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Definitions: Cancel

Cancel

Noun

1. A notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat.

Verb

1. Postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled; "Call off the engagement"; "cancel the dinner party".

2. Make up for; "His skills offset his opponent's superior strength".

3. Declare null and void; make ineffective; "Cancel the election results"; "strike down a law".

4. Remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list".

5. Of cheques or tickets.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cancel" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Cancel

DomainDefinitions

Computing

Cancel (CAN, Control-X) ASCII character 24. (1996-06-28). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Insurance

To make void; annul; revoke. Source: European Union. (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

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.

Military

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. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Cancel

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.

EntrySourceExpressionField
CANEnglishCancel characterTelecom

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Cancel

Synonyms: natural (n), call off (v), delete (v), invalidate (v), offset (v), set off (v), strike down (v). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: drop-ins (fine arts, publishing & graphic arts).

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Synonyms within Context: Cancel

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Abrogation

Verb: abrogate, annul, cancel; destroy; abolish; revoke, repeal, rescind, reverse, retract, recall; abolitionize; overrule, override; set aside; disannul, dissolve, quash, nullify, declare null and void; disestablish, disendow; deconsecrate.

Noun: abrogation, annulment, nullification, recision; vacatur; canceling; Verb: cancel; revocation, revokement; repeal, rescission, defeasance.

Necessity

Phrase: it cannot be helped; there is no help for, there is no helping it; it will be, it must be, it needs to be, it must be so, it will have its way; the die is cast; jacta est alea; che sara sara; "it is written"; one's days are numbered, one's fate is sealed; Fata obstant; diis aliter visum; actum me invito factus, non est meus actus; aujord'hui roi demain rien; quisque suos patimur manes;"The moving finger writes and having writ moves on. Nor all your piety and wit can bring it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it.".

Nonobservance

Discard, protest, repudiate, fling to the winds, set at naught, nullify, declare null and void; cancel; (wipe off).

Obliteration

Verb: efface, obliterate, erase, raze, rase, expunge, cancel; blot out, take out, rub out, scratch out, strike out, wipe out, wash out, sponge out; wipe off, rub off; wipe away; deface, render illegible; draw the pen through, apply the sponge.

Noun: obliteration; erasure, rasure; cancel, cancellation; circumduction; deletion, blot; tabula rasa; effacement, extinction.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Cancel

English words defined with "cancel": ante up, astatic galvanometercancel out, Canceled, Canceling, Cancelling, captivity, cut outDele, Dispropriateenslavement, equilibriumpay, pay upRasing ironscratch out, seventhly, stetTo mark out, To scratch a ticketUnbespeak, undo, Unkiss, Unwritewash, write off. (references)
Specialty definitions using "cancel": Alderson loopbroadcast quality video, BVB-license, BVB-transfercancel key, cancelbot, Cancelpoodle, compensated amplifier, controlled replacedifferential line, DIRECTOR, OPERATIONS, BROADCAST, distribution clerk, domino effect, domino principlegolden parachute clauseloaded couponingMAIL HANDLER, moving target indicationNotice of Intent to Cancelphase alternating line, proof clerk, PROOF-MACHINE OPERATOR, PROOF-MACHINE-OPERATOR SUPERVISORRESERVATIONS AGENT, right of rescissionsonograph, special contract terms for the licence of DP-programs, special contract terms for the transfer of DP programs, SpoolView, standby commitment, STATEMENT CLERK, subject to collectiontelephone-sales agent, to abrogate, to cancel cell masks, to restore a page, to restore characters, to scrub, transit clerkunder reserve, under the usual reserves. (references)
Etymologies containing "cancel": Cancellate, Cancelli, Chancel. (references)

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Modern Usage: Cancel

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I feel terrible, but I have to cancel our date tonight. (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.)

Even if I wanted to go my schedule wouldn't allow it. Four o'clock, wallow in self pity; 4:30, stare into the abyss; 5:00, solve world hunger, tell no one. 5:30, jazzercize. 6:30, dinner with me. I can't cancel that again! (How the Grinch Stole Christmas; writing credit: Jeffrey Price)

Robin Hood steals money from my pocket, forcing me to hurt the public, and they love him for it? That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas! (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves; writing credit: Pen Densham and John Watson.)

