Associations to the word «Reset»

Wiktionary

RESET, verb. To set back to the initial state.
RESET, verb. To set to zero.
RESET, verb. To adjust again after an initial failure.
RESET, noun. An act of resetting to the initial state
RESET, noun. Setting to zero
RESET, noun. Something that is reset
RESET, noun. A device, such as a button or switch, for resetting something.
RESET, noun. (typography) That which is reset; printed matter set up again.
RESET, noun. (Scots law) the crime of knowingly and dishonestly receiving stolen goods, or harbouring an outlaw.
RESET, noun. A button that resets a device, often a computer.
RESET BUTTON, noun. A plot device that interrupts continuity in works of fiction, by returning characters and situations to the status quo they held before certain changes were introduced.
RESET BUTTON, noun. (computing) A button that resets something.
RESET BUTTONS, noun. Plural of reset button

Dictionary definition

RESET, noun. Device for resetting instruments or controls.
RESET, verb. Set anew; "They re-set the date on the clock".
RESET, verb. Set to zero; "reset instruments and dials".
RESET, verb. Adjust again after an initial failure.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope