Continue vs Restore - What's the difference?
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to proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).
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To make last; to prolong.
* , New York, 2001, p.74:
To retain (someone) in a given state, position etc.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p.257:
To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
* Milton
* Bible, Matthew xv. 32
to resume
(legal) To adjourn, prorogue, put off.
(poker slang) To make a continuation bet.
(video games) an option allowing a gamer to resume play after have been lost.
(video games) an option allowing a player to .
(programming) a , skipping the statements following it
To reestablish, or bring back into existence.
To bring back to a previous condition or state.
* Bible, Mark iii. 5
* Prior
To give or bring back (that which has been lost or taken); to bring back to the owner; to replace.
* Bible, Genesis xx. 7
* Milton
* Dryden
To give in place of, or as restitution for.
* Bible, Exodus xxii. 1
(computing) To recover (data, etc.) from a backup.
(obsolete) To make good; to make amends for.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between continue and restore
is that continue is while restore is to reestablish, or bring back into existence.As a noun restore is
(computing) the act of recovering data or a system from a backup.continue
English
Verb
(continu)- Shall I continue speaking, or will you just interrupt me again?
- Do you want me to continue to unload these?
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- Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.
- Can you account him wise or discreet that would willingly have his health, and yet will do nothing that should procure or continue it?
- The schools were very much the brainchild of Bertin, and although the latter was ousted from the post of Controller-General by Choiseul in 1763, he was continued by the king as a fifth secretary of state […].
- Here to continue , and build up here / A growing empire.
- They continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.
- When will the concert continue ?
- This meeting has been continued to the thirteenth of July.
Usage notes
* In the transitive sense, (continue) may be followed by either the present participle or the infinitive; hence use either "to continue writing" or "to continue to write". * As (continue) conveys the sense of progression, it is pleonastic to follow it with "on" (as in "Continue on with what you were doing").Synonyms
* carry on, go on with, keep, keep on, proceed with * (sense) carry on, go on, proceed, resumeAntonyms
* terminate, discontinueNoun
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English
Verb
(restor)- to restore harmony among those who are at variance
- He restored my lost faith in him by doing a good deed.
- and his hand was restored whole as the other
- our fortune restored after the severest afflictions
- Now therefore restore the man his wife.
- Loss of Eden, till one greater man / Restore us, and regain the blissful seat.
- The father banished virtue shall restore .
- He shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
- There was a crash last night, and we're still restoring the file system.
- But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, / All losses are restored , and sorrows end.