escape

1. (intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.Examples: "The prisoners escaped by jumping over a wall."; "The factory was evacuated after toxic gases escaped from a pipe."intransitive

2. (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.Examples: "He only got a fine and so escaped going to jail."; "The children climbed out of the window to escape the fire."; "sailors that escaped the wreck"transitive

3. (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.Examples: "Luckily, I escaped with only a fine."intransitive

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

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.Examples: "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."transitive

6. (computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.