reset
See also: Reset
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹiːˈsɛt/
- Rhymes: -ɛt
Verb
reset (third-person singular simple present resets, present participle resetting, simple past and past participle reset)
- To set back to the initial state.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.
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- To set to zero.
- To adjust again after an initial failure.
Derived terms
Translations
to set back to the initial state
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to adjust again after an initial failure
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɹiː.sɛt/
Noun
reset (plural resets)
- An act of resetting to the initial state
- Setting to zero
- Something that is reset
- A device, such as a button or switch, for resetting something.
- (typography) That which is reset; printed matter set up again.
Derived terms
Translations
an act of resetting to the initial state
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Etymology 3
From receipt.
Alternative forms
- ressett
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rəˈsɛt/
Noun
reset (plural resets)
- (Scotland, law) The crime of knowingly and dishonestly receiving stolen goods, or harbouring an outlaw.
Verb
reset (third-person singular simple present resets, present participle resetting, simple past and past participle resetted)
Derived terms
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁeˈzɛ.t(ʃ)(i)/
- Rhymes: -ɛt(ʃ)i
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