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Restart

Definitions: Restart

Restart

Verb

1. Restart and engine, for example.

2. Take up or begin anew; "We resumed the negotiations".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "restart" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references)


Specialty Definitions: Restart

DomainDefinitions

Aerospace

Specifically, the act of firing a stage of a rocket after a previous powered flight and a coast phase in a parking orbit. (references)

Computing

The resumption of the execution of a computer program using the data recorded at a checkpoint. Source: European Union. (references)
 A facility by which the state of an application-entity and the state of the communications are associated with resynchronization so as to return the state of the application(including its bound data)and the state of communication to an earlier state associated with a previously communicated synchronization point. Source: European Union. (references)

Post & Telecom

Message sent by the user or the network to request the recipient to restart, i. e. to return to an idle condition, the indicated channel(s)or interface. Source: European Union. (references)
 State which exists when a request for a restart has been received from the network and responses have not yet been received from all locally active call references. Source: European Union. (references)
 A procedure used to simultaneously clear all the virtual calls and reset all the permanent virtual circuits at the data terminal equipment/data circuit-termiating equipment(DTE/DCE)interface. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Restart

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

RESTART

EnglishRenewable Energies Strategies and Technology Applications for Regenerating TownsElectrical Engineering

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Restart

Synonym: resume (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Restart

Specialty definitions using "restart": can-bander operator, CASE-LOADER OPERATORdemand paging, drill ahead, DUMPING-MACHINE OPERATORelectronic tramp iron detectorfire crew worker, FOREST-FIRE FIGHTERgronkmaintainer scriptNETWORK CONTROL OPERATORrest 2, restart at . . ., restart procedure, restoration procedure, return to an idle conditionsix-pack packer, six-pack-loader operator, sml2c, smoke eater, standby voltage. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Restart

DomainTitle

Books

  • Quick-Start Spanish: Everything You Need to Know Before You Start or Restart Spanish (reference)

  • Reconstituting a Production Capability: Past Experience, Restart Criteria, and Suggested Policies/Mr-273-Acq (reference)

  • Soccer Restart Plays (reference)

  • Song of Restart (reference)

  • The Complete Book of Soccer Restart Plays (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Restart

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

The possibility that the disease may restart when medication is discontinued must be balanced with the long-term side effects from the immunosuppressive medication. (references)

Business

However, the Navy is now negotiating with the CSC to restart the building of the last missile frigate. (references)

A sharp increase in production levels this year was expected due to the November 1999 restart of the Concordia mill - now renamed South China Paper following its acquisition by Korea's Hansol. (references)

The closure of the duplex board producer Concordia in November 1998 largely accounted for this. A sharp increase in production levels this year was expected due to the November 1999 restart of the Concordia mill - now renamed South China Paper following its acquisition by Korea's Hansol. (references)

Economic History

Peru

The incoming Toledo government has indicated it will restart the privatization program. (references)

Peru

Representatives of the incoming Toledo government have indicated they will restart privatizations in the power sector. (references)

Vietnam

In 2000, the National Assembly made some changes to the fiscal regime for international oil companies which has helped restart exploration. (references)

Political Economy

India

In July Prime Minister Vajpayee and President Musharraf of Pakistan met in an effort to restart the peace process. (references)

PANAMA

The government hopes to have agreements with both Nicaragua and El Salvador by the end of 2001, with agreements with the other members of the CACM coming within 2002. After completing an agreement with the CACM, the government hopes to restart its stalled negotiations for a trade agreement with Mexico. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Restart

"Restart" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 62.98% of the time. "Restart" is used about 208 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)62.98%13127,855
Noun (singular)31.73%6641,290
Lexical Verb (base form)5.29%11106,044
                    Total100.00%208N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Restart

Expressions using "restart": restart at ..! restart procedure restart work windmilling restart. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "restart": auto-restart.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Restart

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
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per Day

  restart window xp

76

  pickering restart

3

  restart

64

  program restart

3

  restart window

9

  machine must phpmyadmin restart

3

  computer restart

8

  central restart

3

  another application application by close critical exit file in please restart use

7

  restart xinetd

3

  auto restart

7

  pthread restart signal wait

3

  disk doctor error norton restart write

7

  restart xp

3

  apache restart

6

  being by closed created error error generated has log need program restart will will window

3

  in mode restart safe

6

  problem restart xp

3

  browser restart

6

  restart sendmail

3

  again in pc r restart will

5

  inetd restart

3

  radeon restart system

5

  rerun restart

3

  download restart

5

  dos in restart window xp

2

  iis restart

5

  98 fail hang microsoft restart shutdown

2

  remote restart

5

  auto computer restart

2

  98 boot fail hang problem restart warm window

5

  2000 restart sp4 window

2

  computer error need protection restart window

5

  automatically computer restart

2

  boot program restart when window

4

  restart shutdown

2

  game reboots restart server when window

4

  automatic restart

2

  dos in mode ms restart

4

  close restart visio

2
  

linux network restart

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Restart

Language Translations for "restart"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏إنتعش (be revived, brisk, come alive, pep up, perk up, pull oneself together, rally, recover, refresh, resuscitate, revive), ‏أعاد التشغيل (reset), ‏أعاد (bring round, carry back, get back, give back, go over, iterate, keep, push out, put back, reestablish, remit, repay, repeat, resit, restore, return, revert, send back, take back, throw back). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

再开始. (various references)

   

