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Resume   /rɪzˈum/  /rizˈum/  /rˈɛzəmˌeɪ/   Listen
Resume

verb
(past & past part. resumed;pres. part. resuming)
1.
Take up or begin anew.  Synonyms: re-start, restart.
2.
Return to a previous location or condition.  Synonym: take up.
3.
Assume anew.  "Resume an office" , "Resume one's duties"
4.
Give a summary (of).  Synonyms: sum up, summarise, summarize.  "I will now summarize"
noun
1.
Short descriptive summary (of events).  Synonyms: sketch, survey.
2.
A summary of your academic and work history.  Synonyms: curriculum vitae, CV.






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"Resume" Quotes from Famous Books



... not get into such cells and they fill, with many others, and make that section solid. When the patient is improving he keeps on spitting this up, until all is out and the air cells resume their normal work. Sometimes they remain so ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter

... they emerge, there is a mighty whir of wings, and in a twinkling the corpse is in possession of hundreds of greedy, competing vultures. In twenty minutes not a vestige of flesh remains on the bones, and the loathsome birds resume their watch from the edge of the Tower for the next comer. Their experienced gaze perceives a funeral procession a mile away in the direction of the city, and a signal cry is so readily understood by vultures ...
— East of Suez - Ceylon, India, China and Japan • Frederic Courtland Penfield

... am under many obligations for his clear advice and judgment on matters of this sort as well as on others. I will now write this, the fifteenth and last chapter of this book; and in order to make the story of my life complete up to this date, I will go back and resume the thread of the narrative where it was left off on the evening of the fourth of July. It will be remembered that in my last chapter I spoke of having written letters to some of my friends desiring them to come and ask for my discharge. I awaited impatiently their coming, ...
— Fifteen Years in Hell • Luther Benson

... looked up at her, and in that exchange of glances was promoted from an acquaintance to an old and intimate friend of the family. Thereafter we did not have to make new beginnings of conversations, but could if we chose resume ...
— We Three • Gouverneur Morris

... one, right now," said Blount, cutting the car to the left. He was more than willing to delay, even by littles, the moment when he should be obliged to resume the sorry business ...
— The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush • Francis Lynde


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