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reset buttons

reset buttons is the plural of reset button.

Meaning of reset button

Noun

reset button (plural reset buttons)

  1. A button that resets something.
  2. A plot device that interrupts continuity in works of fiction, by returning characters and situations to the status quo they held before certain changes were introduced.
    • But after a year of sagging ratings, Dallas hit the reset button, by having Pam wake up to see Bobby, very much alive, lathering up in their shower. The entire 1985–86 season, including Bobby's death, had been a bad dream of Pam's, and now that she was awake, Dallas could go on the way it should...2016, David Bianculli, The Platinum Age of Television […] , Anchor, →ISBN, page 140

Questions about reset buttons

What is reset buttons the plural of?
Reset buttons is the plural of reset button.

Words near reset buttons in the dictionary

  1. reservosomes
  2. reses
  3. resessive
  4. reset
  5. reset button
  6. reset buttons
  7. reset the dial
  8. Resetar
  9. Resetars
  10. resets
  11. resets the dial

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