The difference between Cancel and Void
When used as nouns, cancel means a control message posted to usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message, whereas void means an empty space.
When used as verbs, cancel means to cross out something with lines etc, whereas void means to make invalid or worthless.
Void is also adjective with the meaning: containing nothing.
check bellow for the other definitions of Cancel and Void
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Cancel as a verb (transitive):
To cross out something with lines etc.
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Cancel as a verb (transitive):
To invalidate or annul something.
Examples:
"He cancelled his order on their website."
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Cancel as a verb (transitive):
To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.
Examples:
"This machine cancels the letters that have a valid zip code."
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Cancel as a verb (transitive):
To offset or equalize something.
Examples:
"The corrective feedback mechanism cancels out the noise."
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Cancel as a verb (transitive, mathematics):
To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
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Cancel as a verb (transitive, media):
To stop production of a programme.
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Cancel as a verb (printing, dated):
To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
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Cancel as a verb (obsolete):
To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
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Cancel as a verb (slang):
To kill.
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Cancel as a noun (Internet):
A cancellation (US); (nonstandard in some kinds of English). A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message.
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Cancel as a noun (obsolete):
An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.
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Cancel as a noun (printing):
The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
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Cancel as a noun (printing):
The page thus suppressed.
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Cancel as a noun (printing):
The page that replaces it.
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Void as an adjective:
Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.
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Void as an adjective:
Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
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Void as an adjective:
Being without; destitute; devoid.
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Void as an adjective:
Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
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Void as an adjective:
Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.
Examples:
"[[null and void]]"
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Void as an adjective:
Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
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Void as an adjective (computing, programming, of a [[function]] or [[method]]):
That does not return a value.
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Void as a noun:
An empty space; a vacuum.
Examples:
"Nobody has crossed the void since one man died trying three hundred years ago; it's high time we had another go."
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Void as a noun (astronomy):
An extended region of space containing no galaxies
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Void as a noun (materials science):
A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
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Void as a noun (fluid mechanics):
A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
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Void as a verb (transitive):
To make invalid or worthless.
Examples:
"He voided the check and returned it."
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Void as a verb (transitive, medicine):
To empty.
Examples:
"'void one’s bowels"
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Void as a verb:
To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
Examples:
"to void excrement"
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Void as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):
To withdraw, depart.
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Void as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave.
Examples:
"to void a table"
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Void as a noun (now, _, rare, historical):
A voidee.