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future | reset |

As nouns the difference between future and reset

is that future is the time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced while reset is a button that resets a device, often a computer.

As an adjective future

is having to do with or occurring in the future.

future

English

(wikipedia future)

Noun

  • The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.
  • Something that will happen in moments yet to come.
  • Goodness in what is yet to come/Something to look forward to.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Revenge of the nerds , passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future , however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
  • (grammar) Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense.
  • (finance) A standardized, tradable agreement between two parties that one will sell and the other will buy a specific commodity at a specific later date and a specific price.
  • Usage notes

    * (finance) The one who agrees to, at a future date, sell the commodity is considered to be selling the future; the other buys it. * (finance) A non-standardized contract to buy and sell in future is called forward or forward contract.

    Coordinate terms

    * (finance) forward

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having to do with or occurring in the future.
  • :
  • *
  • *:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
  • Derived terms

    * futurism * futurist * futuristic * retro future 1000 English basic words ----

    reset

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

  • To set back to the initial state.
  • *
  • , title= 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.}}
  • To set to zero.
  • To adjust again after an initial failure.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * factory reset * resettable * resetter

    Etymology 2

    From (receipt)

    Alternative forms

    * ressett

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scots law) the crime of knowingly and dishonestly receiving stolen goods, or harbouring an outlaw.
  • References

    * [http://www.police-information.co.uk/legislation/legislationindexsco.html
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