Meaning of cancel | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A cancellation.
   US
3. To neutralize one another; counterbalance: two opposing forces that canceled out.
4. A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message.
   US
5. The act or an instance of canceling; a cancellation.
6. An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.
   obsolete
7. kansellasie إلغاء ، إبْطال анулиране cancelamento zrušení, stornování die Absage aflysning ακύρωσηcancelación, anulación tühistus فسخ؛ ابطال peruutus annulation בטול, ביטול रद्द brisanje, poništenje törlés pembatalan cancellazione, annullamento 取り消し 취소 atšaukimas, nutraukimas, anuliavimas atcelšana; anulēšana; dzēšana pembatalan annulering, opzeggingavbestilling; avlysingodwołanie, unieważnienie, anulowanie باطلول cancelamento contramandare, anu­lare аннулирование zrušenie razveljavitev otkaz...
8. The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
9. to undo the effect of. We don't want our profits to be cancelled out by extra expenses. neutraliseer يُبْطِلُ унищожавам anular zmařit sich ausgleichen udligne εξουδετερώνωcompensar, contrarrestar, anular olematuks tegema جبران کردن؛ سر به سر کردن kumota annuler לְקָזֵז, לְנַטרֵל एक दूसरे को बराबर करना ukidati se érvénytelenít, kiegyenlítik egymást batal verða/gera að engu annullare 相殺される 상쇄되다 likviduoti likvidēt; izslēgt meluputkan opheffenbli borte niwelować, znosić مالچه کول anular contram...
10. The page thus suppressed.
11. cancelar, suprimir.
12. The page that replaces it.
13. To annul or invalidate: cancel a credit card.
14. To cross out with lines or other markings. See Synonyms at erase.
15. To neutralize or equalize; offset: Today's decline in stock price canceled out yesterday's gain.
16. Mathematics a. To remove (a common factor) from the numerator and denominator of a fractional expression.
    Mathematics
17. to order (something already arranged, such as a meeting or event) to be postponed indefinitely; call off

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Examples

“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.”

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