Skirt vs Escape - What's the difference?
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An article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower part of the body.
* , The Purple Dress :
The part of a dress or robe that hangs below the waist.
* 1885 , , The Science of Dress in Theory and Practice , Chapter XI:
A loose edging to any part of a dress.
* Addison
A petticoat.
(pejorative, slang) A woman.
* 1931 , , Alleys of Peril :
(UK, colloquial) Women collectively, in a sexual context.
(UK, colloquial) Sexual intercourse with a woman.
Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything.
* Shakespeare
The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.
To be on or form the border of.
To move around or along the border of; to avoid the center of.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
, page=13 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To cover with a skirt; to surround.
* Milton
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.
As verbs the difference between skirt and escape
is that skirt is to be on or form the border of while escape is .As a noun skirt
is an article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower part of the body.skirt
English
(wikipedia skirt)Noun
(en noun)- "I like purple best," said Maida. "And old Schlegel has promised to make it for $8. It's going to be lovely. I'm going to have a plaited skirt and a blouse coat trimmed with a band of galloon under a white cloth collar with two rows of—"
- The petticoats and skirts ordinarily worn are decidedly the heaviest part of the dress ; hence it is necessary that some reform should be effected in these.
- A narrow lace, or a small skirt of ruffled linen, which runs along the upper part of the stays before, and crosses the breast, being a part of the tucker, is called the modesty piece.
- "Mate," said the Cockney, after we'd finished about half the bottle, "it comes to me that we're a couple o' blightin' idjits to be workin' for a skirt ."
- "What d'ya mean?" I asked, taking a pull at the bottle.
- "Well, 'ere's us, two red-blooded 'e-men, takin' orders from a lousy little frail, 'andin' the swag h'over to 'er, and takin' wot she warnts to 'and us, w'en we could 'ave the 'ole lot. Take this job 'ere now--"
- Here in the skirts of the forest.
- (Dunglison)
Usage notes
* (article of clothing) It was formerly common to speak of “skirts” (plural) rather than “a skirt”. In some cases this served to emphasize an array of skirts of underskirts, or of pleats and folds in a single skirt; in other cases it made little or no difference in meaning.Derived terms
* fender skirt * hobble skirt * mermaid skirt * miniskirt * pencil skirt * prairie skirt * rah-rah skirt * skirt chaser * skirted * skirtless * unskirtedVerb
(en verb)- The plain was skirted by rows of trees.
- An enormous man and woman (it was early-closing day) were stretched motionless, with their heads on pocket-handkerchiefs, side by side, within a few feet of the sea, while two or three gulls gracefully skirted the incoming waves, and settled near their boots.
Ideas coming down the track, passage=A “moving platform” scheme
- skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold
Anagrams
* 1000 English basic wordsescape
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
