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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
cancel From the web:
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unselect
English
Etymology
un- +? select
Verb
unselect (third-person singular simple present unselects, present participle unselecting, simple past and past participle unselected)
- (computing, transitive) To cancel a previous selection, especially by removing a mark from a tick box.
- (transitive) To reverse the previous selection of. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Synonyms
- deselect
Translations
Anagrams
- Lucentes, esculent
unselect From the web:
- what does unselected patients mean
- what does selected mean
- what is unselectable attribute
- what does deselect all mean
- what does unselective
- what is selected mean
- what do selected mean
- what is an unselected population
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