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defective
English
Etymology
From Middle French défectif, from Late Latin defectivus.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??f?kt?v/
- Rhymes: -?kt?v
Adjective
defective (comparative more defective, superlative most defective)
- Having one or more defects.
- Synonym: faulty
- Antonyms: complete, perfect
- (grammar, of a lexeme, especially a verb) Lacking some forms; e.g., having only one tense or being usable only in the third person.
- (Arabic grammar, of a verb) Having a root whose final consonant is weak (?, ?, or ?).
- (Hebrew orthography) Spelled without matres lectionis, for example ??? (ómets, “courage”) as opposed to the plene spelling ???? where the letter vav ??? indicates the vowel o.
- Antonym: plene
Usage notes
- Nouns to which "defective" is often applied: merchandise, goods, part, component, product, equipment, gene, unit, construction, design, drug, memory, wiring, machine, device, instrument, hardware, software, vehicle.
Related terms
Translations
Noun
defective (plural defectives)
- A person or thing considered to be defective.
See also
- Wikipedia article on defective verbs
References
Interlingua
Adjective
defective (comparative plus defective, superlative le plus defective)
- defective (having defects)
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escape
English
Etymology
From Middle English escapen, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French escaper ( = Old French eschaper, modern French échapper), from Vulgar Latin *excapp?re, 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
- IPA(key): /??ske?p/, /??ske?p/, /??ske?p/; (proscribed) /?k?ske?p/, /?k?ske?p/
- Rhymes: -e?p
- Hyphenation: es?cape
Verb
escape (third-person singular simple present escapes, present participle escaping, simple past and past participle escaped)
- (intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.
- (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
- (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
- (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.
- c. 1698-1699 (year published) Edmund Ludlow, Memoirs
- (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.
- 1998 August, Tim Berners-Lee et al., Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax (RFC 2396), page 8:
- (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
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
escape (plural escapes)
- The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
- The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel.
- Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
- Something that has escaped; an escapee.
- A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.
- (computing) escape key
- (programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
- You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream.
- (snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.
- (manufacturing) A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
- (obsolete) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.
- I should have been more accurate, corrected all those former escapes.
- (obsolete) A sally.
- (architecture) An apophyge.
Translations
References
- escape in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- escape at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Escape in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- Peaces, espace, peaces
Asturian
Etymology
From escapar.
Noun
escape m (plural escapes)
- escape
French
Adjective
escape (plural escapes)
- escape
Noun
escape f (plural escapes)
- (architecture) escape
Related terms
- échapper
- escapade
- escaper
Galician
Etymology
From escapar.
Noun
escape m (plural escapes)
- escape
Verb
escape
- first-person singular present subjunctive of escapar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of escapar
Further reading
- “escape” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Italian
Etymology
From English escape.
Noun
escape m (invariable)
- (computing) The escape key
Portuguese
Etymology
From escapar.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -api
Noun
escape m (plural escapes)
- escape
Verb
escape
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of escapar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of escapar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of escapar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of escapar
Further reading
- “escape” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish
Etymology
From escapar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /es?kape/, [es?ka.pe]
Noun
escape m (plural escapes)
- escape
- leak
- Synonym: fuga
- exhaust pipe, tailpipe
- Synonym: tubo de escape
Derived terms
- a escape
- carácter de escape
- válvula de escape
- velocidad de escape
Related terms
- escapatoria
- escapada
Verb
escape
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of escapar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of escapar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of escapar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of escapar.
Further reading
- “escape” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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