Escape vs. Gate — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Escape and Gate
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Definitions
Escape
Break free from confinement or control
Two burglars have just escaped from prison
Gate
A gate or gateway is a point of entry to or from a space enclosed by walls. The word derived from old Norse "gat" meaning road or path; But other terms includ yett and port.
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
Gate
A structure that can be swung, drawn, or lowered to block an entrance or a passageway.
Escape
Interrupt (an operation) by means of the escape key.
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Gate
An opening in a wall or fence for entrance or exit.
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
Gate
The structure surrounding such an opening, such as the monumental or fortified entrance to a palace or walled city.
Escape
A form of temporary distraction from reality or routine
Romantic novels should present an escape from the dreary realities of life
Gate
A doorway or walkway in a terminal, as at an airport, through which passengers proceed when embarking or disembarking.
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Escape
A leakage of gas, liquid, or heat from a container
A lid prevents the escape of poisonous gases
A gas escape
Gate
A waiting area inside a terminal, abutting such a doorway or walkway.
Escape
A key on a computer keyboard which either interrupts the current operation or causes subsequent characters to be interpreted differently.
Gate
A means of access
The gate to riches.
Escape
To break loose from confinement; get free
Escape from jail.
Gate
A mountain pass.
Escape
To issue from confinement or enclosure; leak or seep out
Gas was escaping from the vent.
Gate
The total paid attendance or admission receipts at a public event
A good gate at the football game.
Escape
To avoid a serious or unwanted outcome
Escaped from the accident with their lives.
Gate
A device for controlling the passage of water or gas through a dam or conduit.
Escape
(Biology) To become established in the wild. Used of a plant or animal.
Gate
The channel through which molten metal flows into a shaped cavity of a mold.
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.
Gate
(Sports) A passage between two upright poles through which a skier must go in a slalom race.
Escape
To succeed in avoiding
The thief escaped punishment.
Gate
A logic gate.
Escape
To break loose from; get free of
The spacecraft escaped Earth's gravitational field.
Gate
A path or way.
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.
Gate
A particular way of acting or doing; manner.
Escape
To issue involuntarily from
A sigh escaped my lips.
Gate
Chiefly British To confine (a student) to the grounds of a college as punishment.
Escape
The act or an instance of escaping.
Gate
(Electronics) To select part of (a wave) for transmission, reception, or processing by magnitude or time interval.
Escape
A means of escaping.
Gate
To furnish with a gate
"The entrance to the rear lawn was also gated" (Dean Koontz).
Escape
A means of obtaining temporary freedom from worry, care, or unpleasantness
Television is my escape from worry.
Gate
A doorlike structure outside a house.
Escape
A gradual effusion from an enclosure; a leakage.
Gate
Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
Escape
(Biology) A cultivated plant or a domesticated or confined animal that has become established in the wild.
Gate
Movable barrier.
The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.
Escape
(Computers) A key used especially to interrupt a command, exit a program, or change levels within a program.
Gate
Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
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.
Gate
A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
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.
Gate
The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
Escape
(intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
Luckily, I escaped with only a fine.
Gate
(computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
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.
Gate
(electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
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.
Gate
In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
Escape
(computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
Gate
(metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
Escape
The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel.
Gate
The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
Escape
Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
Gate
(cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
Singh was bowled through the gate, a very disappointing way for a world-class batsman to get out.
Escape
Something that has escaped; an escapee.
Gate
(cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
Escape
A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.
Gate
(flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
Escape
(computing) escape key
Gate
A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
Escape
(programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream.
Gate
A way, path.
Escape
(snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.
Gate
(obsolete) A journey.
Escape
(manufacturing) A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
Gate
A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street e.g. "Briggate" (a common street name in the north of England meaning "Bridge Street") or Kirkgate meaning "Church Street".
Escape
(obsolete) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.
Gate
Manner; gait.
Escape
(obsolete) A sally.
Gate
(transitive) To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
Escape
(architecture) An apophyge.
Gate
(transitive) To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.
Escape
To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.
Gate
To open a closed ion channel.
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.
Gate
(transitive) To furnish with a gate.
Escape
To flee, and become secure from danger; - often followed by from or out of.
Haste, for thy life escape, nor look behind
Gate
(transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
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.
Gate
A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed.
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.
Gate
An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance or of exit.
Knowest thou the way to Dover?Both stile and gate, horse way and footpath.
Opening a gate for a long war.
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.
Gate
A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.
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.
Gate
The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.
The gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Escape
A sally.
Gate
In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
Escape
The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody.
Gate
The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate.
Escape
A plant which has escaped from cultivation.
Gate
A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate).
I was going to be an honest man; but the devil has this very day flung first a lawyer, and then a woman, in my gate.
Escape
An apophyge.
Gate
Manner; gait.
Escape
Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid.
Gate
To supply with a gate.
Escape
Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation.
Gate
To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.
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
Gate
A door-like movable barrier in a fence or wall
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
Gate
A computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs
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
Gate
Total admission receipts at a sports event
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
Gate
Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark
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
Gate
Supply with a gate;
The house was gated
Escape
An avoidance of danger or difficulty;
That was a narrow escape
Gate
Control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate
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
Gate
Restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment
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
