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Relive vs Reset - What's the difference?

relive | reset |

As a verb relive

is (obsolete|transitive) to bring back to life; to revive, resuscitate.

As a noun reset is

a button that resets a device, often a computer.

relive

English

Verb

  • (obsolete) To bring back to life; to revive, resuscitate.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
  • *:Had she not beene devoide of mortall slime, / Shee should not then have bene relyv'd againe [...].
  • To come back to life.
  • To experience (something) again; to live over again.
  • :I relive that horrible accident every night and wake screaming, just as I screamed when it happened.
  • Anagrams

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    reset

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

  • To set back to the initial state.
  • *
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  • 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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