The word 'eraser' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a noun meaning a device used to rub out pencil or pen marks. For example, "I need to get a new eraser because mine has worn down from too much use."
And any parsimonious party organiser who, like me, experiments to see whether a small plastic bag containing a packet of Love Hearts and a 25p stripy eraser and matching pencil will do, soon discovers that it won't, at all.
As Adam Lerrick, an economist at Carnegie Mellon University wrote recently, "All that debt forgiveness really needs is an eraser".But there is more.
But it is also white as in "the white of the eraser, the Tipp-Ex", as well as "white lies".
THE left-hand side of Zakia's face looks as though it has been rubbed out with an eraser.
All he needs is a pencil and eraser, with a piano nearby.At lunches in the Wissenschaftskolleg, Mr Ligeti has been a star, engaging voraciously in conversation with all comers on almost any subject in one of six and a half languages (Romanian, Hungarian, German, French, English, Swedish, with a musician's Italian counting as half).
Together, it heralds a massive overhaul of America's telecoms regulatory landscape".The new FCC chairman either has a big eraser or a new pen one or the other," says Reed Hundt, the FCC chairman from 1993 to 1997.
And just as the eraser of a pencil produces heat when it is rubbed across a page, Dr Bennett showed, the demon produces waste heat when he forgets the value of the bit of information.This answer was inspired by the workings of computers, which is why it took over a century to concoct.
But the long summer vacation acts like a mental eraser, with the average child reportedly forgetting about a month's-worth of instruction in many subjects and almost three times that in mathematics.
It was a very strange landscape, like someone took an eraser from Honshu to Sendai.
One of these is the "perfect pencil", still made of wood and graphite, but with a silver sharpener and eraser.
Contemporary techniques of cleaning may range from simple mechanical removal of the deposit with a common soft eraser to the use of surgical scalpels, often with the aid of a binocular microscope for more cautious and delicate cleaning.
