- delegate; delegation
- delete
- deliver
del
Del.Del
Delaware
del.
he (or she) drew it: formerly used after the artist's signature on a painting
Origin of del.
Classical Latin delineavitWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Del.
abbreviation
Delaware
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Origin
From delta, the symbol being an inverted delta
Origin
See deal
Abbreviations
- delegate
- delegation
- delete
- delineavit
Origin
Shortening
Proper noun
- (UK) A diminutive of the male given name Derek.
Proper noun
- Abbreviation of Delaware.
Noun
(plural Dels)
- Abbreviation of Delete (“key of a computer keyboard that deletes text, files, etc.”).
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del - Computer Definition
An internal DOS/Windows command that erases a file from the disk. When a file is deleted from the command line, it cannot be retrieved from the recycle bin, so "be careful!" However, files deleted from Windows Explorer are saved in the recycle bin. Del and Erase are two forms of the command. DELETING FILES Following are examples of deleting single and multiple files: del old.txt erase OLD.TXT del *.txt erase all TXT files or erase old.txt erase OLD.TXT erase *.txt erase all TXT files
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