What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Cancel vs Revoked - What's the difference?

cancel | revoked |

As verbs the difference between cancel and revoked

is that cancel is to cross out something with lines etc while revoked is (revoke).

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

    *

    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.
  • revoked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (revoke)

  • revoke

    English

    Verb

  • To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
  • Your driver's license will be revoked .
  • To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.
  • (obsolete) To call or bring back; to recall.
  • * Spenser
  • The faint sprite he did revoke again, / To her frail mansion of morality.
  • (obsolete) To hold back; to repress; to restrain.
  • * Spenser
  • [She] still strove their sudden rages to revoke .
  • (obsolete) To draw back; to withdraw.
  • (Spenser)
  • (obsolete) To call back to mind; to recollect.
  • * South
  • A man, by revoking and recollecting within himself former passages, will be still apt to inculcate these sad memories to his conscience.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of revoking in a game of cards.
  • A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid.
  • A violation ranked in seriousness somewhat below overt cheating, with the status of a more minor offense only because, when it happens, it is usually accidental.