cancel
see also: Cancel
Pronunciation
Cancel
Proper noun
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see also: Cancel
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈkænsl̩/
cancel (cancels, present participle cancelling; past and past participle cancelled)
- (transitive) To cross out something with lines etc.
- 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.
- (transitive) To invalidate or annul something.
- He cancelled his order on their website.
- 1914, Marjorie Benton Cooke, Bambi
- "I don't know what your agreement was, Herr Professor, but if it had money in it, cancel it. I want him to learn that lesson, too."
- (transitive) To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.
- This machine cancels the letters that have a valid zip code.
- (transitive) To offset or equalize something.
- The corrective feedback mechanism cancels out the noise.
- (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.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 6”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- cancelled from heaven
- (slang) To kill.
- (transitive, neologism) To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable). Compare cancel culture.
- 2018, Jonah Engel Bromwich, in The New York Times
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- 2019, Christopher Hooton, in Vice Media
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- 2018, Jonah Engel Bromwich, in The New York Times
- (invalidate or annul) belay
- (kill) take care of; see also Thesaurus:kill
- (cease supporting someone deemed unacceptable) blacklist; see also Thesaurus:boycott
- German: ausstreichen, durchstreichen
- Italian: depennare, cancellare, eliminare
- Portuguese: riscar
- Russian: зачёркивать
- French: annuler, résilier (a telephone contract, a subscription), se désabonner (a subscription), mettre fin, décommander
- German: annullieren, streichen, stornieren, absagen, canceln, abbestellen
- Italian: invalidare, annullare, recidere, cassare
- Portuguese: anular, invalidar, cancelar
- Russian: отменя́ть
- Spanish: cancelar
- French: oblitérer (cancelling stamps)
- German: entwerten, abstempeln
- Italian: obliterare, annullare
- Russian: погаша́ть
- French: neutraliser, compenser
- German: aufheben, auslöschen
- Italian: neutralizzare, compensare, filtrare
- Portuguese: neutralizar
- Russian: отсека́ть
- German: auslöschen
cancel (plural cancels)
- A cancellation (US); (nonstandard in some kinds of English).
- (obsolete) An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.
- 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.
- (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.
- French: annulation
- Italian: cancellazione, annullamento, cassazione, timbro postale, obliteratore
- Portuguese: anulação
Cancel
Proper noun
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