erase
part of speech
verb (erase, erases, erased, erasing)
meaning for a pupil
1) To rub out writing or marks, for example with a rubber or an eraser. tree →
2) To delete something completely, such as a file, message or recording. tree →
3) To remove a memory or feeling so it is forgotten or gone. tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: In the golem story, erasing the aleph from "emet" (truth) leaves "met" (dead), and the tradition reads this as how a creature made with letters can be undone. In the primary lessons: At school you erase pencil marks or wipe the whiteboard. On computers you erase files or data. In stories, people wish they could «erase a memory» or «erase the past». The tool is an «eraser» (US) or «rubber» (UK).
examples
- The person created had a knife in his hand, and was erasing the letter Aleph of the word Emet. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
- Then the one whom they had created said to them: 'God created Adam, and when He wanted to put him to death, he erased a letter fro7n the wind p]met and it became Met (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
- Erase the wrong answer and try again. tree →
- The teacher erased the board at the end of the lesson. tree →
- Don't erase the photos before you save them. tree →
- I erased my mistake neatly. tree →
- The rain erased the chalk drawings on the playground. tree →
- She wished she could erase that embarrassing moment. tree →
- Press this button to erase the recording. tree →
- Write in pencil so you can erase it. tree →
note
Regular verb; drop the e: erasing, erased. Noun: eraser (US, Canada) — in the UK and Australia a «rubber» is also used, but in the US «rubber» can be rude slang, so say «eraser» there. Erased work cannot always be recovered on a computer.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «erase» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.