cancel

Significat (Anglès)

Verb

1. (transitive) To cross out something with lines etc.
2. (transitive) To invalidate or annul something.
3. (transitive) To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.
4. (transitive) To offset or equalize something.
5. (transitive) To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
6. (transitive) To stop production of a programme.
7. (dated) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
8. (obsolete) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
9. (slang) To kill.
10. (neologism, transitive) To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable); to disinvite. Compare cancel culture.

Noun

1. (US) A cancellation.
2. (US) A cancellation.
3. (obsolete) An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.
4. The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
5. The page thus suppressed.
6. The page that replaces it.

Conceptes

cancel·lar

anul·lar

interrompre

liquidar

suprimir

eliminar

invalidar

revocar

simplificar

desdir-se

cantar la palinòdia

absoldre

anuŀ lar

arrancar

Sinònims

annul

revoke

abolish

repeal

abrogate

call off

erase

nullify

delete

remit

invalidate

cross out

withdraw

rescind

abjure

cancellation

countermand

stop

🛑

void

abort

strike out

obliterate

reverse

write off

retract

recall

offset

neutralize

abate

dissolve

drop

overrule

cease

cancelation

disannul

quit

overturn

undo

negate

suppress

scrub

terminate

wipe out

eliminate

give up

quash

do away with

discontinue

renege on

recant

Traduccions

annuler

annullare

cancelar

anular

ακυρώνω

cancelar

cancellare

annullieren

annuleren

résilier

διαγράφω

supprimer

streichen

anular

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈkæn.sl̩/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: cancellen

Cognat amb francès: chanceler

In summary

From Middle English cancellen, from Anglo-Norman canceler (“to cross out with lines”) (modern French chanceler (“to stagger, sway”)), from Old French canceler, from Latin cancellō (“to make resemble a lattice”), from cancellus (“a railing or lattice”), diminutive of cancer (“a lattice”).