to escape

Definition of to escape in English English dictionary: scape; bolt; astert; To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from
The children climbed out of the window to escape the fire.; To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by
The name of the hotel escapes me at present.; To get free, to free oneself
The prisoners escaped by jumping over a wall.; The ASCII character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal.)
You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream.; To cause (a single character) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character
Brion escaped the double quote character on Windows by adding a second double quote within the literal.; The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation
The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel.; A successful shot from a snooker position; evasion; {n} a getting clear, flight, oversight, error; {v} to get out of danger, avoid, shun, fly; bust someone out; a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild issue or leak, as from a small opening; "Gas escaped into the bedroom"; The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody; To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm; (1) To protect a character from interpretation by a program by preceding it with a backslash (\) See also quote (2) An ASCII character that is usually interpreted as a command to cease a certain activity or as the initial character of a sequence that performs a special function Cursor control sequences for many terminals and workstations use the escape character; A key on most modern computer keyboards, sometimes abbreviated Esc, and typically programmed to cancel some current operation; Constant associated with the key code value for the Escape key (27); To interrupt execution of a program Many computers have a control key labeled ESC When you press the ESC key, the program quits running The computer tells you what line number it was on when program was interrupted; a means or way of escaping; "hard work was his escape from worry"; "they installed a second hatch as an escape"; "their escape route"; The act of fleeing from danger, of evading harm, or of avoiding notice; deliverance from injury or any evil; flight; as, an escape in battle; a narrow escape; also, the means of escape; as, a fire escape; escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action; "She gets away with murder!"; "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities"; That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake; an oversight; also, transgression; issue or leak, as from a small opening; "Gas escaped into the bedroom"; remove to a different contract (usually by changing strains); n , adj 1 n a single escape or a multiple escape 2 adj single escape or multiple escape; (1) To protect a character from interpretation by a program by preceding it with a backslash (\) See also quote (2) An ASCII character that is usually interpreted as a command to cease a certain activity or as the initial character of a sequence that performs a special function Cursor control sequences for many terminals and workstations use the escape character; {i} running away, flight; leakage; shelter; When you escape a character or a string of characters, you change the way it is interpreted Escaping something can take away its special meaning, as in shell quoting (8 14)- or can add special meaning, as in terminal escape sequences (5 8); run away from confinement; "The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison"; a plant in a treated area that has been missed or survived the treatment; an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy; "romantic novels were her escape from the stress of daily life"; "his alcohol problem was a form of escapism"; You can use escape to describe things which allow you to avoid difficulties or problems. For example, an escape route is an activity or opportunity that lets you improve your situation. An escape clause is part of an agreement that allows you to avoid having to do something that you do not want to do. We all need the occasional escape route from the boring, routine aspects of our lives This has, in fact, turned out to be a wonderful escape clause for dishonest employers everywhere; Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid; 1 To protect a character from interpretation by a program by preceding it with a backslash (\); nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive"; To get free from that which confines or holds; used of persons or things; as, to escape from prison, from arrest, or from slavery; gas escapes from the pipes; electricity escapes from its conductors; KEY - a key that lets the user cancel the last operation and go back to the previous screen; If something escapes you or escapes your attention, you do not know about it, do not remember it, or do not notice it. It was an actor whose name escapes me for the moment; The act of becoming free from surroundings, to avoid a threat, perceived or real; To prefix a character with a special character (depending on context) to allow a character to pass through without special meaning; Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation; fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"; You can say that you escape when you survive something such as an accident. The two officers were extremely lucky to escape serious injury The man's girlfriend managed to escape unhurt He narrowly escaped with his life when suspected right-wing extremists fired shots into his office. Escape is also a noun. I hear you had a very narrow escape on the bridge; Someone's escape is the act of escaping from a particular place or situation. The man made his escape; To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention; To flee, and become secure from danger; often followed by from or out of; a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level; be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by; "What you are seeing in him eludes me"; To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger; an avoidance of danger or difficulty; "that was a narrow escape"; A sally; (1) (v ) To divest a special character of its special meaning by preceding it with a backslash (\) character For example, the UNIX® shell interprets ? to represent any single character, but a \? (an "escaped" question mark) is interpreted to be just a question-mark character (2) (n ) The Esc key on the keyboard (3) (n ) The escape character generated by pressing the Esc key; {f} run away, flee; leak out; find shelter, find protection; An apophyge; A plant which has escaped from cultivation; If you escape from a place, you succeed in getting away from it. A prisoner has escaped from a jail in northern England They are reported to have escaped to the other side of the border He was fatally wounded as he tried to escape. + escaped es·caped Officers mistook Stephen for an escaped prisoner; the act of escaping physically; "he made his escape from the mental hospital"; "the canary escaped from its cage"; "his flight was an indication of his guilt"; When gas, liquid, or heat escapes, it comes out from a pipe, container, or place. Leave a vent open to let some moist air escape. see also fire escape; The "Escape" key, normally marked Esc, enables you to "escape" from the current position on screen and either go back to the previous field or to clear off a selection table or return to a menu; A sucessful shot from a snooker position; remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion; "We escaped to our summer house for a few days"; "The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer; Evaluation of Strategies to address Climate change by Adapting to and preventing Emissions This model was developed in the early 1990s by the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, the National Institute for Public Health and Environmental Protection of The Netherlands (RIVM), the Environmental Change Unit (ECU) at Oxford University, and Environmental Resources Limited (ERL) of London The ESCAPE model assesses the implications of different climate-related policies on global-mean and European climate It also explores economic and environmental impacts of climate change in Europe One of the goals of the ESCAPE model was to help inform the debate on climate change policy within the European Community; to halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the Esc key) or combination of keys; when a bottom man frees himself from the top man's control, coming out of bottom position; a term used when the sinus node slows down or fails to initiate depolorization and a lower pacemaker site( like the AV node) spontaneously produces electrical impulses, assuming responsibility for pacing the heart; To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment; the unwanted discharge of a fluid from some container; "they tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe"; "he had to clean up the leak"

to escape

Hyphenation

to es·cape

Turkish pronunciation

tı îskeyp

Pronunciation

/tə əˈskāp/ /tə ɪˈskeɪp/

Etymology

[ t&, tu, 'tü ] (preposition.) before 12th century. Middle English, from Old English tO; akin to Old High German zuo to, Latin donec as long as, until.