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Reset   /risˈɛt/  /rˈisɛt/   Listen
verb
Reset, re-set  v. t.  (past & past part. reset; pres. part. resetting)  
1.
To set again; as, to reset type; to reset copy; to reset a diamond.
2.
To set (an instrument) back to an initial position after it has changed; of instruments and dials; as, he reset the timer to ten minutes started again.
Synonyms: reset, set to zero.


Reset  v. t.  (past & past part. reset; pres. part. resetting)  (Scots Law) 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."


noun
Reset  n.  
1.
The act of resetting.
2.
(Print.) That which is reset; matter set up again.


Reset  n.  (Scots Law) The receiving of stolen goods, or harboring an outlaw.





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"Reset" Quotes from Famous Books



... men. I couldn't understand it. I didn't tell him. Perhaps I was wrong. Down inside me I sensed a subtle reason for secrecy. It is hard to explain. It was not perverseness; it was a finer distinction; perhaps it was the influence of the gem. I took it back to the jeweller again and had it reset. ...
— The Blind Spot • Austin Hall and Homer Eon Flint
... bulb into a convenient ash tray, replaced it with a new one, and reset the camera. At least he had one good picture. Tom Tyler, framed by his questioners, had looked somehow like a ...
— Smugglers' Reef • John Blaine
... have been lost to view at the distance of a few yards through sheer harmony with its background. Under his Adam's apple there was a green tie—the bough to the fruit. His eyes sparkled as though they had lately been reset and polished by ...
— The Mettle of the Pasture • James Lane Allen
... you wanted, jedge, 'fore I locks up the back of the house an' lights out?" Jeff inquired when the table had been reset for breakfast. ...
— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb
... trap, to peer through the gloom. A cloud passes off the moon, and a faint ray reveals, it may be, a beautiful black fox caught in the snare. A slight blow on the snout from Stemaw's axe-handle kills the unfortunate animal; in ten minutes more it is tied to his sledge, the trap is reset and again covered over with snow, so that it is almost impossible to tell that anything is there; and the ...
— Hudson Bay • R.M. Ballantyne


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