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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
Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
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.
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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.
The Dream Encyclopedia, Second Edition © 2009 Visible Ink Press®. All rights reserved.
escape
[i′skāp] (computer science)
To exit from a program, routine, or mode.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
escape
The curved part of the shaft of a column where it springs out of the base; the apophyge, 1.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Escape
Abiatharonly son of Ahimelech to avoid Saul’s slaughter. [O.T.: I Samuel 22:20]
Minos’s daughter; gave Theseus thread by which to escape labyrinth. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 31]
transformed into beetle in order to fly above Zeus’s deluge. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 55]
flees the City of Destruction. [Br. Lit.: Pilgrim’s Progress]
escaped from Crete by flying on wings made of wax and feathers. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 244]
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]
on Prometheus’ advice, survived flood in ark. [Gk. Myth.: Gaster, 84–85]
340,000 British troops evacuated against long odds (1941). [Eur. Hist.: Van Doren, 475]
Jewish captives escape Pharaoh’s bondage. [O.T.: Exodus]
(Dr. Richard Kimble) tale of wrongfully-accused man fleeing imprisonment. [TV: Terrace, I, 290–291]
woodcutter’s children barely escape witch. [Ger. Fairy Tale: Grimm, 56]
Muhammad’s flight from Mecca to Medina (622). [Islamic Hist.: EB, V: 39–40]
(1874–1926) shackled magician could extricate himself from any entrapment. [Am. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 196]
the only one to escape when the Pequod is wrecked by the white whale. [Am. Lit.: Melville, Moby Dick]
Miss Watson’s runaway slave; Huck’s traveling companion. [Am. Lit.: Huckleberry Finn]
delivered from fish’s belly after three days. [O.T.: Jonah 1, 2]
with family and animals, escapes the Deluge. [O.T.: Genesis 8:15–19]
one of the few to escape from Devil’s Island. [Fr. Hist.: Papillon]
God divides the waters for Israelites’ flight. [O.T.: Exodus 14:21–29]
epithet of Zeus as god of escape. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 94]
run away from “petticoat government” to live in forest. [Children’s Lit.: Brendon Chase, Fisher, 306]
prisoners escape by boat from Devil’s Island, accompanied by a mysterious stranger. [Am. Cinema: Strange Cargo]
escapes labyrinth with aid from Ariadne. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 31]
runs away from cruel Uncle Daniel to join circus. [Children’s Lit.: Toby Tyler]
Sumerian Noah. [Sumerian Legend: Benét, 1116]
Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
ESCAPE
(language)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.
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.
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