📖 E — The English dictionary · page 26

escalate — Everyday, meaning 1: To become bigger, worse or more serious, as in «The argument escalated into a fight».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To make something bigger or more serious.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To pass a problem to a more senior person, as in «escalate a complaint».↗ Example: The small argument escalated into a shouting match.↗ · Prices escalated during the winter.↗ · The teacher stepped in before things escalated.↗ · The fighting between the two countries escalated.↗ · If the problem escalates, tell an adult.↗ · Let's calm down so this doesn't escalate.↗

escalation — Everyday, meaning 1: Escalation is when something becomes bigger, worse or more serious, step by step, like a fight or a war.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A rise in amounts or prices.↗ Example: Name-calling led to an escalation, and soon they were pushing.↗ · Leaders met to stop the escalation of the war.↗ · There was an escalation in prices at the shop.↗ · Walking away can prevent escalation.↗ · The teacher stopped the argument before any escalation.↗ · The escalation of the storm forced us inside.↗

escalator — Everyday, meaning 1: An escalator is a moving staircase that carries people up or down between floors.↗ Example: We took the escalator to the top floor.↗ · Hold the handrail on the escalator.↗ · Stand on the right on the escalator.↗ · Don't run up the down escalator.↗ · Mind your shoelaces on the escalator.↗ · The escalator was broken, so we used the stairs.↗

escape — Everyday, meaning 1: To escape means to get away from a place where you are kept, or from danger.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To escape something means to avoid it: escape the rain.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Gas, water or air escapes when it leaks out.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: An escape is the act of getting away, or a way out: a fire escape.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: On a computer keyboard, Escape (Esc) is a key that cancels.↗ Example: We practised our fire escape plan at home.↗ · The hamster escaped from its cage.↗ · The prisoners tried to escape over the wall.↗ · We had a narrow escape when the branch fell just behind us.↗ · Gas can escape from a leaking pipe; if you smell it, tell an adult.↗ · We went to the beach to escape the heat.↗ · Use the fire escape if the stairs are full of smoke.↗ · Press Escape to close the window on the screen.↗ · This time there was no escape.↗ · Thou shalt not deliver unto his master a bondman that is escaped from his master unto thee; (Torah DEU.23.15, JPS 1917)↗ · And he said: 'If Esau come to the one camp, and smite it, then the camp which is left shall escape.'↗ (Torah GEN.32.8, JPS 1917)↗ · Hasten thou, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither.' — Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. — (Torah GEN.19.22, JPS 1917)↗ · Ho, Zion, escape, thou that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.'↗ (Prophets ZEC.2.11, JPS 1917)↗ · Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst I withal escape.↗ (Writings PSA.141.10, JPS 1917)↗ · And Ehud escaped while they lingered, having passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirah.↗ (Prophets JDG.3.26, JPS 1917)↗

escargot — Everyday, meaning 1: (French food) A snail cooked to be eaten, usually with garlic butter, a famous dish in France.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (French) In French, «escargot» is simply the everyday word for «snail»; it sounds like «ess-car-GO» with a silent t.↗ Example: Have you ever tried escargots?↗ · The restaurant served escargots in garlic butter.↗ · In French class we learned that «escargot» means snail.↗ · My brother said escargots tasted like chewy mushrooms.↗ · Escargots are eaten with special tongs and a little fork.↗ · «Un escargot» is a garden snail in French.↗

escort — Everyday, meaning 1: To escort someone is to go with them to protect them, guide them or keep them under guard.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An escort is a person, group or vehicle that goes with someone for protection or as an honour.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (old-fashioned) A person who goes with another to a party or dance as a partner.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (adult, euphemism) Someone paid to go out with another person; children usually do not need this sense.↗ Example: A police car escorted the ambulance through traffic.↗ · The teacher escorted the children to the bus.↗ · The queen arrived with an escort of soldiers on horses.↗ · The prisoner was taken to court under escort.↗ · Dad will escort you home after the party.↗ · Two ships escorted the big tanker into the harbour.↗ · Off sailed the yacht with the princess and her escort.↗

esophagus — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The tube that carries food from the throat to the stomach; the gullet.↗ Example: The twelve organs of the human body are: two hands, two feet, two kidneys, gall, small intestines, liver, gullet [39] or esophagus, stomach and milt.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

esoteric — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Understood by only a few people who have special knowledge, and kept secret.↗ Example: It has been the subject of deep study, not only to the mystic, who regarded it as the source ot esoteric lore, but also to the philosopher and the Talmudist.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

especial — Everyday, meaning 1: Special or particular; more than usual, and meant for one person or thing.↗ Example: The dog was of especial value to the hunter.↗ · I have a especial liking for this tale.↗ · She took especial care with the old book.↗

especially — Everyday, meaning 1: Especially means more than usual, or more than others; particularly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Especially means for one special purpose or person, as in made especially for you.↗ Example: I love animals, especially dogs.↗ · It's cold, especially at night.↗ · Wash your hands, especially before you eat.↗ · This cake is especially for you.↗ · Be careful on the stairs, especially when they're wet.↗ · She is especially good at drawing horses.↗ · Bees are especially busy in summer.↗ · They give themselves great airs, especially the ibis.↗ · Constellations; especially the twelve signs of the Zodiac.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · This chapter is especially concerned with the essence of the Triad, as represented by the Three Mothers, Aleph, Mem, and Shin.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · The Mishnah treating of permutation was well explained by all commentators, especially by S. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

