(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.
Vent
Definition:
(n.) Sale; opportunity to sell; market.
(v. t.) To sell; to vend.
(n.) A baiting place; an inn.
(v. i.) To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
(n.) A small aperture; a hole or passage for air or any fluid to escape; as, the vent of a cask; the vent of a mold; a volcanic vent.
(n.) The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also, the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many fishes.
(n.) The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.
(n.) Sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
(n.) Fig.: Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
(n.) Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
(v. t.) To let out at a vent, or small aperture; to give passage or outlet to.
(v. t.) To suffer to escape from confinement; to let out; to utter; to pour forth; as, to vent passion or complaint.
(v. t.) To utter; to report; to publish.
(v. t.) To scent, as a hound.
(v. t.) To furnish with a vent; to make a vent in; as, to vent. a mold.
Example Sentences:
(1) The goal of the expedition, led by Prof Ken Takai of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was to study the limits of life at deep-sea vents in the Cayman Trough as part of a round-the-world voyage of discovery by the research ship RV Yokosuka .
(2) Though the exercises have given the US a chance to vent its frustration at what appears to be state-sponsored espionage and theft on an industrial scale, China has been belligerent.
(3) Despite a 30% rate of luminal blockage in stents retrieved after indwelling times up to 3 months, the incidence of clinical obstruction in stented tracts up to 3 months was 4%, confirming other reports that significant urine flow occurs around rather than through hollow, vented stents.
(4) Methods compared were: (1) aspiration of stomach contents through a large, vented, multi-orificed gastric tube, and (2) indirect determination by a dye dilution method using polyethylene glycol (PEG) as the marker.
(5) For Vent 1, serum hemoglobin levels increased from 40 to 249 mg. per 100 ml.
(6) We found that venting improves the speech intelligibility, especially in background noise simulating modulated speech.
(7) There was a 4-10% increase in His-Purkinje (HP) and ventricular (VENT) conduction time with each anesthetic.
(8) Thus, the clinically feasible intervention of left ventricular venting during reperfusion was not cardioprotective.
(9) 6.39pm BST AstraZeneca shares tumble as investors vent their disappointment over Pfizer bid - closing summary AstraZeneca's site in Macclesfield, Cheshire, today.
(10) The biochemical changes that occurred in the vented culture bottles stabilized more rapidly than those of the unvented bottles.
(11) Whether you're a microbe at a hydrothermal vent, or a computer programmer at a software company, we all function on that same biochemistry."
(12) First, in order to remove that part of the systolic force which is related to intracavitary pressure, left ventricular bypass was created and the left ventricle vented.
(13) In Experiment 1, carbon monoxide (CO) exposure from eight 60 ml puffs increased in an orderly fashion as a function of filter vent blocking.
(14) boluses at a cardiac output of 2 L. At a cardiac output of 4 L., Vent 2 removed 42, 76, and 49 per cent, respectively.
(15) Pringle found these conferences “brilliant and often informative”, but “they used to drive me nearly frantic because of the difficulty of getting a decision.’ Katharine Whitehorn , the women’s page editor, famously declared that “the editor’s indecision is final”, but although Astor would sometimes allow his journalists to vent opposing views in print as well in person – Nora Beloff and Robert Stephens on Israel and Palestine, for example – he always had the final say.
(16) It was shown that parallel and side branch vents produce similar low frequency filtering effects and vent-associated reactance resonances.
(17) "If the fans want to vent their anger at me I can take it.
(18) The measurement has been carried out with and without venting.
(19) Trade union organisers said that the turnout had exceeded their expectations, and thousands had travelled by coach and by train from as far as Edinburgh to vent their anger at the government's cuts by marching through London to a rally in Hyde Park.
(20) She was outraged and turned to Twitter to vent her fury.