Restart has 4 different meanings across 1 category:
Verb
Noun
1
The act of starting something again.
"After the power outage, I had to restart my computer to access my files."
In plain English: A restart is when you start something over again from the beginning after it stopped working or finished.
"The power outage caused an unexpected restart of our computer system."
Verb
1
start an engine again, for example
"After the car stalled on the highway, I had to restart the engine before we could continue our journey."
2
take up or begin anew
"We resumed the negotiations"
3
To start again.
"After the power outage, we had to restart our computer to access the files."
Example Sentences
"The power outage caused an unexpected restart of our computer system."
noun
"The system requires a restart to fix the glitch."
noun
"We had to wait for the server restart before logging in again."
noun
"His car engine needed a quick restart after stalling on the hill."
noun
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
Origin
The word restart is formed by combining the prefix re- with start to mean beginning something again. It entered English as a straightforward compound of these two existing elements.