What's the difference between erase and indelible?

Erase


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 5) and erased from the original Kauffmann-White-Schema and the Arizona Antigenic Schema to avoid a wrong diagnosis.
  • (2) Paterson added in the letter, published on the PoliticsHome website : "However, the government is rightly committed to advancing equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and has already taken action to do so by allowing those religious premises that wish to carry out civil partnerships to do so, erasing historic convictions for consensual gay sex and putting pressure on other countries that violate the human rights of LGBT people.
  • (3) In her study, Mandel explains how the media’s “narrative of polarisation” erases multiple and complex interactions, reducing everything to a hostility that is framed by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
  • (4) Eating at the meal site erased significant differences in dietary intake of nutrients consumed at home related to sex, education, and occupation.
  • (5) I sometimes think about erasing them, but that would be like pretending it didn't happen.
  • (6) Conservatives were unhappy the measure doesn’t erase enough of Obama’s law while at the other end of the party’s spectrum, moderates were upset the bill would strip millions of health coverage.
  • (7) Although the conservative-dominated coalition has made headway in purging the state sector since it assumed power in June 2012, sceptical attitudes have been hard to erase.
  • (8) "It's not like [2006 solo album] The Eraser at all," he said.
  • (9) The government is now considering whether to ask the employees, most of whom work in waste disposal and public transport, to have their tattoos erased, or even to find another job.
  • (10) That it may conceal, or even completely erase, major abnormalities of ventricular repolarization induced by certain drugs is not so well known.
  • (11) Feinstein’s speech this morning seems unlikely to erase that perception.
  • (12) The UN report, based on interviews with dozens of survivors, said on Thursday that the Islamist militants, who include foreign fighters, had been systematically capturing Yazidis in Iraq and Syria since August 2014 , seeking to “erase their identity”.
  • (13) Nonetheless, the project may have helped to erase the stereotype that all teenage fathers neglect their parental responsibilities.
  • (14) The second echo type consisted of one of the animal's echolocation clicks, previously measured, digitized and stored in an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM).
  • (15) Any idea that filming may be glamorous has been erased from my daughter's head.
  • (16) Child survival gains in the last three decades in the developed world could be quickly erased at low levels of maternal HIV infection, but gains would not be completely offset in the developing world until more than 40% of mothers became infected with HIV.
  • (17) The police are reluctant to pursue the case and, according to the Express Tribune, phone records for the last 18 days of Shahzad's life have been mysteriously erased.
  • (18) For her, the few memories of that night but the many of its extended aftermath cannot be erased.
  • (19) The demonstrations' bloody ending has largely erased memories of the carnival of protest that preceded it: an astonishing uprising which lasted six weeks and drew in millions of people from around the country, threatening an end to communist rule.
  • (20) Erase even more, you cowardly regime,” Abo Bakr wrote on a wall in a message to the whitewashers.

Indelible


Definition:

  • (a.) That can not be removed, washed away, blotted out, or effaced; incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten; as, indelible characters; an indelible stain; an indelible impression on the memory.
  • (a.) That can not be annulled; indestructible.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) What the film does, though, is use these incidents to build an idiosyncratic but insightful picture of Lawrence, played indelibly by Peter O'Toole in his debut role: a complicated, egomaniacal and physically masochistic man, at once god-like and all too flawed, with a tenuous grip both on reality and on sanity.
  • (2) An analysis of insertions and deletions (indels) occurring in a databank of multiple sequence alignments based on protein tertiary structure is reported.
  • (3) Unfortunately for Ban, however, his leadership at the UN is indelibly associated with precisely the kind of diplomatic dysfunction put on display at such mega-conferences.
  • (4) The scene changed, my life had changed, and I moved into legal and more indelible forms of self-expression.
  • (5) I had a ball!” Bellingham, though, knew that gravy, like Lady Macbeth’s damned spot, left an indelible mark.
  • (6) Sabi Sand said it had injected a mix of parasiticides and indelible pink dye into more than 100 rhinos' horns over the past 18 months to combat international poaching syndicates.
  • (7) The violent images from that period 10 years ago – of Israeli security forces expelling Jews from their houses – remain indelibly inscribed in the settler community’s consciousness, and are viewed like kryptonite by Israel’s most rightwing government ever.
  • (8) But the brutal conflict of the Thrilla in Manila is the one indelibly etched into boxing history.
  • (9) Except that there was a wind - a gale of ideas, music, appearance and lifestyle which would leave its indelible mark on Western society, and beyond.
  • (10) The present report represents an extension of initial 3H-proline autoradiographic studies designed to provide, at both the cytologic and histologic levels, an indelible topographic record of skeletal events in aging mice.
  • (11) Deliberate hypotension can reduce major blood loss and indelicate operations can produce a drier field increasing the ease of surgery and the likelihood of a good result.
  • (12) However, by 1884, Osler had already left his indelible imprint on the students (both medical and veterinary) he had taught in Montreal, one of whom took over the teaching of pathology in the veterinary college.
  • (13) A former West Australian attorney general , Jim McGinty, told the Age newspaper that the image of her splashed across media outlets left an indelible impression.
  • (14) And though the names and faces of many who were lynched have slipped from the pages of history, their deaths, the report argues, have left an indelible mark on race relations in America.
  • (15) Not only have they left an indelible mark on American life, but the Obamas are a couple of the most beloved national figures right now,” said Neil Sroka , communications director for Democracy for America who was an Obama campaign staffer in 2007-2008.
  • (16) It left indelible marks on the island’s political and education systems, both of which are closely modelled on those of the UK.
  • (17) A quick, simple method of doing this would be to provide patients' with a plastic card, similar to a credit card, with instructions and details of the reaction written on it with an indelible pen.
  • (18) To mark his appointment, Grohl wrote a personal blogpost about how record-shopping and music discovery had left an indelible mark on his own life.
  • (19) More than 60 people were killed in Taliban attacks on Saturday, with dozens more injured including 11 men whose index fingers were cut off by the Taliban because they were stained with the indelible ink that marked them out as voters.
  • (20) Or has 1984's winner The Bone People , alone, left an indelible scar?