Meaning

4 senses
  1. One who erases.

  2. (Canada, Philippines, US)An object used to erase or remove something written or drawn by a pen or a pencil.

    I have worn out the eraser on this pencil.

    Radiergummi, Radierer, Gummi

    рези́нкаrezínka, ла́стикlástik, стёркаstjórka

    гу́мкаhúmka, ґу́мкаgúmka

    an implement used to erase something

  3. (Canada, Philippines, US)An object used to erase something written either by chalk on a chalkboard, by a marker on a whiteboard, or by some other erasable implement; a chalkboard eraser, whiteboard eraser, etc.

    Tafelschwamm

    тря́пкаtrjápka

  4. An overwriter program used to prevent data recovery.

Examples

6 sentences
  1. Everybody makes mistakes. That's why they put erasers on pencils.

    Усі помиляються. Ось чому на олівцях є гумки. — deniko

    deJeder macht mal einen Fehler. Deswegen werden Bleistifte mit Radiergummis versehen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. I buy a lot of erasers.

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  3. There are a lot of forgotten erasers in the classroom.

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  4. Erasers are not made well these days.

  5. He doesn't have erasers.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
thing used to erase something written or drawn:
Русский
By meaning 2
thing used to erase something written or drawn:
chalkboard eraser:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
thing used to erase something written or drawn:
chalkboard eraser:
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