escapes

Noun

escape (countable and uncountable, plural escapes)

1. The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
   • The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel.
2. Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
3. Something that has escaped; an escapee.
   • But what about the flocks of Waxbills? Are they escapes gone feral, or are they spreading from Africa?2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 124
4. A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.
5. escape key
6. The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
   • You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream.

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