Cancel the Super Bowl? (Black Sunday; writing credit: Ernest Lehman)

Women can't be gay. Because if men were gay and women were gay they'd cancel each other out. (Soap; writing credit: Jos Gevers; Jeroom Verten)

Movie/TV Titles

Cancel My Reservation (1972)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Cancel

DomainTitle

Books

  • Cancel All Our Vows (reference)

  • Cancel all our vows : Brother Joseph Gard'ner and the Servants of Christ the King (reference)

  • Cancel April 15Th! the Plan for Painless Taxation: The Plan for Painless Taxation (reference)

  • Cancel Christmas [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

  • Cancel My Subscription: The Worst of Npr (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Cancel

AuthorQuotation

Omar Khayyam

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Cancel

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

But all the duty of honour, the other part, remains never the less entire to them; nothing can cancel that: it is so inseparable from them both, that the father's authority cannot dispossess the mother of this right, nor can any man discharge his son from honouring her that bore him. (Second Treatise of Government)

Treaty of Versailles

1919

Any Allied or Associated Power may within three months of the coming into force of the present Treaty cancel all the contracts of insurance running between a German insurance company and its nationals under conditions which shall protect its nationals from any prejudice. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Cancel

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Since the self-supporting hospital program has not shown the expected results, it is possible that the new administration will cancel the program. (references)

Under this convention, the consumer has the right to cancel a sale and return merchandise for seven days after the date of receipt of the ordered goods or services. (references)

Civil Liberties

Malaysia

The Registrar also may cancel the registration of an existing company and disband it on the same grounds. (references)

Oman

Most organizations avoid controversial issues because of fears that the authorities may cancel their events. (references)

Uzbekistan

The letter threatened revocation of the Baptist Union's registration if it did not immediately cancel Sunday school. (references)

Economic History

Argentina

The Civil and Commercial Codes permit a principal to cancel an agency agreement at his or her discretion. (references)

Jordan

In particular, the Intifada caused many potential investors to shelve or cancel projects, and tourism receipts were off sharply. (references)

Kazakhstan

When this occurs, the investor is exposed to government charges of non-performance and the real possibility that the Government will cancel the contract. (references)

Human Rights

Singapore

After the hearing, the Committee makes a written recommendation to the President, who may cancel, confirm, or amend the detention order. (references)

Moldova

In April 2000, violent clashes took place in Chisinau between police and students protesting the municipal decision to cancel their free public transport privileges. (references)

Peru

In 1998 the Human Rights Ombudsman called on the Government to rescind all outstanding detention orders that were more than 5 years old and to cancel all orders that did not comply with legal specifications. (references)

Minorities

Argentina

Early in the year, the Argentine Soccer Association established rules to stop or cancel games when any ethnic incidents or taunting erupts, such as anti-Semitic and anti-immigrant incidents that have occurred at soccer matches in the past several years. (references)

Political Rights

Angola

The National Assembly voted in June 1999 to cancel the runoff election, pending a determination that conditions are appropriate for a new election. (references)

Russia

Central Election Commission (CEC) chair Aleksandr Veshnyakov, cited term-limit laws, declared that Nikolayev's candidacy was "not legal" and said that the CEC might cancel his registration. (references)

Travel

Nigeria

Domestic airline schedules are fairly reliable and lack of aviation fuel can delay or cancel flights. (references)

Turkey

Customs officials register the items to the traveler's passport and subsequently cancel them as the traveler exits the country with the same items. (references)

Worker Rights

Kazakhstan

Courts may cancel a union's registration; however, there were no such cases during the year. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Cancel

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Dennis Miller

Hathaway kept everything close to the vest because if she let it all go she'd be trying to talk Miss Ellie into sharing a hotel room in Palm Springs for the Dinah Shore Golf Classic and they'd have to cancel the show.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Cancel

"Cancel" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 76.23% of the time. "Cancel" is used about 891 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)76.23%6799,730
Lexical Verb (base form)23.77%21220,813
                    Total100.00%891N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Cancel

