Miss vs Escape - What's the difference?
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(ambitransitive) To fail to hit.
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
* (Edmund Waller) (1606-1687)
To fail to achieve or attain.
* (John Locke) (1632-1705)
To feel the absence of someone or something, sometimes with regret.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
*
To fail to understand or have a shortcoming of perception.
To fail to attend.
To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
(sports) To fail to score (a goal).
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 18, author=Ben Dirs, work=BBC Sport
, title= (obsolete) To go wrong; to err.
* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
(obsolete) To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
A failure to hit.
A failure to obtain or accomplish.
An act of avoidance.
A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used.
An unmarried woman; a girl.
* Cawthorn
A kept woman; a mistress.
(card games) In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.
To get free, to free oneself.
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, 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.
As a noun miss
is form of address for an unmarried woman.As a verb escape is
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) missen, from (etyl) .Verb
(es)- I missed the target.
- I tried to kick the ball, but missed .
- Men observe when things hit, and not when they miss .
- Flying bullets now, / To execute his rage, appear too slow; / They miss , or sweep but common souls away.
- to miss an opportunity
- When a man misses his great end, happiness, he will acknowledge he judged not right.
- I miss you! Come home soon!
- What by me thou hast lost, thou least shalt miss .
- The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits. He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. Nobody would miss them, he explained.
- miss the joke
- Joe missed the meeting this morning.
- I missed the plane!
Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia, passage=Georgia, ranked 16th in the world, dominated the breakdown before half-time and forced England into a host of infringements, but fly-half Merab Kvirikashvili missed three penalties.}}
- Amongst the angels, a whole legion / Of wicked sprites did fall from happy bliss; / What wonder then if one, of women all, did miss ?
- What here shall miss , our toil shall strive to mend.
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . SeeAntonyms
* (to fail to hit) hit, strike, impinge on, run into, collide with * (to feel the absence of) have, featureDerived terms
* hit-and-miss * miss a trick * miss the mark * miss the point * miss the boat * miss fire, misfire * miss out * near missNoun
(es)- I think I’ll give the meeting a miss .
Etymology 2
From (mistress).Noun
(wikipedia miss)- You may sit here, miss .
- You may sit here, Miss Jones.
- Gay vanity, with smiles and kisses, / Was busy 'mongst the maids and misses .
- (Evelyn)
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.
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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