escape
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: escapes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: escaping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: escaped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: escaped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: escapes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To get free; to free oneself.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The prisoners escaped by jumping over a wall.
The factory was evacuated after toxic gases escaped from a pipe.
gloss: To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He only got a fine and so escaped going to jail.
The children climbed out of the window to escape the fire.
sailors that escaped the wreck
In the Southern Region of British Railways, most of the damage was caused by earthslips which blocked one or both roads. Obstructions occurred at 21 places in the London Eastern District, and at 18 places in London Central District. On the other hand, the London Western District escaped comparatively lightly.
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.
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; […].
gloss: To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Luckily, I escaped with only a fine.
gloss: To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The name of the hotel escapes me at present.
The detective examined the crime scene, but one clue escaped his notice.
c. 1698-1699 (year published) Edmund Ludlow, Memoirs
They escaped the search of the enemy.
Quite why a passenger from Reading would choose to reach London via Guildford rather than using Great Western Railway's frequent and fast direct services escapes me - […].
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: When using the "bash" shell, you can escape the ampersand character with a backslash.
Brion escaped the double quote character on Windows by adding a second double quote within the literal.
If the data for a URI component would conflict with the reserved purpose, then the conflicting data must be escaped before forming the URI.
Character Data tags allow you to place complex strings as the text of an element—without the need to manually escape the string.
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.
gloss: To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
pos: verb
gloss: The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel.
gloss: Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something that has escaped; an escapee.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But what about the flocks of Waxbills? Are they escapes gone feral, or are they spreading from Africa?
gloss: A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: escape key
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream.
gloss: A successful shot from a snooker position.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: I should have been more accurate, corrected all those former escapes.
gloss: A sally.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: thousand escapes of wit
gloss: An apophyge.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A cultivated plant found growing as though wild, dispersed by some agency.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: break loose
take it on the lam
Derived words: garden escape
pump escape
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