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cancel Verb

— If you cancel something that was going to happen, you decide that it will not happen. Her father had cancelled his trip to Canandaigua because of the weather. The mayor is also reducing city services and canceling plans to hire thousands of new workers. I'm afraid I can't make it; I'll have to cancel.

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previous Adjective

— If something happened at a previous time, it happened before a particular time. Last year, we lived in Seoul, but the previous year we were in Moscow.

previous Preposition

— You use previous to refer to a time before something else. The history of this site previous to the seventeenth century is unknown. Four years previous, he had been sick for a month.

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data Noun

— Data is information, such as facts, numbers, photographs, etc. A study using experimental data from ten schools found no difference between methods.

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ASCII

— noun (= American Standard Code for Information Interchange) (computer science) a code for information exchange between computers made by different companies; a string of 7 binary digits represents each character; used in most microcomputers

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character Noun

— Someone's character is the combination of things that they do, feel, and believe that makes them a certain type of person. He's got a really funny character. He couldn't have done something so mean; it's completely out of character. — A character is a person in a story, movie, play, etc. The actor played three different characters in the movie. I really want to like the main character in the book, but I find I can't. — Character is the combination of facts and qualities that makes something different The new factory has certainly changed the character of the city. They believed the war would be local in character and brief in duration. It's a boring room, lacking in character. — A character is one individual mark in a writing system, such as a letter, number, or punctuation mark. The text was written in a mixture of Chinese characters, Arabic numerals and Roman letters. — Character is the combination of personal qualities, such as being honest and hard-working, that make you a good person. It has long been claimed that sports build character. She was a good judge of character, which made her a good manager. He is a man, of great character and great faith.

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