English Online Dictionary. What means restore? What does restore mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle English restoren, from Old French restorer, from Latin rēstaurāre, equivalent to re- + store.
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: rĭstôrʹ, IPA(key): /ɹɪˈstoɹ/
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: rĭstôʹ, IPA(key): /ɹɪˈstɔː/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: rĭstōrʹ, IPA(key): /ɹɪˈsto(ː)ɹ/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈstoə/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: re‧store
Verb
restore (third-person singular simple present restores, present participle restoring, simple past and past participle restored)
- (transitive) 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.
- (transitive) To bring back to good condition from a state of decay or ruin.
- (transitive) To give or bring back (that which has been lost or taken); to bring back to the owner; to replace.
- (transitive) To give in place of, or as restitution for.
- (transitive, computing) To recover (data, etc.) from a backup.
- (transitive, music) To bring (a note) back to its original signification.
- (obsolete) To make good; to make amends for.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:repair
Translations
Noun
restore (plural restores)
- (computing) The act of recovering data or a system from a backup.
Related terms
- restoration
- restorative
- restorer
Anagrams
- retroes, retrose, tresero