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Latticework, or one of the cross-bars in latticework; a latticework or grated inclosure; hence, a barrier; a limit.
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[⟨ cancel, v.] In printing, a page, sheet, or other part of a printed work suppressed and destroyed before publication; the act of rejecting a part of a printed work.
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[⟨ cancel, v.] In music, the sign ♯, when used to nullify the effect of a sharp or a flat previously occurring either in the signature or as an accidental.
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An order canceling or countermanding a previous order.
In printing, to mark on copy or proof (words or lines that are to be omitted).
In bookbinding, to destroy (a leaf or section that is to be entirely suppressed).
To inclose with latticework or a railing.
To draw lines across (something written) so as to deface; blot out or obliterate: as, to cancel several lines in a manuscript.
To annul or destroy; make void; set aside: as, to cancel a debt or an engagement.
In mathematics, to strike out or eliminate, as a number or quantity constituting a common factor in a dividend and divisor or the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or a common term in the two members of an equation.
In printing, to strike out, reject, or throw aside, as some portion of a printed work.
In music, to suspend the power of (a sharp or a flat) by inserting the sign ♯.
Repeal, Rescind, etc. See abolish.
To become obliterated or void.