Escape vs Release - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between escape and release

is that escape is to elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by while release is to lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

As verbs the difference between escape and release

is that escape is to get free, to free oneself while release is to let go (of); to cease to hold or contain.

As nouns the difference between escape and release

is that escape is the act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation while release is the event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms).

escape

English

(wikipedia escape)

Verb

(escap)

To get free, to free oneself.

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To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.

* Shakespeare

sailors that escaped the wreck

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=March 1, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC

, title= 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.}}

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

They escaped the search of the enemy.

(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. , 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.

* {{quote-book, year=2002, author=Scott Worley, chapter=Using XML in ASP.NET Applications

, title= 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.}}

* {{quote-book, year=2007, author=Michael Cross, chapter=Code Auditing and Reverse Engineering

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

Usage notes

* In senses 2. and 3. this is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . See

Derived terms

* escape artist * escape character * escape clause * escapee * escape literature * escapement * escape pod * escape sequence * escape velocity * escapism * escapist * escapologist * escapology * fire escape

Noun

(en noun)

The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.

The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel.

(computing) escape key

(programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).

You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream.

(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

I should have been more accurate, and corrected all those former escapes .

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

(obsolete) A sally.

* Shakespeare

thousand escapes of wit

(architecture) An apophyge.

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Anagrams

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release

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) relaisser (variant of relascher).

Noun

(en noun)

The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms).

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Charles T. Ambrose

, title= Alzheimer’s Disease , volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.}}

(software) The distribution of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product; the distribution can be both public or private.

Anything recently released or made available (as for sale).

That which is released, untied or let go.

Derived terms

* prerelease * release notes * release from requirement * software release * release process

Verb

(releas)

To let go (of); to cease to hold or contain.

To make available to the public.

To free or liberate; to set free.

To discharge.

(telephone) (of a call) To hang up.

(legal) To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying to another who has some right or estate in possession, as when the person in remainder releases his right to the tenant in possession; to quit.

To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of.

to release an ordinance

(Hooker)

(soccer) To set up; to provide with a goal-scoring opportunity

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 13, author=Sam Lyon, work=BBC

, title= Borussia Dortmund 1-1 Arsenal , passage=With the Gunners far too lightweight in midfield, Mikel Arteta dropped back into a deeper-lying role. This freed Yossi Benayoun to go further forward, a move that helped forge a rare Arsenal chance on 30 minutes when the Israeli released Van Persie, only for the Dutchman's snap-shot to be tipped around the post.}}

Antonyms

* hold

Etymology 2

Verb

(releas)

To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.