Verb

(elud)

To evade, or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill.

* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 26.

Thus the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.

To shake off a pursuer; to give someone the slip.

* {{quote-news

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To escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to.

Verb

(escap)

To get free, to free oneself.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson

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To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.

* Shakespeare

sailors that escaped the wreck

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=March 1, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC

, title= 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.}}

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

They escaped the search of the enemy.

(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.

* 1998 August, (Tim Berners-Lee) et al. , 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.

* {{quote-book, year=2002, author=Scott Worley, chapter=Using XML in ASP.NET Applications

, title= 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.}}

* {{quote-book, year=2007, author=Michael Cross, chapter=Code Auditing and Reverse Engineering

, title= 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.}}

(computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.