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Restore vs Furnish - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between restore and furnish

is that restore is (computing) the act of recovering data or a system from a backup while furnish is material used to create an engineered product.

As verbs the difference between restore and furnish

is that restore is to reestablish, or bring back into existence while furnish is (lb) to provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.

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

    * See also

    Related terms

    * restoration * restorer

    Anagrams

    * English transitive verbs

    furnish

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • Material used to create an engineered product.
  • * 2003 , Martin E. Rogers, Timothy E. Long, Synthetic Methods in Step-growth Polymers , Wiley-IEEE, page 257
    • The resin-coated furnish is evenly spread inside the form and another metal plate is placed on top.

    Verb

  • (lb) To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}
  • *
  • *:Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished , and was very clean. ΒΆ There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
  • To supply or give.
  • :
  • * (1800-1859)
  • *:His writings and his life furnish abundant proofs that he was not a man of strong sense.
  • *1813 , (Jane Austen), (Pride and Prejudice) , Modern Library Edition (1995), p.119:
  • *:he took his seat at the bottom of the table, by her ladyship's desire, and looked as if he felt that life could furnish nothing greater.

    • Related terms

    * furniture

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