The following table summarizes the usage of "cancel" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
CancelLast name1,0007,694
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Cancel

Expressions using "cancel": cancel a booking cancel a debt cancel an order cancel clause cancel each other out cancel key cancel my reservation cancel out cancel the membership of nor all your piety and wit can bring it back to cancel half a line to cancel cell masks. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "cancel": right-to-cancel.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cancel

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cancel

587

cancel aol

365

cancel msn

208

cancel account

197

cancel exchange request

106

cancel service

71

cancel aol account

65

cancel my membership

54

cancel yahoo

48

cancel msn service

31

cancel hotmail

31

cancel subscription

30

cancel aol service

28

cancel a credit card

26

cancel email

22

cancel aol membership

21

cancel email yahoo

20

cancel your mortgage

18

cancel msn subscription

18

cancel net zero

18
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Cancel

Language Translations for "cancel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaan

  

kanselleer (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, remit), annulleer (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, remit), afsê (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, countermand, remit). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

zgjidh (annul, arrange, dispose, dispose of, dissolve, do, iron out, resolve, settle, solve, unbind, unchain, unclasp, undo, unfasten, unlace, unleash, unlock, unravel, untie, work, work out), thjeshtoj (reduce, simplify), prish (alloy, annul, baffle, blast, blow, botch, break, collapse, consume, corrode, corrupt, damn, darken, debase, debauch, deface, deflower, denounce, deprave, derogate, destroy, deteriorate, disarrange, disestablish, dissipate, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, infringe, injure, mammock, mess, misguide, misspend, nip, obliterate, pervert, pollute, pull down, quash, queer, rot, ruin, shatter, sophisticate, spend, split, spoil, stymie, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, upset, violate, vitiate, warp, wear, wreck, zap), pezulloj (adjourn, block, call, recall, suspend), pezullim (abeyance, arrest, cancellation, hold, layoff, reversal, stay, suspense, suspension), i heq vizë (scribble), fshij (brush, brush away, clean off, clean up, deface, delete, efface, erase, mop up, obliterate, rase, raze, remove, rub, rub out, scratch out, strike off, sweep, wipe, wipe away, wipe off), anuloj (abate, abrogate, annul, avoid, call off, defeat, disaffirm, disannul, negate, nullify, overrule, quash, repeal, rescind, retract, revoke, set aside, void, withdraw), anulim (abolishment, annulment, avoidance, cancellation, cassation, Defeasance, defeat, invalidation, nullification, recall, repeal, rescission, reversal, revocation), abrogoj (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, remit). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏محى, ‏حذف (cancellation, castrate, delete, edit, elide, elimination, elision, miss out, omission, omit, retrench, skip, write off), ‏عطل (cripple, damage, deactivate, derange, disrupt, foul up, hold up, jam, obstruct, stay, suspend), ‏الغاء (abrogation, annulment, cassation, lifting, scratching), ‏إلغاء (abolishment, abolition, annihilation, avoidance, cancellation, nullification, recall, repeal, rescission, revocation), ‏ألغى (abolish, abort, annul, avoid, call off, deactivate, dissolve, do away with, eliminate, lift, negate, nullify, obliterate, override, overrule, quash, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, rule out, scratch, scrub, set aside, spike, stop, undo, vacate), ‏أبطل (abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, avoid, call off, circumvent, counteract, countermand, defeat, extinguish, frustrate, nullify, override, quash, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, rule out, stultify, supersede, undo, upset, vacate, vitiate, void), ‏شطب (blot, cancellation, cross, cross out, delete, deletion, score, scratch, scratching, slash, stroke, write off). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

съкращавам (abbreviate, abridge, condense, contract, curtail, cut short, discard, elide, prune, reduce, retrench, slash, take off, terminate, truncate), компостер, отменявам (abolish), отменям (abate, abrogate, annul, avoid, countermand, disaffirm, extinguish, override, quash, raise, recall, remit, repeal, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, scrub, supersede, undo, wash out, withdraw), отписвам (cross out, give up, strike off a name), зачерквам (black out, blank, cross off, cross out, delete, kill, score out, scratch off, strike, write off), задрасквам (cross out, deface, delete, expunge, scratch off, scratch out, strike through, take off), изрязване на текст, изхвърлен текст от шпалта. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

