scape — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root, bulb, or subterranean structure.

2. The basal segment of an insect's antenna (i.e. the part closest to the body).

3. The basal part, more specifically known as the oviscape, of the ovipositor of an insect.

4. The shaft of a column.

5. The apophyge of a shaft.

Verb

1. To escape (someone or something).

   Gebrauch

   • archaisch
   • transitiv

   Beispiele

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   No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace / As I have seen in one autumnal face. / Young beauties force our love, and that's a rape, / This doth but counsel, yet you cannot scape.

   He (to beguile the ſimple) makes no bone / To ſvvear by God (for he beleeues ther's none); / His Svvord's his Title; and vvho ſcapes the ſame, / Shall haue a Piſtol, or a Poyſonie dram: […]

   Hee will provide you keyes, and locks, to spie, / And scape spies, to good ends

Substantiv

1. Escape.

   Gebrauch

   • archaisch

   Beispiele

   I spake of most disastrous chances, […] Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach.

2. A means of escape; evasion.

   Gebrauch

   • außer Gebrauch

3. A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.

   Gebrauch

   • außer Gebrauch

   Beispiele

   Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance.

4. A loose act of vice or lewdness.

   Gebrauch

   • außer Gebrauch

   Beispiele

   though I am not bookish, yyet I can read waiting-gentlewoman in the 'scape

Substantiv

1. The cry of the snipe when flushed.

2. The snipe itself.

Substantiv

1. erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip

   Synonyme

   flower stalk

   Oberbegriffe

   stalkstem

2. (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column

   Synonyme

   shaft

   Oberbegriffe

   uprightvertical