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verb (used with object)
1.
to make void; revoke; annul: to cancel a reservation.
2.
to decide or announce that a planned event will not take place; call off: to cancel a meeting.
3.
to mark or perforate (a postage stamp, admission ticket, etc.) so as to render invalid for reuse.
4.
to neutralize; counterbalance; compensate for: His sincere apology canceled his sarcastic remark.
5.
EXPANDAccounting.
a.
to close (an account) by crediting or paying all outstanding charges: He plans to cancel his account at the department store.
b.
to eliminate or offset (a debit, credit, etc.) with an entry for an equal amount on the opposite side of a ledger, as when a payment is received on a debt.
verb (used without object)
9.
to counterbalance or compensate for one another; become neutralized (often followed by out): The pros and cons cancel out.
10.
Mathematics. (of factors common to both the denominator and numerator of a fraction, certain terms on opposite sides of an equation, etc.) to be equivalent; to allow cancellation.
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Cancelling
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
noun
11.
an act of canceling.
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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English cancellen < Medieval Latin cancellāre to cross out, Latin: to make like a lattice, derivative of cancellī grating, plural of cancellus; see cancellus
1350–1400; Middle English cancellen < Medieval Latin cancellāre to cross out, Latin: to make like a lattice, derivative of cancellī grating, plural of cancellus; see cancellus
Related forms
can·cel·a·ble; especially British, can·cel·la·ble, adjective
can·cel·er; especially British, can·cel·ler, noun
re·can·cel, verb (used with object), -celed, -cel·ing or (especially British) -celled, -cel·ling.
self-can·celed, adjective
self-can·celled, adjective
EXPANDun·can·cel·a·ble, adjective
un·can·celed, adjective
un·can·cel·la·ble, adjective
un·can·celled, adjective
COLLAPSESynonyms
1. countermand, rescind. 3, 7. Cancel, delete, erase, obliterate indicate that something is no longer to be considered usable or in force. To cancel is to cross something out by stamping a mark over it, drawing lines through it, or the like: to cancel a stamp, a word. To delete is to cross something out from written matter or from matter to be printed, often in accordance with a printer's or proofreader's symbol indicating the material is to be omitted: to delete part of a line. To erase is to remove by scraping or rubbing: to erase a capital letter. To obliterate is to blot out entirely, so as to remove all sign or trace of: to obliterate a record.
1. countermand, rescind. 3, 7. Cancel, delete, erase, obliterate indicate that something is no longer to be considered usable or in force. To cancel is to cross something out by stamping a mark over it, drawing lines through it, or the like: to cancel a stamp, a word. To delete is to cross something out from written matter or from matter to be printed, often in accordance with a printer's or proofreader's symbol indicating the material is to be omitted: to delete part of a line. To erase is to remove by scraping or rubbing: to erase a capital letter. To obliterate is to blot out entirely, so as to remove all sign or trace of: to obliterate a record.
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Word Origin & History
cancel
late 14c., "cross out with lines," from Anglo-Fr. canceler, from L. cancellare "to make resemble a lattice," which in L.L. took on a sense "cross out something written" by marking it with crossed lines, from cancelli, pl. of cancellus "lattice, grating," dim. of cancer "crossed bars, lattice," a var.
EXPANDof carcer "prison." Figurative use, "to nullify an obligation" is from mid-15c. Related: Canceled (also cancelled); cancelling.
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