RESET
What does "RESET" mean?
To set something again, especially back to a starting or default state.
Meanings
- To return a device, system, or setting to its default or original state. If the router freezes, reset it by holding the button.
- To set something, such as a clock, dial, or bone, again or differently. The surgeon reset the fractured wrist.
- An act of returning something to a starting condition; a fresh start. After the breakup she treated the new city as a reset.
Word origin
A compound of 're-' ('again') and 'set', from Old English 'settan' ('to cause to sit, place'); the modern technical sense rose with electronics in the 20th century.
Remember it
RE + SET: SET it again, back to the start. Think of the button that wipes the slate.
A little poem
Hold the small button down until it dies-
the screen goes black, then bluffs a brand-new dawn,
though everything it learned from you is gone.
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Wordplay
- My therapist said I needed a reset. I unplugged for thirty seconds and plugged back in - now I'm slow but functional.
What it teaches
A clean slate is also an erased one; choose carefully what you ask the world to forget.
Quick facts
What does RESET mean?
To set something again, especially back to a starting or default state.
Is RESET a valid word?
Yes — RESET is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is RESET?
RESET has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does RESET come from?
A compound of 're-' ('again') and 'set', from Old English 'settan' ('to cause to sit, place'); the modern technical sense rose with electronics in the 20th century.
What can RESET teach us?
A clean slate is also an erased one; choose carefully what you ask the world to forget.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.