| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To abrogate, abolish, revoke, annul or repeal.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To nullify or neutralize. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To rescind or invalidate. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To delete, erase, efface or expunge. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To negate or gainsay. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To quash, overrule, undo or disallow. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To confute, controvert or rebut. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To abate or slacken. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To crush, squash, squelch or break.[Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Present participle conjugation of the verb cancel.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (cancel) | 1. Postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled; "cancel the dinner party".[Wordnet]. 2. Make up for.[Wordnet]. 3. Declare null and void; make ineffective; "Cancel the election results".[Wordnet]. 4. Remove or make invisible.[Wordnet]. 5. Make invalid for use; "cancel cheques or tickets".[Wordnet]. 6. Of cheques or tickets.[Wordnet]. 7. Make up for; "His skills offset his opponent's superior strength".[Wordnet]. 8. To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.[Websters]. 9. To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.[Websters]. 10. To cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out or obliterate.[Websters]. 11. To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.[Websters]. 12. To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.[Websters]. 13. Base verb from the following inflections: cancelling, canceling, cancelled, canceled, cancels, canceller, canceler, cancellers, cancelers, cancellingly, cancelingly, cancelledly and canceledly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being degrading.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being concluding. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being fetching. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being decreasing or diminishing. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being disqualifying or disabling. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being void. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being devastating. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being governing, ruling or prevailing. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Being stimulating or rousing.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Expression | 1. Of Cancel.[Websters]. | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "CANCELLING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references) |
Specialty Definition: cancel
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Computing | Cancel | ||
| Aerospace | You can cancel a purchase order after approving it. When you cancel a purchase order, you prevent anyone from adding new lines to the purchase order or receiving additional goods. Purchasing still allows billing for goods you received before canceling the purchase order. Purchasing releases any unfilled requisition lines for reassignment to another purchase order. (references) | ||
| Language | To remove from significance or effectiveness as a: to destroy the force, effectiveness or validity of b; to bring to nothingness c: to remove from need for consideration. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Law | 1: To cancel a document, is to put and end to it by drawing lines over it, or over its signature, in the form of lattice-work or cancelli. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: A document, is to put and end to it by drawing lines over it, or over its signature, in the form of lattice-work, or cancelli. . Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Literature | Cancel to blot out, is merely "to make lattice-work." This is done by making a cross over the part to be omitted. (Latin, cancello, to make trellis.) (See Cross It Out .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Meteorology & Standards | A character indicating that the data which precedes it in a message or block should be disregarded, usually because an error has been detected. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Military | Vessels on which construction was stopped (Code). (references) | ||
| Military & Defense | In artillery and naval gunfire support, the term, cancel, when coupled with a previous order, other than an order for a quantity or type of ammunition, rescinds that order. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Occupations | Your election on an enrollment request that you no longer want to be enrolled in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. (references) | ||
| Technology | A new leaf or leaves printed to replace part of a book or other publication when changes are required in the text or illustrations, usually before binding but after the work has gone to press, more common in the 17th and 18th centuries than today because as printing developed, the frequency of printing errors declined. (references) | ||
| Transportation | To make void; annul; revoke. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
Common Expressions: cancel
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Cancel out | Wipe out the effect of something; "The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record". Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Fancy cancel | A fancy cancel is a postal cancellation that includes an artistic design. Although the term may be used of modern machine cancellations that include artwork, it primarily refers to the designs carved in cork and used in 19th century post offices of the United States. (references) | ||
| Pen cancel | In philately, a pen cancel is a cancellation done with pen or marker. In the early, pre-ballpoint pen days of adhesive stamps it took longer to apply a pen cancel than a handstamp, which led to the development of handstamped cancellation devices. According to Linns.com, "A pen cancel may also indicate that a stamp was used as a fiscal". (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: cancel
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Cancel call | Business | A manual abort mode on some dialers that allows a manual override of a call initiation caused by an alarm input. (references) | |
| Cancel character (CAN) | Business | 1) A control character used by some conventions to indicate that the data with which it is associated are in error or are to be disregarded. 2) An accuracy control character used to indicate that the data with which it is associated are in error, are to be disregarded, or cannot be represented on a particular device. (references) | |
| Cancel key | Computing | A key used to exit form a menu or a situation and sometimes to return to the previous situation, as to a higher menu. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Notice of Intent to Cancel | Environment | Notification sent to registrants when EPA decides to cancel registration of a product containing a pesticide. (references) | |
| To cancel cell masks | Computing | To display the content of a cell by using the default format of the software package program. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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