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Cancel vs Disinvite - What's the difference?

cancel | disinvite |

In lang=en terms the difference between cancel and disinvite

is that cancel is to offset or equalize something while disinvite is to cancel an invitation to.

As verbs the difference between cancel and disinvite

is that cancel is to cross out something with lines etc while disinvite is to cancel an invitation to.

As a noun cancel

is a cancellation (us ); (nonstandard in some kinds of english).

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.

    • Related terms

    * chancel * cancellation * chancellery * chancellor * chancery

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    disinvite

    English

    Verb

    (disinvit)
  • To cancel an invitation to.
  • * {{quote-news, year=1988, date=May 6, author=Robert McClory, title=The Divine Right, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Edwina Gately, a lay missionary who works with prostitutes in Chicago, was recently "disinvited " from delivering homilies at two parishes after the pastors received conservative complaints. }}

    Usage notes

    * The prefix (dis-) gives a more negative implication to (disinvite) than the neutral implication (un-) gives to (uninvite). One might "univite" guests because one had more than an anticipated number of acceptances. One might "disinvite" someone for a reason specific to the person.

    Synonyms

    * (to cancel an invitation) uninvite