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cancel
English
Alternative forms
- cancell (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English cancellen, from Anglo-Norman canceler (“to cross out with lines”) (modern French chanceler (“unsteady move”)), from Latin cancell? (“to make resemble a lattice”), from cancellus (“a railing or lattice”), diminutive of cancer (“a lattice”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kænsl?/
- Hyphenation: can?cel
Verb
cancel (third-person singular simple present cancels, present participle cancelling or (US) canceling, simple past and past participle cancelled or (US) canceled)
- (transitive) To cross out something with lines etc.
- 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.
- (transitive) To invalidate or annul something.
- He cancelled his order on their website.
- 1914, Marjorie Benton Cooke, Bambi
- "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."
- (transitive) To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.
- This machine cancels the letters that have a valid zip code.
- (transitive) To offset or equalize something.
- The corrective feedback mechanism cancels out the noise.
- (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.
- (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
- (transitive, neologism) To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable). Compare cancel culture.
- 2018, Jonah Engel Bromwich, in The New York Times [1]
- 2019, Christopher Hooton, in VICE [2]
- 2020 July 3, Kristi Noem speech at Mount Rushmore transcribed by C-SPAN[4]:
- To attempt to cancel the founding generation is an attempt to cancel our own freedoms.
- 2018, Jonah Engel Bromwich, in The New York Times [1]
Synonyms
- (invalidate or annul): belay
- (kill): take care of; see also Thesaurus:kill
- (cease supporting someone deemed unacceptable): blacklist; see also Thesaurus:boycott
Derived terms
- autocancel
- cancel someone's Christmas
- cancel out
- canceler
- recancel
- cancelable
- precancel
- uncancel
Descendants
- ? Gulf Arabic: ????? (kansal)
- ? Welsh: canslo
Translations
Noun
cancel (plural cancels)
- A cancellation (US); (nonstandard in some kinds of English).
- (Internet) A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message.
- (obsolete) An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.
- 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.
- (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.
Derived terms
- autocancel
- dumb cancel
- killer cancel
- mute cancel
- precancel
Translations
Related terms
- chancel
- cancellation
- chancellery
- chancellor
- chancery
Further reading
- cancel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- cancel in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- cancel at OneLook Dictionary Search
Spanish
Noun
cancel m (plural canceles)
- partition; wall
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blur
English
Etymology
From earlier blurre, probably an alteration of blear, from Middle English bleren, from Old English blerian. Compare Scots blore, bloar (“to blur, cover with blots”). More at blear.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bl?(?)/
Verb
blur (third-person singular simple present blurs, present participle blurring, simple past and past participle blurred)
- To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim.
- To smear, stain or smudge.
- (intransitive) To become indistinct.
- To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.
- 1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay
- His eyes are blurred with the lightning's glare.
- 1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay
- (obsolete, transitive) To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.
- Sarcasms may eclipse thine own, / But cannot blur my lost renown.
- (graphical user interface, transitive) To transfer the input focus away from.
- 2003, John Pollock, JavaScript: A Beginner's Guide, Second Edition (page 175)
- Then give this box focus to blur the first one: […]
- 2001, Martin Webb, Michel Plungjan, Keith Drakard, Instant JavaScript (page 678)
- These form elements need to have an onFocus event handler to blur the current focus.
- 2003, John Pollock, JavaScript: A Beginner's Guide, Second Edition (page 175)
Synonyms
- (make indistinct or hazy): pixelate, smooth
- (move input focus from): unfocus
Antonyms
- sharpen
Translations
Noun
blur (plural blurs)
- A smear, smudge or blot
- Something that appears hazy or indistinct
- (obsolete) A moral stain or blot.
- 1548, Nicolas Udall, The first tome or volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the newe testamente:
- […] with her raillyng sette a great blurre on myne honesty
- 1548, Nicolas Udall, The first tome or volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the newe testamente:
Derived terms
- motion blur
Translations
Adjective
blur (comparative more blur, superlative most blur)
- (Malaysia, Singapore, informal) In a state of doubt or confusion.
Anagrams
- Burl, burl
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