deletionn.

Brit.

/dᵻˈliːʃn/, U.S.

/dəˈliʃən/,

/diˈliʃən/

Forms: 1600s– deletion; also Scottish pre-1700 delicioun.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin dēlētiōn-, dēlētiō.

Etymology: < classical Latin dēlētiōn-, dēlētiō destruction, annihilation, in post-classical Latin also elision (16th cent.) < dēlēt- , past participial stem of dēlēre delete v. + -iō -ion suffix¹.With sense 2b compare delete v. 2d.

1. The action of destroying a person or thing; the fact of being destroyed; destruction; annihilation; eradication. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > utter destruction or annihilation

anientizement1429

deletiona1513

extincting1513

annihilment1526

exterminion1528

nulling1538

annihilation1541

exterminationc1550

nullity1555

annihilating1577

massacre1595

extinguishment1599

extinct1606

expunction1615

extinction1615

discreationa1628

nullificationa1631

nullifying1640

decreation1647

defacedness1668

extinguishinga1676

erasurea1794

exterminating1796

blotting out1808

naughting1913

wipeout1968

a1513 J. Irland Meroure of Wyssdome f. 145^v in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Delicioun For our satisfaccioun and delicioun of our synnis.

1606 True & Perfect Relation Proc. Arraignments Barbarous Traitors sig. D3^v Tending..to..the destruction and dissolution of the frame and Fabrique of this ancient, famous, and euer flourishing Monarchie, euen the deletion of our whole name and Nation.

a1676 M. Hale tr. C. Nepos Life P. Atticus (1677) i. 36 The taking of Alexandria by Augustus, which was the fatal and funeral deletion of Antony.

1845 J. Davison Disc. Prophecy (1861) v. 162 Rome remains, though Carthage is gone: the similar fate of deletion has not come.

1881 R. L. Stevenson Ordered South in Virginibus Puerisque 162 The better the man and the nobler his purposes, the more will he be tempted to regret the extinction of his powers and the deletion of his personality.

2018 J. Kinsella & R. West-Pavlov Temporariness: on Imperatives of Place 180 This particular weapon..is said to have ‘low to medium’ level below-ground impact with an absolute deletion of what's on the surface in the blast range.

a. The action of striking out, erasing, or obliterating written or printed material; the action of cutting something from a film, recording, etc.; the fact of being deleted. Also: a deleted part or passage.

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

1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes vii. f. 271 Although the deletion were in the chiefe part of the testament.

1729 W. Arrott Information for Mr. W. Arrott 3 Law does presume, when Deletion, Razing or Superinduction appears, that it was done ex post facto.

1852 W. Hamilton Discuss. Philos. & Lit. 38 (note) Some deletions, found necessary in consequence of the unexpected length to which the Article extended..have been restored.

1884 E. E. Kay in Law Times Rep. 51 315/1 The deletion was initialed in the margin with the initials of the persons who signed the agreement.

1992 G. Oldham First Cut (1995) 9 At a dubbing session I witnessed an intense discussion concerning the deletion of two frames to make a word sound smoother.

2015 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 Apr. 51/3 On receiving the fourth episode.., Pound made significant deletions—acting, like many other contemporary editors, as a pre-censor, before the text had been published.

b. Linguistics. The omission of one or more elements from a word, sentence, etc.; ellipsis, elision; spec. (in transformational grammar) the omission of an underlying constituent from the surface structure of a sentence or utterance.A typical example of deletion in transformational grammar is in an imperative such as Go away!, which has the deep structure you will go away, the subject you and the auxiliary will being deleted in the surface structure. Cf. deep structure n. at deep adj. Compounds 2, surface structure n. at surface n. Compounds 3.

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.

1965 N. Chomsky Aspects Theory Syntax iv. 179 John is more clever than Bill is... The deletion of the final copula..requires identity of the two copulas.

1979 Hispania 62 599/2 The deletion of the [Spanish final /s/] phoneme is not obligatory and the phonetic output varies according to the socioeconomic class of the speaker.

