Restore vs Uplift - What's the difference?
restore | uplift |
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
To raise something or someone to a higher physical, social, moral, intellectual, spiritual or emotional level.
The act or result of being uplifted.
(geology) A tectonic upheaval, especially one that takes place in the process of mountain building.
(colloquial) A brassiere that raises the breasts.
As nouns the difference between restore and uplift
is that restore is (computing) the act of recovering data or a system from a backup while uplift is the act or result of being uplifted.As verbs the difference between restore and uplift
is that restore is to reestablish, or bring back into existence while uplift is to raise something or someone to a higher physical, social, moral, intellectual, spiritual or emotional level.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.