different between backslash vs backsplash

English

Etymology

back +? slash, because it is a slash going back against the direction of writing, in contrast to the common slash / (“slash, solidus, oblique, forward slash”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?bæk?slæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

backslash (plural backslashes)

1. The punctuation mark \.
2. (computing, rare, proscribed) Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash, that is, the punctuation mark /.
   • 2001, James T. Bretzke, Bibliography on East Asian Religion and Philosophy, Edwin Mellen Press, ?ISBN, page 455:

     […] 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).

   • 2010, Lee Vance, The Garden of Betrayal, Random House (2011), ?ISBN, page 25:

     “So, do what I tell you. Open a browser window and type this in the menu^[sic] bar: F-T-P colon backslash backslash euronews dot net backslash...”

     I pecked carefully at the keyboard as he dictated a URL that was about fifty characters long, […]

   • 2010, Frank Barnas and Ted White, Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing, Fifth Edition, Elsevier, ?ISBN, page 114:

     Also, avoid submenus^[sic] that can confuse the audience—if you're giving lengthy Web site addresses full of backslashes, shorten it so only the Web site's home page is given.

Usage notes

• Sometimes used to indicate the beginning and ending of an area of words being marked for correction.

Synonyms

• reverse solidus
• slosh
• whack

Antonyms

• slash

Coordinate terms

• slash

Translations

Verb

backslash (third-person singular simple present backslashes, present participle backslashing, simple past and past participle backslashed)

1. (computing, transitive) To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence.

See also

• backslash on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Typography

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English backslash.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?ksl??/
• Hyphenation: back?slash

Noun

backslash m (plural backslashes or backslashen, diminutive backslashje n)

1. backslash

Synonyms

• omgekeerde schuine streep
• schuine streep naar achter
• schuine streep naar links
• terugschrap
• terugstreep

English

Etymology

From back +? splash

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

backsplash (countable and uncountable, plural backsplashes)

1. A vertical covering on a wall rising above a countertop or other work surface to protect the wall from spills and to decorate the wall.
2. (rowing) The small splash of water that occurs when an oar enters the water to begin a stroke just before the rower reaches the catch.

Translations

Verb

backsplash (third-person singular simple present backsplashes, present participle backsplashing, simple past and past participle backsplashed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To splash backward.
   • 1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger

     He succeeded in cutting the pad of his right palm quite badly on the blade of a paring knife before seizing two of the C-cells, but he felt this no more than he felt the burns he had sustained when he had been backsplashed.

   • 2004, Yin Sun, Detection Technologies for Chemical Warfare Agents and Toxic Vapors (page 92)

     More importantly, the use of the delta tube prevents dangerous backsplashing of the agent that can occur when an impinging sparger is used improperly.

Anagrams

• splashback