escape

The prisoners escaped by jumping over a wall.

The factory was evacuated after toxic gases escaped from a pipe.

(intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.

sailors that escaped the wreck

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

Luiz was Chelsea's stand-out performer, although Ferguson also had a case when he questioned how the £21m defender escaped a red card after the break for a hack at Rooney, with the Brazilian having already been booked.

2011 March 1, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Man Utd”, in BBC:

It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].

2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:

He only got a fine and so escaped going to jail.

The children climbed out of the window to escape the fire.

(transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.

Luckily, I escaped with only a fine.

(intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.

The name of the hotel escapes me at present.

c. 1698-1699 (year published) Edmund Ludlow, Memoirs
They escaped the search of the enemy.

(transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.

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

Character Data tags allow you to place complex strings as the text of an element—without the need to manually escape the string.

2002, Scott Worley, “Using XML in ASP.NET Applications”, in Inside ASP.NET, →ISBN, page 214:

Therefore, what follows is a list of typical output functions; your job is to determine if any of the functions print out tainted data that has not been passed through some sort of HTML escaping function.

2007, Michael Cross, “Code Auditing and Reverse Engineering”, in Developer's Guide to Web Application Security, →ISBN, page 213:

When using the "bash" shell, you can escape the ampersand character with a backslash.

Brion escaped the double quote character on Windows by adding a second double quote within the literal.

(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.

(computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.

en-verb

escape (third-person singular simple present escapes, present participle escaping, simple past and past participle escaped)

escapes (present singular third-person)
escaping (participle present)
escaped (participle past)
escaped (past)

轉義 /转义

to prefix a special key in order to make it an ordinary key

stoppen

to halt a program by pressing a combination of keys

From Middle English escapen, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French escaper ( = Old French eschaper, modern French échapper), from Vulgar Latin *excappāre (“to escape a garment, get out of one's clothing”, literally “to free oneself from one's cape”), from Latin ex- (“out”) + Late Latin cappa (“cape, cloak”). Cognate with escapade. Also doublet of scape.


escape

The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel.

The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.

Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.

But what about the flocks of Waxbills? Are they escapes gone feral, or are they spreading from Africa?

2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 124:

A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.

You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream.

(programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).

(snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.

(manufacturing) A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.

I should have been more accurate, corrected all those former escapes.

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

(obsolete) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.

thousand escapes of wit

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

vahinko

that which escapes attention or restraint


escape

first/third-person singular present subjunctive

inflection of escapar:
third-person singular imperative


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