All 6 Uses of
resume
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- He resumed: —And, after blinking up at the sacred figure, Not a bloody bit like the man, says he.†
Chpt 6 *resumed = began again
- A POLISHED PERIOD J. J. O'Molloy resumed, moulding his words: —He said of it: that stony effigy in frozen music, horned and terrible, of the human form divine, that eternal symbol of wisdom and of prophecy which, if aught that the imagination or the hand of sculptor has wrought in marble of soultransfigured and of soultransfiguring deserves to live, deserves to live.†
Chpt 7
- He let go of the skin so that the profile resumed the normal expression of before.†
Chpt 16
- —Mind you, I'm not saying that it's all a pure invention, he resumed.†
Chpt 16
- I'm, he resumed with dramatic force, as good an Irishman as that rude person I told you about at the outset and I want to see everyone, concluded he, all creeds and classes pro rata having a comfortable tidysized income, in no niggard fashion either, something in the neighbourhood of 300 pounds per annum.†
Chpt 16
- At another time we may resume.†
Chpt 15
Definitions:
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(1)
(resume as in: resume the meeting) begin or take againThis sense of resume generally means to begin again or continue after a pause. In usage like, "resumed her seat", it scan also mean to take again.
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(2)
(résumé as in: submitted her résumé) a brief summary of a person's qualifications to do something -- typically submitted with an employment applicationIn practice, résumé is often written without the accented e's.
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, résumé can refer to any summary.