resume - Dictionary Definition : Vocabulary.com

If you resume something, you start it again after stopping. You can also resume a place or position, meaning that you go back to it, as in "Everyone please resume your seats.'

Resume is from Latin resumere "to take up again, take back," from the prefix re- "again" plus sumere "to take up, take." The Latin verb sumere is formed from the prefix sub- "under, up" plus emere "to take." When you pause a movie or game and then you press play again, what you're really doing is resuming play.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: resume

1	v	take up or begin anew
2	n v	a summary of your academic and work history give a summary (of)

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: resume

1

v take up or begin anew

“We resumed the negotiations”

Synonyms:: re-start, restart

Type of:: bear on, carry on, continue, preserve, uphold
keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last

v return to a previous location or condition

“The painting resumed its old condition when we restored it”

Synonyms:: take up

Type of:: change
undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature

v assume anew

“resume a title”

“resume an office”

“resume one's duties”

Type of:: adopt, assume, take on, take over
take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities

2

n a summary of your academic and work history

Synonyms:: CV, curriculum vitae

Type of:: sum-up, summary
a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form

n short descriptive summary (of events)

Synonyms:: sketch, survey

Type of:: sum-up, summary
a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form

v give a summary (of)

Synonyms:: sum up, summarise, summarize

: sum, sum up, summarise, summarize
be a summary of

Types:: show 5 types...; hide 5 types...; abstract
give an abstract (of); precis
make a summary (of); docket
make a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe it in a list; recap, recapitulate
summarize briefly; hash over, rehash, retrograde
go back over

Type of:: ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell
to say, state, or perform again