What's the difference between cancel and erase?

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.

Erase


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 5) and erased from the original Kauffmann-White-Schema and the Arizona Antigenic Schema to avoid a wrong diagnosis.
  • (2) Paterson added in the letter, published on the PoliticsHome website : "However, the government is rightly committed to advancing equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and has already taken action to do so by allowing those religious premises that wish to carry out civil partnerships to do so, erasing historic convictions for consensual gay sex and putting pressure on other countries that violate the human rights of LGBT people.
  • (3) In her study, Mandel explains how the media’s “narrative of polarisation” erases multiple and complex interactions, reducing everything to a hostility that is framed by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
  • (4) Eating at the meal site erased significant differences in dietary intake of nutrients consumed at home related to sex, education, and occupation.
  • (5) I sometimes think about erasing them, but that would be like pretending it didn't happen.
  • (6) Conservatives were unhappy the measure doesn’t erase enough of Obama’s law while at the other end of the party’s spectrum, moderates were upset the bill would strip millions of health coverage.
  • (7) Although the conservative-dominated coalition has made headway in purging the state sector since it assumed power in June 2012, sceptical attitudes have been hard to erase.
  • (8) "It's not like [2006 solo album] The Eraser at all," he said.
  • (9) The government is now considering whether to ask the employees, most of whom work in waste disposal and public transport, to have their tattoos erased, or even to find another job.
  • (10) That it may conceal, or even completely erase, major abnormalities of ventricular repolarization induced by certain drugs is not so well known.
  • (11) Feinstein’s speech this morning seems unlikely to erase that perception.
  • (12) The UN report, based on interviews with dozens of survivors, said on Thursday that the Islamist militants, who include foreign fighters, had been systematically capturing Yazidis in Iraq and Syria since August 2014 , seeking to “erase their identity”.
  • (13) Nonetheless, the project may have helped to erase the stereotype that all teenage fathers neglect their parental responsibilities.
  • (14) The second echo type consisted of one of the animal's echolocation clicks, previously measured, digitized and stored in an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM).
  • (15) Any idea that filming may be glamorous has been erased from my daughter's head.
  • (16) Child survival gains in the last three decades in the developed world could be quickly erased at low levels of maternal HIV infection, but gains would not be completely offset in the developing world until more than 40% of mothers became infected with HIV.
  • (17) The police are reluctant to pursue the case and, according to the Express Tribune, phone records for the last 18 days of Shahzad's life have been mysteriously erased.
  • (18) For her, the few memories of that night but the many of its extended aftermath cannot be erased.
  • (19) The demonstrations' bloody ending has largely erased memories of the carnival of protest that preceded it: an astonishing uprising which lasted six weeks and drew in millions of people from around the country, threatening an end to communist rule.
  • (20) Erase even more, you cowardly regime,” Abo Bakr wrote on a wall in a message to the whitewashers.