cancel
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
media
printing
publishing
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English cancellen, from Anglo-Norman canceler (“to cross out with lines”) (modern French chanceler (“to stagger, sway”)), from Old French canceler, from Latin cancellō (“to make resemble a lattice”), from cancellus (“a railing or lattice”), diminutive of cancer (“a lattice”).
Inflected forms:
form: cancels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: canceling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: cancelling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: canceled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: canceled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: cancelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: cancelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
form: cancell
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: cancels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cancell
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To cross out something with lines etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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; the phrase is now used figuratively for any manner of obliterating or defacing it.
gloss: To invalidate or annul something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He cancelled his order on their website.
"I don't know what your agreement was, Herr Professor, but if it had money in it, cancel it. I want him to learn that lesson, too."
These also included not canceling the Christmas display, whose kitschiness drove him bonkers but which endured because people love it and because he is a populist and showman, despite his elitist veneer, and because he has a heart.
AUKUS envisages a wide range of diplomatic and technological collaboration, from cybersecurity to artificial intelligence, but at its core is an agreement to start consultations to help Australia acquire a fleet of nuclear-propelled (though not nuclear-armed) submarines. One consequence of this is Australia cancelling a contract, worth tens of billions of dollars, signed in 2016 with France for diesel-electric submarines. In announcing AUKUS on September 15th with the prime ministers of Australia and Britain, Scott Morrison and Boris Johnson, President Joe Biden stressed that it was about “investing in our greatest source of strength—our alliances”.
gloss: To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This machine cancels the letters that have a valid zip code.
gloss: To offset or equalize something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The corrective feedback mechanism cancels out the noise.
gloss: To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Such a 2-handle cancels the 1-handle so the manifold is D⁴.
gloss: To stop production of a programme.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
pos: verb
tags: dated
gloss: To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: cancelled from heaven
gloss: To kill.
pos: verb
tags: slang
gloss: To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable); to disinvite. Compare cancel culture.
pos: verb
tags: neologism
transitive
examples: Bill Gates is canceled. Gwen Stefani and Erykah Badu are canceled. Despite his relatively strong play in the World Cup, Cristiano Ronaldo has been canceled. Taylor Swift is canceled and Common is canceled and, Wednesday, Antoni Porowski, a “Queer Eye” fan favorite was also canceled. Needless to say, Kanye West is canceled, too.
We Spoke to Joan Cornellá, the Artist Who Really Should Have Been Cancelled By Now [title]
You may have never heard the term "cancel culture," but you certainly know some of the faces who have been canceled. Everyone from Cosby to Matt Lauer. […] "Some of my friends – I don't hang out with as much," said Jazz Moore. “I try to talk to them and explain why their behavior isn't cool before I cancel them."
To attempt to cancel the founding generation is an attempt to cancel our own freedoms.
So this is my answer: If I am being canceled, I want my friends — and this includes not only my closest associates but any people who consider themselves friendly to me — to stand by, remain silent and do nothing. If you care about me, let them eat me alive.
gloss: A cancellation.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A cancellation.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: 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.
gloss: The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
pos: noun
gloss: The page thus suppressed.
pos: noun
gloss: The page that replaces it.
pos: noun
Synonyms: abrogate
annul
belay
cancel
cease
cross out
desist
forbid
invalidate
kill
nullify
queer
repeal
repress
revoke
stop
strike out
suppress
terminate
veto
vitiate
void
Antonyms: commission
continue
initiate
renew
uphold
validate
Related words: invalidation
cancellation
chancel
chancellery
chancellor
chancery
Derived words: autocancel
precancel
cancelability
cancelable
cancelbot
canceler
cancellability
cancellable
cancelment
cancel out
cancel someone's Christmas
miscancel
noise-cancel
overcancel
recancel
soft-cancel
uncancel
cancel-worthy
dumb cancel
killer cancel
mute cancel
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: kanselleer
lang: Bulgarian
word: унищожавам
roman: uništožavam
lang: Danish
word: stemple
lang: French
word: oblitérer
lang: German
word: entwerten
lang: German
word: abstempeln
lang: German
word: entwerten (postage)
lang: Greek
word: ακυρώνω
roman: akyróno
lang: Hungarian
word: érvénytelenít
lang: Hungarian
word: lepecsétel
lang: Italian
word: obliterare
lang: Italian
word: annullare
lang: Russian
word: погаша́ть
roman: pogašátʹ
lang: Russian
word: погаси́ть
roman: pogasítʹ
lang: Swedish
word: stämpla
lang: Welsh
word: canslo
lang: Afrikaans
word: kansellasie
lang: Danish
word: aflysning
lang: Danish
word: afbestilling
lang: Danish
word: annullering
lang: Dutch
word: annulatie
lang: French
word: annulation
lang: German
word: Lösch-Mitteilung
lang: German
word: Cancel-Anweisung
lang: Greek
word: ακύρωση
roman: akýrosi
lang: Greek
word: ματαίωση
roman: mataíosi
lang: Hindi
word: निरसन
roman: nirsan
lang: Italian
word: cancellazione
lang: Italian
word: annullamento
lang: Italian
word: cassazione
lang: Italian
word: timbro postale
lang: Italian
word: obliteratore
lang: Portuguese
word: anulação
lang: Spanish
word: funa