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 strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.
To look briefly (at something).
To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
A type of interaction between parent fish and offspring in which juveniles swim toward and rapidly touch the sides of the parent, in most cases feeding on parental mucus. Relatively few species glance, mainly some Cichlidae.
To sparkle.
To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; often with at.
To hit lightly with the head, make a deft header.
To graze at a surface.
An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
Any of various sulphides, mostly dark-coloured, which have a brilliant metallic lustre.
A brief or cursory look.
A stroke in which the ball is deflected to one side.
A deflection.
Glance coal.
A sudden flash of light or splendour.