different between escape vs foil

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.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Etymology 1

From Middle English foil, foille, from Old French fueille (“plant leaf”), from Late Latin folia, the plural of folium, mistaken as a singular feminine. Doublet of folio and folium.

Noun

foil (countable and uncountable, plural foils)

1. A very thin sheet of metal.
2. (uncountable) Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.

3. A thin layer of metal put between a jewel and its setting to make it seem more brilliant.
4. (authorship, figuratively) In literature, theatre/theater, etc., a character who helps emphasize the traits of the main character and who usually acts as an opponent or antagonist.
5. (figuratively) Anything that acts by contrast to emphasise the characteristics of something.

   • As she a black silk cap on him begun / To set, for foil of his milk-white to serve.

   • 1725-1726, William Broome, The Odyssey

     Hector has also a foil to set regard

6. (fencing) A very thin sword with a blunted (or foiled) tip
   • 1784-1810, William Mitford, History of Greece

     Socrates contended with a foil against Demosthenes with a sword.

7. A thin, transparent plastic material on which marks are made and projected for the purposes of presentation. See transparency.
8. (heraldry) A stylized flower or leaf.
9. A hydrofoil.
10. An aerofoil/airfoil.

Synonyms

• (thin aluminium/aluminum): aluminium foil, silver foil, silver paper, tin foil

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

foil (third-person singular simple present foils, present participle foiling, simple past and past participle foiled)

1. (transitive) To cover or wrap with foil.

Etymology 2

From Middle English foilen (“spoil a scent trail by crossing it”), from Old French fouler (“tread on, trample”), ultimately from Latin full? (“I trample, I full”).

Verb

foil (third-person singular simple present foils, present participle foiling, simple past and past participle foiled)

1. To prevent (something) from being accomplished.

2. To prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.

   • And by mortal man at length am foil'd.
3. To blunt; to dull; to spoil.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Addison to this entry?)

4. (obsolete) To tread underfoot; to trample.
   • 1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes

     King Richard […] caused the ensigns of Leopold to be pulled down and foiled underfoot.

   • Whom he did all to pieces breake and foyle, / In filthy durt, and left so in the loathely soyle.

Synonyms

• (prevent from being accomplished): put the kibosh on, scupper, thwart

Translations

Noun

foil (plural foils)

1. Failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
   • 1685, John Dryden, Threnodia Augustalis

     Nor e'er was fate so near a foil.

2. One of the incorrect answers presented in a multiple-choice test.

Etymology 3

From French foulis.

Noun

foil (plural foils)

1. (hunting) The track of an animal.

Synonyms

• (track of an animal): spoor

Translations

Etymology 4

From mnemonic acronym FOIL (“First Outside Inside Last”).

Verb

foil (third-person singular simple present foils, present participle foiling, simple past and past participle foiled)

1. (mathematics) To expand a product of two or more algebraic expressions, typically binomials.

Translations

Etymology 5

See file.

Verb

foil (third-person singular simple present foils, present participle foiling, simple past and past participle foiled)

1. (obsolete) To defile; to soil.

Anagrams

• Filo, LIFO, filo, lo-fi, lofi

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin folium. Compare fueille, from the plural of folium, folia.

Noun

foil m (oblique plural fouz or foilz, nominative singular fouz or foilz, nominative plural foil)

1. leaf (green appendage of a plant which photosynthesizes)