RESUME

sketch, survey, resume

(noun) short descriptive summary (of events)

resume, restart, re-start

(verb) take up or begin anew; “We resumed the negotiations”

resume, take up

(verb) return to a previous location or condition; “The painting resumed its old condition when we restored it”

resume

(verb) assume anew; “resume a title”; “resume an office”; “resume one’s duties”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology 1

Verb

resume (third-person singular simple present resumes, present participle resuming, simple past and past participle resumed)

(now rare) To take back possession of (something). [from 15th c.]

(now rare) To summarise. [from 15th c.]

To start (something) again that has been stopped or paused from the point at which it was stopped or paused; continue, carry on. [from 15th c.]

Antonym: suspend

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing).

Etymology 2

Noun

resume (plural resumes)

A summary or synopsis. [from 18th c.]

Synonym: précis

(chiefly, North America, Australia) A summary or account of education and employment experiences and qualifications, a curriculum vitae (often for presentation to a potential future employer when applying for a job). [from 20th c.]

Synonyms: curriculum vitae, CV

Usage notes

• The spellings résumé and, to a lesser extent, resumé are preferred by dictionaries, while the spelling resume is much more common in practice.

• In Canada, resumé is the sole spelling given by the Canadian Oxford Dictionary; résumé is the only spelling given by the Gage Canadian Dictionary (1997 edition).

• In the US, there are three major spellings of this word: résumé, resumé, and resume. All three are in common usage and all three are occasionally contested. The usual justification for each is usually as follows

resume is an acceptable spelling, because modern English does not usually have diacritic marks except when borrowing terms or as an optional spelling to indicate a breach of standard pronunciation rules. Compare cafe, emigre, nee, and fiance, all of which are commonly spelled with and without accent marks. The spelling resume is more likely to be found on the web due to the limits of ASCII character encoding and the US English keyboard.

resumé follows a practice wherein a final e is accented to indicate that it is pronounced where it would usually remain silent. Compare touché, café, and especially saké and maté, where there is no etymological precedent for the accent. The acute accent over the first e, on the other hand, serves no function in English.

résumé follows a practice of retaining accents in borrowed words, which some may consider affected. Compare protégé, émigré, née, and élan.

• Certain other French words with two accented e's have the same usage conflict, though the relative infrequency of the words in common usage causes the conflict to be less pronounced. Also, some spell-checking tools prescribe against resumé, suggesting résumé instead, which may affect the perception of the correctness of the two spellings of the term.

Anagrams

• reumes

Source: Wiktionary

Re`su"mé", n. Etym: [F. See Resume.]

Definition: A summing up; a condensed statement; an abridgment or brief recapitulation. The exellent little résumé thereof in Dr. Landsborough's book. C. Kingsley.

Re*sume", v. t. [imp & p. p. Resumed;p. pr. & vb. n. Resuming.] Etym: [L. resumere, resumptum; pref. re- re- + sumere to take: cf. F. résumer. See Assume, Redeem.]

1. To take back. The sun, like this, from which our sight we have, Gazed on too long, resumes the light he gave. Denham. Perhaps God will resume the blessing he has bestowed ere he attains the age of manhood. Sir W. Scott.

2. To enter upon, or take up again. Reason resumed her place, and Passion fled. Dryden.

3. To begin again; to recommence, as something which has been interrupted; as, to resume an argument or discourse.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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