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Escape Hatch

Definition: Escape Hatch

Escape Hatch

Noun

1. Hatchway that provides a means of escape in an emergency.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Crosswords: Escape Hatch

English words defined with "escape hatch": escape. (references)

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Photo Album: Escape Hatch

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Photograph of Nazi submariner foot trying to get out of submarine escape hatch Office of Strategic Services project to find sunken vessels with new technology Ray Tryon and John O. Phillips worked off USCGC GENTIAN in 1944 Example of early surface controlled ocean bottom photography.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Crewman A.L. Rosenkotter of USS V-5 (SC-1) demonstrates the use of the submarine's after escape hatch and the emergency escape "lung", during V-5's trials, July 1930. In 1931, V-5 was renamed and redesignated, becoming USS Narwhal (SS-167).Credit: NAVY.

At the Portsmouth Navy Yard, New Hampshire, 21 November 1929, showing changes in superstructure, including marker bouy, escape hatch and lifting eyes. S-22's 4"/50 deck gun is trained out on her port quarter, with barrel elevated to clear torpedo loading slide installed between the gun and the escape hatch.Credit: NAVY.

Crewman A.L. Rosenkotter of USS V-5 (SC-1) demonstrates the use of the submarine's after escape hatch and the emergency escape "lung", during V-5's trials, July 1930. In 1931, V-5 was renamed and redesignated, becoming USS Narwhal (SS-167).Credit: NAVY.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Escape Hatch

Language Translations for "escape hatch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Portuguese

  

esquecer (forget, ostracize, unlearn). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

escotilla de salvamento. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

nödutgång i form av lycka. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kaçış yolu (escape), imdat çıkışı. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Escape Hatch

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-e-h-h-p-s-t"

-3 letters: cheapest, cheetahs, seecatch.

-4 letters: accepts, apaches, aphthae, cachets, caseate, catches, chaetae, cheetah, chetahs, escheat, hatches, hepcats, patches, peaches, pectase, saccate, sheathe, teaches.

-5 letters: accept, apache, aphtha, aspect, caches, cachet, chaeta, chapes, chaste, cheaps, cheats, cheeps, chetah, cheths, epacts, ephahs, escape, etapes, etches, heaths, hepcat, pachas, peaces, peseta, sachet, scathe, sheath, spahee, spathe, speech.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-e-e-h-h-p-s-t"
 

+4 letters: cephalothoraces.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Escape Hatch


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 73 63 61 70 65      48 61 74 63 68

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01110011 01100011 01100001 01110000 01100101 00100000 01001000 01100001 01110100 01100011 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#115 &#99 &#97 &#112 &#101 &#32 &#72 &#97 &#116 &#99 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0073 0063 0061 0070 0065      0048 0061 0074 0063 0068

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39856967827124267866974

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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