Escape vs Freedom - What's the difference?
escape | freedom |
To get free, to free oneself.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
* Shakespeare
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=March 1, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC
, 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.
* 1998 August, (Tim Berners-Lee) et al. ,
* {{quote-book, year=2002, author=Scott Worley, chapter=Using XML in ASP.NET Applications
, title= * {{quote-book, year=2007, author=Michael Cross, chapter=Code Auditing and Reverse Engineering
, 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.
(uncountable) The state of being free, of not being imprisoned or enslaved.
(countable) The lack of a specific constraint, or of constraints in general; a state of being free, unconstrained.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Frankness; openness; unreservedness.
* Milton
Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum.
As nouns the difference between escape and freedom
is that escape is the act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation while freedom is the state of being free, of not being imprisoned or enslaved.As a verb escape
is to get free, to free oneself.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
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* 1000 English basic words ----freedom
English
(wikipedia freedom)Noun
Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, passage=The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.}}
- I emboldened spake and freedom used.
