reboots

1. 1
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of reboot.

   Our help desk reboots the router before trying anything else.

   The studio reboots the franchise roughly once a decade.

   Note

   The -s form inherits an ergative verb, so either the restarter or the thing restarted can be the subject. A technician reboots the server, but the server also simply reboots after an update. It agrees with he, she, it or a singular noun, and other subjects take bare reboot. In the broader sense of starting afresh, a studio reboots a franchise.

   The laptop reboots on its own whenever an update installs.

   If the screen freezes, the system reboots automatically.

2. 2
   noun

   Plural of reboot.

   The technician scheduled two reboots overnight to install the patches.

   Studios have released several reboots of classic franchises this year.

   Note

   The plural counts restarts as easily as remakes: two reboots overnight, several reboots of a franchise. Among the remakes, a useful split exists. Some reboots discard everything that came before, while others restart the storyline yet keep earlier continuity. The same spelling also serves as the present-tense verb. A determiner such as two, several or these signals the noun.

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