Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To remove by striking out or canceling: deleted some unnecessary words in the first draft. See Synonyms at erase.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To blot out; expunge; erase.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit.
WordNet 3.0
- v. cut or eliminate
- v. remove or make invisible
- v. wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information
Etymologies
- Latin dēlēre, dēlēt-, to wipe out.
Examples
“Note that you create a window using the new_ function and delete it using the delete_ function”
“Where to start … I mean, Alan Greenspan is a socialistic, Keynesian Loving, politician pleasing, power and greed driven ** explicit delete, explicit delete**, piece of ** explicit delete**.”
“After we figure all that out, it's just a matter of compiling our delete statement and running the query. public function delete ($table, $where = null) if ($this - > tableExists ($table)) {if ($where = = null) {$delete = 'DELETE'. $table;} else {$delete =”
“Meanwhile, the part I didn't delete is up to 2000 words.”
“Nich, I take your point about not being able to delete from the iPod.”
Going against my better judgment and being proved right and wrong at the same time
“It keeps 90 days worth of backup data on a different server, so anything that I delete is really still available for 90 days.”
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“PPS: Apparently mass-delete is new with iPhone 2.0.”
“Pressing delete is so satisfying. on June 4, 2008 at 2: 46 pm | Reply Spitting Feathers”
“So we met at 6pm in the Bay Horse (6. 50pm if your name was Simon), which is another bar we can safely delete from the “future visits” list: the beer garden is literally on the main road and the traffic is HEAVY.”
“In one case, in July 2003, the commissioner demanded that South Yorkshire police delete from a woman's record a juvenile conviction for actual bodily harm dating from 1979 ...”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘delete’.
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The Universal Calculator
Obviates the need for other devices or calculations--it will have a button for everything, and it will solve everything.
qwerty keyboard, shift key, control, home, end, pause, log, sin, space, enter, plus, numb and 237 more...
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Verbs
edit, delete, get, take, abide, be, catch, wash, watch, fly, eat, sleep and 33 more...
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Wordie Paradox
random, add, mentions, widget_options, test, recent, ¨, biff!, ΒΑ�?Α�?Α, Synonym, cloud, %c3%a5 and 25 more...
vanishedone The Wordie Paradox strikes again: fittingly, delete is 404'd. Jun 1, 2009