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 break off; to snatch away.
To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.
To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
To circumcise.
A vasectomy.
A small amount of something; a pinch.
The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool.
A piece cut out by snipping.
A white marking on a horse's muzzle, between the nostrils.
A small or weak person, especially a young one.
An act or sound of snipping, the sound produced by scissors.