Carcel vs Cancel - What's the difference?
carcel | cancel |
(historical) A former unit to measure the intensity of light, approximately 9.74 candelas
*{{quote-book, year=1901, author=Charles King, title=Ray's Daughter, chapter=, edition=
, passage=They would surely have heard of it, and now he was here, still virtually in hiding and possibly in disguise, and one unguarded word of hers might land him a prisoner, a war-time deserter, within the walls of the gloomy carcel in Old Manila. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1896, author=Various, title=Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896, chapter=, edition=
, passage=In all systems of lighting, save electricity, the unit of light is the carcel . }}
*{{quote-book, year=1888, author=Various, title=Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888, chapter=, edition=
, passage=When experimenting in Paris with a No. 3 lamp in a vertical direction, it showed a consumption of 34.6 liters (1.2 cubic feet) per carcel obtained. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1885, author=Various, title=Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Desroziers in a series of experiments obtained as much as 250 carcel spherical luminous value per horse-power; this characteristic is one likely to be of great value in electric lighting by incandescence of high intensity. }}
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 nouns the difference between carcel and cancel
is that carcel is (historical) a former unit to measure the intensity of light, approximately 974 candelas while cancel is a cancellation (us ); (nonstandard in some kinds of english).As a verb cancel is
to cross out something with lines etc.carcel
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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.