To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.

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.

An ASCII control or metacharacter (#27, ^]) with its own key on most keyboards, intended originally to signify escape (v) (sense 1). While it has been put to a number of different uses over the decades, it is still often used to pause or terminate a program or process. Frequently called Meta in some programs, notably emacs, where it is a common command prefix.

To pause a running program and return control temporarily to the operating system, usually in order to run some other program. In Unix, the exclamation point (ASCII #33, !, pronounced "bang") is an escape character that can be used in most programs to accomplish this. To cancel the default ( meta-)interpretation of the following character in a string and interpret it literally instead. Thus, while the unescaped (meta)expression " ." matches any character, the regular expression "\." matches a literal period or full stop character only, because it is escaped by the preceding "\".

From Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1 ( 2004-02-04) Entity and character references MAY both be used to escape the left angle bracket, ampersand, and other delimiters. A set of general entities (amp, lt, gt, apos, quot) is specified for this purpose. Numeric character references MAY also be used; they are expanded immediately when recognized and MUST be treated as character data, so the numeric character references and &MAY be used to escape and & when they occur in character data.

A plant which has escaped from cultivation.

Referring to plants that have been cultivated in an area, and spread from there into the wild. | Return to Alphabet Bar | amily A group of plants having biologically similar features, such as flower anatomy, fruit type, etc.

A plant that is on its way to becoming naturalized in an area. Just exactly as it reads, it has escaped from cultivation.

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"

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"

escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action; "She gets away with murder!"; "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities"

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.

The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody.

run away from confinement; "The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison"

Any human action such as sexual release, bacchanalian abandon or spiritual or psychological liberation that gives the human being temporary relief from the Pose/Poise cycle.

A release from various types of restraining devices including ropes, chains, straitjackets, packing cases, and jail cells. Harry Houdini is the best-known specialist in presenting escapes. (Book 5)

Journey's seventh album, Escape, was released in August of 1981.

When an athlete works to come out from the bottom position (after being under dominant control) and gets to his feet, facing his rival, he has scored an escape, worth one point.

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"

a means or way of escaping; "hard work was his escape from worry"; "they installed a second hatch as an escape"; "their escape route"

Getting away from it all is very appealing; you can imagine adventures you cannot have; the idea of escape is pleasurable.

Escape was radio's leading anthology series of high adventure, airing on CBS from July 7 1947 to September 25 1954. Since the program did not have a regular sponsor like Suspense, it was subjected to frequent schedule shifts and lower production budgets, although Richfield Oil signed on as a sponsor for five months in 1950.

"Escape" is MISIA's 6th single. It was released on her birthday, July 7, 2000. It peaked at #7 selling 81,130 copies on its first week.

A means of exit in an emergency Nooduitgang

In most games you can skip past or jump through the opening credits and videos and certain dialogues within the game (if you have seen them before) by hitting the Escape Key or Spacebar on your keyboard. Your game's manual will tell you if this is possible. Back to the Index of Terms

This is an Internet conundrum. On the Internet, escape is represented as C ] or ^] or sometimes C ] q . A X and C @ are other common forms. Although described as the "Internet escape key," it is usually a combination of keystrokes. It is not the E key on the MS-DOS machines and can vary from keyboard to keyboard and would be a separate key on Macintosh. It is commonly used to terminate a session with a remote machine, butdetermining the exact form as a function of keyboard can vary. HYTELNET provides a guide for various systems and keyboards.

An apophyge.

A sally.

Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid.

Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation.

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"

A branch of magic where the performer appears to free him or herself from ropes, handcuffs, boxes and other constraints.

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"

issue or leak, as from a small opening; "Gas escaped into the bedroom"

That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake; an oversight; also, transgression.

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A means of aborting a computing task currently in progress.

The Escape key is used to cancel actions in progress before they finish. It is also used to close certain dialog boxes.

fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"

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A common term to describe a defect that is not caught during testing (i.e., it escapes to the field).

a bill created by the Assessor for the value increase in a previous fiscal year (i

adj. single escape or a multiple escape adj. single escape or multiple escape.

remove to a different contract (usually by changing strains).

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