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What's The Definition Of Cancel?
[n] a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat
[v] of cheques or tickets [v] remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list" [v] declare null and void; make ineffective; "Cancel the election results"; "strike down a law" [v] postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled; "Call off the engagement"; "cancel the dinner party" [v] make up for; "His skills offset his opponent's superior strength" Synonyms | Synonyms for Cancel: call off | delete | invalidate | natural | offset | set off | strike down Related Terms | Find terms related to Cancel: abandon | abbreviate | abolish | abolishment | abolition | abort | abridge | abrogate | abrogation | absolve | accent | accent mark | accommodate | adjust | annihilate | annul | annulment | balance | bar | belay | black out | blot | blot out | blotting | blotting out | blue-pencil | bowdlerize | bring to naught | bring to nothing | buffer | call off | cancel out | canceling | cancellation | cassation | cease | censor | come to nothing | compensate | compensate for | complete | coordinate | counteract | counterbalance | countermand | counterorder | counterpoise | countervail | cross out | custos | cut | cut it out | declare a moratorium | defeasance | dele | delete | deletion | deny | deracinate | desist | direct | disannul | discontinue | dispose of | do away with | dot | drop | drop it | drop the curtain | edit | edit out | efface | effacement | eliminate | end | end off | equalize | equate | eradicate | erase | erasure | even | even up | expression mark | expunction | expunge | expurgate | extinguish | fermata | finalize | finish | fit | fold up | frustrate | get it over | get over with | get through with | give over | give the quietus | give up | halt | have done with | hold | integrate | invalidate | invalidation | kayo | key signature | kibosh | kill | knock it off | knock out | KO | lay off | lead | leave off | level | ligature | make up for | make void | mark | measure | metronomic mark | negate | negativate | negative | neutralize | notation | nullification | nullify | obliterate | obliteration | offset | omit | override | overrule | pause | perfect | poise | polish off | presa | proportion | put paid to | quash | quit | raze | recall | recant | recantation | redeem | refrain | relinquish | renege | renounce | repeal | repudiate | rescind | rescinding | rescindment | rescission | retract | retraction | reversal | reverse | revocation | revoke | revokement | rub out | rule out | scrag | scratch | scratch out | scrub | scrubbing | segno | set aside | setting aside | shoot down | sign | signature | slur | sponge | sponge out | square | stay | stop | strike | strike a balance | strike off | strike out | stultify | surrender | suspend | suspension | swell | symbol | tempo mark | terminate | thwart | tie | time signature | undo | vacate | vacation | vacatur | vinculum | vitiate | void | voidance | voiding | waive | waiver | waiving | washing out | wipe out | wiping out | withdraw | withdrawal | write off | write-off | zap See Also | adjudge | annul | avoid | balance | break | counteract | counterbalance | countermand | countervail | declare | efface | equilibrate | equilibrise | equilibrize | erase | excise | expunge | hold | invalidate | lift | mark | musical notation | neutralize | nullify | overturn | quash | recall | remit | remove | repeal | rescind | reverse | revoke | rub out | schedule | score | score out | strike | take | take away | vacate | void | wipe off | withdraw | write off Cancel In Webster's Dictionary \Can"cel\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Canceled} or {Cancelled};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Canceling} or {Cancelling}.] [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. ? latticed gate. Cf.
{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; though 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.) 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. [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 or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages. (b) The part thus suppressed. |
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