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
- n. alternative spelling of Delete.
- v. To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer.
- v. computing To hide, conceal
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
- From Latin deletus, past participle of delere ("destroy, blot out, efface"), from delevi, originally perf. tense of delinere ("to daub, erase by smudging"), from de- ("from, away") + linere ("to smear, wipe"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin dēlēre, dēlēt-, to wipe out. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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 241 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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SCIE - publications
The vocabulary of scientific paper submission
enclose, resource, meaningful, margin, embedded, publisher, mentor, clip, spelling, appendix, gloss, refer and 188 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...
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Serendipity's Words
defenestration, mercurial, syzygy, wicked, iniquitous, metastable, demimonde, entropic, ephemeral, irreligious, frisbee, manifold and 474 more...
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Junk
walrus, fascination, broadway, fickle, downturn, bridge, gargle, rotunda, mesh, fab, shortlife, strumming and 304 more...
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Insurance Data-Related words
claimant, delete, register, invoice, spreadsheet, alert, electronic, cartridge, password, dashboard, certificate, presentation and 90 more...
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savage215's Words
pipe, yankee, knickerbocker, tennis, plasma, magma, volcano, car, truck, television, tv, word and 445 more...
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SAT PSAT ALPHABETICAL D
dais, dalliance, dank, daunt, daunting, dawdled, dearth, debacle, debase, debauchery, debilitate, debonair and 141 more...
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Sat Vocabulary List
abandon, abash, abate, abjure, ablution, abnegate, abominable, aboriginal, abortive, abrade, abridge, abrogate and 2155 more...
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soul mate
soul mate, soul mates, soul, portishead, wounded, death, depression, hurt, the cure, pain, longing, rat and 424 more...
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ash
ash
abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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Extinguishish
A list of managed departures.
jettison, demolition, clearance, chucking, disposal, defenestration, remove, exile, excommunicate, eradicate, banish, deport and 114 more...
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miscellany
preposterous, minimalism, outnumbered, subroutine, malinger, oddity, eccentricity, laughable, oxymoronic, interstellar, winter, heedless and 335 more...
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all words I know
hello, goodbye, up, down, sweet, kind, yahoo, interesting, sardonic, dumb, greeting, silly and 29 more...
Tweets
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vanishedone The Wordie Paradox strikes again: fittingly, delete is 404'd. Jun 1, 2009