What's the difference between cancel and countermand?

Cancel


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.
  • (v. i.) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
  • (v. i.) 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.
  • (v. i.) To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.
  • (v. i.) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
  • (v. i.) An inclosure; a boundary; a limit.
  • (v. i.) The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
  • (v. i.) The part thus suppressed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, some contactless transactions are processed offline so may not appear on a customer’s account until after the block has been applied.” It says payments that had been made offline on the day of cancellation may be applied to accounts and would be refunded when the customer identified them; payments made on days after the cancellation will not be taken from an account.
  • (2) But earlier this year the Unesco world heritage committee called for the cancellation of all such Virunga oil permits and appealed to two concession holders, Total and Soco International, not to undertake exploration in world heritage sites.
  • (3) This observation seriously challenges the hypothesis that SCE cancellation results as a consequence of persistence of the lesions induced by these agents.
  • (4) Figures from 228 organisations, of which 154 are acute hospital trusts, show that 2,077 inpatient procedures have been cancelled due to the two-day strike alongside 3,187 day case operations and procedures.
  • (5) "We won't cancel any of our agreements," a senior Israeli diplomatic official told reporters.
  • (6) And they face the criminal penalty and administratively their visa is cancelled.
  • (7) The precision of measurement using the cancellation technique was found to be high.
  • (8) In desperation, I cancelled my contract with Sky and placed a new order with BT in February.
  • (9) The same figures say that 55% had to cancel between three and seven weeks of fixtures and 33% between seven and 11.
  • (10) It also cancelled the results from 21 polling stations in Libreville.
  • (11) The stainless steel 316 mesh tray with cancellous bone offers a method of mandibular reconstruction which theoretically is appealing from the viewpoint of basic osseous healing.
  • (12) We arrange the meetings on the North Korea-China border and give the USB sticks which then will move into North Korea.” North Korea to face the music after cancelling Moranbong shows Read more Stratton says she also hopes it will change the way some Americans think of North Koreans.
  • (13) Then, the c-wave was cancelled out in appearance on the recordings.
  • (14) Any process which weakens the cartilaginous endplate or the subchondral cancellous bone may predispose to the development of Schmorl's nodes.
  • (15) In north Wales, Llandudno town council has had to cancel its annual display at short notice after it was told it would have to pay at least £22,000 to insure the wonderful Victorian pier in case of a fire.
  • (16) Because of a reduction in cancelled cycles, patients might reduce their total costs in time and gonadotrophin used, however this treatment is not a panacea for the true low order responder.
  • (17) The disappointing weather at Easter left beaches deserted but some Britons, who were determined to enjoy the outdoors this time round, have already had their plans thwarted by the weather, taking to websites such as ukcampsite.co.uk to swap tales of woe, such as farmers calling to cancel bookings because sites were waterlogged.
  • (18) Russia has warned the Kiev government against using force against the protesters in the east and has threatened to cancel in international diplomatic conference on the Ukrainian conflict scheduled for later this week.
  • (19) Allen's team has used the new technique to work out whether global warming worsened the UK floods in autumn 2000, which inundated 10,000 properties, disrupted power supplies and led to train services being cancelled, motorways closed and 11,000 people evacuated from their homes - at a total cost of £1bn.
  • (20) A spokesman for the public relations firm Bell Pottinger, which represents Rajapaksa, denied that he had cancelled his trip to the UK last month becuse of fears that he might face an arrest warrant.

Countermand


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given; as, to countermand an order for goods.
  • (v. t.) To prohibit; to forbid.
  • (v. t.) To oppose; to revoke the command of.
  • (n.) A contrary order; revocation of a former order or command.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I mean I wasn’t trying to countermand his authority but he was a little anxious … I don’t think he realized that he hit the artery and I remember saying you’ve got the artery.
  • (2) The ORG believes that it can stop the bill coming into force, on the basis that it countermands a European court ruling that blanket data retention is unlawful and violates the right to privacy, breaching human rights.
  • (3) That she “oversteps the mark” – countermanding ministers and participating in top-level meetings and even cabinet discussions in ways senior Coalition figures believe is inappropriate for an unelected official.
  • (4) In addition they show that while 2'-modification were tolerated by the phosphodiesterase, addition of an 8-substituent countermanded the allowable 2'-modification.
  • (5) The clearest instance of division was when Shamir countermanded Peres's so-called London Agremeent for an international peace conference, arranged with King Hussein of Jordan and secretly signed in the London home of the lawyer Lord Mischon in 1987.
  • (6) By countermanding first the landslide victory of an elected government and then a 61% plebiscite majority, the EU functionally vetoed the outcomes of Greek democracy.
  • (7) A countermanding procedure and race model are used to assess separately the effects of experimental factors before and after the "point of no return" in response preparation.
  • (8) The myth busters of the left talk about how low actual fraud on disability benefits is, as if they can countermand this image: the disabled person who doesn't look disabled and yet says they are disabled, and yet how can we truly know they're disabled?
  • (9) Both intrinsic and extrinsic adjuvanticity is the operational production of countermanding signals; (4) memory T cells are qualitatively different from normal T cells in their sensitivity to feedback signals and also in their susceptibility to suppression; (5) mature thymus dependent B cells cannot be rendered tolerant by the direct action of antigen, while immature and thymus independent B cells can; (6) the mechanism of suppression induced by exogenously administered antigens and that by normal differentiation products (i.e.
  • (10) The FTC Act prohibits “unfair and deceptive” acts and practices, which Epic alleges Facebook’s actions within the Cornell study countermand.
  • (11) A short-latency, phasic lengthening of interbeat interval was suggested to reflect the midbrain coordination of the countermanding of response execution.
  • (12) Immune responses only occur when countermanding signals are also generated.
  • (13) Potential donors would prefer a legally recognized donor card that cannot be countermanded by the next of kin.
  • (14) Although the mean K of AIB was higher in brain tumors of the hypertensive rats, the increase is unlikely to be meaningful in terms of augmented delivery of water-soluble drugs to brain tumors, and the high incidence of intracerebral hemorrhage countermands any clinical use of this approach.