Allude vs Escape - What's the difference?
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To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion.
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* 1846 , George Luxford, Edward Newman, The Phytologist: a popular botanical miscellany: Volume 2, Part 2 ,
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To get free, to free oneself.
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, title= To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
* Shakespeare
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, title= To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
* Ludlow
(computing) To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character.
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, title= (computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
(computing) escape key
(programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
(snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.
(manufacturing) A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
(obsolete) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.
* Burton
Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
(obsolete) A sally.
* Shakespeare
(architecture) An apophyge.
As verbs the difference between allude and escape
is that allude is to refer to something indirectly or by suggestion while escape is .allude
English
Verb
(allud)Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book V, Chapter xxix.3, 1841 ed., page 523:
- These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use.
page 474
- It was aptly said by Newton that "whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis," but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude .
citation, passage=We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.}}
Synonyms
* advert, hint, imply, indicate, insinuate, intimate, point, refer, signify, suggestDerived terms
* allusive * allusionReferences
*Anagrams
* ----escape
English
(wikipedia escape)Verb
(escap)Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}
- sailors that escaped the wreck
Chelsea 2-1 Man Utd, passage=Luiz was Chelsea's stand-out performer, although Ferguson also had a case when he questioned how the £21m defender escaped a red card after the break for a hack at Rooney, with the Brazilian having already been booked.}}
- They escaped the search of the enemy.
Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax (RFC 2396), page 8:
- If the data for a URI component would conflict with the reserved purpose, then the conflicting data must be escaped before forming the URI.
Inside ASP.NET, isbn=0735711356, page=214 , passage=Character Data tags allow you to place complex strings as the text of an element—without the need to manually escape the string.}}
Developer's Guide to Web Application Security, isbn=159749061X, page=213 , passage=Therefore, what follows is a list of typical output functions; your job is to determine if any of the functions print out tainted data that has not been passed through some sort of HTML escaping function.}}
Usage notes
* In senses 2. and 3. this is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . SeeDerived terms
* escape artist * escape character * escape clause * escapee * escape literature * escapement * escape pod * escape sequence * escape velocity * escapism * escapist * escapologist * escapology * fire escapeNoun
(en noun)- The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel.
- You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream.
- I should have been more accurate, and corrected all those former escapes .
- thousand escapes of wit