取消 . (various references)

   

Czech

  

zrušit (abolish, abrogate, annul, break off, call off, close down, countermand, destroy, disannul, discontinue, dissolve, do away with, invalidate, nullify, overturn, quash, raise, repeal, rescind, revers, reverse, revoke, set aside, stop, strike off, sweep, take off, undo, unmake, vitiate, void, withdraw), odvolat (abolish, abrogate, annul, call, call away, call back, call off, countermand, cry off, draw off, recall, recant, renounce, repeal, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, swallow, take back, take off, undo, unsay, unswear, withdraw), odřeknout, anulovat (annul, annulled, invalidate, nullify, override, rescind, reverse, revoke, scrub). (various references)

   

Danish

  

sende afbud (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, countermand, remit), rettelsesblad (amendment sheet, error note), omtrykt blad, annuller, annullation, aflyse (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, remit), abbestellen (countermand). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

annuleren (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, remit), afbestellen (countermand). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

nuligi (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, remit), malmendi (countermand), kontraŭmendi (countermand). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

taka aftur (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, draw back, remit, withdraw), gera til einkis (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, remit). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

فسخ کردن (Countermand, Disannul, Dissolve, Terminate), لغوکردن (Abrogate, Annul, Countermand, Disannul, Nullify, Repeal, Revoke), باطل کردن (Abrogate, Annul, Disannul, Dispense, Frank, Invalid, Invalidate, Quash, Undo). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

pyyhkiä (cross out, delete, dry, mop, strike out, wipe, wipe off), puuduttaa (amortize, anesthetize, declare invalid, pay off), peruuttaa (back, call off, reverse, revoke), mitätöidä, kumota (annul, nullify, overthrow, refute, repeal, revoke, turn, turn over, upset), hylätä (abandon, decline, desert, disallow, discard, dismiss, disown, forsake, leave, refuse, reject), epuuttaa (take back, withdraw). (various references)

   

French

  

annuler (call off), résilier (call off), biffer, abroger. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

skrasse (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, remit), annulearje (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, remit), ôfsizze (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, countermand, remit), ôfbestelle (countermand). (various references)

   

German

  

annullieren (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, dissolve, nullify, quash, remit, rescind, revoke), streichen (apply, ax, axe, bow, brush, brush treatment, brushing, brushing treatment, calender, coat, coating, cross off, cross out, cut, daub, delete, discard, draw, drop, elapse, glaze, kill, make a stroke, paint, put on, ramble, removal, remove, roam about, spread, spreading, stop, strike, stroke, sweep, to cancel, to discard, to elapse, to paint, waft, wander, write off), aufheben (abolish, abrogate, annul, break, break off, cancel out, close, dissolve, do away with, fuss, keep, lever, lift, lift off, lift up, make up for, neutralize, offset, pick up, quash, raise, remove, repeal, rescind, reserve, resolve, reverse, revoke, save up, set aside, to abolish, to abrogate, to annul, to override, to pick up, to repeal, to rescind, to suspend, unmake, void, withdrawal), abbrechen (abandon, abbort, abort, break, break away, break off, breakups, call off, demolish, DISC, disconnect command, discontinue, sever, shear off, snap, snap off, split off, stop, strike, tear down, terminate, to abort, to break away, to break off, to cut short, to discontinue, to dismantle, to sever, to tear down, to truncate). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ακυρώνω (abate, abolish, abrogate, annul, nullify, overide, repeal, rescind, scrub, to override, void). (various references)

   

Hawaiian

  

abrogoj (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, remit). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

