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