Sekirov Dictionary

cancel

/ˈkæn.sl̩/

verb 10
noun 6
forms 8
phrases 2

verb10

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to make a plan, an order or an agreement no longer count, so that it will not happen
- He cancelled his order on their website.
To stop production of a programme.
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To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable); to disinvite. Compare cancel culture.
- We Spoke to Joan Cornellá, the Artist Who Really Should Have Been Cancelled By Now [title] — 2019
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To offset or equalize something.
- The corrective feedback mechanism cancels out the noise.
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To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
- Such a 2-handle cancels the 1-handle so the manifold is D⁴. — 2003
To cross out something with lines etc.
(old-fashioned) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
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To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it cannot be reused.
- This machine cancels the letters that have a valid zip code.
(slang) To kill.
(no longer used) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.

noun6

(US) A cancellation.
A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message.
The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
The page thus suppressed.
The page that replaces it.
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(no longer used) 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. — 1678

forms

canceled · cancell'd · cancelled · canceling · cancelling · cancelleth · cancels · cancellest

Phrases with cancel

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