Eraser
noun
A thing that removes pencil or pen marks from paper.
I used an eraser to remove the mistake I made in my homework.
Often appears as...
- pencil eraser
- rubber eraser
noun
A software function that removes something from a digital image or digital data.
The graphic designer used the eraser tool to remove the unwanted background.
Often appears as...
- eraser tool
- photoshop eraser
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A thing that removes pencil or pen marks from paper.
I used an eraser to remove the mistake I made in my homework.
Often appears as...
- pencil eraser
- rubber eraser
noun
A software function that removes something from a digital image or digital data.
The graphic designer used the eraser tool to remove the unwanted background.
Often appears as...
- eraser tool
- photoshop eraser
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Physical Object
Understand that an eraser usually refers to a small, handheld item used for correcting mistakes.
Make sure to carry an eraser in your pencil case.
Pro Tip 2/3Material Varieties
Erasers can be made from rubber, vinyl, or plastic, each with different textures and efficacy.
Vinyl erasers are better for erasing darker lines.
Pro Tip 3/3Usage Context
The term 'eraser' is preferred in American English, while 'rubber' is common in British English.
Could you hand me the eraser? I need to correct this.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Object
Understand that an eraser usually refers to a small, handheld item used for correcting mistakes.
Make sure to carry an eraser in your pencil case.
Pro Tip 2/3Material Varieties
Erasers can be made from rubber, vinyl, or plastic, each with different textures and efficacy.
Vinyl erasers are better for erasing darker lines.
Pro Tip 3/3Usage Context
The term 'eraser' is preferred in American English, while 'rubber' is common in British English.
Could you hand me the eraser? I need to correct this.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Object
Understand that an eraser usually refers to a small, handheld item used for correcting mistakes.
Make sure to carry an eraser in your pencil case.
Pro Tip 2/3Material Varieties
Erasers can be made from rubber, vinyl, or plastic, each with different textures and efficacy.
Vinyl erasers are better for erasing darker lines.
Pro Tip 3/3Usage Context
The term 'eraser' is preferred in American English, while 'rubber' is common in British English.
Could you hand me the eraser? I need to correct this.
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How Cicadas Become...
fungus-ridden bugs when i talked to matt on tsum he actually had an infected cicada sitting right next to him and he held it up to his camera and if you look you can see that the back side replaced by a fungal plug there now it's all chalky white it's chalky white it's either like a middle school eraser or like a math teacher's chalk you know
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Planet or Plastic? PIPE...
size of a pencil eraser or smaller is what we found in that net plastic does not biodegrade over time it's simply fragments into these smaller and smaller pieces and for all practical purposes it exists on our planet forever so before we went on this sailing trip we went to
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What silence can teach...
between the strings. Things you just find lying around, like screws, tape and rubber erasers. So now, you've transformed the piano from a tonal instrument with high and low pitches into a collection of unique sounds. The music you're hearing is Cage's "Sonata V,"
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Can art amend history? PIPE...
I want to make sculptures that are honest, that wrestle with the struggles of our past but speak to the diversity and the advances of our present. And we can't do that by taking an eraser and getting rid of stuff. That's just not going to work.
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The Opposites Game
of Stupid-land? You should be, When's the election? It’s a teddy bear, a sword, a perfect, perfect peach. Go back to the first one, it's a flower, a white rose. When the bell rings, I reach for an eraser but a girl
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How does a jellyfish...
With such delicate bodies, they rely on thousands of venom-containing stinging cells called cnidocytes for protection and prey capture. Even baby jellyfish, the size of a pencil eraser, have the ability to sting.
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Community-powered...
when we get a sentence reduced, or a charge dropped, or we win an acquittal, that person, who's been a name on the board, comes to the meeting. And when their name comes up, they're given an eraser,
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Is DNA the future of...
that you could fit 100 million HD movies on a pencil eraser. It's even conceivable that one day we could fit all of the information currently on the Internet into the space of a shoe box.
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Why the pencil is...
The pencil is a very simple object. It's made of wood with some layers of paint an eraser and a core, which is made out of graphite, clay and water.
