delete
See also: Delete
English
Etymology
From Latin dēlētus, past participle of dēlēre (“destroy, blot out, efface”), from dēlēvī, originally perf. tense of dēlinere (“to daub, erase by smudging”), from dē- (“from, away”) + linere (“to smear, wipe”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɪˈliːt/, /diˈliːt/, /dəˈliːt/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: de‧lete
- Rhymes: -iːt
Verb
delete (third-person singular simple present deletes, present participle deleting, simple past and past participle deleted)
- To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device. [from 1600s]
- Synonyms: erase, clear, strike, terminate, remove; see also Thesaurus:delete
- Antonyms: insert, main
- (online gaming, slang) To defeat or dominate.
- 2020 November 20, “Enhance Arena positioning”, in Blizzard Forums (US):
- Also I got deleted by a rogue and druid who were both invisible and just popped up and cleaned me.
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- (transitive, slang) To kill or murder.
- 2008, Ted Bell, Assassin:
- "Go find this guy, Alex," Conch had said. "And delete him."
- 2013, Tim Corkery, Funny to Horror: Short Stories:
- " […] The less we discover about him, the more we are convinced he needs to be deleted..."
[…]
"Yes. In other words I kill a terrorist, right?"
- 2015, Shane Kuhn, The Intern's Handbook, page 220:
- I'm a forty-something psychopath who thinks he has the right to delete anyone he sees fit.
- 2017, Bill Dixon, Dragonfire: A New World of Poems and Stories:
- She either felt pity for him and put him out of pain, a ridiculous, untrue solution for pity and sorrow are delusions, or she was part of his triangle had to delete him before he spoke again, he had to be silenced.
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Derived terms
- expletive deleted
- speedy delete
Related terms
- deleterious (possibly)
- deletion
- deleter
- delible
- self-delete
Descendants
- → Portuguese: deletar, delete
Translations
to remove
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Noun
delete (plural deletes)
- (computing) A deletion.
- 2003, Jeffrey P. McManus, Jackie Goldstein, Kevin T. Price, Database Access with Visual Basic .NET (page 30)
- Cascading updates and cascading deletes are useful features of the SQL Server database engine.
- 2003, Jeffrey P. McManus, Jackie Goldstein, Kevin T. Price, Database Access with Visual Basic .NET (page 30)
- (recorded entertainment industry) A remainder of a music or video release.
- 1977 October 29, Billboard, volume 89, number No. 43, page 57:
- One CRIA official pegs the total record sales of deletes and imports as high as 30 percent for 1976
- 1984 December 1, Billboard, volume 96, number No. 48, page 68:
- The industry also continues to discuss how the new GATT will serve to prevent a flood of deletes into the market
- 1985 February 9, Billboard, volume 97, number No. 6, page 38:
- Brian Robertson, president of the Canadian Recording Industry Assn. (CRIA), says the flood of deletes could be more harmful than the last wave […]
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- (uncountable) Alternative letter-case form of Delete
- (computing) The delete character (U+007F or %7F).
Further reading
deletion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Italian
Adjective
delete f pl
- feminine plural of deleto
Anagrams
- ledete
Latin
Verb
dēlēte
- second-person plural present active imperative of dēleō
Participle
dēlēte
- vocative masculine singular of dēlētus
Portuguese
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English delete.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /deˈlɛ.t͡ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /deˈlɛ.te/
- Hyphenation: de‧le‧te
Noun
delete m (plural deletes)
- Delete (key)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /deˈlɛ.t͡ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /deˈlɛ.te/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /dɨˈlɛ.t(ɨ)/
- Hyphenation: de‧le‧te
Verb
delete
- inflection of deletar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative