escape
IPA: ɪskˈeɪp
noun
- 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.
- Something that has escaped; an escapee.
- A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.
- (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.
verb
- (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.
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Examples of "escape" in Sentences
- A burglar escapes the police.
- The girl escapes and alerts the police.
- The brothers escape and alert the police.
- Forager is attacked by a guard and escapes.
- Suspecting something is amiss she escapes and telephones the police.
- He has escaped the paddock and is running freely, trampling the grass.
- He escapes the submarine while running in a strangely effeminate manner.
- Ladya escapes to the other side of dining table and runs out of the room.
- The hares run up the field and into the escape where the dogs can't get in.
- But Tanja escapes from the police and appears as stewardess in Clarissa's jet.
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