Cancel vs Withdraw - What's the difference?
cancel | withdraw |
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.
To pull (something) back, aside, or away.
* Hooker
To take back (a comment, etc).
To remove, to stop providing (one's support, etc).
To extract (money from an account).
To retreat.
To be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc.
* 1994 , (Edward St Aubyn), Bad News , Picador 2006, p. 201:
In transitive terms the difference between cancel and withdraw
is that cancel is to offset or equalize something while withdraw is to extract (money from an account).As a noun cancel
is a cancellation (US); (nonstandard in some kinds of English).cancel
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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.
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Verb
- Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything.
- to withdraw false charges
- Simon had tried to rob a bank while he was withdrawing , but he had been forced to surrender to the police after they had fired several volleys at him.
