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CANCEL
natural, cancel
(noun) a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat
cancel, invalidate
(verb) make invalid for use; “cancel cheques or tickets”
delete, cancel
(verb) remove or make invisible; “Please delete my name from your list”
cancel, strike down
(verb) declare null and void; make ineffective; “Cancel the election results”; “strike down a law”
cancel, call off, scratch, scrub
(verb) postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled; “Call off the engagement”; “cancel the dinner party”; “we had to scrub our vacation plans”; “scratch that meeting--the chair is ill”
cancel, offset, set off
(verb) make up for; “His skills offset his opponent’s superior strength”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
cancel (third-person singular simple present cancels, present participle (US) canceling or cancelling, simple past and past participle (US) canceled or cancelled)
(transitive) To cross out something with lines etc.
(transitive) To invalidate or annul something.
(transitive) To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.
(transitive) To offset or equalize something.
(transitive, mathematics) To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
(transitive, media) To stop production of a programme.
(printing, dated) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
(obsolete) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
(slang) To kill.
(transitive, neologism) To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable). Compare cancel culture.
Synonyms
• (invalidate or annul): belay
• (kill): take care of; see also kill
• (cease supporting someone deemed unacceptable): blacklist; see also boycott
Noun
cancel (plural cancels)
A cancellation (US); (nonstandard in some kinds of English).
(Internet) A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message.
(obsolete) An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.
(printing) The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
(printing) The page thus suppressed.
(printing) The page that replaces it.
Proper noun
Cancel (plural Cancels)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Cancel is the 8649th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3801 individuals. Cancel is most common among Hispanic/Latino (84.27%) and White (11.94%) individuals.
Source: Wiktionary
Can"cel, v. i. [Imp. & p. p. Canceled or Cancelled (; p. pr. & vb. n. Canceling or Cancelling.] Etym: [L. cancellare to make like a lattice, to strike or cross out (cf. Fr. canceller, OF. canceler) fr. cancelli lattice, crossbars, dim. of cancer lattice; cf. Gr. Chancel.]
1. To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework. [Obs.] A little obscure place canceled in with iron work is the pillar or stump at which . . . our Savior was scourged. Evelyn.
2. To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude. [Obs.] "Canceled from heaven." Milton.
3. To cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out or obliterate. 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. Blackstone.
4. To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall. The indentures were canceled. Thackeray. He was unwilling to cancel the interest created through former secret services, by being refractory on this occasion. Sir W. Scott.
5. (Print.)
Definition: To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type. Canceled figures (Print), figures cast with a line across the face., as for use in arithmetics.
Syn.
– To blot out; Obliterate; deface; erase; efface; expunge; annul; abolish; revoke; abrogate; repeal; destroy; do away; set aside. See Abolish.
Can"cel, n. Etym: [See Cancel, v. i., and cf. Chancel.]
1. An inclosure; a boundary; a limit. [Obs.] 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. Jer. Taylor.
2. (Print) (a) The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages. (b) The part thus suppressed.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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