escape

escape

1. a valve that releases air, steam, etc., above a certain pressure; relief valve or safety valve

2. Botany a plant that was originally cultivated but is now growing wild

Escape

 

in Soviet criminal law, the crime of evading the serving of a sentence or restraining measures in the form of imprisonment under guard.

According to the Criminal Code of the RSFSR, escape from a place of confinement or from under guard committed by a person serving a sentence or held in preliminary confinement is punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period of up to three years. Escape combined with the use of force against the guard is punishable by a sentence of up to five years. Escape from a place of exile or from an alcoholic reeducation center or escape en route to exile or the center is punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period of up to one year.

What does it mean when you dream about an escape?

The act of escaping in a dream sometimes indicates the need to face an issue or a condition that one is evading. Alternatively, one may need to “escape” something that is about to collapse, such as a burning building.

escape

[i′skāp]

(computer science)

To exit from a program, routine, or mode.

escape

The curved part of the shaft of a column where it springs out of the base; the apophyge, 1.

Escape

Abiathar

only son of Ahimelech to avoid Saul’s slaughter. [O.T.: I Samuel 22:20]

Ariadne

Minos’s daughter; gave Theseus thread by which to escape labyrinth. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 31]

Cerambus

transformed into beetle in order to fly above Zeus’s deluge. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 55]

Christian

flees the City of Destruction. [Br. Lit.: Pilgrim’s Progress]

Daedalus

escaped from Crete by flying on wings made of wax and feathers. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 244]

Dantès, Edmond

after fifteen years in the Chateau d’If he escapes by being thrown into the sea as another prisoner’s corpse. [Fr. Lit.: Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo]

Deucalion

on Prometheus’ advice, survived flood in ark. [Gk. Myth.: Gaster, 84–85]

Dunkirk

340,000 British troops evacuated against long odds (1941). [Eur. Hist.: Van Doren, 475]

Exodus

Jewish captives escape Pharaoh’s bondage. [O.T.: Exodus]

Fugitive, The

(Dr. Richard Kimble) tale of wrongfully-accused man fleeing imprisonment. [TV: Terrace, I, 290–291]

Hansel and Gretel

woodcutter’s children barely escape witch. [Ger. Fairy Tale: Grimm, 56]

Hegira (Hijrah)

Muhammad’s flight from Mecca to Medina (622). [Islamic Hist.: EB, V: 39–40]

Houdini, Harry

(1874–1926) shackled magician could extricate himself from any entrapment. [Am. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 196]

Ishmael

the only one to escape when the Pequod is wrecked by the white whale. [Am. Lit.: Melville, Moby Dick]

Jim

Miss Watson’s runaway slave; Huck’s traveling companion. [Am. Lit.: Huckleberry Finn]

Jonah

delivered from fish’s belly after three days. [O.T.: Jonah 1, 2]

Noah

with family and animals, escapes the Deluge. [O.T.: Genesis 8:15–19]

Papillon

one of the few to escape from Devil’s Island. [Fr. Hist.: Papillon]

parting of the Red Sea

God divides the waters for Israelites’ flight. [O.T.: Exodus 14:21–29]

Phyxios

epithet of Zeus as god of escape. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 94]

Robin, John, and Harold Hensman

run away from “petticoat government” to live in forest. [Children’s Lit.: Brendon Chase, Fisher, 306]

Strange Cargo

prisoners escape by boat from Devil’s Island, accompanied by a mysterious stranger. [Am. Cinema: Strange Cargo]

Theseus

escapes labyrinth with aid from Ariadne. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 31]

Tyler, Toby

runs away from cruel Uncle Daniel to join circus. [Children’s Lit.: Toby Tyler]

Ziusudra

Sumerian Noah. [Sumerian Legend: Benét, 1116]

ESCAPE

(language)

An early system on the IBM 650.

[Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)].

escape

(character)

(ESC) ASCII character 27.

When sent by the user, escape is often used to abort execution or data entry. When sent by the computer it often starts an escape sequence.