restart

«restart» in Mova's school dictionary: to start something again after it has stopped — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (restart, restarts, restarted, restarting); noun (a restart)

meaning for a pupil

1) To restart means to start something again after it has stopped. tree →

2) To restart a computer or phone means to switch it off and on again. tree →

sense in the lessons

Computing: restarting often fixes a frozen device. Sport and games: the game restarts after a goal. Everyday life: restart a journey, restart a lesson after a fire drill. Phrases: restart the computer, restart the game, a fresh restart.

examples

• Try restarting the laptop if it freezes. tree →
• The match restarted after the rain stopped. tree →
• We had to restart the race because of a false start. tree →
• The lesson restarted after the fire drill. tree →
• The music stopped, then restarted. tree →
• Press the button to restart the level. tree →

note

Past: restarted. re- means again. «Restart» and «reset» are different: restart switches something off and on, reset puts its settings back to the start.

In the corpora

• In games, death is pretend and you can restart; real death is permanent.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «restart» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.