Truncate vs. Delete — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Truncate and Delete
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Truncate
To shorten or reduce
The script was truncated to leave time for commercials.
Delete
To cancel, strike out, or make impossible to be perceived
Deleted the expletives from the transcript with a marker.
Truncate
To shorten (a number) by dropping one or more digits after the decimal point.
Delete
To remove from a document or record
Deleted the names from the computer file.
Truncate
To replace (the edge of a crystal) with a plane face.
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Delete
To remove (a file, for example) from a hard drive or other storage medium.
Truncate
Appearing to terminate abruptly, as a leaf of a tulip tree or a coiled gastropod shell that lacks a spire.
Delete
To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device.
Truncate
Truncated.
Delete
To defeat or dominate.
Truncate
(transitive) To shorten (something) by, or as if by, cutting part of it off.
Delete
To kill or murder.
Truncate
To shorten (a decimal number) by removing trailing (or leading) digits.
Delete
(computing) A deletion.
Truncate
(geometry) To replace a corner by a plane (or to make a similar change to a crystal).
Delete
(recorded entertainment industry) A remainder of a music or video release.
Truncate
Truncated.
Delete
(uncountable) Delete
Truncate
Having an abrupt termination.
Delete
(computing) The delete character (U+007F or %7F).
Truncate
To cut off; to lop; to maim.
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.
Truncate
Appearing as if cut off at the tip; as, a truncate leaf or feather.
Delete
Remove or make invisible;
Please delete my name from your list
Truncate
Replace a corner by a plane
Delete
Wipe out magnetically recorded information
Truncate
Approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one;
Truncate a series
Delete
Cut or eliminate;
She edited the juiciest scenes
Truncate
Make shorter as if by cutting off;
Truncate a word
Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains
Truncate
Terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off;
A truncate leaf
Truncated volcanic mountains
A truncated pyramid
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