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English

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Etymology
:w:Anglo-Norman|Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French escaper ( = Old French eschaper, modern échapper), from VL. *excapare, from Latin ex- + cappa �cloak�.

Pronunciation
IPA|/ɪ�skeɪp/
audio|en-us-escape.ogg|Audio (US)
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-eɪp|-eɪp

Verb
en-verb|escap|ing

1. intransitive To get free, to free oneself.

#: The prisoners escaped by jumping over a wall.

1. transitive 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.

1. intransitive To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.

#:Luckily, I escaped with only a fine.

1. transitive To elude observation or notice; to not be seen or remembered by.

#: The name of the hotel escapes me at present.

1. computing To prefix a character with a special character (depending on context) to allow a character to pass through without special meaning.

#: When using the "bash" shell, you can escape the ampersand character with a backslash.
#: In your monobook.js file, you can escape the apostrophe character with a backslash.
#: Brion escaped the double quote character on Windows by adding a second double quote within the literal.

1. 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

Derived terms
top2
escape artist
escapee
escapement
escapism
escapist
escapologist
mid2
escapology
escape route
escape sequence
fire escape
lucky escape
make an escape

Translations

trans-top|to get free
Albanian: arratisem
Dutch: ontsnappen
Finnish: paeta, karata
French: échapper
Italian: scappare
Kurdish: revîn, bazdan
Romanian: a se elibera
trans-mid
Slovak: utiecť
Slovene: zbežati, pobegniti
Swedish: fly
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trans-top|to elude
Albanian: shmangem
Dutch: ontsnappen aan
Finnish: välttää, paeta
French: éviter
Italian: evitare
Romanian: a eluda
trans-mid
Kurdish: filitîn
Slovak: vyhnúť sa
Slovene: ubežati
Swedish: undfly
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trans-top|to avoid capture
Dutch: er vanaf komen
trans-mid
Finnish: välttyä, päästä, selvitä
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trans-top|to elude observation
Finnish: jäädä huomaamatta, unohtua
trans-mid
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trans-top|to prefix a special key in order to make it an ordinary key
trans-mid
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trans-top|to halt a program by pressing a combination of keys
Dutch: stoppen
trans-mid
Finnish: keskeyttää ohjelma
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ttbc|Chemehuevi: na-'wi-cipi-nkɨ
ttbc|CJKV Characters: �
mid
ttbc|Spanish: fugarse
ttbc|Swedish: undvika
ttbc|Telugu: తప�పి�����న� (tappiMchukonu)

Noun
en-noun

1. The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.

#: The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel

1. A key on most modern computer keyboards, sometimes abbreviated Esc, and typically programmed to cancel some current operation.
2. programming The ASCII character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal.)

#: You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream.

1. context|snooker A sucessful shot from a snooker position.

Translations
trans-top|The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation
Finnish: pako
trans-mid
Slovene: pobeg m
Swedish: flykt c
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trans-top|A key on most modern computer keyboards
Finnish: esc-näppäin
trans-mid
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trans-top|(programming) ASCII character 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal)
Finnish: esc-merkki
trans-mid
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trans-top|translations to be checked
ttbc|Kurdish: rev (1), bazdan (1), filitîn (2)
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