Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word DELETE

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Definitions of DELETE

1. (online gaming, slang) To defeat or dominate.
2. (transitive, slang) To kill or murder.
3. (computing) A deletion.
4. (recorded entertainment industry) A remainder of a music or video release.
5. (uncountable) Alternative letter-case form of Delete.
6. (computing) The delete character (U+007F or %7F).
7. (computing) A key that may be pressed to delete something (such as text or files) from a computer. The key also erases text from left to right, unlike the backspace key.
8. (transitive) To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device. [from 1600s]

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Examples of Using DELETE in a Sentence

• ABCD (add, browse, change, delete) a variation of create, read, update and delete in computer programming.
• However, two of the characters in these rows, namely the space character SP at row 2 column 0 and the delete character DEL (also called the rubout character) at row 7 column 15, require special mention.
• System administrators use a program called a partition editor to create, resize, delete, and manipulate the partitions.
• A database engine (or storage engine) is the underlying software component that a database management system (DBMS) uses to create, read, update and delete (CRUD) data from a database.
• Patrick Henry persuaded the convention to delete a section that would have prohibited bills of attainder, arguing that ordinary laws could be ineffective against some terrifying offenders.
• Additionally, it can add, modify, or delete HTTP message headers, be configured to block connections or redirect requests based on the web page address, and be configured to route connections through a remote proxy.
• The exception is control characters, such as "delete" or "backspace" which correct typing mistakes by deleting the character at the end of the buffer.
• On most systems, users can create and delete, replicate, select, click or double-click standard computer icons and drag them to new positions on the screen to create a customized user environment.
• From there it may be used to gain access to privileged information like passwords, corrupt or delete data on hard drives, or transfer information within autoschediastic networks.
• If rd/rmdir gets executed without regard to case sensitivity and Windows chooses the legitimate folder to delete, the only folder left is the undesired one.
• Since RAM is cleared upon reboot, tmpfs prevents systems from becoming too cluttered without requiring that the user manually delete temporary files.
• And no amount of administrative reshuffling can delete these longstanding and cherished local identities.
• Most disc burning applications silently delete the image from the Temporary folder after making one copy.
• An alternative approach would be to invalidate the cache with the Memcached delete function, so that subsequent fetches result in a cache miss.
• Some relational database management systems (RDBMS) can enforce referential integrity, normally either by deleting the foreign key rows as well to maintain integrity, or by returning an error and not performing the delete.
• Expert Zealots, who could move or delete some whole categories, monitored the day-to-day operations of the non-commercial portion of the directory and acted as mentors to new members.
• The delete character DEL (0x7F), the escape character ESC (0x1B) and the space character SP (0x20) are designated "fixed" coded characters and are always available when G0 is invoked over GL, irrespective of what character sets are designated.
• Some versions of soft heaps allow the create, insert, and meld operations to take constant time in the worst case, producing amortized rather than worst-case performance only for findmin and delete.
• Mutation operators can rearrange, change or delete subtrees depending on the represented syntax structure.
• Word of the album's impending release in the United States caused enough of a furor to cause CBS Records to delete the cover blurb there.

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