Blank vs Cancel - What's the difference?
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(archaic) White or pale; without colour.
* Milton
Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot.
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(figurative) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
Absolute; downright; unmixed; sheer.
Without expression.
Utterly confounded or discomfited.
* Milton
Empty; void; without result; fruitless.
Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration. (rfex)
A cartridge that is designed to simulate the noise and smoke of real gunfire without actually firing a projectile.
An empty space; a void, as on a paper, or in one's memory.
* Jonathan Swift
* Hallam
* George Eliot
A space to be filled in on a form or template.
A paper without marks or characters, or with space left for writing; a ballot, form, contract, etc. that has not yet been filled in.
* Palfrey
A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.
* Dryden
(archaic) A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence.
(engineering) A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.
(dominoes) A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the double blank"; the six blank." In blank, with an essential portion to be supplied by another; as, to make out a check in blank.
The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space-bar on a keyboard.
The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed.
* Shakespeare
Aim; shot; range.
* Shakespeare
(chemistry) A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it.
To make void; to erase.
(slang) To ignore.
To prevent from scoring, as in a sporting event.
To become blank.
To cross out something with lines etc.
* Blackstone
To invalidate or annul something.
* 1914 , (Marjorie Benton Cooke), Bambi
*:"I don't know what your agreement was, Herr Professor, but if it had money in it, cancel it. I want him to learn that lesson, too."
To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.
To offset or equalize something.
(mathematics) To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
(media) To stop production of a programme.
(printing, dated) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
(obsolete) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
* Milton
(slang) To kill.
A cancellation (US ); (nonstandard in some kinds of English).
# (Internet) A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message.
(obsolete) An inclosure; a boundary; a limit.
(printing) The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
As verbs the difference between blank and cancel
is that blank is while cancel is to cross out something with lines etc.As a noun cancel is
a cancellation (us ); (nonstandard in some kinds of english).blank
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- To the blank moon / Her office they prescribed.
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- a blank''' desert; a '''blank''' wall; '''blank unconsciousness
- blank terror
- Failing to understand the question, he gave me a blank stare.
- Adam astonied stood, and blank .
- a blank day
Descendants
Noun
(en noun)- I cannot write a paper full, I used to do; and yet I will not forgive a blank of half an inch from you.
- From this time there ensues a long blank in the history of French legislation.
- I was ill. I can't tell how long — it was a blank .
- The freemen signified their approbation by an inscribed vote, and their dissent by a blank .
- In Fortune's lottery lies / A heap of blanks , like this, for one small prize.
- (Nares)
- Let me still remain / The true blank of thine eye.
- I have stood within the blank of his displeasure / For my free speech.
Verb
(en verb)- I blanked out my previous entry.
- She blanked me for no reason.
- The team was blanked .
Usage notes
* Almost any sense of this can occur with (out). See (blank out).Derived terms
* blank canvas * blank check * blank end * blankly * blankness * blank out * blank verse ----cancel
English
Alternative forms
* cancell (obsolete)Verb
- 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; the phrase is now used figuratively for any manner of obliterating or defacing it.
- He cancelled his order on their website.
- This machine cancels the letters that have a valid zip code.
- The corrective feedback mechanism cancels out the noise.
- cancelled from heaven
Synonyms
*Noun
(en noun)- A prison is but a retirement, and opportunity of serious thoughts, to a person whose spiritdesires no enlargement beyond the cancels of the body. — Jeremy Taylor.