Erasure (Noun)
Meaning 1
A correction made by erasing; "there were many erasures in the typescript".
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The editor carefully reviewed the manuscript, making numerous erasures to correct grammatical errors.
- The student's test paper was filled with erasures, evidence of her struggles with the difficult questions.
- After making several erasures, the artist finally achieved the desired effect in her charcoal sketch.
- The historian spent hours poring over the ancient text, carefully transcribing the words despite the many erasures.
- The typesetter's erasures were evident on the proof, where corrected lines of text had been inserted.
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Meaning 2
A surface area where something has been erased; "another word had been written over the erasure".
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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Meaning 3
Deletion by an act of expunging or erasing.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.