Dissolve vs Cancel - What's the difference?
dissolve | cancel |
To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding
To destroy, make disappear
To liquify, melt into a fluid
* Shakespeare
To be melted, changed into a fluid
(chemistry) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or gas.
(chemistry) To be disintegrated by such immersion.
To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.
* Shakespeare
To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
* Fairfax
* The Declaration of Independence
(legal) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.
(cinematography) To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in.
To resolve itself as by dissolution
(obsolete) To solve; to clear up; to resolve.
* Tennyson
* Bible, Daniel v. 16
To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
* Dryden
(cinematography) A film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next.
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.
In lang=en terms the difference between dissolve and cancel
is that dissolve is to resolve itself as by dissolution while cancel is to offset or equalize something.In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between dissolve and cancel
is that dissolve is (obsolete) to solve; to clear up; to resolve while cancel is (obsolete) an inclosure; a boundary; a limit.As verbs the difference between dissolve and cancel
is that dissolve is to terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding while cancel is to cross out something with lines etc.As nouns the difference between dissolve and cancel
is that dissolve is (cinematography) a film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next while cancel is a cancellation (us ); (nonstandard in some kinds of english).dissolve
English
(dissolution)Verb
(dissolv)- ''The ruling party or coalition sometimes dissolves parliament early when the polls are favorable, hoping to reconvene with a larger majority
- as if the world were all dissolved to tears
- Nothing can dissolve us.
- Down fell the duke, his joints dissolved asunder.
- For one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another.
- to dissolve an injunction
- dissolved the mystery
- Make interpretations and dissolve doubts.
- Angels dissolved in hallelujahs lie.
Synonyms
* melt * (cinematography) fade outDerived terms
* dissolvable * dissolverAntonyms
* (terminate a union of multiple members actively) establish, foundSee also
* meltNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* fade outcancel
English
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.