2015 M. Saraceni World Englishes iv. 82 The following phrase taken from an online forum shows an instance of what might be regarded as deletion of auxiliary will: ‘in your 2nd semester you probably be busy’.

c. The action of a record company in deleting a recording from their catalogue, and therefore no longer offering it for sale; an instance of this. Also: a record from deleted stock, which is offered for sale at a reduced price.Recorded earliest as a modifier.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [noun] > by removal from list

deletion1937

delisting1946

de-accession1973

de-accessioning1973

1937 Gramophone Oct. 190/1 The characteristic of last year's deletion list was the preponderance of French works.

1954 Gramophone Record Rev. Oct. 574/2 From the many Schwarzkopf deletions I would single out the best complete version of the aria ‘L'amero, saro costante’.

1969 Gramophone June 103/2 (advt.) Classical, Shows and jazz LPs at reduced prices, mono and stereo deletions.

2015 M. Jones B&C Discography: 1968–1975 (ed. 2) 19 Deletion dates are taken from Music Master 2nd Edition, which includes dates for LP deletions advised between 1973 and the end of 1975.

3. Genetics. Originally: the loss of (a segment from) a chromosome (cf. deficiency n. e); (also) the segment lost. In later use also: the loss or removal of one or more nucleotides from any genetic sequence.

ΚΠ

1928 Amer. Naturalist 62 286 Frequent comparison was made also with normal mouse chromosomes and with the chromosomes of Gates' non-disjunction mice which exhibit a chromomere deletion.

1938 E. B. Ford Study Heredity iv. 92 In the instances so far mentioned, the fragment of chromosome which has broken away has succeeded in reattaching itself elsewhere. Sometimes, however, it fails to do so and is lost. This leads to ‘deletion’, in which some of the genes..find themselves unopposed by their allelomorphs.

1952 C. P. Blacker Eugenics: Galton & After 245 A piece of a chromosome may break off, causing a deficiency or deletion.

1988 L. Stryer Biochem. (ed. 3) vii. 171 The deletion or addition of a nucleotide, a frameshift mutation, leads to an entirely different amino acid sequence on the distal side of the mutation.

2014 P. M. Meneely Genetic Anal. (ed. 2) iii. 137 These large deletions have no expression of most of the genes in this region.

a. The removal of a character, a selected piece of text or string of characters, or other data from an electronic document or a program's interface.

ΚΠ

1956 Proc. ACM-AIEE-IRE Joint Western Computer Conf. 42/1 Unused file space may result from the deletion of records.

2015 M. Collier & R. Shahan Fund. of Azure vi. 155 Database recovery refers to the ability to mitigate risk and recover from database corruption or an unintentional modification or deletion of data.

b. The removal of a file from the memory of a computer, smartphone, etc. Also: the uninstallation of an app or program.

ΚΠ

1962 F. J. Corbató et al. in Proc. AIEE-IRE Spring Joint Computer Conf. 340/2 Another further improvement within the present system is that of file maintenance, since the presently used tape units are a hindrance to the easy deletion of user program files.

1997 Getting rid of Icon of Program in Control Panel in alt.windows95 (Usenet newsgroup) 19 Feb. After deletion of the program, I noticed it had created an icon in the Control Panel that did not get removed.

2010 A. Chambers & G. Rand Operational Auditing Handbk. (ed. 2) xxxiii. 562 Although it is often assumed that the deletion of a file removed all trace of it, this is untrue in most cases.

Derivatives

deletional adj. Genetics of, relating to, or characterized by deletion (in sense 3).

ΚΠ

1950 Jrnl. Cellular & Compar. Physiol. 35 Suppl. i. 29 Reunions [ sc. of ends of the same chromosomes] of deletional type, i.e.,..those which leave deficiencies.

1987 J. H. Jandl Blood xxxii. 1096/1 In general, deletional mutations cause severe hemophilia, and missense mutation leads to mild disease.

