Delete vs. Archive — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Delete and Archive
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Definitions
Delete➦
To cancel, strike out, or make impossible to be perceived
Deleted the expletives from the transcript with a marker.
Archive➦
An archive is an accumulation of historical records – in any media – or the physical facility in which they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime, and are kept to show the function of that person or organization.
Delete➦
To remove from a document or record
Deleted the names from the computer file.
Archive➦
Often archives A place or collection containing records, documents, or other materials of historical interest
Old land deeds in the municipal archives.
Delete➦
To remove (a file, for example) from a hard drive or other storage medium.
Archive➦
A long-term storage area, often on magnetic tape, for backup copies of files or for files that are no longer in active use.
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Delete➦
To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device.
Archive➦
A file containing one or more files in compressed format for more efficient storage and transfer.
Delete➦
To defeat or dominate.
Archive➦
A repository for stored memories or information
The archive of the mind.
Delete➦
To kill or murder.
Archive➦
To place or store in an archive.
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Delete➦
(computing) A deletion.
Archive➦
(Computers) To copy or compress (a file) into an archive.
Delete➦
(recorded entertainment industry) A remainder of a music or video release.
Archive➦
A place for storing earlier, and often historical, material. An archive usually contains documents (letters, records, newspapers, etc.) or other types of media kept for historical interest.
Delete➦
(uncountable) Delete
Archive➦
The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives).
His archive of Old High German texts is the most extensive in Britain.
Delete➦
(computing) The delete character (U+007F or %7F).
Archive➦
(ecology) Natural deposits of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time.
Soil archive
Peat archive
Delete➦
To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit.
I have, therefore, . . . inserted eleven stanzas which do not appear in Sir Walter Scott's version, and have deleted eight.
Archive➦
(transitive) To put (something) into an archive.
I was planning on archiving the documents from 2001.
Delete➦
Remove or make invisible;
Please delete my name from your list
Archive➦
The place in which public records or historic documents are kept.
Our words . . . . become records in God's court, and are laid up in his archives as witnesses.
Delete➦
Wipe out magnetically recorded information
Archive➦
Public records or documents preserved as evidence of facts; as, the archives of a country or family.
Some rotten archive, rummaged out of some seldom explored press.
Delete➦
Cut or eliminate;
She edited the juiciest scenes
Archive➦
A depository containing historical records and documents
Archive➦
Put into an archive
