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say it: ree-BOOT
reboot is a verb meaning "cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes". It carries one recorded sense.
cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes
“boot your computer”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for reboot come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.