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can·cel    Audio Help   [kan-suhl] Pronunciation Key verb, -celed, -cel·ing or (especially British) -celled, -cel·ling, noun
–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.Accounting.
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.
6.Mathematics. to eliminate by striking out a factor common to both the denominator and numerator of a fraction, equivalent terms on opposite sides of an equation, etc.
7.to cross out (words, letters, etc.) by drawing a line over the item.
8.Printing. to omit.
–verb (used without object)
9.to counterbalance or compensate for one another; become neutralized (often fol. 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.
–noun
11.an act of canceling.
12.Printing, Bookbinding.
a.omission.
b.a replacement for an omitted part.
[Origin: 1350–1400; ME cancellen < ML cancellāre to cross out, L: to make like a lattice, deriv. of cancellī grating, pl. 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

—Synonyms 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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