cancelled

«cancelled» in Mova's school dictionary: stopped or called off, so that a planned thing will not… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb form (past and past participle of cancel: cancel, cancels, cancelled, cancelling — UK; canceled, canceling — US); adjective (a cancelled match)

meaning for a pupil

1) Cancelled means stopped or called off, so that a planned thing will not happen: the match was cancelled. tree →

2) Cancelled means made no longer valid: a cancelled ticket or order. tree →

3) In maths, cancelled means simplified by dividing the top and bottom of a fraction by the same number, or by removing equal amounts on both sides. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life: school closed or trips cancelled because of snow, storms or illness; flights and trains cancelled — check before you travel. In maths, cancelling fractions: 6/8 cancelled down becomes 3/4 (divide both by 2). In stories, a cancelled party can be the start of a problem to solve. Phrases: cancelled due to, cancelled because of, cancelled out, cancel down a fraction.

examples

• Football practice was cancelled because of the storm. tree →
• Our flight was cancelled, so we stayed another night. tree →
• School is cancelled today because of snow. tree →
• 4/8 cancelled down is 1/2. tree →
• The party was cancelled when the host got sick. tree →
• Adding 5 and then taking away 5 cancels out. tree →
• He cancelled his order online. tree →

note

Spelling: UK, Irish, Australian, NZ and often Canadian English — cancelled, cancelling (double l); US English — canceled, canceling (one l). Noun: cancellation (double l everywhere). Maths: cancelling a fraction does not change its value, only its numbers: 10/15 = 2/3.

In the corpora

• A subscription keeps taking money every month until it is cancelled, and free trials often turn into payments.
• On the first of April, Dad in Dublin told the kids school was cancelled because of snow.
• A big thing like a cancelled national election would be on every news channel and on the official elections website at once.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cancelled» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.