Restore vs Doup - What's the difference?
restore | doup |
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
(Scotland) The bottom end of something; the human buttocks.
*1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 16:
*:on the eve of Ellison's wedding they took him as he was going into his house and took off his breeks and tarred his dowp and the soles of his feet and stuck feathers on them and then they threw him into the water-trough, as was the custom.
(Scotland) A cigarette butt.
*2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 53:
*:They were getting stuff, empty bottles and doups to smoke, getting matches off men to light them.
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As nouns the difference between restore and doup
is that restore is (computing) the act of recovering data or a system from a backup while doup is (scotland) the bottom end of something; the human buttocks.As a verb restore
is to reestablish, or bring back into existence.restore
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.