The punctuation mark \.
Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash, that is, the punctuation mark /.
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To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence.
A spot; a speck.
A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation
A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip.
The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading.
One of the stylised version of the Bath star worn on the shoulder of a uniform to denote rank, e.g. of a soldier or a fireman.
Something or someone excellent, of high quality.
One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.
One of a series of very short, electronically produced tones, used, for example, to count down the final few seconds before a given time or to indicate that a caller using a payphone needs to make further payment to continue the call.
Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.
To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin
To hit with a gunshot
To peep, to chirp
To remove the pips from.
To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg