cancel

Noun · Verb
Synonyms: naturalcall offscratchscruboffsetset offstrike downdeleteinvalidate

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

  1. a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flatSynonyms: natural

Verb (5)

  1. 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”Synonyms: call offscratchscrub
  2. make up for“His skills offset his opponent's superior strength”Synonyms: offsetset off
  3. declare null and void; make ineffective“Cancel the election results”“strike down a law”Synonyms: strike down
  4. remove or make invisible“Please delete my name from your list”Synonyms: delete
  5. make invalid for use“cancel cheques or tickets”Synonyms: invalidate
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Cancel \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.] [1913 Webster]

A little obscure place canceled in with iron work is the pillar or stump at which . . . our Savior was scourged.— Evelyn.[1913 Webster]

2.To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude. [Obs.] "Canceled from heaven." --Milton. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

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.[1913 Webster]

4.To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall. [1913 Webster]

The indentures were canceled.— Thackeray.[1913 Webster]
He was unwilling to cancel the interest created through former secret services, by being refractory on this occasion.— Sir W. Scott.[1913 Webster]

5.(Print.) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

Cancel \Can"cel\, n. [See Cancel, v. i., and cf. Chancel.] [1913 Webster]

1.An inclosure; a boundary; a limit. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

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.[1913 Webster]

2.(Print) (a) The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages. (b) The part thus suppressed. [1913 Webster]

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

Cancel CAN

<character> (CAN, Control-X) ASCII character 24.

(1996-06-28)

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