escape

/əˈskeɪp/ · noun

Meaning

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.
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).
To get free; to free oneself.
To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
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.
To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.

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