What's the difference between cancel and postpone?

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.

Postpone


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To defer to a future or later time; to put off; also, to cause to be deferred or put off; to delay; to adjourn; as, to postpone the consideration of a bill to the following day, or indefinitely.
  • (v. t.) To place after, behind, or below something, in respect to precedence, preference, value, or importance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The purpose was to show whether or not the methylene-blue test can be postponed to the second day.
  • (2) Amid all of the worry about her health, the difficult decisions around the surgery, and how to explain everything to the children, the practicalities of postponing the holiday was a relatively minor consideration.
  • (3) He also challenged Lord Mandelson's claim this morning that a controversial vote on Royal Mail would have to be postponed due to lack of parliamentary time.
  • (4) Two additional patients became asymptomatic after ECA endarterectomy only and their proposed STA-MCA bypass has been postponed.
  • (5) Smith manages to get a suspended possession order, postponing eviction, provided Evans (who has a new job) pays her rent on time and pays back her arrears at a rate of £5 a week.
  • (6) Squirrel monkeys trained to respond under a schedule in which each response postponed the delivery of electric shock developed a steady rate of responding.
  • (7) When dose 3 of antigen (BSA or EA) was postponed to day +21, all mouse strains sensitized by the multiple-dose procedure were found to be susceptible to shock.
  • (8) Thus, the clinical threshold where functions disappear is postponed for longer periods of time.
  • (9) He was due to unveil the plan next week but the announcement was postponed when one of his deputies, Ray Lewis, was forced to stand down on Friday, following allegations of financial irregularities and inappropriate behaviour.
  • (10) MPs have voted to abandon the controversial badger cull in England entirely, inflicting an embarrassing defeat on ministers who had already been forced to postpone the start of the killing until next summer.
  • (11) Every time we have a negotiation, the bidding process (for the project) slows and postpones things.” Water quality has become a hot-button issue as the Olympics draw closer with little sign of progress in cleaning up the fetid bay, as well as the lagoon system in western Rio that hugs the sites of the Olympic park, the very heart of the games.
  • (12) Its consequences are extensive, damaging procedures and a postponement of a diagnosis which integrates somatic, psychic and social components by seven to eight years.
  • (13) As for Halloween : The big parade in Greenwich Village has been postponed until next week.
  • (14) Pretreatment with nifedipine postponed EMD until 120-150 seconds and was not observed in dogs on CPB.
  • (15) The French president, François Hollande, summoned key ministers to a crisis meeting on Thursday afternoon, postponing a planned visit to France's Indian Ocean territories.
  • (16) Gerrard genuinely has postponed the issue while he pours his life into this tournament.
  • (17) The Nepalese government has announced that it has postponed a return to classes for schoolchildren across the country by two weeks, to 29 May.
  • (18) It is believed that support for Bernstein's attempt to postpone the election came from these areas, in reaction to the process that led to Bin Hammam's exclusion from football activity, rather than being a demonstration of anger at the effect of recent corruption allegations.
  • (19) The basic enviromental causes of enteric disease are clear, current conditions have been aggravated by rapid population growth and urbanization, and basic corrective measures have already been postponed long enough.
  • (20) "Had Obama even an iota of ethics and morality, he should have postponed or shelved his trip," it said.