Postpone vs. Cancel

Postponeverb

To delay or put off an event, appointment etc.

Postponeverb

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.

Postponeverb

To place after, behind, or below something, in respect to precedence, preference, value, or importance.

Postponeverb

hold back to a later time;

Postponeverb

cause or arrange for (something) to take place at a time later than that first scheduled

Cancelverb

(transitive) To cross out something with lines etc.

Cancelverb

(transitive) To invalidate or annul something.

Cancelverb

(transitive) To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.

Cancelverb

(transitive) To offset or equalize something.

Cancelverb

To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.

Cancelverb

To stop production of a programme.

Cancelverb

To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.

Cancelverb

(obsolete) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.

Cancelverb

(slang) To kill.

Cancelnoun

A cancellation (US); (nonstandard in some kinds of English).

Cancelnoun

(Internet) A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message.

Cancelnoun

(obsolete) An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.

Cancelnoun

(printing) The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.

Cancelnoun

(printing) The page thus suppressed.

Cancelnoun

(printing) The page that replaces it.

Cancelverb

To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.

Cancelverb

To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.

Cancelverb

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.

Cancelverb

To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.

Cancelverb

To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.

Cancelnoun

An inclosure; a boundary; a limit.

Cancelnoun

The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.

Cancelnoun

a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat

Cancelverb

postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled;

Cancelverb

make up for;

Cancelverb

declare null and void; make ineffective;

Cancelverb

remove or make invisible;

Cancelverb

of cheques or tickets