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 abate; to withdraw.
To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment
To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something
Of a falcon: to return to the hand after bating; see bate².
To diminish or lessen something
An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.
The return of part of an amount already paid.
The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed.
A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement.
A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet.