escape

escape

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English

Etymology

From Middle English escapen, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French escaper ( = Old French eschaper, modern French échapper), from Vulgar Latin *excappāre, literally "get out of one's cape, leave a pursuer with just one's cape," from Latin ex- (“out”) + Late Latin cappa (“cape, cloak”). Cognate with escapade.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪˈskeɪp/, (proscribed) /ɪk-/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ɪˈskeɪp/, /ə-/, /ɛ-/, (proscribed) /ɛk-/
  • Hyphenation: es‧cape
  • Rhymes: -eɪp

Verb

escape (third-person singular simple present escapes, present participle escaping, simple past and past participle escaped)

  1. (intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.
  2. (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
  3. (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
  4. (transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
    • c. 1698-1699 (year published) Edmund Ludlow, Memoirs
      They escaped the search of the enemy.
  5. (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, often by prefixing with another character.
    • 1998 August, Tim Berners-Lee et al., Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax (RFC 2396), page 8:
      If the data for a URI component would conflict with the reserved purpose, then the conflicting data must be escaped before forming the URI.
  6. (computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.

Usage notes

  • In senses 2. and 3. this is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Synonyms

  • break loose
  • take it on the lam

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

escape (plural escapes)

  1. The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
  2. Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
  3. Something that has escaped; an escapee.
  4. A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.
  5. (computing) escape key
  6. (programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
  7. (snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.
  8. (manufacturing) A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
  9. (obsolete) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.
  10. (obsolete) A sally.
  11. (architecture) An apophyge.

Derived terms

  • garden escape

Translations

References

  • “escape”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “escape”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • Escape in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

  • Peaces, espace, peaces

Asturian

Etymology

From escapar.

Noun

escape m (plural escapes)

  1. escape

French

Pronunciation

Adjective

escape (plural escapes)

  1. escape

Noun

escape f (plural escapes)

  1. (architecture) escape

Related terms

  • échapper
  • escapade
  • escaper

Further reading

  • “escape”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Etymology

From escapar.

Noun

escape m (plural escapes)

  1. escape

Verb

escape

  1. inflection of escapar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “escape”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English escape.

Noun

escape m (invariable)

  1. (computing) the escape key

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -api, -apɨ
  • Hyphenation: es‧ca‧pe

Etymology 1

Deverbal from escapar.

Noun

escape m (plural escapes)

  1. escape
  2. (Portugal) Clipping of tubo de escape.

Etymology 2

Verb

escape

  1. inflection of escapar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “escape”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /esˈkape/ [esˈka.pe]
  • Rhymes: -ape
  • Syllabification: es‧ca‧pe

Etymology 1

Deverbal from escapar.

Noun

escape m (plural escapes)

  1. escape
  2. leak
    Synonym: fuga
  3. exhaust pipe, tailpipe
    Synonym: tubo de escape
Derived terms
Related terms

Etymology 2

Verb

escape

  1. inflection of escapar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “escape”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

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