What's the difference between resume and retake?

Resume


Definition:

  • (n.) A summing up; a condensed statement; an abridgment or brief recapitulation.
  • (v. t.) To take back.
  • (v. t.) To enter upon, or take up again.
  • (v. t.) To begin again; to recommence, as something which has been interrupted; as, to resume an argument or discourse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Eighty-eight patients (97%) had a stable fixation and 77 (85%) had resumed preoperative activity or were working but with a residual deficit.
  • (2) Menses resumed in all 6 women 7 to 41 days after the injection, galactorrhea disappeared in all 4 patients, and libido and potency become normal in both men with microprolactinomas.
  • (3) A sharp decrease in oxygen uptake occurred in Neurospora crassa cells that were transferred from 30 degrees C to 45 degrees C, and the respiration that resumed later at 45 degrees C was cyanide-insensitive.
  • (4) Acid and pepsin output from the denervated pouch in response to pentagastrin and food decreased significantly (P less than 0.001) after parenteral feeding and returned to control levels after the dogs resumed a normal diet.
  • (5) The majority (55%) of patients were able to resume intercourse one to two months postoperation.
  • (6) They shouted at her: ‘Keep your hands in the air!’ They told her: ‘We’re going to shoot.’ “The shooting resumed.
  • (7) Paradigm relies heavily on social science research and analysis to help companies identify and address the specific barriers and unconscious biases that might be affecting their diversity efforts: things like anonymizing resumes so that employers can’t tell a candidate’s gender or ethnicity, or modifying a salary negotiation process that places women and minorities at a disadvantage.
  • (8) Only NAT activity exhibited daily changes, rising at the onset of darkness and resuming low values shortly before the end of the scotophase.
  • (9) When reinforcement for competing behavior was withdrawn, however, rats resumed their original behavior and there were no overall savings in total responses to extinction.
  • (10) Within 2 days after surgical correction of the bronchoesophageal fistula, peristalsis in the thoracic portion of the esophagus returned to normal and the esophagus resumed its normal size.
  • (11) No one can determine when it will be safe for them to return home or when a normal life in school can be resumed.
  • (12) The ftsA and ftsE mutants resumed cell division without new protein synthesis; ftsD mutants resumed cell division only if new protein synthesis occured, while ftsB, C, F and G mutants did not resume cell division at all.
  • (13) The coronavirus JHMV persistently infects rat Schwannoma cells RN2-2 at 32.5 degrees C and enters a host-imposed reversible, latent state at 39.5 degrees C. JHMV can remain up to 20 days in the latent state and about 14 days before the cultures lose the capacity to resume virus production upon return to 32.5 degrees C. Although persistently and latently infected RN2-2 cells display resistance to superinfection by a heterologous agent VSV, these cells do not release detectable soluble mediators (e.g., interferon) of the antiviral state.
  • (14) Why, they reasoned, would voters invite the architects of the Iraq war to resume control of US foreign policy?
  • (15) It will resume at 2pm, when David Cameron will resume his evidence.
  • (16) The toxicity encountered was minimal except for seizures possibly related to vincristine in three children, who were able to resume treatment.
  • (17) Rubio, whose foreign policy resume includes positions on the Senate foreign relations committee and select committee on intelligence, said on Wednesday there was “no one running for president” who had access to more sensitive information than he did.
  • (18) Compared with conventional surgery, the advantages of laparoscopic cholecystectomy are well known: the entire peritoneal cavity is explored; the lack of postoperative ileus makes it possible to resume normal feeding, and hence normal activity, after a short interruption; systemic and parietal complications are less frequent, but the biliary tract complication rate is higher, probably in relation to the operator's training.
  • (19) Radio-frequency lesions were made and testing was resumed after 3 days.
  • (20) Full-time faculty numbers in academic departments of obstetrics-gynecology have resumed growth in the last three years, and now average 18.3 per department.

Retake


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To take or receive again.
  • (v. t.) To take from a captor; to recapture; as, to retake a ship or prisoners.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No changes for either side, but Zinedine Zidane has been whispering into Cristiano Ronaldo's ear as he retakes the pitch.
  • (2) This year, that means anyone doing a retake in order to get the grades for law or accounting and finance degrees.
  • (3) A standardized questionnaire, with satisfactory retake item reliabilities and well established validities, was administered to a representative sample of female university students (N = 2366), drawn from Cairo and Ein-Shams Universities, both located in Greater Cairo.
  • (4) On top of that, a campaign to retake the north will pit largely Shia soldiers against Sunni fighters and, if air power and artillery are used in civilian areas, will risk further alienating the population.
  • (5) However, due to moving the larger studio audience (some of whom were on a gallery above the main set) around for different shots and retakes it took three times that.
  • (6) The official said they wanted to retake Mosul in the spring, before the summer heat and the holiday month of Ramadan kick in.
  • (7) Al-Maliki's appeal seems not only to have fallen on deaf ears but some tribal militias reportedly defected and fought alongside Isis, thus frustrating the government's efforts to retake Falluja.
  • (8) Criminals are released from prison and return to work every day, but the prospect of an unrepentant convicted rapist retaking his place at a League One football club has proved another matter.
  • (9) He added: "Retake the opportunity for individual tenants to choose to have their rent paid direct, then we will be with you all the way."
  • (10) There was no one in red and white prepared to take charge and deal with the visitors' inevitable surge, when it eventually came, by calming his team-mates down and retaking control of possession.
  • (11) Arab Iraq may still try to retake the province, but it is too focused on turning Baghdad and the Shia south into a fortress.
  • (12) More than a third of graduates from the training program, which until this year was available only to men, retake at lease one phase, the US army told AFP this week.
  • (13) The day after Zeidan's removal, the powerful Misrata militia, allied to congress, launched an offensive to retake the blockaded oil terminals, storming the base of an army special forces unit – the Zawiya Martyrs brigade – in the central city of Sirte, leaving five people dead.
  • (14) The military-drafted, vaguely worded constitution allows for the army chief to retake power in a national emergency.
  • (15) The long-promised battle for Tikrit and the province of Salahuddin, north of Baghdad, is set to be a dry run for another offensive, backed by the US-led international coalition and Shia militia, to retake Isis-controlled Mosul.
  • (16) They’re going to be retaking territory that’s part of the disputed territory.
  • (17) The Iraqi prime minister has vowed to retake every inch seized by the militants.
  • (18) Two earlier attempts to retake Delga failed, but in the early hours of Monday morning police launched a third and decisive assault, and have now re-entered the town, residents said by telephone.
  • (19) Hugely popular, evidence that the comprehensive ideal could succeed brilliantly, they offered a much wider curriculum than schools; students could be “academic” or given a second chance (the pass rate for “retakes” was almost double); all could escape the constraining regime of schools and be treated as young adults.
  • (20) She added: "That night, no one could tell me whether we could retake the Falklands.