Cancel

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.]
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              A little obscure place canceled in with iron work is
              the pillar or stump at which . . . our Savior was
              scourged.                             --Evelyn.
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     2. To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to
        exclude. [Obs.] "Canceled from heaven." --Milton.
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     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.
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              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.
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     4. To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.
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              The indentures were canceled.         --Thackeray.
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              He was unwilling to cancel the interest created
              through former secret services, by being refractory
              on this occasion.                     --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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     5. (Print.) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in
        type.
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     {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}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cancel \Can"cel\, n. [See {Cancel}, v. i., and cf. {Chancel}.]
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     1. An inclosure; a boundary; a limit. [Obs.]
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              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.
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     2. (Print)
        (a) The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or
            of a printed page or pages.
        (b) The part thus suppressed.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cancel
       n : a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat [syn: {natural}]
       v 1: postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled;
            "Call off the engagement"; "cancel the dinner party"
            [syn: {call off}]
       2: make up for; "His skills offset his opponent's superior
          strength" [syn: {offset}, {set off}]
       3: declare null and void; make ineffective; "Cancel the
          election results"; "strike down a law" [syn: {strike down}]
       4: remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your
          list" [syn: {delete}]
       5: of cheques or tickets [syn: {invalidate}]
       [also: {cancelling}, {cancelled}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  222 Moby Thesaurus words for "cancel":
     KO, abandon, abbreviate, abolish, abolishment, abolition, abort,
     abridge, abrogate, abrogation, absolve, accent, accent mark,
     accommodate, adjust, annihilate, annul, annulment, balance, bar,
     belay, black out, blot, blot out, blotting, blotting out,
     blue-pencil, bowdlerize, bring to naught, bring to nothing, buffer,
     call off, cancel out, canceling, cancellation, cassation, cease,
     censor, character, come to nothing, compensate, compensate for,
     complete, coordinate, counteract, counterbalance, countermand,
     counterorder, counterpoise, countervail, cross out, custos, cut,
     cut it out, declare a moratorium, defeasance, dele, delete,
     deletion, deny, deracinate, desist, direct, disannul, discontinue,
     dispose of, do away with, dot, drop, drop it, drop the curtain,
     edit, edit out, efface, effacement, eliminate, end, end off,
     equalize, equate, eradicate, erase, erasure, even, even up,
     expression mark, expunction, expunge, expurgate, extinguish,
     fermata, finalize, finish, fit, fold up, frustrate, get it over,
     get over with, get through with, give over, give the quietus,
     give up, halt, have done with, hold, integrate, invalidate,
     invalidation, kayo, key signature, kibosh, kill, knock it off,
     knock out, lay off, lead, leave off, level, ligature, make up for,
     make void, mark, measure, metronomic mark, negate, negativate,
     negative, neutralize, notation, nullification, nullify, obliterate,
     obliteration, offset, omit, override, overrule, pause, perfect,
     poise, polish off, presa, proportion, put paid to, quash, quit,
     raze, recall, recant, recantation, redeem, refrain, relinquish,
     renege, renounce, repeal, repudiate, rescind, rescinding,
     rescindment, rescission, retract, retraction, reversal, reverse,
     revocation, revoke, revokement, rub out, rule out, scrag, scratch,
     scratch out, scrub, scrubbing, segno, set aside, setting aside,
     shoot down, sign, signature, slur, sponge, sponge out, square,
     stay, stop, strike, strike a balance, strike off, strike out,
     stultify, surrender, suspend, suspension, swell, symbol,
     tempo mark, terminate, thwart, tie, time signature, undo, vacate,
     vacation, vacatur, vinculum, vitiate, void, voidance, voiding,
     waive, waiver, waiving, washing out, wipe out, wiping out,
     withdraw, withdrawal, write off, write-off, zap
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Cancel
       
           (CAN, Control-X) {ASCII} character 24.
       
          (1996-06-28)