Verb

(escap)

To get free, to free oneself.

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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

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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.

Verb

(discharg)

To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.

* 1610 , , act 3 scene 1

O most dear mistress, / The sun will set before I shall discharge / What I must strive to do.

To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear.

* Dryden

Discharged of business, void of strife.

* L'Estrange

In one man's fault discharge another man of his duty.

To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.

* Shakespeare

If he had / The present money to discharge the Jew.

To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.

* Macaulay

The order for Daly's attendance was discharged .

To expel or let go.

* H. Spencer

Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions.

To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.

* Shakespeare

They do discharge their shot of courtesy.

(electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).

To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.

* Shakespeare

Discharge the common sort / With pay and thanks.

* Milton

Grindal was discharged the government of his see.

# (medicine) To release (an inpatient) from hospital.

# (military) To release (a member of the armed forces) from service.

To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.

to discharge a prisoner

To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).

* Knolles

The galleys also did oftentimes, out of their prows, discharge their great pieces against the city.

* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV

I ran forward, discharging my pistol into the creature's body in an effort to force it to relinquish its prey; but I might as profitably have shot at the sun.

To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.

To unload a ship or another means of transport.

To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.

to discharge a cargo

To give forth; to emit or send out.

A pipe discharges water.

To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.

He discharged a horrible oath.

(obsolete, Scotland) To prohibit; to forbid.

(Sir Walter Scott)