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How to pronounce deletion in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms cut, excision
Type of editing, redaction
Derivation delete


an editor's deletions frequently upset young authors.
Type Words
Synonyms omission
Type of linguistic process
Has types ellipsis, aphaeresis, apheresis, elision, aphesis, eclipsis
Type Words
Type of chromosomal mutation, mutation, genetic mutation
Type Words
Type of removal, remotion
Has types expunging, expunction, erasure, castration, expurgation, censorship, censoring
Derivation delete

Examples of deletion

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Deletion, like everything else in Wikipedia, is about consensus between editors.
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Please explain the deletion of authorship articles from the authorship template.
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Anyone can see that they are not sources against deletion, I guarantee you that.
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Otherwise we lack important information to execute your speedy deletion request.
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Please don't delete the page unless you can give a good reason for its deletion.
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Many thanks very much for the heads up on the change to copyvio speedy deletion.
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The following is an archived debate of the deletion review of the article above.
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Once you add the article to the deletion discussion page I will add my thoughts.
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Idon't know if you inserted the sentence, or if you simply opposed its deletion.
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More examples
  • Omission: any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases
  • (genetics) the loss or absence of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome
  • The omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage; "an editor's deletions frequently upset young authors"; "both parties agreed on the excision of the proposed clause"
  • The act of deleting something written or printed
  • In genetics, a deletion (also called gene deletion, deficiency, or deletion mutation) is a mutation (a genetic aberration) in which a part of a chromosome or a sequence of DNA is missing. Deletion is the loss of genetic material. ...
  • Deletion is a music industry term referring to the removal of a record or records from a label's official catalog, so that it is out of print, but usually at a record artist's request.
  • In linguistics, elision or deletion is the omission of one or more sounds (such as a vowel, a consonant, or a whole syllable) in a word or phrase. Sometimes sounds are elided to make a word easier to pronounce. The word elision is frequently used in linguistic description of living languages, and deletion is often used in historical linguistics for a historical sound change.
  • An item that has been or will be deleted; The act of deleting
  • (deletions) The blotting out, erasing, or canceling of information that makes people's perceptions less than perfect because their physical senses are limited. (ch 2) (50)