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Re-adapting to Indian...
new world several such necessary adjustments and learnings followed like for example that United States you didn't ask to borrow an eraser to
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How Cicadas Become...
fungus-ridden bugs when i talked to matt on tsum he actually had an infected cicada sitting right next to him and he held it up to his camera and if you look you can see that the back side replaced by a fungal plug there now it's all chalky white it's chalky white it's either like a middle school eraser or like a math teacher's chalk you know
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Planet or Plastic? PIPE...
size of a pencil eraser or smaller is what we found in that net plastic does not biodegrade over time it's simply fragments into these smaller and smaller pieces and for all practical purposes it exists on our planet forever so before we went on this sailing trip we went to
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What silence can teach...
between the strings. Things you just find lying around, like screws, tape and rubber erasers. So now, you've transformed the piano from a tonal instrument with high and low pitches into a collection of unique sounds. The music you're hearing is Cage's "Sonata V,"
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Can art amend history? PIPE...
I want to make sculptures that are honest, that wrestle with the struggles of our past but speak to the diversity and the advances of our present. And we can't do that by taking an eraser and getting rid of stuff. That's just not going to work.
Video examples
The Opposites Game
of Stupid-land? You should be, When's the election? It’s a teddy bear, a sword, a perfect, perfect peach. Go back to the first one, it's a flower, a white rose. When the bell rings, I reach for an eraser but a girl
Video examples
How does a jellyfish...
With such delicate bodies, they rely on thousands of venom-containing stinging cells called cnidocytes for protection and prey capture. Even baby jellyfish, the size of a pencil eraser, have the ability to sting.
Video examples
Community-powered...
when we get a sentence reduced, or a charge dropped, or we win an acquittal, that person, who's been a name on the board, comes to the meeting. And when their name comes up, they're given an eraser,
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Is DNA the future of...
that you could fit 100 million HD movies on a pencil eraser. It's even conceivable that one day we could fit all of the information currently on the Internet into the space of a shoe box.
Video examples
Why the pencil is...
The pencil is a very simple object. It's made of wood with some layers of paint an eraser and a core, which is made out of graphite, clay and water.
Video examples
Re-adapting to Indian...
new world several such necessary adjustments and learnings followed like for example that United States you didn't ask to borrow an eraser to
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Ali Wong
American Actress
My husband and I went to Japan for our honeymoon, and you look at, like, the presentation of the food, and it's ridiculous. It looks like a Mondrian painting or something. Everything looks like a bunch of little Hello Kitty erasers when you eat a little bento box in Japan. It's so precise and beautiful and processed and neat.
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Melissa Etheridge
American Musician
I've worked since I was 11 years old, playing music and following the dream, and shaking and moving and doing it. And then, you have cancer and it was like 'Ooooohh.' It was like a big eraser. It was the only thing in my life that had ever made me just stop.
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Kristin Scott Thomas
English Actress
I can't get into all that physical stuff of having to have flawless skin... Sometimes you see people and it looks like someone's got an eraser and made their face a little blurry - their traits seem to go out of focus.
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Linda Gray
American Actress
I always tell people that my life is in pencil; I have to keep an eraser in my hand because I could always get a call that could change everything.
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Maira Kalman
American Author
On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
American Architect
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
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Arnold Palmer
American Golfer
I have a tip that will take five strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.
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Dylan Moran
Irish Comedian
Paper acts as an eraser on the mind, as soon as you look at what you've written.
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John W. Gardner
American Educator
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
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The Iron Sheik
Iranian Wrestler
A pencil has eraser because it make mistake.
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Ali Wong
American Actress
My husband and I went to Japan for our honeymoon, and you look at, like, the presentation of the food, and it's ridiculous. It looks like a Mondrian painting or something. Everything looks like a bunch of little Hello Kitty erasers when you eat a little bento box in Japan. It's so precise and beautiful and processed and neat.
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Melissa Etheridge
American Musician
I've worked since I was 11 years old, playing music and following the dream, and shaking and moving and doing it. And then, you have cancer and it was like 'Ooooohh.' It was like a big eraser. It was the only thing in my life that had ever made me just stop.
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Kristin Scott Thomas
English Actress
I can't get into all that physical stuff of having to have flawless skin... Sometimes you see people and it looks like someone's got an eraser and made their face a little blurry - their traits seem to go out of focus.
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Linda Gray
American Actress
I always tell people that my life is in pencil; I have to keep an eraser in my hand because I could always get a call that could change everything.
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Maira Kalman
American Author
On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
American Architect
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
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Arnold Palmer
American Golfer
I have a tip that will take five strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.
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Dylan Moran
Irish Comedian
Paper acts as an eraser on the mind, as soon as you look at what you've written.
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John W. Gardner
American Educator
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
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The Iron Sheik
Iranian Wrestler
A pencil has eraser because it make mistake.
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