Escape

[ih-skeyp] /ɪˈskeɪp/

verb (used without object), escaped, escaping.
1.
to slip or get away, as from confinement or restraint; gain or regain liberty:
to escape from jail.
Synonyms: flee, abscond, decamp.
2.
to slip away from pursuit or peril; avoid capture, punishment, or any threatened evil.
3.
to issue from a confining enclosure, as a fluid.
4.
to slip away; fade:
The words escaped from memory.
5.
Botany. (of an originally cultivated plant) to grow wild.
6.
(of a rocket, molecule, etc.) to achieve .
verb (used with object), escaped, escaping.
7.
to slip away from or elude (pursuers, captors, etc.):
He escaped the police.
Synonyms: dodge, flee, avoid.
8.
to succeed in avoiding (any threatened or possible danger or evil):
She escaped capture.
9.
to elude (one’s memory, notice, search, etc.).
10.
to fail to be noticed or recollected by (a person):
Her reply escapes me.
11.
(of a sound or utterance) to slip from or be expressed by (a person, one’s lips, etc.) inadvertently.
noun
12.
an act or instance of escaping.
Synonyms: flight.
13.
the fact of having escaped.
14.
a means of escaping:
We used the tunnel as an escape.
15.
avoidance of reality:
She reads mystery stories as an escape.
16.
leakage, as of water or gas, from a pipe or storage container.
17.
Botany. a plant that originated in cultivated stock and is now growing wild.
18.
Physics, Rocketry. the act of achieving .
19.
(usually initial capital letter) Computers. .
adjective
20.
for or providing an escape:
an escape route.
noun
1.
a key (frequently labeled Esc) found on most computer keyboards and used for any of various functions, as to interrupt or cancel the current process or running program, or to close a pop-up window.
/ɪˈskeɪp/
verb
1.
to get away or break free from (confinements, captors, etc): the lion escaped from the zoo
2.
to manage to avoid (imminent danger, punishment, evil, etc): to escape death
3.
(intransitive) usually foll by from. (of gases, liquids, etc) to issue gradually, as from a crack or fissure; seep; leak: water was escaping from the dam
4.
(transitive) to elude; be forgotten by: the actual figure escapes me
5.
(transitive) to be articulated inadvertently or involuntarily: a roar escaped his lips
6.
(intransitive) (of cultivated plants) to grow wild
noun
7.
the act of escaping or state of having escaped
8.
avoidance of injury, harm, etc: a narrow escape
9.

10.
a means of distraction or relief, esp from reality or boredom: angling provides an escape for many city dwellers
11.
a gradual outflow; leakage; seepage
12.
Also called escape valve, escape cock. a valve that releases air, steam, etc, above a certain pressure; relief valve or safety valve
13.
a plant that was originally cultivated but is now growing wild
noun

a key on a computer keyboard which transmits a signal to cancel an operation and whose effect depends on the software or mode in which it is being used
Usage Note

computing
v.

c.1300, from Old North French escaper, Old French eschaper (12c., Modern French échapper), from Vulgar Latin *excappare, literally “get out of one’s cape, leave a pursuer with just one’s cape,” from Latin ex- “out of” (see ex-) + Late Latin cappa “mantle” (see cap (n.)). Related: Escaped; escaping.
n.

c.1400, from escape (v.); earlier eschap (c.1300). Mental/emotional sense is from 1853. Escape clause in the legal sense first recorded 1945.

escape es·cape (ĭ-skāp’)
n.

language
An early system on the IBM 650.
[Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)].
(1995-01-05)

character
(ESC) ASCII character 27.
When sent by the user, escape is often used to abort execution or data entry. When sent by the computer it often starts an escape sequence.
(1997-11-27)
In addition to the idiom beginning with escape