单词 | delete |
释义 | deleten. 1. On the keyboard of a computer, smartphone, etc.: a key used to delete the character next to the cursor, a selected piece of text or string of characters, a piece of data, or (in later use also) a file; = delete key n. 3. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > [noun] > keyboard > individual keys space bar1887 function key1930 delete key1963 esc1963 Alt mode1964 carriage return1965 return1965 return key1965 enter1966 Alt key1968 home key1968 arrow key1969 tab1969 control1976 delete1977 control key1978 cursor key1979 Alt1981 delete button1981 escape key1982 hot key1983 1977 Software: Pract. & Experience 7 773 Pressing delete when the cursor is immediately after the last visible character on a line causes the return to be deleted. 2011 B. LeVitus Office 2011 for Mac for Dummies xix. 351 The Delete button deletes selected contacts, and so does pressing Delete on your keyboard. 2. In a graphical user interface: a button (button n. 4d) or item in a menu which is used to delete a file or piece of data; = delete button n. 2. ΚΠ 1988 C. L. Ramsey & L. B. Booker BaRT Man. Prelimary Version 2.0 U.S. Naval Res. Lab. Memorandum Rep. 6243 9 The use must click on delete and then click on the appropriate node. 2007 C. Carlberg Excel for Accountants i. 31 Delete the current record by clicking Delete. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). deletev.α. late Middle English–1500s delyte, 1500s– delete, 1600s deleate; also Scottish pre-1700 delait, pre-1700 deleete, pre-1700 deleit, pre-1700 delette, pre-1700 delite, pre-1700 dilate. β. Past participle 1500s delete, 1600s delate; Scottish pre-1700 delait, pre-1700 deleate, pre-1700 delet, pre-1700 1700s delete. 1. transitive. To destroy (a person or thing); to annihilate; to eradicate; to kill. rare in later use.In quot. 2015 probably influenced by sense 2. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > annihilate or blot out of existence dilghec897 defacec1386 annul1395 anientec1400 refer?c1400 extinct1484 annihil1490 delete1495 out-terma1500 perspoil1523 extaintc1540 extinguish1555 blot1561 wipe1564 to cut the throat of1565 annihilate1567 dissipatea1575 annihilate1586 nullify1609 nullize1615 expunge1628 nothing1637 null1647 extramund1654 be-nothing1674 erase1728 obliterate1798 simoom1821 to tear to shreds1837 snuff1852 mop1859 to take out1900 napoo1915 naught1958 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) iv. iii. sig. eviv/2 Drinesse dystroyeth bodyes þt haue soules, so he dyssoluyth & delyteth [a1398 BL Add. 27944 todeleþ] the kynde naturall spyrytes þt ben of moyst smoke. a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) v. l. 933 Of his broþir þe gud fayme, Was delet al hallely. 1534 in State Papers Henry VIII (1834) II. 218 Stryke thaym..with pestilens, till they..be consumed, and ther generation clene radycat and delytit of this worlde. 1656 W. Prynne Short Demurrer to Jewes Remitter 69 Confederating..to murder and delete them. 1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Physical Inst. v, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Ff3 It doth..perfectly deleate the ulcers which infest the throat. 1851 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. I. 43 Though Carthage was deleted. 2015 R. Stevenson World without Us 88 I hate ninety-nine percent of everything, I want to delete myself. Annihilate, obliterate. 2. a. transitive. To strike out, erase, or obliterate (written or printed material); to cut or remove (something) from a document, film, recording, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > writing, etc. deface1340 razea1393 blot1530 to put out1530 delete1540 dispunct1570 obliterate1578 expunct1596 expunge1602 erase1605 dele1612 dispunge1622 retrench1645 liturate1656 excise1663 to scratch out1712 efface1737 extrapolate1831 1540 in D. H. Fleming Registrum Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1921) II. 497/2 To restore..to the said Dauid his obligatioun forsaid, and cancellate and delete it furth of the bukis of oure adjornale. 1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 522 His Majestie deletted that clause. a1657 J. Balfour Hist. Wks. (1824) II. 76 Her proces [was] ordained to be delait out of the recordes. 1705 Flying-post 31 Dec. After deleting these Words, the Vote was put approve of the said Clause or not; and carried approve. 1875 F. Hall in Nation 21 360/2 Here, to make either sense or metre, the and must be deleted. 1969 Times 23 June 10/5 Judy Garland sang ‘Over the Rainbow’ enchantingly—a number..which was very nearly deleted from the film in its cutting stage. 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Oct. 13/4 A few paragraphs later, though, she deleted a reference to Arthur as a child of Mary Ellen's first marriage. b. transitive. To erase or efface (a memory, idea, etc.); to wipe out; to remove. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > deliberate forgetting, condoning > [verb (transitive)] > consign to oblivion defacec1386 to strike by1457 efface1490 unlearna1500 obliterate1548 delete1563 oblivionize1593 dismiss1594 bury1595 oblivion1659 obliviate1661 erase1695 to go into the discard1927 cancel1990 1563 N. Winȝet tr. R. Benoit in D. Fergusson Answer Epist. R. Benedict f. 18v The slight and desait of Sathan..for to misreule and disturb the trew Kirk and his furious interpryses also to deleit and put away the remembrance of Christ Iesus. 1642 Declar. Lords & Commons to Gen. Assembly Church Scotl. 13 An Obligation that cannot be delete. 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iii. 340 Studiously deleting the character of that Sacrament out of their bodies. 