(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.
Scat
Definition:
(interj.) Go away; begone; away; -- chiefly used in driving off a cat.
(n.) Alt. of Scatt
(n.) A shower of rain.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Beskidy pack’’ – the one that left us the scat – “is a strong unit, eight or nine individuals.
(2) He ends the song with something that is ostensibly scat but sounds like an old man being scared witless by a spider.
(3) All those gleefully be-bopping, riffing and scatting all over Arsenal’s West Ham pain might just want to think about reining it in a bit.
(4) The coroner found that Ben continued to "play enthusiastically", and "displayed no immediately obvious physical signs that anything was amiss", but in the video, his symptoms clearly tally with those described on the Scat card.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Wolf scat in the Beskidy mountains.
(6) The shift in the Tor and MAP response to the SCAT is consistent with the associated occurrence of cold adaptation during AR.
(7) The Rheumaton test gave many misleading positive reactions with sera having insignificant SCAT titres.
(8) Although continued reliability and validity studies are needed, the SCAT has potential to measure patient rehabilitation outcomes, to evaluate nursing care approaches and to serve as a quality assurance indicator for nursing care.
(9) The SCAT did not alter thyroid hormones before or after AR.
(10) The lenses of both, heterozygous and homozygous Scat mutants exhibit enhanced Na+,K+-ATPase activity and a decreased ATP concentration.
(11) To get a Scat card from the IRB, you have to find it on their website and download your own copy.
(12) The evaluation instrument used is children's Self-Concept Attitudinal (SCAT) Inventory.
(13) We call the extracellular product secreted CAT (sCAT).
(14) As sCAT levels increase, substantially more CAT is found outside the cells than inside at later times.
(15) All of them gave positive tests on the serum for RF with the SCAT, nephelometry, and ELISA, and on the IgM containing fractions by the hemolytic assay and ELISA.
(16) Two further commercial screening tests for rheumatoid factors have been evaluated using both the sheep cell agglutination (SCAT) test and the Rheumaton slide test used routinely in this laboratory.
(17) The Scat was drawn up at the Zurich International Consensus Conference for Concussion in Sport , which is held every four years.
(18) If any one of those nine is detected, the Scat says in red text, "the player should be safely and immediately removed from the field."
(19) Serum total thyroxine (TT4) and serum total triiodothyronine (TT3), free T4 (FT4) and T3 (FT3), thyrotropin (TSH), and percent free fraction of T4 (%FT4) and T3 (%FT3) were measured in normal men (n = 15) before and after each of three SCATs.
(20) Most visitors to these mountains never catch a glimpse of a lion – it’s a melt-into-the-shadows sort of beast that primarily hunts at night – but lion tracks and scat are fairly common.