单词 | erase |
释义 | erasen. = erasing n. c. Also attributive, as erase head, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [noun] > of material on electronic tape erase1948 erasing1949 1948 Wiegand & Zenner in Trans. Amer. Inst. Electr. Engineers 67 507 (title) A turn-in-gap erase head for magnetic recorders providing intense high-frequency fields. 1949 J. G. Frayne & H. Wolfe Elem. Sound Recording xxix. 593 The equipment required for such erase is very simple. 1952 Gramophone Aug. 68 The Tape-desk..contains..an erase unit. 1954 Electronic Engin. 26 294 The erase head consists of a specially designed permanent magnet which subjects the individual elements of the tape to reversing magnetic fields. 1957 Encycl. Brit. X. 618/2 The erase and re-use features of magnetic recordings are important economic advantages in many commercial applications [of tape recorders]. 1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 273 Tape recording amplifier differs from an ordinary amplifier in that it includes an oscillator for bias and erase. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2022). erasev. 1. a. (a) transitive. To scrape or rub out (anything written, engraved, etc.); to efface, expunge, obliterate. 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 1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 136 The names..were ereazed out of the publike Records. 1632 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie (ed. 2) i. vii Lest it should quite erace That from the world, which was the first world's grace. 1778 R. Lowth Isaiah (ed. 12) Notes 340 A letter is erased at the end of the word. 1782 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 3) V. 130 Lombart afterwards erased the face, and inserted that of Cromwell. 1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. i. 26 Erazing, as far as they could be erazed, all traces of its ancient fame. 1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 248 Every person fraudulently erasing..from any barrel, any mark. 1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. i. vi. 57 James I..erased from the journals of the House of Commons an obnoxious protestation. (b) In quasi-pass use. ΚΠ 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. vi. 58 Things, which lie very black in our Earth's Annals, yet which will not erase therefrom. b. To remove the recorded signals from a magnetic tape or medium. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > electronic material wipe1900 erase1945 1945 Sci. News Let. 9 June 363 Any part of the wire can be erased without harm to the sound recorded on adjacent parts. 1949 J. G. Frayne & H. Wolfe Elem. Sound Recording xxix. 592 Magnetic media..that require high magnetizing forces to produce saturation are more difficult to erase. 1962 Gloss. Terms Automatic Data Processing (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. figurative. To efface, obliterate from the mind or memory. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] dilghec897 scrape1303 washc1380 fade1398 razea1425 out-razec1425 racec1450 enrasea1492 stramp1535 wipe1535 facec1540 cancel1559 outblot1573 to wash out1580 to blur out1581 obliterate1607 efface1611 dislimna1616 excerebrate1621 demark1655 rufflea1680 erase1695 scrub1828 overscore1834 elide1846 trash1859 to wipe (off) the slate1921 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 1695 Ld. Preston tr. Boethius Of Consol. Philos. i. 37 My Griefs have dulled my Memory, and eras'd almost every thing out of it. 1792 S. Rogers Pleasures Mem. i. 275 Though the iron school of War erase Each milder virtue. 1856 B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. (ed. 3) I. ii. 58 The effect of a blow..has been..to erase from the memory the events which immediately preceded the accident. a1862 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1869) III. v. 318 Erasing from his view of human nature those premisses which he had already handled. 3. transferred. To destroy utterly. rare. 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 1728 R. Morris Ess. Anc. Archit. 9 He..left it quite ruin'd and eras'd. 1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Aeneid iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 376 I have not with the Greeks at Aulis sworn To erase the Trojan nation. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1948v.1605 |
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