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backspace
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Word definitions for backspace in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. hit the backspace key on a computer or typewriter keyboard; "To erase, you must backspace"
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also back-space , 1899, in reference to keyboarding, from back (adv.) + space .\n\nWe have had the pleasure of examining one of the 1899 model Hammond typewriters, with the new back-space key. This new feature is certainly an improvement in the machine. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Backspace is the keyboard key that originally pushed the typewriter carriage one position backwards, and in modern computer systems moves the display cursor one position backwards, deletes the character at that position, and shifts back the text after that ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Allow for backspace at the start of each shot. ▪ Bear in mind, when you are starting a shot, that you should allow for the backspace time. ▪ It has an irritatingly small backspace key and I think it has a horrible plastic feel, ...
Usage examples of backspace.
Sarah saw no point in doing something that would obviously be edited out when the people involved backspaced into their normal lives, while Mike felt that any pleasant experience was worth exploring, no matter how illusory it might turn out to be.
He probably should have, he thought when a wild-eyed street preacher in a dirty brown trench coat stood up at the head of his subway car and began shouting about the evils of backspacing, but the sudden decrease in riders as people looped back to take another car at least gave him room to stretch out.
That would be reason enough to backspace, he supposed, but he knew what happened to people who gave in to every impulse that came a long.
For example, when you make a mistake in typing, it's nice to hit the backspace key and not see ^H^H^H on your screen.
Tregare checked his list against Backspace Key's and found less than a dozen colonies unaccounted for, and fifteen ships.
He found the backspace key, deleted the Z, and carefully moved his forefinger to A.
The Wilshire policemen knew that he had only been a clerk typist in that army and not a tank commander as he hinted and they often whispered that Captain Drobeck never retreated but backspaced lots of times.