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Reset   /risˈɛt/  /rˈisɛt/   Listen
Reset

verb
(past & past part. reset; pres. part. resetting)
1.
Set anew.
2.
Set to zero.
3.
Adjust again after an initial failure.  Synonym: readjust.
noun
1.
Device for resetting instruments or controls.



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"Reset" Quotes from Famous Books



... that. The bones had slipped out of place and now it was too late to reset them. Afterwards the Cave-men learned better ways of setting broken bones. They found better ways of holding them in place ...
— The Later Cave-Men • Katharine Elizabeth Dopp

... put his hand to the lever she did move easily on to the main track, and rested while I reset the switch. ...
— Blindfolded • Earle Ashley Walcott

... houses painted on the street that spring. More fences had been reset and straightened. The driveway itself had had some attention from the town. And you couldn't have found a one-hinged gate the entire ...
— Janice Day at Poketown • Helen Beecher Long

... time. The threshing—how often she had toiled and sweated over those three days of dinners and suppers for twenty-two men. Now she recalled, with an aching tightness about her heart, how delicious had been her relaxation, when, the dinner dishes washed, the table reset and the kitchen in scrupulous order with the last fly vanquished, she and Nellie had luxuriated in that exquisite sense of leisure that only women know who have passed triumphantly through a heavy morning's work and have everything ready for the evening. ...
— Dust • Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius

... that with sand and water," said Stern, "and polish up these aluminum utensils and reset that broken pane with a piece of glass from up-stairs where it isn't needed, you won't know this place. Yes, and I'll have running water in here, too—and electricity from ...
— Darkness and Dawn • George Allan England


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