cancel
IPA: kˈænsʌɫ
noun
- A cancellation (US); (nonstandard in some kinds of English).
- A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message.
- (obsolete) An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.
- (printing) The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
- (printing) The page thus suppressed.
- (printing) The page that replaces it.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To cross out something with lines etc.
- (transitive) To invalidate or annul something.
- (transitive) To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.
- (transitive) To offset or equalize something.
- (transitive, mathematics) To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
- (transitive, media) To stop production of a programme.
- (printing, dated) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
- (obsolete) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
- (slang) To kill.
- (transitive, neologism) To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable). Compare cancel culture.
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