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Reset

//ɹiːˈsɛt// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of resetting to the initial state. also, figuratively

    "A reset halts whatever is taking place on the bus and prepares devices for the beginning of a new communication cycle. A reset begins when the master pulls the bus low for a period greater than 480 μs."

  2. 2
    The crime of knowingly and dishonestly receiving stolen goods, or harbouring an outlaw.

    "In early times it was common to charge the reset of property taken by robbery as reset of theft. But in later practice reset of property taken by robbery has been frequently libelled and found relevant (1)."

  3. 3
    A button that resets a device, often a computer.
  4. 4
    device for resetting instruments or controls wordnet
  5. 5
    The act of setting to zero.
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  1. 6
    A device, such as a button or switch, for resetting something.
  2. 7
    That which is reset; printed matter set up again.
  3. 8
    The cleaning and tidying of one's home. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy69x9wl2no
Verb
  1. 1
    To set back to the initial state.

    "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."

  2. 2
    To receive and hide (stolen goods, or a criminal, etc.)

    "Criminal resetting of property shall not be limited to the receiving of property taken by theft or robbery, but shall extend to the receiving of property appropriated by breach of trust and embezzlement and by falsehood, fraud and wilful imposition."

  3. 3
    adjust again after an initial failure wordnet
  4. 4
    To set to zero.
  5. 5
    set to zero wordnet
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  1. 6
    To adjust; to set or position differently. transitive

    "He turned and steered his course toward some lights clustered at the end of the street. They proved farther away than he had anticipated, and after a long quest he came to the conclusion that his eyes had been mysteriously removed from their proper places and had been reset on either side of his head like those of a bird."

  2. 7
    set anew wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From re- + set.

Etymology 2

From re- + set.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Middle Scots resett, from Early Scots reset, from Anglo-Norman recet (noun), recetter (verb), from Latin receptus (noun), receptāre (verb). Compare receipt.

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Middle Scots resett, from Early Scots reset, from Anglo-Norman recet (noun), recetter (verb), from Latin receptus (noun), receptāre (verb). Compare receipt.

Etymology 5

From reset.

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