Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash, that is, the punctuation mark /.
The punctuation mark \.
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To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence.
The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.
A key to tune a stringed instrument.
A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.
To tune with a wrest, or key.
To seize.
To distort, to pervert, to twist.
To obtain by pulling or violent force.
To pull or twist violently.