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

1. To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device. [from 1600s]

   Synonyms: erase, strike, terminate, remove; see also Thesaurus:delete

   Antonyms: insert, main

Derived terms

• expletive deleted

Related terms

• deleterious
• deletion
• delible

Translations

to remove

• Afrikaans: skrap (af), wis, uitwis
• Arabic: حَذَفَ (ḥaḏafa), يَحْذِفُ (yaḥḏifu) (present tense)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: премахвам (bg) (premahvam), изтривам (bg) (iztrivam)
• Catalan: esborrar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 刪除／删除 (zh) (shānchú), 删除 (zh) (shānchú)

• Czech: vymazat, smazat (cs)
• Dutch: verwijderen (nl)
• Esperanto: forpreni, forstreki, eksigi (eo), forigi (eo)
• Finnish: poistaa (fi)
• French: supprimer (fr)
• Galician: borrar (gl), sacar (gl), suprimir
• Georgian: წაშლა (c̣ašla), ამოშლა (amošla)
• German: streichen (de), löschen (de)
• Greek: διαγράφω (el) (diagráfo), καταργώ (el) (katargó)
• Hungarian: töröl (hu)
• Indonesian: menghapus (id)
• Irish: scrios
• Italian: cancellare (it), eliminare (it)
• Japanese: 消す (ja) (けす, kesu), 削除する (ja) (さくじょする, sakujo-suru)
• Khmer: លុប (km) (lup)
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• Korean: 삭제하다 (ko) (sakjehada)
• Maori: whakakore, whakakorekore, whākorekore, muku
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: usuwać (pl)
• Portuguese: apagar (pt), (computer files)(Brazil) excluir (pt), (computer files)(Brazil) deletar (pt), (computer files)(Portugal) eliminar (pt)
• Romanian: șterge (ro)
• Russian: удаля́ть (ru) impf (udaljátʹ), удали́ть (ru) pf (udalítʹ)
• Sanskrit: नाशयति (sa) (nāśayati)
• Scottish Gaelic: sguab às
• Serbo-Croatian: brisati (sh) impf, izbrisati (sh) pf, obrisati (sh) pf
• Spanish: borrar (es)
• Swedish: ta bort (sv)
• Tagalog: burahin
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: silmek (tr)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: dileu (cy)

Noun

delete (plural deletes)

1. (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.

   I lost the file when I accidentally hit delete.

2. (recorded entertainment industry) A remainder of a music or video release.
   • 1977 October 29, Billboard‎^[1], 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^[2], 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^[3], 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 […]

3. (uncountable) Alternative letter-case form of Delete

Further reading

• deletion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Italian

Adjective

1. (deprecated template usage) Feminine plural of adjective deleto.

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) dēlēte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēleō

Participle

(deprecated template usage) dēlēte

1. vocative masculine singular of dēlētus

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dˈlɛ.t(ʃ)i/
• Hyphenation: de‧le‧te
• Rhymes: -ɛt(ʃ)i

Noun

delete m (plural deletes)

1. Delete (key)

Verb

delete

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