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 leave the ground and begin flight; to ascend into the air.
To depart.
To absent oneself from (work or other responsibility), especially with permission.
To quantify.
To remove.
To imitate, often in a satirical manner.
To become successful, to flourish.