Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word ESCAPE

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Definitions of ESCAPE

1. The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
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. (intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.
6. (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
7. (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
8. (transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
9. (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.
10. (computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
11. (computing) escape key
12. (programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
13. (snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.
14. (manufacturing) A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
15. (obsolete) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.
16. (obsolete) A sally.
17. (architecture) An apophyge.

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