All 3 Uses of
resume
in
Hunger Games Book #2 (Catching Fire)
- The everyday life of District 12—workers to the mines, kids to school—resumed its usual pace.†
Chpt 2resumed = began again
- Gale had shattered some invisible barrier between us and, with it, any hope I had of resuming our old, uncomplicated friendship.†
Chpt 2 *resuming = beginning again
- His snoring stops for a moment, questioningly, and then resumes.†
Chpt 1
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.