A Quick and Simple Dictionary

escape

1. Verb.  (intransitive) To get free, to free oneself.
2. Verb.  (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
3. Verb.  (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
4. Verb.  (transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
5. Verb.  (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.
6. Verb.  (computing) to halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
7. Noun.  The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
8. Noun.  (computing) A key on most modern computer keyboards, sometimes abbreviated Esc, and typically programmed to cancel some current operation.
9. Noun.  (programming) The ASCII character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal.).
10. Noun.  (context, snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.