escapeverb/ɪˈskeɪp/

• 1

  To get free; to free oneself.

  • The prisoners escaped by jumping over a wall.
  • The factory was evacuated after toxic gases escaped from a pipe.
• 2

  To break out of confinement.

  • The prisoners escaped their cell.
• 3

  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.
• 4

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

  • Luckily, I escaped with only a fine.
• 5

  To avoid responsibilities and stresses for a time.

  • Work was stressful, and I needed to escape.
• 6

  To be forgotten by.

  • I used to know the name of the capital of France, but it escapes me now.
• 7

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

  • The name of the hotel escapes me at present.
  • The detective examined the crime scene, but one clue escaped his notice.
• 8

  computingengineeringmathematicsTo 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.

  • 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.

escapenoun/ɪˈskeɪp/

• 1

  The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.

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

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

• 3

  Something that has escaped; an escapee.

  • But what about the flocks of Waxbills? Are they escapes gone feral, or are they spreading from Africa?
• 4

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

• 5

  computingengineeringmathematicsescape key

• 6

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

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

  ball-gamesgameshobbiesA successful shot from a snooker position.

• 8

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