dele
dele — 動詞
- delepresent simple I / you / we / they
- deles3rd person singular
- deling-ing form
- deledpast simple
1. to mark a letter, word, line, or other printed part so that it should be removed
劃刪；刪去
在校樣上標示刪除
to mark a letter, word, line, or other printed part so that it should be removed during proofreading or typesetting
Marco deled the repeated headline on the page proof.
Marco 在頁面校樣上劃刪了重複的標題。
dele + text on a page proof
The copy editor deled an extra comma before the recipe went to print.
文稿編輯在食譜送印前刪去了多出來的逗號。
dele + error before printing
Joon deled the second date after the museum changed its opening schedule.
Joon 在博物館更改開放時間後，刪去了第二個日期。
One caption was deled during layout after the train photo was cropped.
火車照片裁切後，有一則圖說在排版時被劃刪了。
passive: be deled during layout
- dele a headline
- dele a comma
- dele a caption
- dele on a proof
- delete
the everyday general word for removing text or files
- strike out
focuses on crossing words through on paper
- excise
more formal and often used for cutting passages out
文法句型
dele + word/line/caption
be deled on + page proof
用法筆記
Used mainly in proofreading and printing, not in ordinary digital contexts. Outside that field, people usually say delete or strike out.
常見錯誤
dele — 名詞
1. a proofreading mark that tells a printer or editor to remove a letter, word, lin
刪除記號
校對時表示要刪掉的符號
a proofreading mark that tells a printer or editor to remove a letter, word, line, or other part of printed text
Maeve circled the typo and added a dele in the margin.
Maeve 圈起那個錯字，並在頁邊加了一個刪除記號。
a dele in the margin
The printer missed one dele on the ticket proof and kept the old seat number.
印刷員漏看了票券校樣上的一個刪除記號，所以保留了舊座位號碼。
miss a dele on a proof
A red dele appeared beside the repeated address on the wedding program.
婚禮節目單上重複的地址旁邊，出現了一個紅色的刪除記號。
When Christopher saw the dele, he removed the extra word from page two.
Christopher 看到那個刪除記號後，就把第二頁多出的那個字拿掉了。
respond to a dele by removing text
- a dele in the margin
- a red dele
- mark with a dele
- miss a dele
- deletion mark
a plain descriptive label for the same proofreading sign
- proofreader's mark
a broader term that can include many correction signs
文法句型
a dele beside + text
mark + text + with a dele
用法筆記
Common in publishing and proofreading. This sense names the mark itself, while the verb sense describes the act of marking text for removal.