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 conceal.
To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
To hang outwards.
Followed by against, on, or upon: to rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.
To press against.
To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.
To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc.
Having little fat.
Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
Slim; not fleshy.
Efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean manufacturing".
An inclination away from the vertical.
An organism that is lean in stature.
Meat with no fat on it.
A recreational drug based on codeine-laced promethazine cough syrup, especially popular in the hip hop community in the southeastern United States.