different between backslash vs diagonal

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 Middle French diagonal, from Latin diag?n?lis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diag?nios, “from angle to angle”), from ??? (diá, “across”) + ????? (g?nía, “angle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da??æ??n?l/, /da??æ?n?l/

Adjective

diagonal (not comparable)

1. (geometry) Joining two nonadjacent vertices (of a polygon or polyhedron).
2. Having slanted or oblique lines or markings.
3. Having a slanted or oblique direction.
4. Of or related to the cater-corner (diagonally opposite) legs of a quadruped, whether the front left and back right or front right and back left.

Synonyms

• (having a slanted or oblique direction): aslant, aslope, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping

Derived terms

• diagonally
• diagonalization
• diagonal argument

Translations

Noun

diagonal (plural diagonals)

1. (geometry) A line joining non-adjacent vertices of a polygon.
2. Anything forming or resembling such a line, particularly:
   1. (geometry) A line or plane at an oblique angle to another.
   2. (fashion) A line or cut across a fabric at an oblique angle to its sides.
   3. (typography, uncommon) Synonym of slash ?/?.
      • 1965, Dmitri A. Borgmann, Language on Vacation, page 240:

        Initial inquiries among professional typists uncover names like slant, slant line, slash, and slash mark. Examination of typing instruction manuals discloses additional names such as diagonal and diagonal mark, and other sources provide the designation oblique.

Synonyms

• (oblique line or cut across a fabric): bias
• (oblique punctuation mark): See slash

Antonyms

• (oblique punctuation mark): See backslash

Derived terms

• diagonal mark

Translations

Anagrams

• ganoidal, gonadial

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin diag?n?lis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diag?nios, “from angle to angle”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /di.?.?o?nal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /di.?.?u?nal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /di.a.?o?nal/

Adjective

diagonal (masculine and feminine plural diagonals)

1. diagonal

Derived terms

• diagonalment

Noun

diagonal f (plural diagonals)

1. diagonal

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dia?ona?l/, [d?ia??o?næ??l]

Adjective

diagonal

1. diagonal

Inflection

Noun

diagonal c (singular definite diagonalen, plural indefinite diagonaler)

1. diagonal

Declension

References

• “diagonal” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From Latin diag?n?lis.

Adjective

diagonal (feminine singular diagonale, masculine plural diagonaux, feminine plural diagonales)

1. diagonal, transverse, oblique

Derived terms

• diagonalement

Further reading

• “diagonal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Etymology

From Latin diag?n?lis.

Adjective

diagonal m or f (plural diagonais)

1. diagonal

Derived terms

• diagonalmente

Further reading

• “diagonal” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

German

Etymology

From Latin diag?n?lis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diag?nios, “from angle to angle”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

diagonal (not comparable)

1. diagonal

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin diag?n?lis.

Adjective

diagonal m or f (plural diagonais, comparable)

1. (geometry) diagonal (joining two nonadjacent vertices)
2. diagonal (having a slanted or oblique direction)

Derived terms

• diagonalmente

Noun

diagonal f (plural diagonais)

1. diagonal (something arranged diagonally or obliquely)
2. (geometry) diagonal (diagonal line or plane)

Further reading

• “diagonal” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

From French diagonal

Adjective

diagonal m or n (feminine singular diagonal?, masculine plural diagonali, feminine and neuter plural diagonale)

1. diagonal

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin diag?n?lis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diag?nios, “from angle to angle”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

diagonal (plural diagonales)

1. diagonal

Derived terms

• diagonalmente
• matriz diagonal

Noun

diagonal f (plural diagonales)

1. diagonal

Derived terms

• diagonal principal

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin diag?n?lis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diag?nios, “from angle to angle”).

Adjective

diagonal (not comparable)

1. diagonal

Declension

Derived terms

• diagonalt

Noun

diagonal c

1. diagonal

Declension

Derived terms

• diagonala