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Escape vs. Lam — What's the Difference?

Escape vs. Lam — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Escape and Lam

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Escape

Break free from confinement or control
Two burglars have just escaped from prison

Lam

To give a thorough beating to; thrash.

Escape

Fail to be noticed or remembered by (someone)
It may have escaped your notice, but this is not a hotel
The name escaped him

Lam

To strike; wallop.

Escape

Interrupt (an operation) by means of the escape key.
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Lam

To escape, as from prison.

Escape

An act of breaking free from confinement or control
He could think of no way of escape, short of rudeness
The gang had made their escape

Lam

Flight, especially from the law
Escaped convicts on the lam.

Escape

A form of temporary distraction from reality or routine
Romantic novels should present an escape from the dreary realities of life

Lam

To beat or thrash.

Escape

A leakage of gas, liquid, or heat from a container
A lid prevents the escape of poisonous gases
A gas escape

Lam

To flee or run away.

Escape

A key on a computer keyboard which either interrupts the current operation or causes subsequent characters to be interpreted differently.

Lam

(slang) flight, escape
On the lam

Escape

To break loose from confinement; get free
Escape from jail.

Lam

The twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet, ل. It is preceded by ك and followed by م.

Escape

To issue from confinement or enclosure; leak or seep out
Gas was escaping from the vent.

Lam

To beat soundly; to thrash.

Escape

To avoid a serious or unwanted outcome
Escaped from the accident with their lives.

Lam

A rapid escape (as by criminals);
The thieves made a clean getaway
After the expose he had to take it on the lam

Escape

(Biology) To become established in the wild. Used of a plant or animal.

Lam

Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run;
If you see this man, run!
The burglars escaped before the police showed up

Escape

(Computers) To interrupt a command, exit a program, or change levels within a program by using a key, combination of keys, or key sequence.

Lam

Give a thrashing to; beat hard

Escape

To succeed in avoiding
The thief escaped punishment.

Escape

To break loose from; get free of
The spacecraft escaped Earth's gravitational field.

Escape

To be outside the memory or understanding of; fail to be remembered or understood by
Her name escapes me. The book's significance escaped him.

Escape

To issue involuntarily from
A sigh escaped my lips.

Escape

The act or an instance of escaping.

Escape

A means of escaping.

Escape

A means of obtaining temporary freedom from worry, care, or unpleasantness
Television is my escape from worry.

Escape

A gradual effusion from an enclosure; a leakage.

Escape

(Biology) A cultivated plant or a domesticated or confined animal that has become established in the wild.

Escape

(Computers) A key used especially to interrupt a command, exit a program, or change levels within a program.

Escape

(intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.
The prisoners escaped by jumping over a wall.
The factory was evacuated after toxic gases escaped from a pipe.

Escape

(transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
He only got a fine and so escaped going to jail.
The children climbed out of the window to escape the fire.

Escape

(intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
Luckily, I escaped with only a fine.

Escape

(transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
The name of the hotel escapes me at present.

Escape

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.
When using the "bash" shell, you can escape the ampersand character with a backslash.
Brion escaped the double quote character on Windows by adding a second double quote within the literal.

Escape

(computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.

Escape

The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel.

Escape

Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.

Escape

Something that has escaped; an escapee.

Escape

A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.

Escape

(computing) escape key

Escape

(programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream.

Escape

(snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.

Escape

(manufacturing) A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.

Escape

(obsolete) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.

Escape

(obsolete) A sally.

Escape

(architecture) An apophyge.

Escape

To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.

Escape

To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention.
They escaped the search of the enemy.

Escape

To flee, and become secure from danger; - often followed by from or out of.
Haste, for thy life escape, nor look behind

Escape

To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm.
Such heretics . . . would have been thought fortunate, if they escaped with life.

Escape

To get free from that which confines or holds; - used of persons or things; as, to escape from prison, from arrest, or from slavery; gas escapes from the pipes; electricity escapes from its conductors.
To escape out of these meshes.

Escape

The act of fleeing from danger, of evading harm, or of avoiding notice; deliverance from injury or any evil; flight; as, an escape in battle; a narrow escape; also, the means of escape; as, a fire escape.
I would hasten my escape from the windy storm.

Escape

That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake; an oversight; also, transgression.
I should have been more accurate, and corrected all those former escapes.

Escape

A sally.

Escape

The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody.

Escape

A plant which has escaped from cultivation.

Escape

An apophyge.

Escape

Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid.

Escape

Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation.

Escape

The act of escaping physically;
He made his escape from the mental hospital
The canary escaped from its cage
His flight was an indication of his guilt

Escape

An inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy;
Romantic novels were her escape from the stress of daily life
His alcohol problem was a form of escapism

Escape

The unwanted discharge of a fluid from some container;
They tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe
He had to clean up the leak

Escape

A valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level

Escape

Nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do;
His evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible
That escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive

Escape

An avoidance of danger or difficulty;
That was a narrow escape

Escape

A means or way of escaping;
Hard work was his escape from worry
They installed a second hatch as an escape
Their escape route

Escape

A plant originally cultivated but now growing wild

Escape

Run away from confinement;
The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison

Escape

Fail to experience;
Fortunately, I missed the hurricane

Escape

Escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action;
She gets away with murder!
I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities

Escape

Be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by;
What you are seeing in him eludes me

Escape

Issue or leak, as from a small opening;
Gas escaped into the bedroom

Escape

Remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion;
We escaped to our summer house for a few days
The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer

Escape

Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run;
If you see this man, run!
The burglars escaped before the police showed up

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