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resets the dial

resets the dial is the third-person singular simple present indicative of reset the dial.

Meaning of reset the dial

Verb

reset the dial (third-person singular simple present resets the dial, present participle resetting the dial, simple past and past participle reset the dial)

  1. (UK, idiomatic, often) To change something radically; to reform or revolutionize something.
    • While contemporary designers give us trends, Quant reset the dial on the way we get dressed. Under her influence, women rejected their parents’ vision of beauty and embraced their own.2021 October 28, Karen Dacre, “Miniskirt mayhem! Nine ways Mary Quant revolutionised women’s clothes – and lives”, in The Guardian

Questions about resets the dial

What is resets the dial the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Resets the dial is the third-person singular simple present indicative of reset the dial.

Words near resets the dial in the dictionary

  1. reset buttons
  2. reset the dial
  3. Resetar
  4. Resetars
  5. resets
  6. resets the dial
  7. resettability
  8. resettable
  9. resettable fuse
  10. resettable fuses
  11. resetted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: resets the dial (page history and authors); reset the dial (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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