reboot

From re- +‎ boot.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːbuːt/ (noun, verb)
• IPA^(key): /ɹiːˈbuːt/ (verb)

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -uːt

reboot (plural reboots)

1. (computing) An instance of rebooting.

   Hypernyms: bootup, restart

   Hyponyms: hard reboot, soft reboot

2. (by extension) A fresh start.
   • 2008 December 24, Thomas L. Friedman, “Time to Reboot America”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     That’s why we don’t just need a bailout. We need a reboot. We need a build out. We need a buildup. We need a national makeover.

   • 2020 February 14, Florence Fabricant, “The Beloved West Village Restaurant Barbuto Gets a Reboot”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     Other reboots of beloved restaurants, like the Four Seasons, have failed.

3. (narratology) The restarting of a series' storyline, discarding all previous continuity.
4. (widely considered a misuse) The restarting of a series' storyline without discarding previous continuity.

   Synonyms: sequel, spin-off

   Coordinate term: remake

   • 2020 September 24, “Pretty Little Liars Reboot Ordered To Series at HBO Max”, in Variety‎:

     HBO Max has issued a straight-to-series order for “Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin,” a reboot of the original Freeform series... “We’re such huge fans of what I. Marlene King and her iconic cast created, we knew that we had to treat the original series as #CANON"

   • 2021 August 22, Clea Skopeliti, “Nicole Ari Parker to join Sex and the City reboot in place of Kim Cattrall”, in The Guardian‎:

     As well as Ari Parker’s starring role, the reboot will introduce three characters played by people of colour, with Sara Ramirez, Karen Pittman and Sarita Choudhury to join the quartet.

reboot (third-person singular simple present reboots, present participle rebooting, simple past and past participle rebooted)

1. (computing, transitive, intransitive) To execute a computer's boot process, effectively resetting the computer and causing the operating system to reload, possibly after a system failure.

   We need to reboot the system after installing these updates.

   The system reboots every weekend after updates are installed.

   • 2008 October 24, Dennis Overbye, “Another Effort to Reboot Telescope”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     NASA is once again trying to reboot the Hubble Space Telescope, agency officials said. The telescope’s instruments have been shut down since the end of September, when a router that formats science data for transmission to the ground had an electrical failure.

2. (by extension) To start afresh.

   They rebooted the TV series, but it's even worse than the original.

   • 2013 May 21, Dan Schawbel, “Mitch Joel: How To Reboot Your Business And Your Life”, in Forbes:

     What are the first steps to rebooting your business?

   • 2016 July 18, Charles M. Blow, “Trump’s Chance to Reboot”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     As the Republican National Convention kicks off Monday, Donald Trump has a tremendous opportunity to rebrand and reboot his campaign, to make it look and feel more professional and less petulant.

3. Restart; to return to an initial configuration or state.
   • 2011, J. Morris Hicks, Healthy Eating, Healthy World, →ISBN, page 119:

     Egg farmers do this to reboot birds' internal clocks so they start laying valuable eggs faster and, crucially, at the same time.

• (broad sense): rebegin, recommence, reinitiate
• (broad sense and literal sense): restart

• bootstrap

• Booter, Botero, booter

Unadapted borrowing from English reboot.

reboot m (plural reboots)

1. (computing) reboot (instance of rebooting)

   Synonym: reinício

Unadapted borrowing from English reboot.

• IPA^(key): /riˈbut/
• Rhymes: -ut

reboot m (uncountable)

1. reboot (instance of rebooting)

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.