censor vs delete

censor is a noun but delete is not a noun.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
censor	Yes	No	Yes	No
delete	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, delete is a hyponym of censor; that is, delete is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than censor:

Other hyponyms of censor include blue-pencil, edit.

censor (noun)	delete (noun)
a person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable
someone who censures or condemns

censor (verb)	delete (verb)
subject to political, religious, or moral censorship	cut or eliminate
forbid the public distribution of (a movie or a newspaper)	wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information
	remove or make invisible