2009 Jrnl. Cell Biol. 185 625/1 Our deletional analysis has defined distinct regions of Yb that are responsible for its three different molecular functions.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	deletion
释义	deletionn. Brit. /dᵻˈliːʃn/, U.S. /dəˈliʃən/, /diˈliʃən/ Forms: 1600s– deletion; also Scottish pre-1700 delicioun. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin dēlētiōn-, dēlētiō. Etymology: < classical Latin dēlētiōn-, dēlētiō destruction, annihilation, in post-classical Latin also elision (16th cent.) < dēlēt- , past participial stem of dēlēre delete v. + -iō -ion suffix¹.With sense 2b compare delete v. 2d. 1. The action of destroying a person or thing; the fact of being destroyed; destruction; annihilation; eradication. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > utter destruction or annihilation anientizement1429 deletiona1513 extincting1513 annihilment1526 exterminion1528 nulling1538 annihilation1541 exterminationc1550 nullity1555 annihilating1577 massacre1595 extinguishment1599 extinct1606 expunction1615 extinction1615 discreationa1628 nullificationa1631 nullifying1640 decreation1647 defacedness1668 extinguishinga1676 erasurea1794 exterminating1796 blotting out1808 naughting1913 wipeout1968 a1513 J. Irland Meroure of Wyssdome f. 145^v in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Delicioun For our satisfaccioun and delicioun of our synnis. 1606 True & Perfect Relation Proc. Arraignments Barbarous Traitors sig. D3^v Tending..to..the destruction and dissolution of the frame and Fabrique of this ancient, famous, and euer flourishing Monarchie, euen the deletion of our whole name and Nation. a1676 M. Hale tr. C. Nepos Life P. Atticus (1677) i. 36 The taking of Alexandria by Augustus, which was the fatal and funeral deletion of Antony. 1845 J. Davison Disc. Prophecy (1861) v. 162 Rome remains, though Carthage is gone: the similar fate of deletion has not come. 1881 R. L. Stevenson Ordered South in Virginibus Puerisque 162 The better the man and the nobler his purposes, the more will he be tempted to regret the extinction of his powers and the deletion of his personality. 2018 J. Kinsella & R. West-Pavlov Temporariness: on Imperatives of Place 180 This particular weapon..is said to have ‘low to medium’ level below-ground impact with an absolute deletion of what's on the surface in the blast range. 2. a. The action of striking out, erasing, or obliterating written or printed material; the action of cutting something from a film, recording, etc.; the fact of being deleted. Also: a deleted part or passage. 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 1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes vii. f. 271 Although the deletion were in the chiefe part of the testament. 1729 W. Arrott Information for Mr. W. Arrott 3 Law does presume, when Deletion, Razing or Superinduction appears, that it was done ex post facto. 1852 W. Hamilton Discuss. Philos. & Lit. 38 (note) Some deletions, found necessary in consequence of the unexpected length to which the Article extended..have been restored. 1884 E. E. Kay in Law Times Rep. 51 315/1 The deletion was initialed in the margin with the initials of the persons who signed the agreement. 1992 G. Oldham First Cut (1995) 9 At a dubbing session I witnessed an intense discussion concerning the deletion of two frames to make a word sound smoother. 2015 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 Apr. 51/3 On receiving the fourth episode.., Pound made significant deletions—acting, like many other contemporary editors, as a pre-censor, before the text had been published. b. Linguistics. The omission of one or more elements from a word, sentence, etc.; ellipsis, elision; spec. (in transformational grammar) the omission of an underlying constituent from the surface structure of a sentence or utterance.A typical example of deletion in transformational grammar is in an imperative such as Go away!, which has the deep structure you will go away, the subject you and the auxiliary will being deleted in the surface structure. Cf. deep structure n. at deep adj. Compounds 2, surface structure n. at surface n. Compounds 3. 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. 1965 N. Chomsky Aspects Theory Syntax iv. 179 John is more clever than Bill is... The deletion of the final copula..requires identity of the two copulas. 