Terms vs Rubout - What's the difference?
terms | rubout |
(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. }}
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* 1990 , Michael D. Harrison, Harold Thimbleby, Formal methods in human-computer interaction (page 130)
As nouns the difference between terms and rubout
is that terms is while rubout is (slang) an assassination.rubout
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- A direct manipulation editor would support, for example, a single rubout key that uses the cursor to find the appropriate character for deletion...
