escape

«escape» in Mova's school dictionary: to get away from a place where you are kept, or from danger — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (escape, escapes, escaped, escaping); noun (an escape, escapes)

meaning for a pupil

1) To escape means to get away from a place where you are kept, or from danger. tree →

2) To escape something means to avoid it: escape the rain. tree →

3) Gas, water or air escapes when it leaks out. tree →

4) An escape is the act of getting away, or a way out: a fire escape. tree →

5) On a computer keyboard, Escape (Esc) is a key that cancels. tree →

sense in the lessons

In fire safety lessons families plan an escape route: know two ways out, crawl low under smoke, get out, stay out and call for help; a fire escape is a special staircase or exit. In stories an escape is an exciting moment (escape from the castle). In science gases escape from containers if they are not sealed. Phrases: escape route, fire escape, a narrow escape, escape from, escape the heat, no escape.

examples

• We practised our fire escape plan at home. tree →
• The hamster escaped from its cage. tree →
• The prisoners tried to escape over the wall. tree →
• We had a narrow escape when the branch fell just behind us. tree →
• Gas can escape from a leaking pipe; if you smell it, tell an adult. tree →
• We went to the beach to escape the heat. tree →
• Use the fire escape if the stairs are full of smoke. tree →
• Press Escape to close the window on the screen. tree →
• This time there was no escape. tree →

note

Regular verb: escaped (drop the «e» for escaping). «Escape from a place», «escape (from) danger». Not «excape». In a fire, escaping comes first: never go back inside for toys or pets.

In the corpora

• Caimans and crocodiles bask with their mouths open to let heat escape and cool down; it is not a threat or a yawn.
• Duikers are small forest antelopes whose name means diver in Afrikaans, because they plunge into thick bushes to escape.
• In summer the tundra has huge swarms of mosquitoes, so thick that caribou run to windy hills or snow patches to escape them.
• Raccoons were brought to Europe and some escaped; now they live wild in Germany and are spreading to nearby countries.
• Real cats are a big danger to small birds; Tweety always escapes, but real birds often do not.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «escape» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.