למחוק (cross out, delete, efface, erase, raze, rub out, rubber, strike off, strike out, wipe out, write off), לפסול (disallow, disqualify, illegalize, invalidate, reject, rule out), ל"פר (annul, break, contravene, defeat, foil, violate, void), לבטל (abolish, annul, invalidate, nullify, revoke, set aside, suspend, undo). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

visszamond (recite), töröl (blue pencil, cross off, delete, scratch off, scratch out, to annul, to delete, to efface, to erase, to flannel, to scratch, to scrub, wipe), sztorníroz, megsemmisít (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, avoid, efface, elide, nullify, remit, repeal, to annihilate, to annul, to cancel, to destroy, to disfigure, to eliminate, to eradicate, to exterminate, to give sy a trouncing, to nullify, to overwhelm, to put down, to put to rout, to repeal, to reverse, to rout, to set aside, to smite hip and thigh), lefúj (blow off, to blow off, to call off, to whiff), eltöröl (abolish, do away, obliterate, to abolish, to annul, to extinguish, to obliterate, to put down, to repeal, to rescind, to revoke, wipe out), érvénytelenítõ bélyegzõ, érvénytelenít (abate, abrogate, annul, call off, disannul, invalidate, nullify, quash, rescind, to annul, to frustrate, to infirm, to invalidate, to nullify, to overrule, to rescind, to set aside, to toll, to vitiate, to void, void). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

penghapusan (abolishment, abolition, abrogation, erasion, erasure, purging), pemusnahan (annihilation), menunda (adjourn, defer, delay, postpone), menangguhkan (defer, postpone, table). (various references)

   

Italian

  

annullare (abate, abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, avoid, counter, countermand, delete, dissolve, nullify, override, overrule, quash, remit, rescind, scrub, set aside, tear up, to abrogate), cancellare (blot, cross out, delete, efface, erase, expunge, extinguish, obliterate, rub off, rub out, score off, scratch out, stop, strike off, strike out, wipe out, zap), annullare un ordine (countermand). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

取消し (cancellation), 取消 (cancellation), 取り消し (cancellation), キャリア組 (base, calibration, camp, camp in, camp site, camper, camper-van, campfire, camping, campus, campus shoes, campus wear, canceler, canceller, cancer, candle, candle service, candlestick, candy, cantaloupe, canter, canvas, career bureaucrats, carol, carriage, mobile home, model featured in an advertising campaign, RV). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

キャンセル , とりけし (cancellation). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

취소 (Canceling, Cancellation, Cancelling, Voiding). (various references)

   

Malay

  

membatalkan (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, remit), batalkan (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, remit). (various references)

   

Manx

  

scryssey (cancellation; growl, eliminate, elimination, erase, forage, grin, pare down, rub out, scrap, scrape, scrape away, scraping, scratch, shave, sneer, strike out, wipe out, write off), lheanagh ynnyd, duillag ynnyd, dolley magh (abolition, abrogate, abrogation, block out, cancellation, delete, erase, obliteration), cur ass (annoy, deprive, emit, extrude, inconvenience, put out). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

kanselá (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, remit), anulá (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, remit). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ancelcay

   

Portuguese

  

cancelamento (abrogation, cancellation, rescission, retirement, revocation), anular (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, annular, countermand, cross out, defeat, delete, disaffirm, disannul, dissolve, irritate, negate, neutron, nullify, off, overrule, quash, recall, remit, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, ring finger, ringed, rip up, set aside, strike out), anulação (abrogation, annulment, avoidance, cancellation, defeasance, defeat, deletion, dissolve, lickspittle, nullifications, recall, repeal, rescission, retirement, revocation, undoing). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

anula (abate, abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, avoid, call off, defeat, disaffirm, disannul, discharge, dissolve, negate, negative, nullify, overrule, quash, recall, remit, render null, repeal, rescind, reverse, undo, vacate, vitiate). (various references)

   

