Deletion

//dɪˈliːʃən//

Synonyms for "deletion" (29 found)

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Closest matches (6)

omission abbreviation abridgment blot blotting blotting out

Strong matches (9)

blue-penciling bowdlerization cancel cancellation censoring censorship deficiency deletion mutation

Noun(1 words)

cut

Related words (14)

deposal editing effacement erasure expunction expurgation gene deletion obliteration scrubbing striking washing out wiping out

Noun(2 words)

excision omission

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

8 entries

chromosomal mutation editing genetic mutation linguistic process mutation redaction remotion removal

Synonyms

4 entries

deficiency deletion mutation gene deletion omission

derived

23 entries

13q deletion syndrome 1p36 deletion syndrome 22q13 deletion syndrome 2q37 deletion syndrome 9q34 deletion syndrome autodeletion codeletion deletional deletionism deletionist hard deletion indel left-edge deletion megadeletion microdeletion nondeletion

Showing 16 of 23 words.

has context

1 entries

genetics

is a

3 entries

editing mutation removal

related to

6 entries

chromosome delete deleted dna gene mutation

Translations

46 translations across 20 languages.

Afrikaans

1 entries

skrapping noun (the act of deleting)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries

刪除 /删除 noun (an item that has been or will be deleted)
刪除 /删除 noun (the act of deleting)
刪除 /删除 noun (mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome)

Czech

2 entries

smazání noun (the act of deleting)
vymazání noun (the act of deleting)

Dutch

1 entries

verwijdering noun (the act of deleting)

Esperanto

2 entries

forigo noun (the act of deleting)
genforigo noun (mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome)

Finnish

4 entries

poistaminen noun (the act of deleting)
poisto noun (an item that has been or will be deleted)
poisto noun (the act of deleting)
poistuma noun (mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome)

French

3 entries

cassure chromosomique noun (mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome)
délétion noun (mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome)
suppression noun (the act of deleting)

German

2 entries

Deletion noun (mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome)
Löschung noun (the act of deleting)

Greek

1 entries

διαγραφή noun (the act of deleting)

Hungarian

1 entries

deléció noun (mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome)

Icelandic

1 entries

eyðing noun (the act of deleting)

Indonesian

3 entries

delesi noun (mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome)
penghapusan noun (the act of deleting)
penghapusan noun (mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome)

Italian

1 entries

delezione noun (mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome)

Japanese

2 entries

削除 noun (the act of deleting)
欠失 noun (mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome)

Korean

1 entries

삭제 noun (the act of deleting)

Polish

2 entries

skasowanie noun (the act of deleting)
usunięcie noun (the act of deleting)

Portuguese

4 entries

deletamento noun (the act of deleting)
deleção noun (the act of deleting)
deleção noun (mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome)
exclusão noun (the act of deleting)

Russian

3 entries

деле́ция noun (mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome)
стира́ние noun (the act of deleting)
удале́ние noun (the act of deleting)

Spanish

4 entries

borrado noun (the act of deleting)
borradura noun (the act of deleting)
deleción noun (the act of deleting)
deleción noun (mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome)

Swedish

2 entries

borttagning noun (the act of deleting)
radering noun (the act of deleting)

Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

It is highly probable that the deletion of element C will still yield the same result.

Source: tatoeba (324914)

This one is ready for deletion.

Source: tatoeba (472111)

At the moment, normal users cannot delete sentences, only corpus maintainers can. We will someday add the possibility for users to delete their own sentences, but in the meantime, if you want to have a sentence deleted, add a comment on the sentence asking for deletion and explain why you'd like to delete it.

Source: tatoeba (1159807)

Left-edge deletion in languages like English is an interesting phenomenon.

Source: tatoeba (13678224)

Showing 4 of 6 available sentences.

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