re-start

Thân thiện

The driver re-starts the car's engine after a brief stop.

Definition

1. Verb:
   • To begin again or anew: To start something once more after it has stopped or been interrupted.
   • To cause an engine or machine to begin operating again: To initiate the operation of a mechanism after it has been turned off or has stalled.

Usage

The verb "re-start" is used to describe the action of beginning a process, activity, or operation for a second or subsequent time. It implies a previous instance that has concluded or been paused.

Examples

• Verb:
  • After the power outage, we had to re-start the computer.
  • The negotiations were paused for a week before they decided to re-start them.
  • If the application freezes, try to re-start it.

Advanced Usage

• "to re-start from scratch": To begin something again completely from the beginning, often because previous work was lost or unsatisfactory.
  • After the data corruption, the programmers had to re-start the project from scratch.

Variants and Related Words

• Restart (verb): A common alternative spelling without the hyphen, identical in meaning.
  • Please restart your device to install the updates.
• Restartable (adj): Capable of being started again.
  • The process is restartable at any point.

Synonyms

• Resume: To begin again after an interruption.
• Recommence: To start again formally.
• Reinitiate: To cause a process to begin again.

Related Phrasal Verbs

(Note: "Re-start" itself is not typically used in phrasal verb constructions. The action is generally expressed directly.)

Related Idioms

• "Turn it off and on again": A common troubleshooting idiom implying a restart.
  • The IT technician's first advice was to turn it off and on again—essentially to re-start the router.

Học thuật

Verb

1. take up or begin anew
   • We resumed the negotiations
2. start an engine again, for example

Từ đồng nghĩa

• resume
• restart