Cancel

See also: Cancel

English

Alternative forms

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|| UNKNOWN | MISSING = Year of birth missing {{subst:#switch:{{subst:uc:cancell}}||LIVING=(living people)}}
| #default = en births

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|| LIVING  = Living people
| UNKNOWN | MISSING  = Year of death missing
| #default = cancell deaths

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Etymology

From Template:Inh, from Template:Der (modern Template:Cog), from Template:Der, from M_la cancellus, diminutive of M_la cancer.

Pronunciation

• en
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Verb

1. Book:En (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) To cross out something with lines etc.
   • Template:RQ:Blackstone Commentaries

     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.

2. Book:En (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) 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."

3. Book:En (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) 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.

4. Book:En (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) To offset or equalize something.

   The corrective feedback mechanism cancels out the noise.

5. Book:En (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
6. Book:En (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) To stop production of a programme.
7. Book:En (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
8. Book:En (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
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9. Book:En (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) To kill.

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10. Book:En (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable). Compare [Template:M used with invalid code 'en'. See documentation.]cancel culture.
    • 2018, Jonah Engel Bromwich, in The New York Times [1]

      en

      — 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.

    • 2019, Christopher Hooton, in VICE [2]

      en

      — We Spoke to Joan Cornellá, the Artist Who Really Should Have Been Cancelled By Now

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    • 2020 July 3, Kristi Noem speech at Mount Rushmore transcribed by C-SPAN[3]:

      To attempt to cancel the founding generation is an attempt to cancel our own freedoms.

Synonyms

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|| UNKNOWN | MISSING = Year of birth missing {{subst:#switch:{{subst:uc:belay}}||LIVING=(living people)}}
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}}]] [[Category:{{subst:#switch:{{subst:uc:belay}}

|| LIVING  = Living people
| UNKNOWN | MISSING  = Year of death missing
| #default = belay deaths

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[[Category:{{subst:#switch:{{subst:uc:en}}

|| UNKNOWN | MISSING = Year of birth missing {{subst:#switch:{{subst:uc:take care of}}||LIVING=(living people)}}
| #default = en births

}}]] [[Category:{{subst:#switch:{{subst:uc:take care of}}

|| LIVING  = Living people
| UNKNOWN | MISSING  = Year of death missing
| #default = take care of deaths

}}]]; see also Thesaurus:kill

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[[Category:{{subst:#switch:{{subst:uc:en}}

|| UNKNOWN | MISSING = Year of birth missing {{subst:#switch:{{subst:uc:blacklist}}||LIVING=(living people)}}
| #default = en births

}}]] [[Category:{{subst:#switch:{{subst:uc:blacklist}}

|| LIVING  = Living people
| UNKNOWN | MISSING  = Year of death missing
| #default = blacklist deaths

}}]]; see also Thesaurus:boycott

Derived terms

• autocancel
• cancelable
• canceler
• cancel someone's Christmas
• cancel out
• precancel
• recancel
• uncancel

Descendants

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Translations

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Noun

1. A cancellation (US); (nonstandard in some kinds of English).
   1. Book:En (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message.
2. Book:En (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.
   • Template:RQ:Taylor Cave Antiquitates Christianae
3. Book:En (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
4. Book:En (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) The page thus suppressed.
5. Book:En (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) The page that replaces it.

Derived terms

• autocancel
• dumb cancel
• killer cancel
• mute cancel
• precancel

Translations

• Danish: {{da}}, {{da}}, Template:T+
• French: Template:T+
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• Italian: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+, {{it}}, {{it}}
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Related terms

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|| UNKNOWN | MISSING = Year of birth missing {{subst:#switch:{{subst:uc:chancel}}||LIVING=(living people)}}
| #default = en births

}}]] [[Category:{{subst:#switch:{{subst:uc:chancel}}

|| LIVING  = Living people
| UNKNOWN | MISSING  = Year of death missing
| #default = chancel deaths

}}]]

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| #default = en births

}}]] [[Category:{{subst:#switch:{{subst:uc:cancellation}}

|| LIVING  = Living people
| UNKNOWN | MISSING  = Year of death missing
| #default = cancellation deaths

}}]]

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|| LIVING  = Living people
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|| LIVING  = Living people
| UNKNOWN | MISSING  = Year of death missing
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|| LIVING  = Living people
| UNKNOWN | MISSING  = Year of death missing
| #default = chancery deaths

}}]]

Further reading

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• Template:R:Century 1911
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Spanish

Noun

1. partition; wall

Further reading

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