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What does escape mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word escape? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (intransitive) To get free, to free oneself.
  2. (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
  3. (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
  4. (transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
  5. (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.
  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.
  2. (computing) escape key
  3. (programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
  4. (snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.
  5. (manufacturing) A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
  6. (obsolete) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.
  7. Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
  8. (obsolete) A sally.
  9. (architecture) An apophyge.
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