Synonyms:
sketch, survey, resume
Meaning: short descriptive summary (of events)
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
resume, restart, re-start
Meaning: take up or begin anew; "We resumed the negotiations"
Synonyms:
resume, take_up
Meaning: return to a previous location or condition; "The painting resumed its old condition when we restored it"
Synonyms:
resume
Meaning: assume anew; "resume a title"; "resume an office"; "resume one's duties"
Usage examples
This caused a delay of thirty-six hours, for everything had to be sun or fire dried before the party could resume travel.
The grain will swell, at first slowly and then very rapidly, and the flask will resume its former dimensions, or burst if it is not watched.
Tomorrow, on the day stated and at the hour stated, the tide will peacefully lift it off, and it will resume its navigating through the seas."
At sunset parrots and monkeys resume their chatter for a season, and then give way to the noiseless flight of innumerable bats chasing the hawk-moth and beetle.
Tad, however, forewarned, had freed his left foot from the stirrup and was standing easily over his fallen mount, eyes fixed on the beast's ears, ready to resume his position at the first sign of a quiver of those ears.
"About to appear before God, the Master of mankind, I beg the king, who was my master on earth, to resume the wealth which his bounty has bestowed upon me, and which my family would be happy to see pass into such illustrious hands.
And all attempts would be futile to make them understand that, while they plagued him with futile questions, a murderer and spy and thief was making good his escape, being afforded ample opportunity to slough all traces of his recent work and resume unchallenged his place among them.
One day, about a fortnight after the coroner's inquest had been held, and when the excitement of the terrible affair was calming down and Polk Street beginning to resume its monotonous routine, Old Grannis sat in his clean, well-kept little room, in his cushioned armchair, his hands lying idly upon his knees.
"Nay, if we do quarrel," resumed Lord Elmwood, "You know it must be your own fault; and as this is a theme the most likely of any, nay, the only one on which we can have a difference (such as we cannot forgive) take care never from this day to resume it; indeed that of itself, would be an offence I could not pardon.