Romansch

  

annullar (to cancel). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

вычеркивать (black out, blue-pencil, cross off, cross out, delete, efface, expunge, expurgate, kill, line through, obliterate, raze, score out, scratch, scratch out, strike off, strike out), отменять (abolish, abrogate, annul, back out, call off, defeat, disaffirm, disannul, disestablish, override, overrule, recall, remit, repeal, rescind, retract, revoke, revoked, revoking, undid, undone), отмена (abolishment, abolition, abrogation, abrogations, annihilation, annulment, cancellation, disaffirmation, repeal, rescission, revocation), аннулировать (abate, annul, avoided, canseal, disannul, dissolve, invalidate, invalidates, nullify, override, overriden, overrode, quash, render null, rescind, vacate, void). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

uprostiti (reduce, simplify), ukinuti (abolish, abrogate, call off, discontinue, nullify, quash, rescind, reverse, revoke, set aside, undo), precrtati (cross off, cross out, score out, scratch off, scratch out, trace), poništiti (abolish, annul, countermand, defeat, foreclose, invalidate, nullify, quash, repeal, unmake, void), otkazati (break down, call off, denounce). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

anular (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, annular, annulus, avoid, countermand, defeat, destroy, discontinue, invalidate, negate, negative, nullify, override, overrule, overturn, quash, remit, repudiate, rescind, revoke, ring finger, scrub, set aside, to abrogate, to override, undo, void, write off), cancelar (annul, call off, countermand, delete, erase, repudiate, scratch, spread, to cancel, undo, wipe out, write off, zap), cancelación (annulment, cancellation, deletion, repudiation), anulación (annulment, avoidance, cancellation, defeat, denouncement, nullification, repudiation, rescission, revocation). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

inställa (adjust, align, appear, approach, install, position, set), avboka, avbeställa (countermand), annullera (annul, defeat, nullify, revoke, withdraw). (various references)

   

Thai

  

การยกเลิก (cancelation, cancellation, recall, rescission), ลบทิ้ง, ยกเลิก (disannul, lift, recall). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

feshetmek (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, call off, countermand, dissolve, do away with, outlaw, quash, remit, rescind, set aside, vacate, wash out). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

викреслювання (cancellation, deletion, effacement, expurgation), передрукований аркуш, погашати (balance, null, sink), бекар, анулювання (abatement, abolition, abrogation, annihilation, annulment, avoidance, cancellation, defeasance, invalidation, nullification, repeal, rescission, revocation, write off), анулювати (abate, abrogate, annul, avoid, bar, defeat, disannul, elide, null, nullify, overrule, quash, repeal, rescind, undo, wash out, withdraw), передрук (typing), закреслювати (overscore, strike through), стирати (abrade, chafe, deface, delete, efface, erase, obliterate, rub out, wipe away), викреслювати (black out, blot out, blue pencil, cross off, cross out, delete, efface, elide, erase, expunge, line out, obliterate, rase, raze, score out, scratch off, scratch out), відкликати (call away, call off, countermand, recall, revoke, withdraw), компостер (punch, puncher), скасовувати (abate, abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, call off, disaffirm, disestablish, negative, nullify, repeal, rescind, withdraw), скасування (abolishment, abolition, abrogation, annihilation, cancellation, defeasance, demolition, nullification, repeal, withdrawal), скорочувати (abate, abbreviate, abridge, ax, axe, blue pencil, boil down, castrate, curtail, cut, lop away, lop off, prune, retrench, shorten, shrink), закреслювання (crossing). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự xoá bỏ (cancellation, erasement), sự huỷ bỏ (abolishment, abolition, abrogation, annulment, cancellation, disaffirmation, nullification, repeal, rescission, revocation), sự bãi bỏ lệnh ngược lại. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

dirymu (annul, nullify). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Cancel

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

cancellare, resignare, retractare. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Cancel

Derivations

Words beginning with "cancel": cancelable, cancelation, cancelations, canceled, canceler, cancelers, canceling, cancellable, cancellation, cancellations, cancelled, canceller, cancellers, cancelling, cancellous, cancels. (additional references)

Words ending with "cancel": precancel. (additional references)

