escape

Noun

escape (plural escapes)

1. The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.

   The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel

2. A key on most modern computer keyboards, sometimes abbreviated Esc, and typically programmed to cancel some current operation.
3. programming: The ASCII character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal.)

   You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream.

6 letters in word "escape": A C E E P S.

Anagrams of escape:

• peaces

Words found within escape:

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• Definitions:
• the act of escaping physically; "he made his escape from the mental hospital"; "the canary escaped from its cage"; "his flight was an indication ... an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy; "romantic novels were her escape from the stress of daily life"; "his alcohol problem was a form of escapism" run away from confinement; "The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison" the unwanted discharge of a fluid from some container; "they tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe"; "he had to clean up the leak" miss: fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane" safety valve: a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level get off: escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action; "She gets away with murder!"; "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities" elude: be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by; "What you are seeing in him eludes me" evasion: nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive" an avoidance of danger or difficulty; "that was a narrow escape" issue or leak, as from a small opening; "Gas escaped into the bedroom" a means or way of escaping; "hard work was his escape from worry"; "they installed a second hatch as an escape"; "their escape route" remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion; "We escaped to our summer house for a few days"; "The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer" a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild scat: flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"
• Escape! is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published as "Paradoxical Escape" in the August 1945 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and reprinted as "Escape!" in the collections I, Robot (1950) and The Complete Robot (1982).
• "Escape" (later known as "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)") was the highest-charting hit for Rupert Holmes. ...
• Showbiz is the debut album by English rock band Muse, first released in 1999 by Mushroom Records. Muse.mu (accessed 12 September 2006) The album was produced by John Leckie at Sawmill Studios, Cornwall. ...
• "Escape" is MISIA's 6th single. It was released on her birthday, July 7, 2000. It peaked at #7 selling 81,130 copies on its first week. It was used in a commercial for Kenwood's "Avino".
• Journey's seventh studio album (and eighth overall), Escape, was released in July of 1981.
• Escape is the second album by hip hop group Whodini, released in 1984 (see 1984 in music) on the Jive label. The album spawned the hit singles "Five Minutes of Funk", "Friends" and "Freaks Come Out at Night". In 1998, the album was selected as one of The Source Magazine's 100 Best Rap Albums.
• Escape was radio's leading anthology series of high adventure, airing on CBS from July 7 1947 to September 25 1954. ...
• "Escape" is a song by heavy metal band Metallica. This song is from their second album Ride the Lightning (1984).
• Escape is an Enrique Iglesias album recorded in English in 2001.
• nissarana (s. pahána).
• Failure of inherently susceptible plants to become diseased, even though disease is prevalent. (20)
• Plants in a given population that remain free of disease where it is prevalent, although they possess no natural inherent resistanceto the disease. (See Klendusity.)
• A function in GKS used to access implementation or device dependent features, other than for the generation of graphical output, which are not otherwise addressed by GKS.
• To break loose from confinement; get free
• a plant in a treated area that has been missed or survived the treatment.
• Avoid danger. Many animals in the longleaf pine forest have developed ways to escape being harmed by fires.
• when a bottom man frees himself from the top man's control, coming out of bottom position.
• To avoid undesirable growing conditions, environmental factors, pests or diseases, eg, through early or late sowing, to avoid grain losses is a drought escape mechanism.
• To escape something in your dream can suggest that you may have an issue or condition that you are refusing to face in your waking life. ...
• Training and actions taken by military members to assist them in surviving in hostile environments, resisting enemy activities, escaping enemy forces, and evading enemy forces until the individual or unit can be reunited with friendly forces.
• Dreaming of escaping or, needing to escape a situation, is often a fear-driven type of dream manifestation that occurs as a result of similar feelings in your daily life. ...
• It is an escape when the defensive wrestler gains a neutral position and his opponent has lost control, while either wrestler is inbounds.

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