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# restart

«restart» in Mova's school dictionary: **to start something again after it has stopped** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (restart, restarts, restarted, restarting); noun (a restart)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To restart means to start something again after it has stopped. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restart/#m1)

2) To restart a computer or phone means to switch it off and on again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restart/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Computing: restarting often fixes a frozen device. Sport and games: the game restarts after a goal. Everyday life: restart a journey, restart a lesson after a fire drill. Phrases: restart the computer, restart the game, a fresh restart.

### examples

- Try restarting the laptop if it freezes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restart/#x1)
- The match restarted after the rain stopped. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restart/#x2)
- We had to restart the race because of a false start. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restart/#x3)
- The lesson restarted after the fire drill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restart/#x4)
- The music stopped, then restarted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restart/#x5)
- Press the button to restart the level. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restart/#x6)

### note

Past: restarted. re- means again. «Restart» and «reset» are different: restart switches something off and on, reset puts its settings back to the start.

### In the corpora

- [In games, death is pretend and you can restart; real death is permanent.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/71-scary-films-games-hospitals-and-what-helps/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «restart» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restart/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.