Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To cancel, strike out, or make impossible to be perceived.
- transitive verb To remove from a document or record: synonym: erase.
- transitive verb To remove (a file, for example) from a hard drive or other storage medium.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To blot out; expunge; erase.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
Delete . - verb To
remove , get rid of orerase , especially written or printed material, or data on a computer. - verb computing To
hide ,conceal
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cut or eliminate
- verb remove or make invisible
- verb wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Note that you create a window using the new_ function and delete it using the delete_ function
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Where to start … I mean, Alan Greenspan is a socialistic, Keynesian Loving, politician pleasing, power and greed driven ** explicit delete, explicit delete**, piece of ** explicit delete**.
unknown title 2008
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Where to start … I mean, Alan Greenspan is a socialistic, Keynesian Loving, politician pleasing, power and greed driven ** explicit delete, explicit delete**, piece of ** explicit delete**.
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After we figure all that out, it's just a matter of compiling our delete statement and running the query. public function delete ($table, $where = null) if ($this - > tableExists ($table)) {if ($where = = null) {$delete = 'DELETE'. $table;} else {$delete =
doggdot.us 2009
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Meanwhile, the part I didn't delete is up to 2000 words.
Bad Angst Bunny...Go Away amberfocus 2009
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Nich, I take your point about not being able to delete from the iPod.
Going against my better judgment and being proved right and wrong at the same time Norfolk Blogger 2009
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It keeps 90 days worth of backup data on a different server, so anything that I delete is really still available for 90 days.
Backup Maker Offers Dead Simple Backup Creation | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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PPS: Apparently mass-delete is new with iPhone 2.0.
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Pressing delete is so satisfying. on June 4, 2008 at 2: 46 pm | Reply Spitting Feathers
Hair and Teeth on the Swamp « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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So we met at 6pm in the Bay Horse (6. 50pm if your name was Simon), which is another bar we can safely delete from the “future visits” list: the beer garden is literally on the main road and the traffic is HEAVY.
vanishedone commented on the word delete
The Wordie Paradox strikes again: fittingly, delete is 404'd.
June 1, 2009