CANCEL

cancel

Noun

  1. A cancellation (US); (nonstandard in some kinds of English).
    1. A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message.
  2. An inclosure; a boundary; a limit.
    A prison is but a retirement, and opportunity of serious thoughts, to a person whose spiritdesires no enlargement beyond the cancels of the body. — Jeremy Taylor.
  3. The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.

Verb

  1. To cross out something with lines etc.
  2. To invalidate or annul something.
    He cancelled his order on their website.
  3. 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.
  4. To offset or equalize something.
    The corrective feedback mechanism cancels out the noise.
  5. To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
  6. To stop production of a programme.
  7. To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
  8. To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.


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