escape

A2
Pronunciation
/əˈskeɪp/
Noun
11 definition(s)
1 Definition

The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.

Example Sentences
  • The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel.
2 Definition

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

3 Definition

Something that has escaped; an escapee.

4 Definition

A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.

5 Definition

Escape key

6 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream.
7 Definition

A successful shot from a snooker position.

8 Definition

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

9 Definition

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

10 Definition

A sally.

11 Definition

An apophyge.

Verb
6 definition(s)
1 Definition

To get free; to free oneself.

Example Sentences
  • The factory was evacuated after toxic gases escaped from a pipe.
2 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • He only got a fine and so escaped going to jail.
3 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • Luckily, I escaped with only a fine.
4 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • The name of the hotel escapes me at present.
5 Definition

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.

Example Sentences
  • Brion escaped the double quote character on Windows by adding a second double quote within the literal.
6 Definition

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