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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
de·lete       [di-leet] Pronunciation Key
–verb (used with object), -let·ed, -let·ing.
to strike out or remove (something written or printed); cancel; erase; expunge.

[Origin: 1485–95; < L délétus (ptp. of délére to destroy), equiv. to dél- destroy + -é- thematic vowel + -tus ptp. suffix]

de·let·a·ble, adjective

eradicate. See cancel.
American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
de·lete       (dĭ-lēt')  Pronunciation Key 
tr.v.   de·let·ed, de·let·ing, de·letes
To remove by striking out or canceling: deleted some unnecessary words in the first draft. See Synonyms at erase.


[Latin dēlēre, dēlēt-, to wipe out.]

Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
delete 
1495, from L. deletus, pp. of delere "destroy, blot out, efface," from delevi, originally perf. tense of delinere "to daub, erase by smudging," from de- "from, away" + linere "to smear, wipe."

WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
delete

verb
1. remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list" 
2. wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information; "Who erased the files form my hard disk?" [syn: erase] [ant: record
3. cut or eliminate; "she edited the juiciest scenes" [syn: edit

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing - Cite This Source - Share This

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)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

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.

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