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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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defeat
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??fi?t/
- Rhymes: -i?t
Etymology 1
From Middle English defeten, from Middle English defet (“disfigured”, past participle) and defet (“defect”, noun), see Etymology 2 below.
Verb
defeat (third-person singular simple present defeats, present participle defeating, simple past and past participle defeated)
- (transitive) To overcome in battle or contest.
- Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
- (transitive) To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
- He finds himself naturally to dread a superior Being that can defeat all his designs, and disappoint all his hopes.
- 1879, Adolphus Ward, Chaucer, in English Men of Letters
- In one instance he defeated his own purpose.
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
- (transitive) To nullify
- 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England
- The escheators […] defeated the right heir of his succession.
- 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England
Derived terms
- self-defeating
Synonyms
- vanquish, overcome, beat
Hyponyms
- conquer (defeat and annex); rout, crush, cream (decisive); shutout, zilch (sports, to defeat without permitting any opposing score)
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English defet, from French deffet, desfait, past participle of the verb desfaire (compare modern French défaire), from des- + faire.
Noun
defeat (countable and uncountable, plural defeats)
- The act or instance of being defeated, of being overcome or vanquished; a loss.
- Licking their wounds after a temporary defeat, they planned their next move.
- The act or instance of defeating, of overcoming, vanquishing.
- The inscription records her defeat of the country's enemies in a costly war.
- Frustration (by prevention of success), stymieing; (law) nullification.
- 1909, The Southern Reporter, page 250:
- ... is subsequently issued to him, in accordance with his perfect equity thus acquired, by a legal fiction which the law creates for the protection, but not for the defeat, of his title.
- 2008, Gene Porter, A Daughter of the Land, volume 1 (?ISBN), page 17:
- She could see no justice in being forced into a position that promised to end in further humiliation and defeat of her hopes.
- 1909, The Southern Reporter, page 250:
- (obsolete) Destruction, ruin.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, act 4, scene 1:
- and made defeat of her virginity
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, act 4, scene 1:
Antonyms
- victory
Translations
Anagrams
- feated
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