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English Dictionary: cancel	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for cancel
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cancel n a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat [syn: natural, cancel] v 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" Synonym(s): cancel, call off, scratch, scrub make up for; "His skills offset his opponent's superior strength" Synonym(s): cancel, offset, set off declare null and void; make ineffective; "Cancel the election results"; "strike down a law" Synonym(s): cancel, strike down remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list" Synonym(s): delete, cancel make invalid for use; "cancel cheques or tickets" Synonym(s): cancel, invalidate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.] 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.] [bd]Canceled from heaven.[b8] --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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cancel \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.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Cancel (CAN, Control-X) {ASCII} character 24. (1996-06-28)