RESETTING

RESET

readjust, reset

(verb) adjust again after an initial failure

reset

(verb) set to zero; “reset instruments and dials”

reset

(verb) set anew; “They re-set the date on the clock”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

resetting

present participle of reset

Noun

resetting (plural resettings)

The act by which something is reset.

Anagrams

• Ettingers, retesting, settering, streeting, strengite

Source: Wiktionary


RESET

Re*set" (r-st"), v. t.

Definition: To set again; as, to reset type; to reset copy; to reset a diamond.

Re"set (r"st), n.

1. The act of resetting.

2. (Print.)

Definition: That which is reset; matter set up again.

Re*set" (r-st"), n. Etym: [OF. recete, recepte, a receiving. Cf. Receipt.] (Scots Law)

Definition: The receiving of stolen goods, or harboring an outlaw. Jamieson.

Re*set", v. t. (Scots Law)

Definition: To harbor or secrete; to hide, as stolen goods or a criminal. We shall see if an English hound is to harbor and reset the Southrons here. Sir. W. Scott.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

25 February 2025

ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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