DELETE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does delete mean? 

• DELETE (verb)
  The verb DELETE has 3 senses:

1. remove or make invisible

2. wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information

3. cut or eliminate

  Familiarity information: DELETE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DELETE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they delete    ... he / she / it deletes   
Past simple: deleted   
Past participle: deleted   
-ing form: deleting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove or make invisible

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

cancel; delete

Context example:

Please delete my name from your list

Hypernyms (to "delete" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "delete"):

efface; erase; rub out; score out; wipe off (remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing)

excise; expunge; scratch; strike (remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

deletion (the act of deleting something written or printed)

deletion (the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

delete; erase

Context example:

Who erased the files from my hard disk?

Hypernyms (to "delete" is one way to...):

take away; take out (take out or remove)

Domain category:

recording; transcription (the act of making a record (especially an audio record))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "delete"):

demagnetise; demagnetize (erase (a magnetic storage device))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cut or eliminate

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

blue-pencil; delete; edit

Context example:

she edited the juiciest scenes

Hypernyms (to "delete" is one way to...):

censor (subject to political, religious, or moral censorship)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

deletion (the act of deleting something written or printed)

deletion (the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage)

 Context examples 

Deleted in Malignant Brain Tumors 1, encoded by the human DMBT1 gene, is a member of the scavenger-receptor superfamily and likely a truncated form of a receptor for SFTPD.

(Deleted in Malignant Brain Tumors 1, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes deleted in lung and esophageal cancer 1 protein, plays a role in tumor suppression.

(DLEC1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Deleted in bladder cancer protein 1 (761 aa, ~89 kDa) is encoded by the human DBC1 gene.

(Deleted In Bladder Cancer Protein 1, NCI Thesaurus)

The absence of these genes is associated with the formation of colorectal cancer (DCC stands for deleted in colorectal cancer).

(DCC wt Allele, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A CTLA-4 splice variant with a deleted transmembrane segment is preferentially expressed in non-activated T-cells.

(Cytotoxic T-Lymphocyte-Associated Protein 4, NCI Thesaurus)

I have, according to our arrangement, addressed it to you, my dear Mr. McArdle, and I leave it to your discretion to delete, alter, or do what you like with it.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Five-prime recombinations of MCF2 delete N-terminal codons, producing activated oncogenic variant; the upstream replacing sequence, URS, is derived from D15S93 at 15q15-q23.

(DBL Oncoprotein, NCI Thesaurus)

Frequently, the allele has been found to be deleted in chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

(DLEU1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

The DLEU2 gene is frequently deleted in B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia, mantle-cell lymphoma and multiple myeloma.

(DLEU2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Mice with the IL-7 receptor deleted lack B and T cells.

(IL7 Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)