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单词 delete
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deleten.

Brit. /dᵻˈliːt/, U.S. /dəˈlit/, /diˈlit/
Forms: also with capital initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: delete v.
Etymology: < delete v.
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.
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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.
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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.

Brit. /dᵻˈliːt/, U.S. /dəˈlit/, /diˈlit/
Forms:

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.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin dēlēt-, dēlēre.
Etymology: < classical Latin dēlēt-, past participial stem of dēlēre to wipe out, to efface, to destroy completely, to obliterate, to annihilate, to abolish, probably < dē- de- prefix + the same Indo-European base as ancient Greek ὄλλυναι to slay, ἀπόλλυναι to destroy (compare classical Latin abolēre : see abolish v.).In the β. forms after classical Latin dēlētus, past participle of dēlēre . Compare deleted adj.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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).
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