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 smash or enter something with great force.
To destroy or reduce abstract unity or coherence, such as social, political or emotional.
To injure as if by pulling apart.
To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence.
To produce tears.
To make (an opening) with force or energy.
To become torn, especially accidentally.
To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.
To remove by tearing.
To demolish
A rampage.
A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.
A hole or break caused by tearing.
A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.