To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence.
The punctuation mark \.
Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash, that is, the punctuation mark /.
|passage= […] I was trying to find a web-site for which I had been given the following address: http://www.isop.ucla.edu/pacrim/pubs/korjournal.htm. […] I began to work backwards, removing first the last part of the address following the last backslash (/korjournal.htm).}}
To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
To grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
To hit the ball with the shot called a fade.
To bet against.
To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
To cause to fade.
A haircut where the hair is short or shaved on the sides of the head and longer on top. See also high-top fade and low fade.
The act of disappearing from a place so as not to be found; covert departure.
A golf shot that curves intentionally to the player's right (if they are right-handed) or to the left (if left-handed).
A fight.
A gradual decrease in the brightness of a shot or the volume of sound or music (as a means of cutting to a new scene or starting a new song).