Both Uses
resume
in
And Then There Were None
(Edited)
- He resumed: "That's as may be."
p. 100.5 *resumed = continued (after an interruption)
Uses with a meaning too rare to warrant foucs:
- A man who had recently returned from the Amazon gave me a devastating resume of the activities of one Philip Lombard.
p. 289.7 *resume = summary
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) Less commonly, résumé can refer to any summary.