Danish

  

restart-meddelelse (return to an idle condition), rest 2 (rest 2), tilstanden restart (rest 2), genstartsprocedure (restart procedure), genstart-procedure (restart procedure), genstart. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

restart (return to an idle condition), terugbrengen naar een inactieve toestand (return to an idle condition), herstart 2 (rest 2), herstart (rest 2). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

rest 2 (rest 2), uudelleenkäynnistys (restart procedure), uudelleenaloitusproseduuri (restart procedure), uudelleenaloitusmenetelmä (restart procedure), uudelleenaloitus, uudelleen aloitus-sanoma (return to an idle condition), uudelleen aloitus (rest 2), paluu lepotilaan-sanoma (return to an idle condition). (various references)

   

French

  

revenir un état libre (return to an idle condition), rest 2 (rest 2), reprise (recapture, recaptured vessel, recharge, recirculation, recovery, regain, renewal, repeat, repetition, reprise, resume, resumed, resumption, retake, retrieval, retry, revival, rework), reprendre (rebuke, renew, reopen, repay, reproach, reprove, resume, retake), remettre en marche, redémarrage (recovery, rest 2, resurgence, return to an idle condition), recommencer (resume), rallumage (refiring, re-ignition), procédure de reprise (recovery, recovery procedure, restart procedure). (various references)

   

German

  

Wiederanlauf (retry, warm restart). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

Rest 2 (rest 2), Επανεκκίνηση, επανέναρξη (reset), επανεκκίνηση (rest 2, restart procedure), διαδικασία επανεκκινήσεως (restart procedure), διαδικασία επανεκκίνησης (restart procedure). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

újrakezdés (resumption), újraindulás, újraindítás. (various references)

   

Italian

  

ripresa (attack, cold lap, cold set, cold shut, fallback, periodic onset, planned felling quantity, prescribed cut, prescribed yield, rally, recovery, release, renewal, restarting, resumption, revival, shot, take, upturn). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

リサジューの図形 (fracture, Lissajous's figure, list, list broker, listing, lithograph, lizard, lizardman, lysine, reconstruction, reject, reserve, restore, restructure, restructuring, result, resurrection, RISC, risk, risk control, risk factor, risk finance, squirrel, wrist, wristband), 再発足 (fresh start), 再出発 (fresh start). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

リスタート , さいしゅっぱつ (fresh start), さいほっそく (fresh start). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

재착수. (various references)

   

Manx

  

toshiaghey ass y noa, aahoshiaghey (recommence, resumption). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

estartray

   

Portuguese

  

reinício, recomeço (repetition, resumption), procedimento de reinício (restart procedure). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

reîncepe (reassume, recommence, recrudesce, renew, reopen, resume), pune din nou în funcţiune (refit), fi pus din nou în funcţiune. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

перезапускать перезапуск (rerun). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ponovo krenuti, pokrenuti (float, initiate, move, propel, set in motion, start up). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

reanudar (reboot, recommence, renew, resume, take up), volver a arrancar. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

omstarta (reboot, rerun). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

знову пускати, знову починати, повторний запуск. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Restart

Derivations

Words beginning with "restart": restartable, restarted, restarting, restarts. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Restart" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Esthart, Rastadt, raystar, resear, resta, restaur, Restauri, rester, restorat, restorte, restr, restrant, retart, retat, Rextar, rotart. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Restart"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "restart" (pronounced rēstÄ"rt)
5-s t Ä" r tstart.
4-t Ä" r ttart.
3-Ä" r tapart, art, cart, Carte, chart, dart, depart, Hart, heart, impart, Mart, part, smart.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Restart

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ratters, starter.

Words within the letters "a-e-r-r-s-t-t"

-1 letter: arrest, rarest, raster, raters, ratter, starer, stater, tarres, tarter, taster, taters, terras, tetras, treats.

-2 letters: aster, rares, raser, rater, rates, rears, stare, start, state, tares, tarre, tarts, taste, tater, tates, tears, teats, terra, testa, tetra, treat, trets.

-3 letters: ares, arse, arts, ates, ears, east, eats, eras, errs, erst, etas, rare, rase, rate, rats.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-r-r-s-t-t"
 

+1 letter: rattlers, redstart, restarts, retracts, retreats, rostrate, starters, startler, straiter, tarriest, treaters.

 

+2 letters: arrestant, arteritis, barrettes, berrettas, birrettas, earthstar, frustrate, garotters, garrottes, irritates, patterers, prattlers, pretreats, prostrate, ratteners, redstarts, restarted, restraint, retargets, retirants, retroacts, rotatores, scatterer, smatterer, starriest, startlers, streetcar, tartrates, tetramers, tetrarchs, thwarters, traitress.

 

+3 letters: abstracter, arbitrates, arrestants, arrestment, artistries, astrometry, birthrates, carrotiest, chatterers, clatterers, craterlets, detractors, earthstars, extractors, extraverts, flatterers, formatters, frustrated, frustrates, literators, nonstarter, overtreats, postarrest, prostrated, prostrates, ratemeters, rectorates, reentrants, registrant, reiterates, repatterns, restarting, restaurant, restraints, retardants, retardates, retractors, retransmit, retreaters, revertants, rotameters, scatterers, smatterers, straighter, streetcars, subtracter, tertiaries, tetraspore, tolerators, traditores, trailerist, traitoress, tristearin, triturates, truantries.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Restart


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 73 74 61 72 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-.    .    ...    -    .-    .-.    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01110011 01110100 01100001 01110010 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#115 &#116 &#97 &#114 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0073 0074 0061 0072 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

52718586678486

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Abbreviations
11. Acronyms
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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