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Backspace vs Delate - What's the difference?

backspace | delate |

As verbs the difference between backspace and delate

is that backspace is (computing) to remove a character behind a cursor while delate is to carry; to convey or delate can be .

As a noun backspace

is the key on a typewriter that moves the head one position backwards.

backspace

English

Noun

(wikipedia backspace) (en noun)
  • The key on a typewriter that moves the head one position backwards.
  • (computing) A keyboard key used for removing a character behind the cursor, and moving the cursor one position backwards.
  • Verb

    (backspac)
  • (computing) To remove a character behind a cursor.
  • (computing) To move a magnetic tape to a previous block.
  • delate

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (delat)
  • To carry; to convey.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • Try exactly the time wherein sound is delated .
  • To carry abroad; to spread; to make public.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • when the crime is delated or notorious
  • To carry or bring against, as a charge; to inform against; to accuse; to denounce.
  • * Bishop Burnet
  • As men were delated , they were marked down for such a fine.
  • To carry on; to conduct.
  • (Warner)

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (delat)
  • (Goodwin)
    (Webster 1913) ----