1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers iii. vii. 338 When the form or type of things is imprinted on the mind by the organs of the senses, and so imprinted as not to be deleted by time.., its preservation is called memory. 1915 J. K. O'Connor Afrikander Rebellion 116 The spirit of parochialism must be deleted, and in its place must grow a united South African spirit. 2015 J. Ripslinger Weight of Guilt xii. 60 I remembered driving on a dark road at night and bright, glaring headlights blinding me, but everything else seemed to have been deleted from my mind. c. transitive. Of a record company: to remove (a recording) from the catalogue and therefore no longer offer it for sale. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > remove from list, record, etc. seclude1548 unrolla1616 disenrola1631 unlist1643 scratch1851 delist1919 deregister1924 delete1928 de-accession1972 1928 Newcastle (New S. Wales) Morning Herald & Miners' Advocate 2 Nov. 9/2 (advt.) Just arrived, another 1000 4/ Parlophone Records (deleted from catalogue)..1/ each. 1949 Gramophone Oct. 90/1 The first two Bartók quartets, long deleted, are now eagerly sought after by collectors. 1966 Melody Maker 7 May 12/1 These justly famous tracks make a surprise reappearance because it was only in April that EMI deleted them. 2012 T. A. Jackson Blowin' Blues Away iv. 93 A recording will generally have eighteen months to sell enough units to recoup the label's investment or risk being deleted from its catalog. d. transitive. Linguistics. To omit (one or more elements) from a word, sentence, etc.; spec. (in transformational grammar) to omit (an underlying constituent) from the surface structure of a sentence or utterance. Cf. deletion n. 2b. ΚΠ 1934 A. H. Semeonoff New Russ. Gram. 16 The insertion and deletion of o and e... The vowels o and e occurring between two consonants at the end of a word are deleted when the latter consonant is followed by a vowel. 1970 Ling. Inq. 1 103 The transformational rule which deletes the subjects of imperatives. 1984 Phonology Yearbk. 1 42 Synchronic deletion and fusion processes should be rare..particularly if two or more successive phonemes are deleted or fused with another phoneme. 2000 L. J. Brinton Struct. Mod. Eng. ix. 231 The relative pronoun can be deleted when it is serving as direct object, indirect object, or object of the preposition. e. transitive. To remove (a character, a selection of text or string of characters, or piece of other data) from an electronic document or a program's interface.In quot. 1961 referring to the correction of an error in entering data on a punched tape. ΚΠ 1961 U.S. Patent 3,011,165 11 The code delete character in code F is utilized when it is desired to delete a character punched in error in tape, as is known in the art.] 1964 F. N. Krull & J. E. Foote in Proc. AFIPS Fall Joint Computer Conf. 406/2 An entire line or a single point may be deleted by pointing to it with the pencil and selecting the desired operation. 2010 J. Picoult House Rules 87 I reread what I've written, then delete the whole paragraph. Who am I kidding? f. transitive. To remove (a file) from the memory of a computer or (in later use) electronic device, computer network, etc. Also: to uninstall (a program or application). ΚΠ 1966 S. L. Kameny & C. Weissman Q-32 LISP 1.5 Mod. 2.6 Syst. (Syst. Deve. Corporation TM-2337/103/00) 20 If b = NIL (permanent), the file f will be deleted from the LISP system. 1996 InfoWorld 22 Jan. 95/4 UnInstaller's shortcomings may prompt you to check the Registry after deleting a program. 2009 B. Long Canon EOS Digital Revel T1i/500D Compan. Apr. iii. 63 If your camera is set to show an image review.., you can delete the image when it appears on your screen. 2019 @ProfBytes 7 Oct. in twitter.com (accessed 14 oct. 2019) The trick is to just delete the files before you close the window. 3. transitive. Genetics. Originally only in passive: (of a segment of a chromosome) to be lost during the process of duplication. In later use more widely: to remove (a section) from a genetic sequence. Cf. deletion n. 3. ΚΠ 1929 [implied in: H. J. Muller & T. S. Painter in Amer. Naturalist 63 197 A typical chromosome complex in which this ‘deleted’ sex chromosome lies free is shown in Fig. 7 (‘X deletion 2’).]. 1931 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 17 515 (heading) The Loci in the X-chromosome Included (+) and Deleted (-) in the Duplications. 1936 Discovery Sept. 269/1 It is usually a section in the middle which disappears, or is ‘deleted’, the two ends joining up to make a shortened chromosome. 2015 N.Y. Mag. 30 Nov. 14/1 You can easily select any segment of DNA and replace or delete it. Which means that anything that's genetic is editable. Derivatives deˈleting n. the action of deleting something; an instance of this; deletion. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [noun] > of writing, text, etc. cancellingc1440 cancellation1535 deleting1544 deletion1590 expunction1606 retrenching1647 retrenchment1668 erasement1721 expunging1721 erasure1755 excision1858 redaction1962 1544 in W. Fraser Chiefs of Grant (1883) III. 280 The deliting, cassing..and extraking of the forsaid act. 1646 W. Prynne Canterburies Doome 323 The deleting of such a notable passage as this, discovers a professed designe to bring in Popery among us againe. 1711 J. Anderson Countrey-man's Let. to Curat 6 They had the popish missal and breviary with some few Deletings. 2015 J. Silverman Terms of Service 151 That kind of work is far more boring..(a succession of untagging, unsubscribing, deleting, and requests for photos to be taken down) than the perpetual labor of tending to one's social-media profiles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1977v.1495 |
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