All 8 Uses of
resume
in
Lonesome Dove
- Ned Tym and his friends soon resumed their card game, but the other players' nerves were shaken and Ned soon drained them of money.†
Chpt 42-43 *resumed = began again
- Aus Frank resumed his walk, and Augustus followed along, amused at the strange turns life took.†
Chpt 54-55
- He resumed his habit of keeping well to the front of the herd.†
Chpt 91-92
- Gus had been so much himself to the end that he wouldn't let even his death be an occasion—it had just felt like one of their many arguments that normally would be resumed in a few days.†
Chpt 97-98
- This time it wouldn't be resumed, and Call found he couldn't adjust to the change.†
Chpt 97-98
- It seemed to him he had slid into bad luck in Arkansas the day he accidentally shot the dentist, and now he was about to slide out of it in Kansas and resume the kind of enjoyable life he felt he deserved.†
Chpt 70-71
- Wilbarger and his horses were soon out of sight, but Dan Suggs made no move to resume the trip to Dodge.†
Chpt 70-71
- He could see, but it took a great effort to move, and he wasn't immediately able to resume command.†
Chpt 89-90
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.