1979 Hispania 62 599/2 The deletion of the [Spanish final /s/] phoneme is not obligatory and the phonetic output varies according to the socioeconomic class of the speaker. 2015 M. Saraceni World Englishes iv. 82 The following phrase taken from an online forum shows an instance of what might be regarded as deletion of auxiliary will: ‘in your 2nd semester you probably be busy’. c. The action of a record company in deleting a recording from their catalogue, and therefore no longer offering it for sale; an instance of this. Also: a record from deleted stock, which is offered for sale at a reduced price.Recorded earliest as a modifier. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [noun] > by removal from list deletion1937 delisting1946 de-accession1973 de-accessioning1973 1937 Gramophone Oct. 190/1 The characteristic of last year's deletion list was the preponderance of French works. 1954 Gramophone Record Rev. Oct. 574/2 From the many Schwarzkopf deletions I would single out the best complete version of the aria ‘L'amero, saro costante’. 1969 Gramophone June 103/2 (advt.) Classical, Shows and jazz LPs at reduced prices, mono and stereo deletions. 2015 M. Jones B&C Discography: 1968–1975 (ed. 2) 19 Deletion dates are taken from Music Master 2nd Edition, which includes dates for LP deletions advised between 1973 and the end of 1975. 3. Genetics. Originally: the loss of (a segment from) a chromosome (cf. deficiency n. e); (also) the segment lost. In later use also: the loss or removal of one or more nucleotides from any genetic sequence. ΚΠ 1928 Amer. Naturalist 62 286 Frequent comparison was made also with normal mouse chromosomes and with the chromosomes of Gates' non-disjunction mice which exhibit a chromomere deletion. 1938 E. B. Ford Study Heredity iv. 92 In the instances so far mentioned, the fragment of chromosome which has broken away has succeeded in reattaching itself elsewhere. Sometimes, however, it fails to do so and is lost. This leads to ‘deletion’, in which some of the genes..find themselves unopposed by their allelomorphs. 1952 C. P. Blacker Eugenics: Galton & After 245 A piece of a chromosome may break off, causing a deficiency or deletion. 1988 L. Stryer Biochem. (ed. 3) vii. 171 The deletion or addition of a nucleotide, a frameshift mutation, leads to an entirely different amino acid sequence on the distal side of the mutation. 2014 P. M. Meneely Genetic Anal. (ed. 2) iii. 137 These large deletions have no expression of most of the genes in this region. 4. a. The removal of a character, a selected piece of text or string of characters, or other data from an electronic document or a program's interface. ΚΠ 1956 Proc. ACM-AIEE-IRE Joint Western Computer Conf. 42/1 Unused file space may result from the deletion of records. 2015 M. Collier & R. Shahan Fund. of Azure vi. 155 Database recovery refers to the ability to mitigate risk and recover from database corruption or an unintentional modification or deletion of data. b. The removal of a file from the memory of a computer, smartphone, etc. Also: the uninstallation of an app or program. ΚΠ 1962 F. J. Corbató et al. in Proc. AIEE-IRE Spring Joint Computer Conf. 340/2 Another further improvement within the present system is that of file maintenance, since the presently used tape units are a hindrance to the easy deletion of user program files. 1997 Getting rid of Icon of Program in Control Panel in alt.windows95 (Usenet newsgroup) 19 Feb. After deletion of the program, I noticed it had created an icon in the Control Panel that did not get removed. 2010 A. Chambers & G. Rand Operational Auditing Handbk. (ed. 2) xxxiii. 562 Although it is often assumed that the deletion of a file removed all trace of it, this is untrue in most cases. Derivatives deletional adj. Genetics of, relating to, or characterized by deletion (in sense 3). ΚΠ 1950 Jrnl. Cellular & Compar. Physiol. 35 Suppl. i. 29 Reunions [ sc. of ends of the same chromosomes] of deletional type, i.e.,..those which leave deficiencies. 1987 J. H. Jandl Blood xxxii. 1096/1 In general, deletional mutations cause severe hemophilia, and missense mutation leads to mild disease. 2009 Jrnl. Cell Biol. 185 625/1 Our deletional analysis has defined distinct regions of Yb that are responsible for its three different molecular functions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1513
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