Erase vs Set_aside - What's the difference?
erase | set_aside | Related terms |
to remove markings or information
To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize.
To obliterate (information) from a storage medium, such as to clear or to overwrite.
(baseball) To remove a runner from the bases via a double play or pick off play
To be erased .
To disregard (a group, an orientation, etc.); to prevent from having an active role in society.
* 1998 , Janice Lynn Ristock, ?Catherine Taylor, Inside the academy and out
* 2004 , Daniel Lefkowitz, Words and Stones (page 209)
* 2011 , Qwo-Li Driskill, Queer Indigenous Studies (page 40)
(idiomatic) To separate and reserve something for a specific purpose.
(idiomatic) To leave out of account; to omit or neglect.
* Tillotson
(idiomatic) To disagree with something and reject or overturn it.
(idiomatic) To declare something invalid or null and void.
Erase is a related term of set_aside.
As verbs the difference between erase and set_aside
is that erase is to remove markings or information while set_aside is (idiomatic) to separate and reserve something for a specific purpose.erase
English
Verb
(eras)- I erased that note because it was wrong.
- I'm going to erase this tape.
- I'm going to erase those files.
- Jones was erased by a 6-4-3 double play.
- The chalkboard erased easily.
- Her painful memories seemingly erased completely.
- The files will erase quickly.
- I suggest, then, that counterdiscourses, when reductive, tend to emulate the screen discourse that erases gay sociality.
- As a result, Palestinians are hyperpresent in Israeli media, while Mizrahim are erased from public discourse.
- Silence around Native sexuality benefits the colonizers and erases queer Native people from their communities.
Derived terms
* eraser * unerase * erasable * unerasableAntonyms
* (remove markings or information) recordAnagrams
* English ergative verbs ----set_aside
English
Verb
- Plan to set aside three or four hours to see the museum.
- Setting aside all other considerations, I will endeavour to know the truth, and yield to that.