All 3 Uses of
resume
in
Interview with the Vampire
- And he started to resume; then, glancing at the boy, he smiled.†
Part 1resume = begin again
- He was patient again, waiting until the vampire was ready to resume.†
Part 1
- What seemed sensible was to resume walking, waiting for it to gain on me; and as I did so I was again mocked by my own pace, and the distance between us remained the same.†
Part 3 *
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.