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 create streaks.
To have or obtain streaks.
To run naked in public. (Contrast flash)
To move very swiftly.
To run quickly.
The color of the powder of a mineral. So called, because a simple field test for a mineral is to streak it against unglazed white porcelain.
The act of streaking, or running naked through a public area.
An irregular line left from smearing or motion.
A strake.
A continuous series of like events.
A moth of the family Geometridae, Chesias legatella.
A tendency or characteristic, but not a dominant or pervasive one.
A rung or round of a ladder.