RESTART

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does restart mean? 

• RESTART (verb)
  The verb RESTART has 2 senses:

1. start an engine again, for example

2. take up or begin anew

  Familiarity information: RESTART used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESTART (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they restart    ... he / she / it restarts   
Past simple: restarted   
Past participle: restarted   
-ing form: restarting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Start an engine again, for example

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

re-start; restart

Hypernyms (to "restart" is one way to...):

start; start up (get going or set in motion)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

These cars won't restart

Sense 2

Meaning:

Take up or begin anew

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

re-start; restart; resume

Context example:

We resumed the negotiations

Hypernyms (to "restart" is one way to...):

bear on; carry on; continue; preserve; uphold (keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE

 Context examples 

NEOWISE has discovered 250 new objects since its restart, including 72 near-Earth objects and four new comets.

(Asteroid-Hunting Spacecraft Delivers a Second Year of Data, NASA)

An emergency procedure used to restart a person’s heartbeat and breathing after one or both have stopped.

(Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, NCI Dictionary)

A type of advance directive in which a person states that healthcare providers should not perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (restarting the heart) if his or her heart or breathing stops.

(DNR order, NCI Dictionary)

The method can also be used to represent the consensus over multiple runs of a clustering algorithm with random restart (such as K-means, model-based Bayesian clustering, SOM, etc.), so as to account for its sensitivity to the initial conditions.

(Consensus Clustering, NCI Thesaurus)