Redo vs Restore - What's the difference?
redo | restore |
To do again.
A repeated action; a doing again, refurbishment, etc.
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=June 1, author=C. J. Hughes, title=Where Change Is Underfoot, and Overhead, work=New York Times
, passage=Eight years ago, the apartment cost $292,000, and the three redos totaled $48,000, but though he has no plans to sell, he thinks he could get $600,000 for the place today. }}
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 redo and restore
is that redo is to do again while restore is to reestablish, or bring back into existence.As nouns the difference between redo and restore
is that redo is a repeated action; a doing again, refurbishment, etc while restore is (computing) the act of recovering data or a system from a backup.redo
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* (to do again) reworkAntonyms
* (to do again) undoNoun
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* * * * * ----restore
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(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.