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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)

  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

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

escape (plural escapes)

  1. The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
    The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel.
  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).
    You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream.
  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.
    • I should have been more accurate, corrected all those former escapes.
  10. (obsolete) A sally.
  11. (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)

  1. escape

French

Adjective

escape (plural escapes)

  1. escape

Noun

escape f (plural escapes)

  1. (architecture) escape

Related terms

  • échapper
  • escapade
  • escaper

Galician

Etymology

From escapar.

Noun

escape m (plural escapes)

  1. escape

Verb

escape

  1. first-person singular present subjunctive of escapar
  2. 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)

  1. (computing) The escape key

Portuguese

Etymology

From escapar.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -api

Noun

escape m (plural escapes)

  1. escape

Verb

escape

  1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of escapar
  2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of escapar
  3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of escapar
  4. 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)

  1. escape
  2. leak
    Synonym: fuga
  3. 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

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of escapar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of escapar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of escapar.
  4. 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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estray

English

Etymology

From Middle English astrai, from Anglo-Norman estray, from the Old French verb estraier. Etymological doublet with stray.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?.st?e?/

Noun

estray (plural estrays)

  1. (law) An animal that has escaped from its owner; a wandering animal whose owner is unknown. An animal cannot be an estray when on the range where it was raised, and permitted by its owner to run. A lost animal whose owner is known to the party at hand is not an estray.
  2. (archaic) Stray.
    • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, VIII:
      [...] All the day / Had been a dreary one at best, and dim / Was settling to its close, yet shot one grim / Red leer to see the plain catch its estray.

Verb

estray (third-person singular simple present estrays, present participle estraying, simple past and past participle estrayed)

  1. (archaic) To stray.
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Related terms

  • astray
  • stray

References

  • 2006 - For the purpose of this chapter, “estray” means any unbranded cattle, horses, mules, asses, or sheep found running at large or found trespassing upon the premises of another person, or any branded cattle, horses, mules, asses, or sheep found running at large or trespassing upon the premises of another person whose owner cannot be found after a reasonable search, or any llama, ostrich, emu, goat or swine found running at large or trespassing upon the premises of another person whose owner cannot be found after a reasonable search. - Uintah County, UT County Code, 6.48.010
  • 2006 - VRWPA finds good adoptive homes for Estray wild horses picked up by the State of Nevada, monitors the horses, the range, and the laws to insure the survivability of a viable, ecologically balanced herd. - Virginia Range Wildlife Protection Association

Anagrams

  • Stayer, e-trays, reasty, satyre, starey, stayer, stayre, tyrase, yarest

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