What's the difference between recover and retrieve?

Recover


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cover again.
  • (v. t.) To get or obtain again; to get renewed possession of; to win back; to regain.
  • (v. t.) To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of; as, to recover lost time.
  • (v. t.) To restore from sickness, faintness, or the like; to bring back to life or health; to cure; to heal.
  • (v. t.) To overcome; to get the better of, -- as a state of mind or body.
  • (v. t.) To rescue; to deliver.
  • (v. t.) To gain by motion or effort; to obtain; to reach; to come to.
  • (v. t.) To gain as a compensation; to obtain in return for injury or debt; as, to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and costs in a suit at law; to obtain title to by judgement in a court of law; as, to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery; to gain by legal process; as, to recover judgement against a defendant.
  • (v. i.) To regain health after sickness; to grow well; to be restored or cured; hence, to regain a former state or condition after misfortune, alarm, etc.; -- often followed by of or from; as, to recover from a state of poverty; to recover from fright.
  • (v. i.) To make one's way; to come; to arrive.
  • (v. i.) To obtain a judgement; to succeed in a lawsuit; as, the plaintiff has recovered in his suit.
  • (n.) Recovery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The most frequently recovered beta LPB was Staphylococcus aureus, which was recovered in 356 (47%) patients.
  • (2) The patient recovered completely following discontinuation of antibiotics, transfusion of red blood cells, and treatment with glucocorticoids.
  • (3) The fifth patient recovered after 28 days of parenteral AMB.
  • (4) The ACTH deficiency recovered spontaneously, with normal cortisol responses to depot Synacthen (greater than 1380 at 6 h) and hypoglycemia (peak, 590) 14 and 18 months postpartum, respectively.
  • (5) Compared with cultures from afebrile women, organisms were recovered from 51 (93%) of 55 febrile postpartum women by using the triple-lumen transcervical culture method (P less than .001).
  • (6) N-Ethylmaleimide-sensitive 5'-nucleotide phosphodiesterase and alkaline phosphatase activities from other cell lines were also recovered in the cytosol.
  • (7) The four patients treated in our series recovered fully; the single fatal case constituted an unrecognized case of pneumococcal endocarditis.
  • (8) Following each ischaemic period [ATP], [CrP], [Pi], and [H+] all recovered to control levels within 5-10 min of initiating reperfusion.
  • (9) A quantitative index of duodenogastric reflux was obtained in each case by determining the percentage of the injected dose of 99mTechnetium-DISIDA that was recovered by continuous aspiration of gastric juice in fasting subjects.
  • (10) US presidential election 2016: the state of the Republican race as the year begins Read more So far, the former secretary of state seems to be recovering well from self-inflicted wounds that dogged the start of her second, and most concerted, attempt for the White House.
  • (11) Infectious virus was recovered 3 years after infection from selected tissues of 12 of 17 CAEV(63)-infected goats and 11 of 18 CAEV(Co)-infected goats.
  • (12) The Italian coastguard ship Bruno Gregoracci docked in Malta at about 8am and dropped off two dozen bodies recovered from this weekend’s wreck, including children, according to Save the Children.
  • (13) E. coli ATCC 13706 coliphage were recovered more often and in greater numbers than either of the other two types of coliphages.
  • (14) In contrast, the enzymic domain of the colicin (T2) remained in the aqueous phase and was recovered in a highly active form as a consequence of its dissociation from the immunity protein.
  • (15) On the seventh day, when middle ear effusions were absent, the ciliary activity had recovered to normal.
  • (16) Cultures of these isolants were inoculated experimentally into turkeys and produced lesions of chlamydiosis that were indistinguishable from those caused by the strain originally recovered from diseases turkeys on the premises.
  • (17) All cases recovered uneventfully without repeated infection.
  • (18) Most of the somatogenic binding activity was recovered by hydroxylamine treatment, which removes O-acetyl groups from tyrosine residues but not N-acetyl groups from lysine residues.
  • (19) + inf., pons + medulla), rCBF increased toward the control level gradually, and it completely recovered 60 min after recirculation.
  • (20) From the subcutaneous transplanted tumors a large number of MLuC1-positive tumor cells could easily be recovered, thus indicating the validity of the in vivo methodology.

Retrieve


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve independence.
  • (v. t.) To recall; to bring back.
  • (v. t.) To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair, as a loss or damadge.
  • (v. i.) To discover and bring in game that has been killed or wounded; as, a dog naturally inclined to retrieve.
  • (n.) A seeking again; a discovery.
  • (n.) The recovery of game once sprung; -- an old sporting term.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
  • (2) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
  • (3) As evidence, they show no mediated semantic-phonological priming during picture naming: Retrieval of sheep primes goat, but the activation of goat is not transmitted to its phonological relative, goal.
  • (4) New developments in data storage and retrieval forecast applications that could not have been imagined even a year or two ago.
  • (5) All the patients underwent oocyte retrieval and 94.3% of the harvested oocytes were preovulatory.
  • (6) Amniotic fluid was retrieved by amniocentesis from 148 women: patients at term with and without labor, patients with preterm labor with and without intraamniotic infection, and women in the second trimester of pregnancy.
  • (7) It is postulated that in case vasopressin affects retrieval processes the site of action is located in the amygdala and the dentate gyrus of the hippocampal complex with dopamine and serotonin as the respective neurotransmitter systems involved.
  • (8) The clinical data thus entered is highly organized, easily legible and retrievable in many ways.
  • (9) Levels of both free and total androstenedione increased significantly from the second day of the menstrual cycle until oocyte retrieval in non-conceptional IVF cycles, whereas levels in conceptional IVF cycles and unstimulated cycles showed no increase.
  • (10) This was interpreted as a drug-induced impairment of memory retrieval.
  • (11) Retrieval was manipulated by representing a proportion of the old picture and word items in their opposite form during the recognition test (i.e., some old pictures were tested with their corresponding words and vice versa).
  • (12) An interactive image-processing workstation enables rapid image retrieval, reduces the examination repeat rate, provides for image enhancement, and rapidly sets the desired display parameters for laser-printed images.
  • (13) Specific kinds of maternal behaviour such as nesting, retrieving, grooming and exploring, are seen in non-human mammalian mothers immediately before, during and after delivery.
  • (14) There appears to be a perceptual limitation in olfaction relative to vision that influences stimulus encoding and stimulus retrieval processes but that does not affect retrieval of associated responses.
  • (15) Work with colleagues to retrieve, centrally store, check permissions and give new life to these assets.
  • (16) The specific problems addressed pertain to the storage and retrieval of historical information, physical signs and diagnosis.
  • (17) In laparoscopic oocyte retrievals, a negative correlation was observed between duration of CO2 exposure and follicular fluid pH, whereas in ultrasound-guided retrievals, the pH remained unchanged.
  • (18) Printed-word comprehension appeared to involve prior retrieval of a phonological code for less frequent words.
  • (19) From the patients' performance we make the following theoretical claims: that some arithmetic facts are stored in the form of individual fact representations (e.g., 9 x 4 = 36), whereas other facts are stored in the form of a general rule (e.g., 0 x N = 0); that arithmetic fact retrieval is mediated by abstract internal representations that are independent of the form in which problems are presented or responses are given; that arithmetic facts and calculation procedures are functionally independent; and that calculation algorithms may include special-case procedures that function to increase the speed or efficiency of problem solving.
  • (20) This case illustrates: (1) acid medium, chymotrypsin, or sucrose are not needed for the procedure of zona cutting; (2) the zygotes resulting from zona cutting survive through freezing and thawing; and (3) oocyte retrieval can be done concomitant with conservative surgery for endometriosis.