Words containing "cancel": noncancelable, precanceled, precanceling, precancellation, precancellations, precancelled, precancelling, precancels, uncanceled. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Cancel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acknell, ancel, ancell, canca, Cancale, cance, cancell, Canche, cancle, cancled, candel, canec, canel, cansol, cence, Cencio, cenel, Centel, ciance, cince, cinel, concal, conciel, concil, concill, concol, Cundell, Fanshel, Kanael, Kancheli. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Cancel"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "cancel" (pronounced ka"nsul)
5-a" n s u lHansel.
4-n s u lconsul, council, counsel, pencil, Proconsul, stencil, tensile, tinsel, tonsil, unsell, utensil.
3-s u lantimissile, apostle, Axel, axle, basal, brasil, bristle, bustle, capsule, Castle, colossal, diesel, dismissal, dispersal, docile, dorsal, epistle, facile, fissile, fossil, gracile, gristle, Hassel, hassle, housel, hustle, imbecile, jostle, microfossil, missal, missel, missile, morsel, mucosal, muscle, mussel, Nestle, parcel, Passel, pixel, rehearsal, reversal, rustle, tassel, Tattersall, Tercel, Thistle, Tressel, trestle, tussle, universal, vassal, vessel, whistle, wrestle.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Cancel

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-l-n"

-1 letter: cecal, clean, lance.

-2 letters: acne, alec, cane, ceca, clan, elan, lace, lane, lean.

-3 letters: ace, ale, ane, can, cel, lac, lea, nae.

-4 letters: ae, al, an, el, en, la, na, ne.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-l-n"
 

+1 letter: calcine, cancels, cenacle, chancel, conceal.

 

+2 letters: calcanea, calcanei, calcined, calcines, calycine, canceled, canceler, canticle, caruncle, cenacles, chancels, clarence, conceals, conclave, cracknel, cyclamen, necklace, scenical.

 

+3 letters: accentual, caecilian, calcaneal, calcaneum, calcaneus, calcimine, calendric, cancelers, canceling, cancelled, canceller, canticles, carbuncle, caruncles, chalcogen, chanceful, chloracne, clarences, clearance, cochineal, concealed, concealer, conclaves, covalence, covalency, cracknels, cyclamens, cyclopean, inculcate, necklaces, peccantly, precancel, technical.

 

+4 letters: accelerant, accentless, accidental, accidently, acetylenic, caecilians, calcimined, calcimines, calcinoses, cancelable, cancellers, cancelling, cancellous, candlewick, carbuncled, carbuncles, chalcedony, chalcogens, chancellor, chloracnes, cladoceran, clearances, coalescent, coalescing, cochineals, coelacanth, complacent, compliance, concealers, concealing, conceptual, conciliate, convalesce, covalences, crunchable, economical, ecumenical, encyclical, inculcated, inculcates, indelicacy, lactogenic, mechanical, neoclassic, occidental, precancels, reluctance, reluctancy, scenically, technicals, uncalcined, uncanceled, uncoalesce.

 

+5 letters: acaulescent, accelerando, accelerants, accentually, acceptingly, accessional, accidentals, accountable, adolescence, anecdotical, anticyclone, archangelic, calendrical, calisthenic, cancelation, cancellable, cancerously, candlestick, candlewicks, centrically, chalcedonic, chameleonic, chancellery, chancellors, chancellory, chanticleer, circinately, cladocerans, coalescence, coelacanths, collectanea, collenchyma, commonplace, complacence, complacency, compliances, concealable, concealment, conceivable, conceivably, conceptacle, conciliated, conciliates, confiscable, conjectural, connectable, contractile, convalesced, convalesces, covalencies, cyclazocine, cyclohexane, electrician, encyclicals, incalescent, macronuclei, maleficence, mechanicals, melancholic, narcoleptic, neocortical, nonchalance, nonchemical, nonclerical, oecumenical, opalescence, precanceled, preclinical, reflectance, reluctances, technically, uncalcified, uncatchable, uncheckable, uncoalesced, uncoalesces, unconcealed, untechnical.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Cancel


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 61 6E 63 65 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    .-    -.    -.-.    .    .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#110 &#99 &#101 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 006E 0063 0065 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

376780697178

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Familiar
7. Quotations: Historic
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Quotations: Spoken
10. Usage Frequency
11. Names: Frequency
12. Expressions
13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Translations: Ancient
16. Abbreviations
17. Acronyms
18. Derivations
19. Rhymes
20. Anagrams
21. Orthography
22. Bibliography


  

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