Reset Definition

rē-sĕt
resets, resetting
verb
resets, resetting
To set again (a broken bone, type, a gem, bowling pins, an electrical contact switch, etc.)
Webster's New World
To set again.
Reset a broken bone.
American Heritage Medicine
To change the reading of.
Reset a clock.
American Heritage
To adjust (the interest rate of a loan) according to contractual arrangement, as at the end of a preset term.
American Heritage
To be set again.
Waiting for the bowling pins to reset.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
noun
resets
The act of resetting.
Webster's New World
Something reset.
Webster's New World
A plant that is planted again.
Webster's New World
A device for resetting something.
Webster's New World
(typography) That which is reset; printed matter set up again.
Wiktionary

Origin of Reset

  • re- +"Ž set

    From Wiktionary

  • From receipt

    From Wiktionary

  • From reset.

    From Wiktionary

Reset Sentence Examples

  • That I want to … to reset things.

  • Yet, his mate had found a way to reset them.

  • Then, reset the circuit breaker switch to ' ON ' .

  • On the other hand it is not necessary to reset the telescope after each reversal of the segments.4 When Bessel ordered the Konigsberg heliometer, he was anxious to have the segments made to move in cylindrical slides, of which the radius should be equal to the focal length of the object-glass.

  • In general you can reset the password on any pc motherboard using one of four methods.

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Words Starting With

RRERES

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TETSET

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