Definition of "escape" in Anglais

verb

1. (intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.

   • The prisoners escaped by jumping over a wall.
   • The factory was evacuated after toxic gases escaped from a pipe.

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

   • He only got a fine and so escaped going to jail.
   • The children climbed out of the window to escape the fire.

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

   • Luckily, I escaped with only a fine.

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

   • The name of the hotel escapes me at present.
   • The detective examined the crime scene, but one clue escaped his notice.
   • 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.

   • 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.
   • 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.

noun

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.