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Restore vs Revival - What's the difference?

restore | revival |

As nouns the difference between restore and revival

is that restore is the act of recovering data or a system from a backup while revival is the act of reviving, or the state of being revived.

As a verb restore

is to reestablish, or bring back into existence.

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

    revival

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of reviving, or the state of being revived.
  • Renewed attention to something, as to letters or literature.
  • Renewed performance of, or interest in, something, such as drama or literature.
  • Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest.
  • A Christian religious meeting held to inspire active members of a church body or to gain new converts.
  • Reanimation from a state of languor or depression; applied to health, a person's spirits, etc.
  • Renewed pursuit, or cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of commerce, arts, agriculture.
  • Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion.
  • the revival of hot pants
  • Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal.
  • the revival''' of a debt barred by limitation; the '''revival of a revoked will
  • Revivification, as of a metal.
  • Derived terms

    * devival * revivalism * revivalist