different between restore vs defibrillate

English

Etymology

From Middle English restoren, from Old French restorer, from Latin r?staur?re.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: r?stôr?, IPA^(key): /???st??/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: r?stô?, IPA^(key): /???st??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: r?st?r?, IPA^(key): /???sto(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /???sto?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Hyphenation: re?store

Verb

restore (third-person singular simple present restores, present participle restoring, simple past and past participle restored)

1. (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.

2. (transitive) To bring back to good condition from a state of decay or ruin.
   • 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon on the Vanity of the World

     our fortune restored after the severest afflictions

3. (transitive) To give or bring back (that which has been lost or taken); to bring back to the owner; to replace.
   • The father banish;d virtue shall restore.

4. (transitive) To give in place of, or as restitution for.
5. (transitive, computing) To recover (data, etc.) from a backup.

   There was a crash last night, and we're still restoring the file system.

6. (transitive, music) To bring (a note) back to its original signification.
7. (obsolete) To make good; to make amends for.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXX

     But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, / All losses are restored, and sorrows end.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:repair

Translations

Noun

restore (plural restores)

1. (computing) The act of recovering data or a system from a backup.

   We backed up the data successfully, but the restore failed.

Related terms

• restoration
• restorer

Anagrams

• retroes, retrose, tresero

English

Etymology

de- +? fibrillate

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /di??f?b??le?t/

Verb

defibrillate (third-person singular simple present defibrillates, present participle defibrillating, simple past and past participle defibrillated)

1. (transitive) To stop the fibrillation of the heart in order to restore normal contractions, especially by the use of an electric shock.

Translations

Italian

Verb

defibrillate

1. second-person plural present indicative of defibrillare
2. second-person plural imperative of defibrillare
3. feminine plural of defibrillato