'Resume' definitions:
Definition of 'resume'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
A summary of your academic and work history [syn: curriculum vitae, CV, resume]
verb
verb
Return to a previous location or condition; "The painting resumed its old condition when we restored it" [syn: resume, take up]
verb
Assume anew; "resume a title"; "resume an office"; "resume one's duties"
verb
Definition of 'Resume'
From: GCIDE
- Resume \Re*sume"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resumed;p. pr. & vb. n. Resuming.] [L. resumere, resumptum; pref. re- re- + sumere to take: cf. F. r['e]sumer. See Assume, Redeem.]
- 1. To take back. [1913 Webster]
- The sun, like this, from which our sight we have, Gazed on too long, resumes the light he gave. --Denham. [1913 Webster]
- Perhaps God will resume the blessing he has bestowed ere he attains the age of manhood. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To enter upon, or take up again. [1913 Webster]
- Reason resumed her place, and Passion fled. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To begin again; to recommence, as something which has been interrupted; as, to resume an argument or discourse. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'resume'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adventures,
- annals,
- autobiography,
- battologize,
- begin again,
- biographical sketch,
- biography,
- carry on,
- case history,
- chronicle,
- chronicles,
- chronology,
- Clio,
- come again,
- come up again,
- confessions,
- continue,
- copy,
- core,
- critique,
- curriculum vitae,
- diary,
- dwelling upon,
- echo,
- elaboration,
- epitome,
- essence,
- experiences,
- fill,
- fortunes,
- get back,
- gist,
- give an encore,
- go back,
- go back to,
- go on,
- go over,
- go through,
- going over,
- hagiography,
- hagiology,
- have another shot,
- have another try,
- historiography,
- history,
- iterate,
- iteration,
- journal,
- keep coming,
- keep up,
- legend,
- life,
- life and letters,
- life story,
- main point,
- martyrology,
- meat,
- memoir,
- memoirs,
- memorabilia,
- memorial,
- memorials,
- Muse of history,
- necrology,
- obituary,
- pad,
- photobiography,
- pick up,
- pith,
- practice,
- practicing,
- profile,
- ransom,
- reaffirm,
- reaffirmation,
- reappear,
- reassert,
- rebegin,
- recap,
- recapitulate,
- recapitulation,
- recapture,
- recital,
- recite,
- reclaim,
- recommence,
- record,
- recount,
- recountal,
- recounting,
- recoup,
- recover,
- recuperate,
- recur,
- redeem,
- reenter,
- regain,
- rehash,
- rehearsal,
- rehearse,
- reissue,
- reiterate,
- reiteration,
- renew,
- renovate,
- reoccupy,
- reoccur,
- reopen,
- repeat,
- replevin,
- replevy,
- repossess,
- reprint,
- resound,
- restate,
- restatement,
- restore,
- retail,
- retake,
- retell,
- retelling,
- retrieve,
- return,
- return to,
- reverberate,
- revert,
- review,
- revindicate,
- revive,
- reword,
- run over,
- run-through,
- rundown,
- say over,
- say over again,
- start all over,
- story,
- substance,
- sum,
- sum and substance,
- sum up,
- summarize,
- summary,
- summation,
- summing up,
- summing-up,
- take back,
- take up,
- take up again,
- tautologize,
- theory of history