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▪ I. erase, v.|ɪˈreɪs, -z|
Also (5 irrase, 7 ereaze), 7–8 erace, -aze.
[f. L. ērās- ppl. stem of ērādĕre, f. ē out + rādĕre to scrape, scratch. (In some early examples perh. a variant of arace to uproot.)]
1. a. trans. To scrape or rub out (anything written, engraved, etc.); to efface, expunge, obliterate.
1605Camden Rem. (1637) 154 The names were ereazed out of the publick Records. 1632G. Fletcher Christ's Vict. i. vii, Lest it should quite erace That from the world, which was the first world's grace. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) V. 130 Lombart afterwards erased the face, and inserted that of Cromwell. 1778R. Lowth Isa. Notes (ed. 12) 340 A letter is erased at the end of the word. 1826Scott Woodst. i, Erasing, as far as they could be erased, all traces of its ancient fame. 1858Greener Gunnery 248 Every person fraudulently erasing..from any barrel, any mark. 1863H. Cox Instit. i. vi. 57 James I..erased from the journals of the House of Commons an obnoxious protestation.
transf.1860Tyndall Glac. i. xxvii. 198 The snow had practically erased it [the road].
¶ In quasi-pass. use.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. iii. i. vi, Things, which lie very black in our Earth's Annals, yet which will not erase there⁓from.
b. Electr. To remove the recorded signals from a magnetic tape or medium.
1945Sci. News Let. 9 June 363 Any part of the wire can be erased without harm to the sound recorded on adjacent parts. 1949Frayne & Wolfe Elem. Sound Recording xxix. 592 Magnetic media..that require high magnetizing forces to produce saturation are more difficult to erase. 1962Gloss. Terms Autom. Data Proc. (B.S.I.) 68 Erase, in a magnetic store, to obliterate stored data by returning the magnetic state of a cell to a uniform null condition.
2. fig. To efface, obliterate from the mind or memory.
1695Ld. Preston Boeth. i. 37 My Griefs have dulled my Memory, and eras'd almost every thing out of it. 1792S. Rogers Pleas. Mem. i. 275 Though the iron school of War erase Each milder virtue. 1856Sir B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. I. ii. 58 The effect of a blow..has been..to erase from the memory the events which immediately preceded the accident. a1862Buckle Civiliz. (1869) III. v. 318 Erasing from his view of human nature those premisses which he had already handled.
3. transf. To destroy utterly. rare.
1728R. Morris Ess. Anc. Archit. 9 He..left it quite ruin'd and eras'd. 1855Singleton Virgil I. 376, I have not with the Greeks at Aulis sworn To erase the Trojan nation.
▪ II. erase, n.|ɪˈreɪz|
= erasing vbl. n. c. Also attrib., as erase head, etc.
1948Wiegand & Zenner in Trans. Amer. Inst. Electr. Engin. LXVII. 507 (title) A turn-in-gap erase head for magnetic recorders providing intense high-frequency fields. 1949Frayne & Wolfe Elem. Sound Recording xxix. 593 The equipment required for such erase is very simple. 1952Gramophone Aug. 68 The Tape-desk..contains..an erase unit. 1954Electronic Engin. XXVI. 294 The erase head consists of a specially designed permanent magnet which subjects the individual elements of the tape to reversing magnetic fields. 1957Encycl. Brit. X. 618/2 The erase and re-use features of magnetic recordings are important economic advantages in many commercial applications [of tape recorders]. 1962A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 273 Tape recording amplifier differs from an ordinary amplifier in that it includes an oscillator for bias and erase. |