different between erasure vs palimpsest

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /???e???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???e???/, /???e????/

Noun

erasure (countable and uncountable, plural erasures)

1. The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
   • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 7, [1]

     The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.

2. The state of having been erased; total blankness.
3. The place where something has been erased.

   There were several erasures on the paper.

4. (sociology) A tendency to ignore or conceal an element of society.

   bisexual erasure

Synonyms

• (action of erasing): cancelation (US), cancellation (British), canceling (US), cancelling (British), deleting, deletion, erasing, obliterating, obliteration, wiping
• (state of having been erased): blankness

Hyponyms

• type erasure

Translations

References

• erasure on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Participle

?r?s?re

1. vocative masculine singular of ?r?s?rus

English

Etymology

From Latin palimps?stus, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (palímps?stos, “scraped again”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /?pæl?mps?st/

Noun

palimpsest (plural palimpsests)

1. A manuscript or document that has been erased or scraped clean, for reuse of the paper, parchment, vellum, or other medium on which it was written.
2. (archaic) Monumental brasses that have been reused by engraving of the blank back side.
3. (astronomy) Circular features believed to be lunar craters that have been obliterated by later volcanic activity.
4. (geology) Geological features thought to be related to features or effects below the surface.
5. (computing) Memory that has been erased and re-written.
6. (cultural studies) The partial erasure of or superimposition on an older society or culture by a newer one.
7. Something bearing the traces of an earlier, erased form.
   • 2005, Patrick Radden Keefe, Chatter:

     Miraculously, the Stasi's record of Garton Ash's years in Berlin remained intact, and in his extraordinary book The File he recalls going back to Berlin, sifting through the material, and piecing together those years for himself. The result is a palimpsest of memories, observations recorded by informants and agents, and the recollections in his own diaries at that time.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:palimpsest.

Synonyms

• codex rescriptus

Derived terms

• palimpsestic

Translations

Verb

palimpsest (third-person singular simple present palimpsests, present participle palimpsesting, simple past and past participle palimpsested)

1. To scrape clean, as in parchment, for reuse.
2. On paper: to reuse, often by erasure or change of pen direction or color. Especially fueled by Earth Day.

   Typically refers to a multi-layered work, e.g.: new ads covering old on a roadside sign.

See also

• pentimento

Anagrams

• past simple, simple past, simple-past

Czech

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????????? (palímps?stos)

Noun

palimpsest m

1. palimpsest

Danish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????????? (palímps?stos)

Noun

palimpsest c (singular definite palimpsesten, plural indefinite palimpsester)

1. palimpsest

Declension

References

• “palimpsest” in Den Danske Ordbog

Polish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????????? (palímps?stos)

Noun

palimpsest m inan

1. palimpsest

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From French palimpseste, from Latin palimps?stus, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (palímps?stos, “scraped again”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pa.limp?sest]

Noun

palimpsest n (plural palimpseste)

1. palimpsest

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????????? (palímps?stos)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pal?mpsest/
• Hyphenation: pa?lim?psest

Noun

palìmpsest m (Cyrillic spelling ??????????)

1. palimpsest

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????????? (palímps?stos)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /palimpsé?st/

Noun

palimps??st m inan

1. palimpsest

Inflection