Rase vs Cancel - What's the difference?
rase | cancel | Synonyms |
A scratching out, or erasure
A slight wound; a scratch
A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it
(obsolete) to rub along the surface of; to graze
* South
* Beckford
(obsolete) to rub or scratch out; to erase
* Fuller
to level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze
* Chapman
to be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow
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.
Rase is a synonym of cancel.
As nouns the difference between rase and cancel
is that rase is case while cancel is a cancellation (us ); (nonstandard in some kinds of english).As a verb cancel is
to cross out something with lines etc.rase
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(ras)- Was he not in the neighbourhood to death? and might not the bullet which rased his cheek have gone into his head?
- Sometimes his feet rased the surface of water, and at others the skylight almost flattened his nose.
- Except we rase the faculty of memory, root and branch, out of our mind.
- Till Troy were by their brave hands rased , / They would not turn home.
Anagrams
* ----cancel
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.