Delete : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Delete	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Delete
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
delete v remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list" Synonym(s): delete, cancel wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information; "Who erased the files form my hard disk?" Synonym(s): erase, delete Antonym(s): record, tape cut or eliminate; "she edited the juiciest scenes" Synonym(s): edit, blue-pencil, delete
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Delete \De*lete"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Deleted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Deleting}.] [L. deletus, p. p. of delere to destroy. Cf. 1st {Dele}.] To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit. I have, therefore, . . . inserted eleven stanzas which do not appear in Sir Walter Scott's version, and have deleted eight. --Aytoun.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
delete 1. (Or "erase") To make a file inaccessible. Usually this operation only deletes information from the tables the {file system} uses to locate named files; the file's contents still exist on {disk} and can sometimes be recovered by scanning the whole disk for strings which are known to have been in the file. Files created subsequently on the same disk are quite likely to reuse the same blocks and thus overwrite the deleted file's data permanently. 2. The {control character} with {ASCII} code 127. Usually entering this character from the keyboard deletes the last character typed from the {input buffer}. Sadly there is great confusion between {operating systems} and keyboard manufacturers as to whether this function should be assigned to the delete or {backspace} key/character. The choice of code 127 (binary 1111111) is not arbitrary but dates back to the use of {paper tape} for input. The delete key rewound the tape by one character and punched out all seven holes, thus obliterating whatever character was there before. The tape reading software ignored any delete characters in the input. (1996-12-01)