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Cancel
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 1 A cancellation. US
- 2 a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat wordnet
- 3 A cancellation.; A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message. US
- 4 An enclosure; a boundary; a limit. obsolete
"A prison is but a retirement, and opportunity of serious thoughts, to a person whose spirit[…]desires no enlargement beyond the cancels of the body."
- 5 The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
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- 6 The page thus suppressed.
- 7 The page that replaces it.
- 1 To cross out something with lines etc. transitive
"A deed may be avoided by delivering it up to be cancelled; that is, to have lines drawn over it in the form of latticework or cancelli; the phrase is now used figuratively for any manner of obliterating or defacing it."
- 2 make invalid for use wordnet
- 3 To invalidate or annul something. transitive
"He cancelled his order on their website."
- 4 remove or make invisible wordnet
- 5 To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused. transitive
"This machine cancels the letters that have a valid zip code."
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- 6 declare null and void; make ineffective wordnet
- 7 To offset or equalize something. transitive
"The corrective feedback mechanism cancels out the noise."
- 8 postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled wordnet
- 9 To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation. transitive
"Such a 2-handle cancels the 1-handle so the manifold is D⁴."
- 10 make up for wordnet
- 11 To stop production of a programme. transitive
- 12 To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type. dated
- 13 To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude. obsolete
"cancelled from heaven"
- 14 To kill. slang
- 15 To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable); to disinvite. Compare cancel culture. neologism, transitive
"Bill Gates is canceled. Gwen Stefani and Erykah Badu are canceled. Despite his relatively strong play in the World Cup, Cristiano Ronaldo has been canceled. Taylor Swift is canceled and Common is canceled and, Wednesday, Antoni Porowski, a “Queer Eye” fan favorite was also canceled. Needless to say, Kanye West is canceled, too."
Etymology
From Middle English cancellen, from Anglo-Norman canceler (“to cross out with lines”) (modern French chanceler (“to stagger, sway”)), from Old French canceler, from Latin cancellō (“to make resemble a lattice”), from cancellus (“a railing or lattice”), diminutive of cancer (“a lattice”).
From Middle English cancellen, from Anglo-Norman canceler (“to cross out with lines”) (modern French chanceler (“to stagger, sway”)), from Old French canceler, from Latin cancellō (“to make resemble a lattice”), from cancellus (“a railing or lattice”), diminutive of cancer (“a lattice”).
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