escape

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Verb 1.3.1 Usage notes 1.3.2 Derived terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 Noun 1.4.1 Translations 2 Galician 2.1 Verb 3 Spanish 3.1 Noun 3.1.1 Synonyms 3.1.2 Related terms

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[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/
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  Rhymes: -eɪp

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to escape (third-person singular simple present escapes, present participle escaping, simple past and past participle escaped)

1. (intransitive) To get free, to free oneself.

   The prisoners escaped by jumping over a wall.

2. (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.

3. (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.

   Luckily, I escaped with only a fine.

4. (transitive) To elude observation or notice; to not be seen or remembered by.

   The name of the hotel escapes me at present.

5. (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.

6. (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

escape artist escapee escapement escapism escapist escapologist

escapology escape route escape sequence fire escape lucky escape make an escape

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[edit] Noun

escape (plural escapes)

1. The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.

   The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel

2. A key on most modern computer keyboards, sometimes abbreviated Esc, and typically programmed to cancel some current operation.
3. (programming) The ASCII character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal.)

   You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream.

4. (snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.

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[edit] Verb

escape

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of escapar.
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of escapar.

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[edit] Noun

escape m. (plural escapes)

1. escape
2. leak
3. exhaust pipe, tailpipe

[edit] Synonyms

• (exhaust pipe): tubo de escape

[edit] Related terms

• escapar
• escapatoria
• escapada