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[skeyp] Pronunciation Key
[skeyp] Pronunciation Key –noun
| 1. | Botany. a leafless peduncle rising from the ground. |
| 2. | Zoology. a stemlike part, as the shaft of a feather. |
| 3. | Architecture. the shaft of a column. |
| 4. | Entomology. the stemlike basal segment of the antenna of certain insects. |
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| scape 1
(skāp) Pronunciation Key
n.
[Latin scāpus, stalk, perhaps from Greek skāpos.] |
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| scape 2
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v. & n. Archaic Variant of escape. |
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| scape 3
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n. A scene; a view. Often used in combination: seascape; mindscape. [From landscape.] |
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scape (n.)
scape (n.)
"scenery view," 1773, abstracted from landscape (q.v.); as a new comb. element, first attested use is 1796, in prisonscape.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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scape (v.)
scape (v.)
c.1275, aphetic form of escape; frequent in prose till late 17c.
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| scape | |
noun | |
| 1. | erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip |
| 2. | (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column [syn: shaft] |
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Scape
Scape\, n. [L. scapus shaft, stem, stalk; cf. Gr. ? a staff: cf. F. scape. Cf. Scepter.]1. (Bot.) A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like. 2. (Zo["o]l.) The long basal joint of the antenn[ae] of an insect. 3. (Arch.) (a) The shaft of a column. (b) The apophyge of a shaft.
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Scape
Scape\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Scaped; p. pr. & vb. n. Scaping.] [Aphetic form of escape.] To escape. [Obs. or Poetic.] --Milton. Out of this prison help that we may scape. --Chaucer.
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Scape\, n. 1. An escape. [Obs.] I spake of most disastrous chances, . . . Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach. --Shak. 2. Means of escape; evasion. [Obs.] --Donne. 3. A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade. [Obs.] Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance. --Milton. 4. Loose act of vice or lewdness. [Obs.] --Shak.
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