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Refrigerate vs Restore - What's the difference?

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Refrigerate is a related term of restore.


In lang=en terms the difference between refrigerate and restore

is that refrigerate is now specifically, to keep cool by containing within a refrigerator while restore is to give in place of, or as restitution for.

As verbs the difference between refrigerate and restore

is that refrigerate is to cool down, make cool 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.

refrigerate

English

Verb

(refrigerat)
  • To cool down, make cool.
  • * , Bk.I, New York 2001, p.149:
  • the other [artery] goes to the lungs, to fetch air to refrigerate the heart.
  • Now specifically, to keep cool by containing within a refrigerator.
  • Please refrigerate your uncooked meats at or below 40° Fahrenheit.

    See also

    * (refrigeration) ----

    restore

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) The act of recovering data or a system from a backup.
  • Verb

    (restor)
  • To reestablish, or bring back into existence.
  • to restore harmony among those who are at variance
    He restored my lost faith in him by doing a good deed.
  • To bring back to a previous condition or state.
  • * Bible, Mark iii. 5
  • and his hand was restored whole as the other
  • * Prior
  • our fortune restored after the severest afflictions
  • To give or bring back (that which has been lost or taken); to bring back to the owner; to replace.
  • * Bible, Genesis xx. 7
  • Now therefore restore the man his wife.
  • * Milton
  • Loss of Eden, till one greater man / Restore us, and regain the blissful seat.
  • * Dryden
  • The father banished virtue shall restore .
  • To give in place of, or as restitution for.
  • * Bible, Exodus xxii. 1
  • He shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
  • (computing) To recover (data, etc.) from a backup.
  • There was a crash last night, and we're still restoring the file system.
  • (obsolete) To make good; to make amends for.
  • * Shakespeare
  • But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, / All losses are restored , and sorrows end.

    Synonyms

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