RESUME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does resume mean? 

• RESUME (noun)
  The noun RESUME has 2 senses:

1. short descriptive summary (of events)

2. a summary of your academic and work history

  Familiarity information: RESUME used as a noun is rare.

• RESUME (verb)
  The verb RESUME has 4 senses:

1. take up or begin anew

2. return to a previous location or condition

3. assume anew

4. give a summary (of)

  Familiarity information: RESUME used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESUME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Short descriptive summary (of events)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

resume; sketch; survey

Hypernyms ("resume" is a kind of...):

sum-up; summary (a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form)

Derivation:

resume (give a summary (of))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A summary of your academic and work history

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

curriculum vitae; CV; resume

Hypernyms ("resume" is a kind of...):

sum-up; summary (a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form)

• RESUME (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they resume    ... he / she / it resumes   
Past simple: resumed   
Past participle: resumed   
-ing form: resuming   

Sense 1

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 "resume" 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

Derivation:

resumption (beginning again)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Return to a previous location or condition

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

resume; take up

Context example:

The painting resumed its old condition when we restored it

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

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Assume anew

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

resume one's duties

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

adopt; assume; take on; take over (take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Give a summary (of)

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

resume; sum up; summarise; summarize

Context example:

I will now summarize

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

ingeminate; iterate; reiterate; repeat; restate; retell (to say, state, or perform again)

Verb group:

sum; sum up; summarise; summarize (be a summary of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "resume"):

abstract (give an abstract (of))

precis (make a summary (of))

docket (make a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe it in a list)

recap; recapitulate (summarize briefly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

resume (short descriptive summary (of events))

 Context examples 

I resumed—Your mother was my father's sister?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“But, Dora, my beloved!” said I, at last resuming it; “I was going to mention something.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Doctor, you will take the door,” he resumed.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“This is unquestionably the doctor’s hand, do you know?” resumed the lawyer.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

We resumed our places, and Dr. Van Helsing went on with a sort of cheerfulness which showed that the serious work had begun.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Drug therapy aimed at forcing cancer cells to resume the process of maturation and therefore to induce tumor to a more differentiated, less aggressive state.

(Differentiation Therapy, NCI Thesaurus)

Participants consumed the diet 5 days a month for 3 months (3 cycles), resuming their normal diet at the end of each diet period.

(Health Effects of a Diet that Mimics Fasting, NIH)

He resumed his unpleasant and stealthy advance, pointing his toes as he walked, like a dancing master.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When Xi-treated flies, which showed normal behavior, were given trehalose alone, they resumed fast movements suggesting that the sugar was able to reverse the effects of Xi.

(Gut bacteria may control movement, National Institutes of Health)

Holmes groaned and resumed his restless meanderings.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)