Delete vs. Edit

Deleteverb

To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device.

Deletenoun

(computing) A deletion.

Deletenoun

(recorded entertainment industry) A remainder of a music or video release.

Deletenoun

(uncountable) Delete

Deleteverb

To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit.

Deleteverb

remove or make invisible;

Deleteverb

wipe out magnetically recorded information

Deleteverb

cut or eliminate;

Editnoun

A change to the text of a document.

Editnoun

(computing) A change in the text of a file, a website or the code of software.

Editnoun

An edited piece of media, especially video footage.

Editnoun

(comedy) An interruption or change to an improvised scene.

Editnoun

(genetics) An alteration to the DNA sequence of a chromosome; an act of gene splicing.

Editverb

To change a text, or a document.

Editverb

To alter a photograph or recording of sound or video.

Editverb

(transitive) To be the editor of a publication.

Editverb

(computing) To change the contents of a file, website, etc.

Editverb

(biology) To alter the DNA sequence of a chromosome; to perform gene splicing.

Editverb

To assemble a film by cutting and splicing raw footage.

Editverb

(comedy) To cut short or otherwise alter an improvised scene.

Editverb

(ergative) To lend itself to editing in a certain way.

Editverb

To superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare for publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for publication; as, to edit a newspaper.

Editverb

prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting;

Editverb

supervise the publication of;

Editverb

cut and assemble the components of;

Editverb

cut or eliminate;