EVASION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does evasion mean? 

• EVASION (noun)
  The noun EVASION has 4 senses:

1. a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth

2. the deliberate act of failing to pay money

3. nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do

4. the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver

  Familiarity information: EVASION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVASION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

equivocation; evasion

Hypernyms ("evasion" is a kind of...):

deceit; deception; misrepresentation (a misleading falsehood)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "evasion"):

circumlocution; indirect expression (an indirect way of expressing something)

doublespeak (any language that pretends to communicate but actually does not)

hedge; hedging (an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement)

cavil; quibble; quiddity (an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The deliberate act of failing to pay money

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

evasion; nonpayment

Context example:

he was indicted for nonpayment

Hypernyms ("evasion" is a kind of...):

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "evasion"):

tax evasion (the deliberate failure to pay taxes (usually by making a false report))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

dodging; escape; evasion

Context example:

that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive

Hypernyms ("evasion" is a kind of...):

carelessness; neglect; negligence; nonperformance (failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "evasion"):

escape mechanism (a form of behavior that evades unpleasant realities)

malingering; skulking (evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated)

goldbricking; goofing off; shirking; slacking; soldiering (the evasion of work or duty)

circumvention (the act of evading by going around)

Derivation:

evade (avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues))

Sense 4

Meaning:

The act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("evasion" is a kind of...):

escape; flight (the act of escaping physically)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "evasion"):

eluding; elusion; slip (the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning))

evasive action; maneuver; manoeuvre (an action aimed at evading an opponent)

dodge (a quick evasive movement)

Derivation:

evade (escape, either physically or mentally)

 Context examples 

PD-L1 binding to PD-1 on T-cells suppresses the immune system and results in increased immune evasion.

(Anti-PD-L1 Monoclonal Antibody MPDL3280A, NCI Thesaurus)

PD-1, a transmembrane protein in the Ig superfamily, negatively regulates T-cell activation and effector function when activated by its ligands, and plays an important role in tumor evasion from host immunity.

(Anti-PD-1 Monoclonal Antibody AMP-514, NCI Thesaurus)

CHKA, overexpressed in human cancer cells while only minimally expressed in normal cells, appears to play a significant role in cellular proliferation, evasion of apoptosis, increased cell motility and metastasis.

(Choline Kinase Alpha Inhibitor TCD-717, NCI Thesaurus)

Gal-1, a multifunctional carbohydrate-binding protein, is often overexpressed on tumor cells and plays a key role in cancer cell proliferation, apoptosis, tumor angiogenesis and evasion of immune responses.

(Galectin-1 Inhibitor OTX008, NCI Thesaurus)

In addition, activation of NO-mediated signaling pathways may inhibit hypoxia-induced tumor cell invasiveness, chemoresistance, evasion of immune cell recognition and cancer cell progression.

(Nitroglycerin Transdermal Patch, NCI Thesaurus)

PD-1, a transmembrane protein of Ig superfamily, negatively regulates T-cell activation and effector function when activated by its ligands, and plays an important role in tumor evasion from host immunity.

(Anti-PD-1 Fusion Protein AMP-224, NCI Thesaurus)

Its overexpression may play an important role in evasion of immune surveillance.

(Anti-CD70 Monoclonal Antibody ARGX-110, NCI Thesaurus)

There was a brutal directness about his methods which made evasion difficult.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There would have been either the ostentation of a coxcomb, or the evasions of a mind too weak to defend its own vanities.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Meg made many moral rules, and tried to keep them, but what mother was ever proof against the winning wiles, the ingenious evasions, or the tranquil audacity of the miniature men and women who so early show themselves accomplished Artful Dodgers?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)