delete key

noun

variants or delete or less commonly Delete key or Delete

computers

: a key on a computer keyboard that when pressed deletes either a selected item (such as an icon or a block of text) or the character that immediately follows the cursor in a document

Examples of delete key in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This act alone will save it from the big delete key and save your data along with it. — Davey Winder, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023

Your touch is on the paper; handwritten words in a letter cannot disappear with a click of the delete key. — Linda Solomon, Freep.com, 19 Dec. 2020

The caps lock key is half size, the arrow keys are surrounded by home and end keys, and worst of all, the delete key is found right next to the backspace key, with no space between them. — Dan Seifert, The Verge, 2 Aug. 2019

Word History

First Known Use

1963, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for delete key

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