单词 | erasure |
释义 | erasuren. 1. a. The action of erasing or obliterating. 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 1755 E. Young Centaur vi, in Wks. (1757) IV. 277 The desperate erasure of his Christian name. 1808 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius II. xxi. 773 The devise to the trustees was not revoked by the erasure. 1836 J. Gilbert Christian Atonem. ii. 43 To select a part [of a book] which we may happen to approve, and by evasive arts to effect the erasure of the other part. 1861 T. E. May Constit. Hist. Eng. (1863) I. i. 24 The erasure of his name from the list of privy councillors. b. An instance of erasing or obliterating. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [noun] > instance of blot1710 erasure1734 blotting1791 erasion1889 caviar1899 1734 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (1827) I. ii. 239 A good performance is not to be expected without many erasures and corrections. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 183 If the number of these fancied erasures did not startle him. 1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xix. 146 The erasure was not made by the testator with an intention to revoke his will. c. = erasing n. c. ΚΠ 1950 G. A. Briggs Sound Reprod. (ed. 2) xx. 139 Thorough erasure of the tape or wire is necessary before it passes over the recording head. 1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 252 Erasure, the removal of recorded signals from a tape so that it is ready to re-use. 1967 Electronics 6 Mar. 79/2 (advt.) Complete, gradual or selective erasure is possible. 2. concrete. The place where a word or letter has been erased or obliterated. ΚΠ a1891 Mod. The word was written over an erasure. 3. Total destruction; ‘wiping out’. 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 a1794 E. Gibbon (O.) Erasure of cities. 1863 D. Wilson Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. (ed. 2) II. iv. iv. 267 Repeated destruction of the first Christian settlements, and the erasure of the accompanying progress of arts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1734 |
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