escape

verbo

1. 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. 2

   To break out of confinement.

   The prisoners escaped their cell.

3. 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.

   sailors that escaped the wreck

   In the Southern Region of British Railways, most of the damage was caused by earthslips which blocked one or both roads. Obstructions occurred at 21 places in the London Eastern District, and at 18 places in London Central District. On the other hand, the London Western District escaped comparatively lightly.

4. 4

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

   Luckily, I escaped with only a fine.

5. 5

   To avoid responsibilities and stresses for a time.

   Work was stressful, and I needed to escape.

6. 6

   To be forgotten by.

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

7. 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.

   c. 1698-1699 (year published) Edmund Ludlow, Memoirs They escaped the search of the enemy.

   Quite why a passenger from Reading would choose to reach London via Guildford rather than using Great Western Railway's frequent and fast direct services escapes me - […].

8. 8

   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.

   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.

   If the data for a URI component would conflict with the reserved purpose, then the conflicting data must be escaped before forming the URI.

   Character Data tags allow you to place complex strings as the text of an element—without the need to manually escape the string.

9. 9

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

10. 10

    To grow wild, instead of in a cultivated area.

    You have to be careful planting mint, or it will escape and take over your yard.

11. 11

    To express, especially involuntarily.

    I tried to look disappointed, but a smile escaped me.

sostantivo

1. 1

   The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.

   The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel.

2. 2

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

3. 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. 4

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

5. 5

   escape key

6. 6

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

   You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream.

7. 7

   A successful shot from a snooker position.

8. 8

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

9. 9

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

   I should have been more accurate, corrected all those former escapes.

10. 10

    obsoletoA sally.

    thousand escapes of wit

11. 11

    An apophyge.

12. 12

    A cultivated plant found growing as though wild, dispersed by some agency.

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