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Cancel vs Cutoff - What's the difference?

cancel | cutoff |

As nouns the difference between cancel and cutoff

is that cancel is a cancellation (us ); (nonstandard in some kinds of english) while cutoff is the point at which something terminates or to which it is limited.

As a verb cancel

is to cross out something with lines etc.

cancel

English

Alternative forms

* cancell (obsolete)

Verb

  • To cross out something with lines etc.
  • * Blackstone
  • 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.
  • To invalidate or annul something.
  • He cancelled his order on their website.
  • * 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.
  • This machine cancels the letters that have a valid zip code.
  • To offset or equalize something.
  • The corrective feedback mechanism cancels out the noise.
  • (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
  • cancelled from heaven
  • (slang) To kill.
  • Synonyms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • (printing) The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
  • cutoff

    English

    Alternative forms

    * cut-off

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The point at which something terminates or to which it is limited.
  • A road, path of channel that provides a shorter or quicker path; a shortcut.
  • A device that stops the flow of a current.
  • A cessation in a flow or activity.
  • (poker) The player who acts directly before the player on the preflop in Texas hold 'em.
  • (chiefly, in the plural) shorts made by cutting off the legs from trousers
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