escape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈskeɪp/
ipa: /ɪk-/
ipa: /ɪˈskeɪp/
ipa: /ə-/
ipa: /ɛ-/
ipa: /ɛk-/
rhymes: -eɪp
Forms: form: escapes
form: escaping
form: escaped
form: escaped
Etymology: 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.
Senses: examples: text: The prisoners escaped by jumping over a wall.
text: The factory was evacuated after toxic gases escaped from a pipe.
glosses: To get free; to free oneself.
examples: text: He only got a fine and so escaped going to jail.
text: The children climbed out of the window to escape the fire.
text: sailors that escaped the wreck
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: Luiz was Chelsea's stand-out performer, although Ferguson also had a case when he questioned how the £21m defender escaped a red card after the break for a hack at Rooney, with the Brazilian having already been booked.
ref: 2011 March 1, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Man Utd”, in BBC:
text: 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 to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].
ref: 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
glosses: To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
examples: text: Luckily, I escaped with only a fine.
glosses: To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
examples: text: The name of the hotel escapes me at present.
text: The detective examined the crime scene, but one clue escaped his notice.
text: c. 1698-1699 (year published) Edmund Ludlow, Memoirs
They escaped the search of the enemy.
glosses: To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
examples: text: When using the "bash" shell, you can escape the ampersand character with a backslash.
text: Brion escaped the double quote character on Windows by adding a second double quote within the literal.
text: If the data for a URI component would conflict with the reserved purpose, then the conflicting data must be escaped before forming the URI.
ref: 1998 August, Tim Berners-Lee et al., Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax (RFC 2396), page 8
text: Character Data tags allow you to place complex strings as the text of an element—without the need to manually escape the string.
ref: 2002, Scott Worley, “Using XML in ASP.NET Applications”, in Inside ASP.NET, →ISBN, page 214:
text: 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 HTML escaping function.
ref: 2007, Michael Cross, “Code Auditing and Reverse Engineering”, in Developer's Guide to Web Application Security, →ISBN, page 213:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: 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.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
Synonyms: break loose
take it on the lam
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the verb and noun "escape"
word: atmospheric escape
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word: bee escape
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word: emergency escape
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word: escapable
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word: escape artist
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word: escape artistry
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word: escape character
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word: escape clause
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word: escape cock
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word: escapee
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word: escape fire
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word: escape goat
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word: escape hatch
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word: escape key
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word: escapeland
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word: escapeless
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word: escape literature
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word: escape mechanism
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word: escapement
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word: escape pipe
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word: escape pod
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word: escaper
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word: escape rhythm
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word: escape road
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word: escape room
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word: escape route
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word: escape routine
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word: escape sequence
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word: escape shaft
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word: escape tone
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word: escape valve
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word: escape velocity
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word: escapeway
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word: escape wheel
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word: escapingly
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word: escapism
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word: escapist
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word: escapologist
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word: escapology
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word: fire escape
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word: fire-escape knot
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word: garden escape
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word: immunoescape
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word: inescapable
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word: Jeans escape
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word: narrow escape
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word: reescape
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word: unescape
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word: vaccine escape