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cold booting

cold booting is the present participle and gerund of cold boot.

Meaning of cold boot

Verb

cold boot (third-person singular simple present cold boots, present participle cold booting, simple past and past participle cold booted)

  1. (transitive) To reboot a computer by turning it off and on.

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Questions about cold booting

What is cold booting the present participle and gerund of?
Cold booting is the present participle and gerund of cold boot.

Words near cold booting in the dictionary

  1. Cold Blow
  2. cold boot
  3. cold boot attack
  4. cold boot attacks
  5. cold booted
  6. cold booting
  7. cold boots
  8. cold brew
  9. cold brew coffee
  10. cold brew coffees
  11. cold brews

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cold booting (page history and authors); cold boot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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