delete

to strike out or cancel, as from a text
Not to be confused with:erase – remove, as by rubbing or wiping out

de·lete

D0110100 (dĭ-lēt′)tr.v. de·let·ed, de·let·ing, de·letes 1. a. To cancel, strike out, or make impossible to be perceived: deleted the expletives from the transcript with a marker.b. To remove from a document or record: deleted the names from the computer file. See Synonyms at erase.2. To remove (a file, for example) from a hard drive or other storage medium.

[Latin dēlēre, dēlēt-, to wipe out.]

delete

(dɪˈliːt) vb (Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) (tr) to remove (something printed or written); erase; cancel; strike out[C17: from Latin dēlēre to destroy, obliterate]

de•lete

(dɪˈlit)

v.t. -let•ed, -let•ing. to strike out or remove (something written or printed); cancel; erase; expunge. [1485–95; < Latin dēlētus, past participle of dēlēre to destroy] de•let′a•ble, adj.

delete

Past participle: deleted
Gerund: deleting

Imperative
delete
delete

Present
I delete
you delete
he/she/it deletes
we delete
you delete
they delete

Preterite
I deleted
you deleted
he/she/it deleted
we deleted
you deleted
they deleted

Present Continuous
I am deleting
you are deleting
he/she/it is deleting
we are deleting
you are deleting
they are deleting

Present Perfect
I have deleted
you have deleted
he/she/it has deleted
we have deleted
you have deleted
they have deleted

Past Continuous
I was deleting
you were deleting
he/she/it was deleting
we were deleting
you were deleting
they were deleting

Past Perfect
I had deleted
you had deleted
he/she/it had deleted
we had deleted
you had deleted
they had deleted

Future
I will delete
you will delete
he/she/it will delete
we will delete
you will delete
they will delete

Future Perfect
I will have deleted
you will have deleted
he/she/it will have deleted
we will have deleted
you will have deleted
they will have deleted

Future Continuous
I will be deleting
you will be deleting
he/she/it will be deleting
we will be deleting
you will be deleting
they will be deleting

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been deleting
you have been deleting
he/she/it has been deleting
we have been deleting
you have been deleting
they have been deleting

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been deleting
you will have been deleting
he/she/it will have been deleting
we will have been deleting
you will have been deleting
they will have been deleting

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been deleting
you had been deleting
he/she/it had been deleting
we had been deleting
you had been deleting
they had been deleting

Conditional
I would delete
you would delete
he/she/it would delete
we would delete
you would delete
they would delete

Past Conditional
I would have deleted
you would have deleted
he/she/it would have deleted
we would have deleted
you would have deleted
they would have deleted

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	delete - remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list"cancelremove, take away, withdraw, take - remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment"rub out, score out, wipe off, erase, efface - remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!"excise, expunge, scratch, strike - remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line; "Please strike this remark from the record"; "scratch that remark"
	2.	delete - wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information; "Who erased the files form my hard disk?"eraserecording, transcription - the act of making a record (especially an audio record); "she watched the recording from a sound-proof booth"take away, take out - take out or remove; "take out the chicken after adding the vegetables"demagnetise, demagnetize - erase (a magnetic storage device)
	3.	delete - cut or eliminate; "she edited the juiciest scenes"blue-pencil, editcensor - subject to political, religious, or moral censorship; "This magazine is censored by the government"

delete

verb remove, cancel, cut out, erase, edit, excise, strike out, obliterate, efface, blot out, cross out, expunge, dele, rub out, edit out, blue-pencil He deleted files from the computer system.

delete

verbTo remove or invalidate by or as if by running a line through or wiping clean:annul, blot (out), cancel, cross (off or out), efface, erase, expunge, obliterate, rub (out), scratch (out), strike (out), undo, wipe (out), x (out).Law: vacate.

Translations

删除删去

delete

(diˈliːt) verb to rub or strike out (eg a piece of writing). Delete his name from the list. 删除，删去 deˈletion noun删除

delete

→ 删除zhCN

delete

(operating system)(Or "erase") To make a fileinaccessible.

Usually this operation only deletes information from thetables the file system uses to locate named files; thefile's contents still exist on disk and can sometimes berecovered by scanning the whole disk for strings which areknown to have been in the file. Files created subsequently onthe same disk are quite likely to reuse the same blocks andthus overwrite the deleted file's data permanently.

delete

(character)The control character with ASCII code 127.Usually entering this character from the keyboard deletes thelast character typed from the input buffer. Sadly there isgreat confusion between operating systems and keyboardmanufacturers as to whether this function should be assignedto the delete or backspace key/character.

The choice of code 127 (binary 1111111) is not arbitrary butdates back to the use of paper tape for input. The deletekey rewound the tape by one character and punched out allseven holes, thus obliterating whatever character was therebefore. The tape reading software ignored any deletecharacters in the input.

delete

To remove an item of data from a file or to remove a file from the disk. See Delete key, Del, file wipe, trash and undelete.

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verb remove

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verb to remove or invalidate by or as if by running a line through or wiping clean

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verb remove or make invisible

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verb wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information

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verb cut or eliminate

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