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 allow to escape through a vent.
To allow gases to escape.
To determine the sex of (a chick) by opening up the anal vent or cloaca.
To ventilate; to use a ventilator; to use ventilation.
To express a strong emotion.
To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
To sell; to vend.
An opening in a volcano from which lava or gas flows.
Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
A small aperture.
The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge.
Ventriloquism.
A slit in the seam of a garment.
Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates.
A rant; a long session of expressing verbal frustration.
In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.