escape
Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary
See also escapé
Contents |
[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French escaper ( = Old French eschaper, modern échapper), from Vulgar Latin *excapare, from Latin ex- + cappa ‘cloak’.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪˈskeɪp/
- Audio (US)help, file
- Rhymes: -eɪp
[edit] Verb
|
Infinitive |
Third person singular |
Simple past |
Past participle |
Present participle |
to escape (third-person singular simple present escapes, present participle escaping, simple past and past participle escaped)
- (intransitive) To get free, to free oneself.
- The prisoners escaped by jumping over a wall.
- (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
- He only got a fine and so escaped going to jail.
- The children climbed out of the window to escape the fire.
- (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
- Luckily, I escaped with only a fine.
- (transitive) To elude observation or notice; to not be seen or remembered by.
- The name of the hotel escapes me at present.
- (computing) To prefix a character with a special character (depending on context) to allow a character to pass through without special meaning.
- When using the "bash" shell, you can escape the ampersand character with a backslash.
- In your monobook.js file, you can escape the apostrophe character with a backslash.
- Brion escaped the double quote character on Windows by adding a second double quote within the literal.
- (computing) to halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the Esc key) or combination of keys
[edit] Usage notes
- In senses 2. and 3. this is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs
[edit] Derived terms
[edit] Translations
to get free
to elude
to avoid capture
to elude observation
|
to halt a program by pressing a combination of keys
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.
Translations to be checked
|
|
[edit] Noun
|
Singular |
Plural |
escape (plural escapes)
- The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
- The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel
- A key on most modern computer keyboards, sometimes abbreviated Esc, and typically programmed to cancel some current operation.
- (programming) The ASCII character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal.)
- You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream.
- (snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.
[edit] Translations
act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation
key on most modern computer keyboards
|
(programming) ASCII character 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal)
|
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.
[edit] Galician
[edit] Verb
escape
- first-person singular present subjunctive of escapar.
- third-person singular present subjunctive of escapar.
[edit] Spanish
[edit] Noun
escape m. (plural escapes)
|
Singular |
Plural |
[edit] Synonyms
- (exhaust pipe): tubo de escape

