Cancel vs Withdraw – What’s the difference?

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Cancel vs Withdraw - What's the difference?
As verbs the difference between cancel and withdraw is that cancel is to cross out something with lines etc while withdraw is to pull (something) back, aside, or away.

As a noun cancel is a cancellation (us ); (nonstandard in some kinds of english).

cancel

English

Alternative forms

* cancell (obsolete)

Verb

  • To cross out something with lines etc.
  • * Blackstone
    • 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.
  • To invalidate or annul something.
    • He cancelled his order on their website.
  • * 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.
    • This machine cancels the letters that have a valid zip code.
  • To offset or equalize something.
    • The corrective feedback mechanism cancels out the noise.
  • (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
    • cancelled from heaven
  • (slang) To kill.

    • Synonyms

    *

    Noun

    (en noun )

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

    • Related terms

    * chancel
    * cancellation
    * chancellery
    * chancellor
    * chancery

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    withdraw

    English

    Verb

  • To pull (something) back, aside, or away.
  • * Hooker
    • Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything.
  • To take back (a comment, etc).
    • to withdraw false charges
  • To remove, to stop providing (one’s support, etc).
  • To extract (money from an account).
  • To retreat.
  • To be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc.
  • * 1994 , (Edward St Aubyn), Bad News , Picador 2006, p. 201:
    • Simon had tried to rob a bank while he was withdrawing , but he had been forced to surrender to the police after they had fired several volleys at him.

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