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delete

verb
/dɪˈliːt/

Etymology

From Latin dēlētus, past participle of dēlēre (“destroy, blot out, efface”), from dēlēvī, originally perf. tense of dēlinere (“to daub, erase by smudging”), from dē- (“from, away”) + linere (“to smear, wipe”). Original sense first appears c. 1495. In common use for ordering the absence of features of products (such as automobiles) in the 1960s. The computing sense, including the noun form, first appears c. 1977 in Software: Practice & Experience. Not related to deleterious. Doublet of delible and deleble.

  1. borrowed from dēlētus

Definitions

  1. To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a…

    To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device.

  2. To defeat or dominate.

    • Also I got deleted by a rogue and druid who were both invisible and just popped up and cleaned me.

  3. To kill or murder.

    • "Go find this guy, Alex," Conch had said. "And delete him."
    • "[…]The less we discover about him, the more we are convinced he needs to be deleted..." […] "Yes. In other words I kill a terrorist, right?"
    • I'm a forty-something psychopath who thinks he has the right to delete anyone he sees fit.
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. A deletion.

      • Cascading updates and cascading deletes are useful features of the SQL Server database engine.

    2. A remainder of a music or video release.

      • One CRIA official pegs the total record sales of deletes and imports as high as 30 percent for 1976
      • The industry also continues to discuss how the new GATT will serve to prevent a flood of deletes into the market
      • Brian Robertson, president of the Canadian Recording Industry Assn. (CRIA), says the flood of deletes could be more harmful than the last wave […]

    3. Alternative letter-case form of Delete.

    4. The delete character (U+007F or %7F).

    5. A key that may be pressed to delete something (such as text or files) from a computer.…

      A key that may be pressed to delete something (such as text or files) from a computer. The key also erases text from left to right, unlike the backspace key.

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Derived

autodelete, deletability, deletable, deletant, deletee, deleter, deletia, deletion, deletive, expletive deleted, nondeleting, redelete, self-delete, soft-delete, speedy delete, undelete, dirty delete

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at delete. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at delete. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at delete

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA