escape
/ɪˈskeɪp/ noun A2- The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation. · The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel.
- Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
- Something that has escaped; an escapee.
- A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.
- escape key
- The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal). · You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream.
- A successful shot from a snooker position.
- A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
Plural escapes
From the library
## XXI ESCAPE AT BEDTIME
“That _was_ a narrow escape!” said Alice, a good deal frightened at the sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in existence; “and now for the garden!” and she ran with all speed back to the little door: but, alas!
This seemed to Alice a good opportunity for making her escape; so she set off at once, and ran till she was quite tired and out of breath, and till the puppy’s bark sounded quite faint in the distance.
She was looking about for some way of escape, and wondering whether she could get away without being seen, when she noticed a curious appearance in the air: it puzzled her very much at first, but, after watching it a minute or two, she made it out to be a grin, and she said to herself “It’s the Cheshire Cat: now I shall have somebody to talk to.”
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