different between restore vs rec

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??k/
• Homophones: recc, reck, wreck

Noun

rec (countable and uncountable, plural recs)

1. (informal) Abbreviation of recreation.

2. (countable, informal) A recreation ground.
3. (countable, informal) A recommendation or suggestion.
   • 2018, Jonathan Evison, Lawn Boy (page 48)

     “Got any recs?”
     “What are you looking for?”
     “Something angry,” I said.

Alternative forms

• (recommendation): recc

Derived terms

• rec room

Verb

rec (third-person singular simple present recs, present participle reccing or recing or rec'ing, simple past and past participle recced or reced or rec'ed or rec'd)

1. (transitive, informal) To recommend.
2. (transitive, informal) To record.

Alternative forms

• (recommend): recc

Adjective

rec (not comparable)

1. (informal) Abbreviation of recreational.

Anagrams

• CER, CRE, ERC, Erc, RCE

Catalan

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *?rik- (“furrow”). Compare Occitan rèc (whence French arrèc) and Basque erreka.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?rek/
• Homophone: reg

Noun

rec m (plural recs)

1. irrigation ditch

Derived terms

• reguer

Old English

Alternative forms

• r?ec

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *rauki, from Proto-Germanic *raukiz, whence also Old Frisian r?k, Old Saxon r?k, Old Dutch rouc, Old High German rouh, Old Norse reykr. Possibly a loan from the Old Norse instead.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?k/

Noun

r?c m

1. smoke

Descendants

• Middle English: rek
  • English: reek
  • Scots: reek, reik