cancel vs count out

cancel

verb
  • To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable). Compare cancel culture. 

  • To cross out something with lines etc. 

  • To offset or equalize something. 

  • To kill. 

  • To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation. 

  • To invalidate or annul something. 

  • To stop production of a programme. 

  • To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused. 

noun
  • A cancellation (US); (nonstandard in some kinds of English). 

  • The page thus suppressed. 

  • A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message. 

  • The page that replaces it. 

  • The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages. 

count out

verb
  • To exclude; to dismiss from participation or eligibility. 

  • To declare adjourned, as a sitting of the House, when it is ascertained that a quorum is not present. 

  • To determine that a competitor has lost a match, by a referee's enumeration aloud of the increments of time for which the competitor has been incapacitated. 

  • To prevent the accession of (a legitimately elected person) to office, by a fraudulent return or count of the votes. 

  • To enumerate items while organizing or transferring them. 

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