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CANCEL
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Irregular inflected forms: cancelled , cancelling
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("cancel" is a kind of...):
musical notation ((music) notation used by musicians)
Derivation:
cancel (declare null and void; make ineffective)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they cancel ... he / she / it cancels
Past simple: canceled /cancelled
Past participle: canceled /cancelled
-ing form: canceling /cancelling
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make invalid for use
Example:
cancel cheques or tickets
Synonyms:
cancel; invalidate
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "cancel" is one way to...):
mark; score (make underscoring marks)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Remove or make invisible
Example:
Please delete my name from your list
Synonyms:
cancel; delete
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "cancel" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cancel"):
efface; erase; rub out; score out; wipe off (remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing)
excise; expunge; scratch; strike (remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Sense 3
Meaning:
Declare null and void; make ineffective
Example:
strike down a law
Synonyms:
cancel; strike down
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "cancel" is one way to...):
adjudge; declare; hold (declare to be)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cancel"):
annul; countermand; lift; overturn; repeal; rescind; reverse; revoke; vacate (cancel officially)
remit (release from (claims, debts, or taxes))
write off (cancel (a debt))
annul; avoid; invalidate; nullify; quash; void (declare invalid)
recall (make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
cancel (a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat)
cancellation (the act of cancelling; calling off some arrangement)
cancellation (the speech act of revoking or annulling or making void)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
Example:
scratch that meeting--the chair is ill
Synonyms:
call off; cancel; scratch; scrub
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
"Cancel" entails doing...:
schedule (make a schedule; plan the time and place for events)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
cancellation (the act of cancelling; calling off some arrangement)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Make up for
Example:
His skills offset his opponent's superior strength
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "cancel" is one way to...):
balance; equilibrate; equilibrise; equilibrize (bring into balance or equilibrium)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cancel"):
counteract; counterbalance; countervail; neutralize (oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Context examples:
The researchers were able to use a flashing LED light, which was flashed at high frequency that it became invisible to the observer's eye to allow the study participants to process only one image by cancelling one of the two produced in each eye.
(Arrangement of light receptors in the eye may cause dyslexia, Wikinews)
But I would not cancel it, if it were in my power.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“I should cancel with it,” he pursued, “such patience and devotion, such fidelity, such a child's love, as I must not forget, no! even to forget myself.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“We will not,” said Miss Lavinia, “enter on the past history of this matter. Our poor brother Francis's death has cancelled that.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
To cancel your articles, Copperfield? Cancel?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I had a hope that this brisk treatment might freshen my wits a little; and I think it did them good, for I soon came to the conclusion that the first step I ought to take was, to try if my articles could be cancelled and the premium recovered.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Then I saw, as though all the intervening time had been cancelled, and I were still standing in the doorway on the night of the departure, the expression of that night in the face of Mrs. Strong, as it confronted his.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“Indeed, sir,” said I, “her affairs are so changed, that I wished to ask you whether it would be possible—at a sacrifice on our part of some portion of the premium, of course,” I put in this, on the spur of the moment, warned by the blank expression of his face—“to cancel my articles?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
In the beginning of the change that gradually worked in me, when I tried to get a better understanding of myself and be a better man, I did glance, through some indefinite probation, to a period when I might possibly hope to cancel the mistaken past, and to be so blessed as to marry her.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“Extremely sorry. It is not usual to cancel articles for any such reason. It is not a professional course of proceeding. It is not a convenient precedent at all. Far from it. At the same time—”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
