Cancel vs. Delete — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Cancel and Delete
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Cancel
To annul or invalidate
Cancel a credit card.
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Delete
To cancel, strike out, or make impossible to be perceived
Deleted the expletives from the transcript with a marker.
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Cancel
To decide or announce that (a planned or scheduled event) will not take place, especially with no intention of holding it at a later time
Cancel a picnic.
Cancel a soccer game.
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Delete
To remove from a document or record
Deleted the names from the computer file.
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Cancel
To cross out with lines or other markings.
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Delete
To remove (a file, for example) from a hard drive or other storage medium.
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To mark or perforate (a postage stamp or check, for example) to indicate that it may not be used again.
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To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device.
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Cancel
To neutralize or equalize; offset
Today's decline in stock price canceled out yesterday's gain.
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Delete
To defeat or dominate.
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Cancel
To remove (a common factor) from the numerator and denominator of a fractional expression.
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Delete
To kill or murder.
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To remove (a common factor or term) from both sides of an equation or inequality.
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(computing) A deletion.
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To neutralize one another; counterbalance
Two opposing forces that canceled out.
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Delete
(recorded entertainment industry) A remainder of a music or video release.
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Cancel
The act or an instance of canceling; a cancellation.
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(uncountable) Delete
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(transitive) To cross out something with lines etc.
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(computing) The delete character (U+007F or %7F).
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Cancel
(transitive) To invalidate or annul something.
He cancelled his order on their website.
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Delete
To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit.
I have, therefore, . . . inserted eleven stanzas which do not appear in Sir Walter Scott's version, and have deleted eight.
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(transitive) 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.
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Delete
Remove or make invisible;
Please delete my name from your list
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Cancel
(transitive) To offset or equalize something.
The corrective feedback mechanism cancels out the noise.
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Delete
Wipe out magnetically recorded information
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Cancel
To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
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Delete
Cut or eliminate;
She edited the juiciest scenes
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Cancel
To stop production of a programme.
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Cancel
To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
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(obsolete) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
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(slang) To kill.
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To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable). Compare cancel culture.
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Cancel
A cancellation (US); (nonstandard in some kinds of English).
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A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message.
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(obsolete) An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.
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(printing) The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
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(printing) The page thus suppressed.
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(printing) The page that replaces it.
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To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.
A little obscure place canceled in with iron work is the pillar or stump at which . . . our Savior was scourged.
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Cancel
To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
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To cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out or obliterate.
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; though the phrase is now used figuratively for any manner of obliterating or defacing it.
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Cancel
To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.
The indentures were canceled.
He was unwilling to cancel the interest created through former secret services, by being refractory on this occasion.
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Cancel
To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
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An inclosure; a boundary; a limit.
A prison is but a retirement, and opportunity of serious thoughts, to a person whose spirit . . . desires no enlargement beyond the cancels of the body.
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Cancel
The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
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Cancel
A notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat
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Cancel
Postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled;
Call off the engagement
Cancel the dinner party
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Make up for;
His skills offset his opponent's superior strength
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Declare null and void; make ineffective;
Cancel the election results
Strike down a law
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Cancel
Remove or make invisible;
Please delete my name from your list
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Of cheques or tickets
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