Found 3 items, similar to cancel.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: cancel anulir, membatalkan, menangguhkan, mengurungkan, menunda, pemusnahan, penghapusan, penghilangan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: cancel cancel n : a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat [syn: natural] [also: cancelling, cancelled] cancel v 1: postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled; “Call off the engagement”; “cancel the dinner party” [syn: call off] 2: make up for; “His skills offset his opponent's superior strength” [syn: offset, set off] 3: declare null and void; make ineffective; “Cancel the election results”; “strike down a law” [syn: strike down] 4: remove or make invisible; “Please delete my name from your list” [syn: delete] 5: of cheques or tickets [syn: invalidate] [also: cancelling, cancelled]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Cancel Cancel \Can"cel\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Canceled or Cancelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Canceling or Cancelling.] [L. cancellare to make like a lattice, to strike or cross out (cf. Fr. canceller, OF. canceler) fr. cancelli lattice, crossbars, dim. of cancer lattice; cf. Gr. ? latticed gate. Cf. Chancel.] 1. To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] A little obscure place canceled in with iron work is the pillar or stump at which . . . our Savior was scourged. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster] 2. To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude. [Obs.] “Canceled from heaven.” --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. 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. [1913 Webster] 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; though the phrase is now used figuratively for any manner of obliterating or defacing it. --Blackstone. [1913 Webster] 4. To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall. [1913 Webster] The indentures were canceled. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster] He was unwilling to cancel the interest created through former secret services, by being refractory on this occasion. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] 5. (Print.) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type. [1913 Webster] Canceled figures (Print), figures cast with a line across the face., as for use in arithmetics. Syn: To blot out; obliterate; deface; erase; efface; expunge; annul; abolish; revoke; abrogate; repeal; destroy; do away; set aside. See Abolish. [1913 Webster] Cancel \Can"cel\, n. [See Cancel, v. i., and cf. Chancel.] [1913 Webster] 1. An inclosure; a boundary; a limit. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] A prison is but a retirement, and opportunity of serious thoughts, to a person whose spirit . . . desires no enlargement beyond the cancels of the body. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster] 2. (Print) (a) The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages. (b) The part thus suppressed. [1913 Webster]