What's the difference between elopement and escape?

Elopement


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of eloping; secret departure; -- said of a woman and a man, one or both, who run away from their homes for marriage or for cohabitation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While Elop has critics who say he did not fix Nokia or much of anything else in his long career in tech, others are likely to point to a pedigree that would also make him the favorite here.
  • (2) Elop denies it is in talks about a takeover by Microsoft .
  • (3) Elop says Nokia is considering them, and looking into platform options such as Windows 8 , Windows RT – as used on the Microsoft Surface – and even Android.
  • (4) The marketing department will now report directly to Elop, and a management reshuffle has seen key staff replaced and US executive Chris Weber – who, like Elop, previously worked for Microsoft – promoted to run sales and marketing.
  • (5) Nokia's chief executive, Stephen Elop, said : "This settlement ... enables us to focus on further licensing opportunities in the mobile communications market."
  • (6) Stephen Elop is the odds-on favourite to become Microsoft's next CEO ( see 8.51am ), but do you think he's got what it takes to replace Steve Ballmer and take the company forward?
  • (7) For example, we rejected the traditional wedding day and we eloped to Las Vegas when our son, Conrad, was three.
  • (8) Claire McComb, spokesperson for the East London Out Project (ELOP), a gay and lesbian outreach organisation, says: "Homophobia is equivalent to racism, sexism, ageism, sizeism and prejudice against disability, yet this is often disregarded in favour of conflicting personal values.
  • (9) Vote here: Should Stephen Elop take over at Microsoft?
  • (10) Elop managed to make Nokia actually sell *less* phones, quite a feat given how the smartphone market exploded.
  • (11) Nevertheless, Elop believes Nokia's downsizing and outplacement programmes are a good thing for Finland.
  • (12) Their 18-year relationship made a gut-wrenching but fascinating public story, which began with romantic passion, high hopes and an elopement to Spain.
  • (13) "Yes, you can call it [Android] open source but in practicality, you're getting more and more constrained on what's possible in that environment," Elop says.
  • (14) This is the challenge Elop, and Nokia more generally, faces – a smartphone market where the Lumia is in a tiny minority.
  • (15) Nokia's future as an independent company is hanging in the balance and Microsoft could be forced to rescue the business if chief executive Stephen Elop cannot resuscitate the group's smartphone business by the end of the year, analysts have warned.
  • (16) Asked why his strategy had not yet produced results, Elop said there was "frustration" because so few consumers were aware of Nokia's new products: "We have truly great products but aren't getting the traction that we would prefer."
  • (17) Here's a selection on the Microsoft-Nokia deal: os2baba 03 September 2013 8:28am If ever there was a Trojan horse... Stephen Elop sure fits the bill.
  • (18) "Stephen Elop is running out of time," said Francisco Jeronimo at telecoms research firm IDC.
  • (19) The two companies announced the outline for the deal in London in February, after Elop had courted both Google and Microsoft, choosing between the Android mobile operating system – now the world's most-used on smartphones – and Windows Phone, which was only introduced in October 2010 and has had a lukewarm reception from customers.
  • (20) Ram had married but his wife – a woman who had three children when she effectively eloped with him – died of an illness without bearing him a child of his own.

Escape


Definition:

  • (v.) To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.
  • (v.) To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention.
  • (v. i.) To flee, and become secure from danger; -- often followed by from or out of.
  • (v. i.) To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm.
  • (v. i.) To get free from that which confines or holds; -- used of persons or things; as, to escape from prison, from arrest, or from slavery; gas escapes from the pipes; electricity escapes from its conductors.
  • (n.) The act of fleeing from danger, of evading harm, or of avoiding notice; deliverance from injury or any evil; flight; as, an escape in battle; a narrow escape; also, the means of escape; as, a fire escape.
  • (n.) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake; an oversight; also, transgression.
  • (n.) A sally.
  • (n.) The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody.
  • (n.) An apophyge.
  • (n.) Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid.
  • (n.) Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cancer of the mouth, pharynx and esophagus has decreased in all Japanese migrants, but the decrease is much greater among Okinawan migrants, suggesting they have escaped exposure to risk factors peculiar to the Okinawan environment.
  • (2) Like many families, we’ve had to move to escape the fighting.
  • (3) At follow-up, the initial presence of signs of repression was significantly more common in such initially nonregressive patients as had escaped a later psychotic breakdown.
  • (4) The proliferation of this cell type may represent an escape from the senescence pathway and progression to immortal tumor cells.
  • (5) The presence of the positive-off diagonal of the second-order kernel of respiratory control of heart rate is an indication of an escape-like phenomenon in the system.
  • (6) If you’ve escaped the impact of cuts so far , consider yourself lucky, but don’t think that you won’t be affected after the next tranche hits.
  • (7) The plan was to provide those survivors with escape routes while also giving law enforcement an entry point.
  • (8) He said: “Almost daily we hear from parents desperate to escape the single cramped room of a B&B or hostel that they find themselves struggling to raise their children in.
  • (9) Only two of the 31 commandos escaped; the rest were tracked down and killed.
  • (10) It is deeply moving hearing him talk now – as if from the grave – about a Christmas Day when he felt so frustrated and cut-off from his family that he had to go into the office to escape.
  • (11) Since chromatin particles containing DNA the size of 125 kbp can electroelute, we conclude that the polymerizing complex is attached to a nucleoskeleton which is too large to escape.
  • (12) If such a system were rolled out nationally, central government could escape political pressure to ringfence NHS funding.
  • (13) New insights into the biochemical and cell-biological alterations occurring in articular cartilage during the early phase of osteoarthrosis (OA) have been gained in the past decade by analysing experimentally induced osteoarthrosis in animals, mostly dogs and rabbits, while early phases of OA in humans so far have escaped diagnostic evaluation.
  • (14) After 2 weeks of chronic exposure to 75 mM EtOH, crayfish showed behavioral tolerance as measured by a decrease in righting time and an increase in tail-flip escape behavior to control levels.
  • (15) The researchers' own knowledge of street language and drug behavior has enabled them to capture information that would escape most observers and even some participants.
  • (16) Animals continued to display escape responses after removal of eyestalks and antennae.
  • (17) Intracerebral injection of the GABAA agonists muscimol (1 nmol), isoguvacine (1 nmol) or THIP (1, 2 and 4 nmol) in rats with chemitrodes implanted in the dorsal midbrain central grey raised the threshold electrical current for inducing escape behaviour.
  • (18) Rats were tested on either escape or avoidance learning at 80 days of age after chemical sympathectomy at birth or 40 or 80 days of age.
  • (19) The fraction of ligands that initially escaped into the solvent decreased when the temperature was lowered, and the Arrhenius plots for the rebinding rate coefficients were found to deviate significantly from linearity.
  • (20) When Hayley Cropper swallows poison on Coronation Street on Monday night, taking her own life to escape inoperable pancreatic cancer, with her beloved husband, Roy, in pieces at her bedside, it will be the end of a character who, thanks to Hesmondhalgh's performance, has captivated and challenged British TV viewers for 16 years.

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