What's the difference between erase and remove?

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.

Remove


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.
  • (v. t.) To cause to leave a person or thing; to cause to cease to be; to take away; hence, to banish; to destroy; to put an end to; to kill; as, to remove a disease.
  • (v. t.) To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many postmasters.
  • (v. i.) To change place in any manner, or to make a change in place; to move or go from one residence, position, or place to another.
  • (n.) The act of removing; a removal.
  • (n.) The transfer of one's business, or of one's domestic belongings, from one location or dwelling house to another; -- in the United States usually called a move.
  • (n.) The state of being removed.
  • (n.) That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to make room for something else.
  • (n.) The distance or space through which anything is removed; interval; distance; stage; hence, a step or degree in any scale of gradation; specifically, a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year.
  • (n.) The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Samples are hydrolyzed with Ba (OH)2, and the hydrolysate is passed through a Dowex-50 column to remove the salts and soluble carbohydrates.
  • (2) The Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator (CUSA) is a dissecting system that removes tissue by vibration, irrigation and suction; fluid and particulate matter from tumors are aspirated and subsquently deposited in a canister.
  • (3) After 3 and 6 months, blood collected by cardiocentesis using ether anesthesia and then sacrificed to remove CNS and internal organs.
  • (4) On removal of selective pressure, the His+ phenotype was lost more readily than the Ura+ Trp+ markers, with a corresponding decrease in plasmid copy number.
  • (5) Mannose receptor mediated uptake by the reticuloendothelial system has been suggested as an explanation for the rapid removal of ricin A chain antibody conjugates from the circulation after their administration.
  • (6) Nine months later, the animals were sacrificed, the esophagus and the gastric stump were removed for histologic examination.
  • (7) Pain is not reported in the removal area, the clinical examinations show identical findings on both patellar tendons, X-ray and ultrasound evaluations do not demonstrate any change in patellar position.
  • (8) Decreased MU stops additions of bone by modeling and increases removal of bone next to marrow by remodeling.
  • (9) The International Monetary Fund, which has long urged Nigeria to remove the subsidy, supports the move.
  • (10) No effect of BSO pretreatments on the incomplete removal of crosslinks over 36 hr of observation was seen.
  • (11) Plasma for beta-endorphin assay was preincubated with sepharose-bound anti-beta-lipotropin to remove beta-lipotropin that cross-reacted with the beta-endorphin RIA.
  • (12) However in the deciduous teeth from which the successional tooth germs were removed, the processes of tooth resorption was very different in individuals, the difference between tooth resorption in normal occlusal force and in decreased occlusal force was not clear.
  • (13) A neonate without external malformation had undergone removal of a nasopharyngeal mass containing anterior and posterior pituitary tissue.
  • (14) Selective removal of endothelium had no effect on BK-induced contraction or the action of the antagonists.
  • (15) Conditions for limited digestion of the heterodimer by subtilisin, removing only the carboxyl terminus, were determined.
  • (16) Our recurrences are due to local infections, removing the metal strut too early, i.e.
  • (17) We conclude that removal of dimers and repair of gaps were similar in all cases.
  • (18) Solely infectious waste become removed hospital-intern and -extern on conditions of hygienic prevention, namely through secure packing during the transport, combustion or desinfection.
  • (19) (4) Despite the removal of the cruciate ligaments and capsulo-ligamentous slide, no significant residual instability was found in either plane.
  • (20) Agarose-albumin beads may be useful for removing protein-bound substances from the blood of patients with liver failure, intoxication with protein-bound drugs, or specific metabolic deficits.