Detach vs Reset - What's the difference?
detach | reset |
To take apart from; to take off.
(military) To separate for a special object or use.
To set back to the initial state.
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, title= To set to zero.
To adjust again after an initial failure.
An act of resetting to the initial state
Setting to zero
Something that is reset
A device, such as a button or switch, for resetting something.
(typography) That which is reset; printed matter set up again.
(Scots law) the crime of knowingly and dishonestly receiving stolen goods, or harbouring an outlaw.
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As verbs the difference between detach and reset
is that detach is to take apart from; to take off while reset is to set back to the initial state.As a noun reset is
an act of resetting to the initial state.detach
English
Verb
(es)- to detach the tag from a newly purchased garment
- to detach a ship from a fleet, or a company from a regiment
Antonyms
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* detachable * detachmentreset
English
Etymology 1
Verb
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset , and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.}}