeet al.,Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax (RFC 2396), page 8:
      If the data for a URI component would conflict with the reserved purpose, then the conflicting data must beescaped before forming the URI.
    • 2002, Scott Worley, “Using XML in ASP.NET Applications”, inInside ASP.NET,→ISBN, page214:
      Character Data tags allow you to place complex strings as the text of an element—without the need to manuallyescape the string.
    • 2007, Michael Cross, “Code Auditing and Reverse Engineering”, inDeveloper's Guide to Web Application Security,→ISBN, page213:
      Therefore, what follows is a list of typical output functions; your job is to determine if any of the functions print out tainted data that has not been passed through some sort of HTMLescaping function.
    When using the "bash" shell, you canescape the ampersand character with a backslash.
    Brionescaped the double quote character on Windows by adding a second double quote within the literal.
  6. (computing) Tohalt aprogram orcommand by pressing akey (such as the "Esc" key) orcombination of keys.

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Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Terms derived from the verb and noun "escape"

Translations

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to get free
to elude
to avoid capture
to elude observation or recollection
to prefix a special key in order to make it an ordinary key
to halt a program by pressing a combination of keys
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Noun

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escape (countable anduncountable,pluralescapes)

  1. The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
    The prisoners made theirescape by digging a tunnel.
  2. Leakage oroutflow, as ofsteam or aliquid, or anelectric current throughdefectiveinsulation.
  3. Something that has escaped; anescapee.
    • 2000,Bill Oddie,Gripping Yarns, page124:
      But what about the flocks of Waxbills? Are theyescapes gone feral, or are they spreading from Africa?
  4. Aholiday, viewed as time away from thevicissitudes of life.
  5. (computing)escape key
  6. (programming) Thetextcharacter represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
    You forgot to insert anescape in the datastream.
  7. (snooker) A successful shot from asnooker position.
  8. (manufacturing) Adefective product that is allowed to leave amanufacturing facility.
  9. (obsolete) That which escapes attention or restraint; amistake,oversight, ortransgression.
  10. (obsolete) Asally.
  11. (architecture) Anapophyge.

Derived terms

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Translations

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act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation
leakage or outflow
computing: escape key
programming: ASCII character
snooker: successful shot from snooker position
manufacturing: defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility
that which escapes attention or restraint
sally—seesally
architecture: apophyge—seeapophyge
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References

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Anagrams

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Asturian

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Etymology

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Fromescapar.

Noun

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escape m (pluralescapes)

  1. escape

French

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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escape (pluralescapes)

  1. escape

Noun

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escape f (pluralescapes)

  1. (architecture)escape

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Further reading

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Galician

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Etymology

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Fromescapar.

Noun

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escape m (pluralescapes)

  1. escape

Verb

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escape

  1. inflection ofescapar:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personsingularimperative

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Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishescape.

Noun

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escape m (invariable)

  1. (computing) theescapekey

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Deverbal fromescapar.

Noun

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escape m (pluralescapes)

  1. escape
  2. (Portugal)Clipping oftubo de escape.

Etymology 2

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Verb

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escape

  1. inflection ofescapar:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personsingularimperative

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Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /esˈkape/[esˈka.pe]
  • Rhymes:-ape
  • Syllabification:es‧ca‧pe

Etymology 1

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Deverbal fromescapar.

Noun

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escape m (pluralescapes)

  1. escape
  2. leak
    Synonym:fuga
  3. exhaust pipe,tailpipe
    Synonym:tubo de escape
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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escape

  1. inflection ofescapar:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personsingularimperative

Further reading

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