esperanto — Everyday, meaning 1: Esperanto is a language invented more than a hundred years ago by L. L. Zamenhof, a doctor from Poland, so that people from different countries could talk easily in one simple shared language.↗ Example: Esperanto was invented to help people from different countries understand each other.↗ · In Esperanto, «saluton» means hello.↗ · My uncle learned Esperanto and wrote to friends in Japan.↗ · Every noun in Esperanto ends in -o.↗ · Esperanto is easier to learn than many natural languages.↗ · There are Esperanto meetings in many big cities.↗ · The inventor of Esperanto hoped it would bring peace.↗

espousal — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Betrothal, the promise to marry, or a wedding.↗ Example: Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and gaze upon king Solomon, even upon the crown wherewith his mother hath crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.↗ (Writings SNG.3.11, JPS 1917)↗

espouse — Everyday, meaning 1: To take up a cause and support it warmly, often as your own.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old use) To marry someone.↗ Example: She warmly espoused the cause of the poor.↗ · The knight espoused the cause of the village.↗ · In the old tale, the prince espoused the princess.↗ · And if he espouse her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.↗ (Torah EXO.21.9, JPS 1917)↗ · If she please not her master, who hath espoused her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed; to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.↗ (Torah EXO.21.8, JPS 1917)↗ · For as a young man espouseth a virgin, so shall thy sons espouse thee; and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.↗ (Prophets ISA.62.5, JPS 1917)↗

espresso — Everyday, meaning 1: Espresso is a strong, dark coffee made by forcing very hot water through finely ground coffee beans.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An espresso is one small cup of this coffee.↗ Example: Dad orders an espresso after lunch.↗ · The café has a shiny new espresso machine.↗ · A cappuccino is espresso with frothy milk.↗ · An espresso comes in a very small cup.↗ · Espresso has a lot of caffeine, so it's not for kids.↗ · Mum asked for a double espresso to wake up.↗

esq — Everyday, meaning 1: Short for «Esquire»: a polite title written after a man's name, mostly in letters, in old-fashioned British style: «John Smith, Esq.».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (USA) Used after the name of a lawyer (man or woman).↗ Example: The letter was addressed to «Mr Toad, Esq.» – which is wrong, because you don't use both!↗ · Write «James Brown, Esq.» on an old-style letter.↗ · In the USA, «Esq.» after a name often means the person is a lawyer.↗ · An esquire once carried a knight's shield.↗ · The invitation said «Henry Wood, Esq.»↗ · Old envelopes often show «Esq.» after a man's name.↗

esquire — Everyday, meaning 1: A polite title written after a man's name in old letters and on envelopes, shortened to «Esq.».↗ e.g. John Smith, Esq.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In history, a young man of good family who served a knight and carried his shield; a squire.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (USA) A title used after the names of lawyers.↗ Example: The letter was addressed to «Thomas Brown, Esq.»↗ · In the Middle Ages, an esquire carried the knight's shield.↗ · The young esquire hoped to become a knight one day.↗ · Old letters often wrote «Esq.» after a gentleman's name.↗ · In the USA some lawyers write «Esq.» after their names.↗ · The esquire helped his knight put on his armour.↗

essay — Everyday, meaning 1: An essay is a short piece of writing on one subject, written by a pupil or a writer.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal, rare) An essay is an attempt or try: «his first essay into painting».↗ Example: Write an essay about your summer holiday.↗ · My history essay is due on Friday.↗ · The essay has three paragraphs.↗ · Each essay must be at least 300 words; you have 180 — how many more?↗ · She got top marks for her essay.↗ · The exam has one essay question.↗ · Having made their essay they grew careless.↗ · Some maintain that this essay is mentioned in the Talmud treatise Sanhedrin, p. 66 b. and ibid.↗ 67 b. which passage is according to the commentary of Rashi, to treatise Erubin, p. 63 a., a reliable historical notice.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · Nelme'''), in his essay on the origin of kttors, shows that all (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · "An Essay towards an Inveatigatidn of the Origin and Elements of Language and Letters" by L. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · And David girded his sword upon his apparel, and he essayed to go, but could not; for he had not tried it.↗ (Prophets 1SA.17.39, JPS 1917)↗

essence — Everyday, meaning 1: The most important part or real nature of a thing, which makes it what it is.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A strong, concentrated liquid made from a plant, used to flavour food, such as vanilla essence.↗ Example: The essence of the story is that kindness wins.↗ · Add a few drops of vanilla essence to the cake.↗ · Tell me the essence of the plot in one sentence.↗ · Magnificence, which emanate from its own proper essence.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · On another, it refers to something less tangible, approaching the kind of phantom essence implied by the English term ‘soul’.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · He bound the essences of the twenty-two letters on his tongue, and God disclosed to him the secrets of them.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗

essential — Everyday, meaning 1: Something essential is completely necessary; you cannot manage without it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Essential means the most basic and important part of something.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Essentials are the things you really need, like food, water and warm clothes.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (science) Essential oils are strong-smelling oils taken from plants.↗ Example: Water is essential for all living things.↗ · It is essential to wear a helmet when you cycle.↗ · Pack only the essentials: a coat, a drink and your lunch.↗ · Sleep is essential for good health.↗ · The essential part of the story is the friendship between the two girls.↗ · Underline the essential information in the maths problem.↗ · Lavender essential oil smells lovely.↗ · But she was full of mystery about her art, in which a certain pair of magic spectacles did her essential service.↗ · Attention must be called to the essential peculiarity of Hebrew doctrines, the inextricable and necessary associa- (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · + Maintain attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · On page 16 we read as follows: "All his (Gods) creation, and every minutest part thereof, participates of two most essential forms : the line 1 the symbol of the altitude, and the circle 0 the symbol of the horizon.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