| escape | |
| 1. v. (intransitive) 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. v. 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. v. (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment. | |
| Luckily, I escaped with only a fine. | |
| 4. v. To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by. | |
| The name of the hotel escapes me at present. | |
| 5. v. (transitive, computing) 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, of | |
| 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. | |
| 6. v. (computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys. | |
| 7. n. The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation. | |
| The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel. | |
| 8. n. Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation. | |
| 9. n. (computing) escape key | |
| 10. n. (programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal). | |
| You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream. | |
| 11. n. (snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position. | |
| 12. n. (manufacturing) A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility. | |
| 13. n. (obsolete) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression. | |
| 14. n. (obsolete) A sally. | |
| 15. n. (architecture) An apophyge. | |
