Rubout vs Erase - What's the difference?
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(slang) An assassination.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=June 8, author=Holland Cotter, title=Quirks and Attitude to Burn, work=New York Times
, passage=This high-concept take on low life includes a concealed lethal weapon (by Claire Fontaine); photographic evidence of a rubout (by Torbjorn Rodland); and cryptic, possibly sinister messages galore from Tauba Auerbach, Daniel Knorr, David Lieske and Matias Faldbakken. }}
(computing, uncountable, dated) backspace
* 1990 , Michael D. Harrison, Harold Thimbleby, Formal methods in human-computer interaction (page 130)
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)
As a noun rubout
is (slang) an assassination.As a verb erase is
to remove markings or information.rubout
English
Noun
(en noun)citation
- A direct manipulation editor would support, for example, a single rubout key that uses the cursor to find the appropriate character for deletion...
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.
