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feel | escape |

As verbs the difference between feel and escape

is that feel is (lb) to use the sense of touch while escape is .

As a noun feel

is a quality of an object experienced by touch.

As a pronoun feel

is .

As an adjective feel

is .

As an adverb feel

is .

feel

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) felen, from (etyl) .

Verb

  • (lb) To use the sense of touch.
  • # To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on.
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  • #(lb) To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements.
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  • #(lb) To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing.
  • #(lb) To search by sense of touch.
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  • (lb) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
  • #(lb) To experience an emotion or other mental state about.
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  • #*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • #*:Teach me to feel another's woe.
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  • #*:Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile?; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
  • #*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
  • , title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}
  • #(lb) To think, believe, or have an impression concerning.
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  • #*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • #*:Garlandswhich I feel / I am not worthy yet to wear.
  • #*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=19 citation , passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.}}
  • # To experience an emotion or other mental state.
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  • #:
  • #*
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.}}
  • #(lb) To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected.
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  • #*(Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)
  • #*:[She] feels with the dignity of a Roman matron.
  • #*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • #*:who feel for all mankind
  • (lb) To be or become aware of.
  • (lb) To experience the consequences of.
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  • (lb) To seem (through touch or otherwise).
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  • To understand.
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  • Usage notes
    * Most prescriptive grammarians prefer "I feel bad" to "I feel badly", but "I feel badly" is widely used in US English. * (term) is sometimes used after (feel) in its copulative sense where one might expect an adjective, ie, (bad). * Some users use (badly) when referring to an emotional state, and (bad) when referring to a more physical or medical state. * Adjectives to which "feel" is often applied as a copula: free, cold, cool, warm, hot, young, old, good, great, fine, happy, glad, satisfied, excited, bad, depressed, unhappy, sad, blue, sorry, smart, stupid, loved, appreciated, accepted, rejected, lonely, isolated, insulted, offended, slighted, cheated, shy, refreshed, tired, exhausted, calm, relaxed, angry, annoyed, frustrated, anxious, worried, jealous, proud, confident, safe, grateful, uncomfortable, unsafe, insecure, desperate, guilty, ashamed, disappointed, dirty, odd, strange, ill, sick.
    Derived terms
    * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A quality of an object experienced by touch.
  • Bark has a rough feel .
  • A vague mental impression.
  • You should get a feel of the area before moving in.
  • An act of fondling.
  • She gave me a quick feel to show that she loves me.
  • A vague understanding
  • I'm getting a feel for what you mean.
  • An intuitive ability
  • She has a feel for music.
  • Alternative form of feeling
  • I know that feel.
    Derived terms
    * cop a feel * get a feel for * mouthfeel

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    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) feele, fele, feole, from (etyl) fela, feala, . Related to (l).

    Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • escape

    English

    (wikipedia escape)

    Verb

    (escap)
  • 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= 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; […].}}
  • 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.
  • Usage notes

    * In senses 2. and 3. this is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . See

    Derived terms

    * escape artist * escape character * escape clause * escapee * escape literature * escapement * escape pod * escape sequence * escape velocity * escapism * escapist * escapologist * escapology * fire escape

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
  • The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel.
  • (computing) escape key
  • (programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
  • You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream.
  • (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
  • I should have been more accurate, and corrected all those former escapes .
  • Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
  • (obsolete) A sally.
  • * Shakespeare
  • thousand escapes of wit
  • (architecture) An apophyge.
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