different between restore vs furniture

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

From Middle French fourniture (“a supply, or the act of furnishing”), from fournir (“to furnish”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f??n?t??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?f?n?t??/

Noun

furniture (usually uncountable, plural furnitures)

1. (now usually uncountable) Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics, functionally or decoratively.

   They bought a couple of pieces of furniture.

   • Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […].
2. The harness, trappings etc. of a horse, hawk, or other animal.
3. Fittings, such as handles, of a door, coffin, or other wooden item.
4. (firearms) The stock and forearm of a weapon.
5. (printing, historical) The pieces of wood or metal put round pages of type to make proper margins and fill the spaces between the pages and the chase.
6. (journalism) Any material on the page other than the text and pictures of stories.

Usage notes

• Before the end of the nineteenth century, the plural furnitures existed in Standard English in both the U.S. and the U.K.; during the twentieth century, however, it ceased to be used by native speakers.
• A single item of furniture, such as a chair or a table, is often called a piece of furniture.
• In many languages "piece of furniture" is one word, and often its plural form is the equivalent of the English "furniture", for example French meuble / meubles.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:furniture

Meronyms

• drawer
• wardrobe

Derived terms

Related terms

• furnish

Translations

Further reading

• furniture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• furniture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.