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departure
English
Etymology
From Old French deporteure (“departure; figuratively, death”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??p??(?)tj?(?)/, /d??p??(?)t???(?)/
Noun
departure (countable and uncountable, plural departures)
- The act of departing or something that has departed.
- A deviation from a plan or procedure.
- 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II
- any departure from a national standard
- There are several significant departures, however, from current practice.
- 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II
- (euphemistic) A death.
- His timely departure […] barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries.
- (navigation) The distance due east or west made by a ship in its course reckoned in plane sailing as the product of the distance sailed and the sine of the angle made by the course with the meridian.
- (surveying) The difference in easting between the two ends of a line or curve.
- (law) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bouvier to this entry?)
- (obsolete) Division; separation; putting away.
Synonyms
- leaving
Antonyms
- arrival
Related terms
- depart
- departure lounge
- departure tax
Translations
Further reading
- departure on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- apertured
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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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