reset
/ɹiːˈsɛt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.83 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of setting to zero.
noun
That which is reset; printed matter set up again.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The next section explains how to reset the administrator password with the help of this challenge question."
- "With the Hormone Reset you'll learn how to reset your weight, nutrition, hormones, and habitual patterns, from cell to soul; […]"
- "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."
- "The advantage of the Monotype machine over the Linotype one was that corrections could be made using precast sorts. This was especially useful for book production. With the Linotype method, the whole line had to be reset and replaced."
- "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."
Etymology
From re- + set.
Origin
- Source language: Latin