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Escape can be a verb or a noun.
escape used as a verb:
- To get free, to free oneself.
"The prisoners escaped by jumping over a wall." - To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
"He only got a fine and so escaped going to jail." - To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
"Luckily, I escaped with only a fine." - To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
"The name of the hotel escapes me at present." - To cause (a single character) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character.
"When using the "bash" shell, you can escape the ampersand character with a backslash." - to halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the Esc key) or combination of keys
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
escape used as a noun:
- The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
"The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel" - A key on most modern computer keyboards, sometimes abbreviated Esc, and typically programmed to cancel some current operation.
- The ASCII character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal.)
"You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream." - A successful shot from a snooker position.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is escape?
- Verb usage: The prisoners escaped by jumping over a wall.
- Verb usage: He only got a fine and so escaped going to jail.
- Verb usage: The children climbed out of the window to escape the fire.
- Verb usage: Luckily, I escaped with only a fine.
- Verb usage: The name of the hotel escapes me at present.
- Verb usage: When using the "bash" shell, you can escape the ampersand character with a backslash.
- Verb usage: In your monobook.js file, you can escape the apostrophe character with a backslash.
- Verb usage: Brion escaped the double quote character on Windows by adding a second double quote within the literal.
- Noun usage: The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel
- Noun usage: You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of escape are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of escape, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
