What's the difference between regain and restore?

Regain


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A key way of regaining public trust will be reforming the system of remuneration as agreed by the G20.
  • (2) The patient presented in coma but regained full consciousness over the next six hours with supportive therapy.
  • (3) In Experiment 1 (summer), hens regained body weight more rapidly, returned to production faster, and had larger egg weights (Weeks 1 to 4) when fed the 16 or 13% CP molt diets than when fed the 10% CP molt diet.
  • (4) There are a few seats, such as South Dorset and Braintree, where the Liberal Democrats are in third place and a third party revival would help the Conservatives to regain the seats lost to Labour but they are outnumbered by vulnerable Tory marginals.
  • (5) Changes in mean portal venous and aortic blood glucose and lactate concentrations after an intragastric infusion of d-glucose to chronically catheterized rats (after regaining preoperative weight) were compared to those of acutely catheterized rats (1 h after catheter placement).
  • (6) These cells regained responsiveness to PDGF after an additional incubation period in PDGF-free medium.
  • (7) Obese women who regained weight after successful weight reduction (relapsers, n = 44); formerly obese, average-weight women who maintained weight loss (maintainers, n = 30); and women who had always remained at the same average, nonobese weight (control subjects, n = 34) were interviewed.
  • (8) Those around him assumed he was dead and he was put in a coffin, only to regain consciousness at the last moment.
  • (9) Microbial lipases exhibit a total cutoff in activity with as low a pressure as 2 MPa and a remarkable activity regain with depressurization.
  • (10) To study important epitopes on glycoprotein E2 of Sindbis virus, eight variants selected to be singly or multiply resistant to six neutralizing monoclonal antibodies reactive against E2, as well as four revertants which had regained sensitivity to neutralization, were sequenced throughout the E2 region.
  • (11) Doctors hope that injecting stem cells directly into the spine will help repair damaged nerve cells enough for paralysed people to regain some movement, but such treatments have yet to be tested in humans.
  • (12) The patient regained good movement at the interphalangeal joint of the thumb.
  • (13) One patient regained thermoregulatory sweat function and no patient's condition progressed to generalized autonomic failure.
  • (14) The process of recovery has three stages, in the first the patient is unconscious, in the second he or she regains full consciousness signified by the end of the period of post traumatic amnesia and continues to show evidence of rapid improvement in basic physical and mental functions.
  • (15) Upon dialysis to remove DTT from the reduced UK mixture, the disulfides reformed and enzymatic activity was regained.
  • (16) Despite intensive nutritional rehabilitation, patient did not regain the use of his lower limbs.
  • (17) A unique pattern for a carbohydrate antigen is displayed by cells of the primitive streak; antigenicity is lost with de-epithelialisation and ingression, but is regained in a pericellular distribution on the mesoderm cells that emerge from the primitive streak.
  • (18) Out of 10 patients, eight treated by early mobilization regained full shoulder function within 1 year.
  • (19) The aged erythrocytes incubated in a mixture of adenine and inosine markedly regained their ATP levels, and also showed a marked transformation from spiked spherocytes to normal discocytes.
  • (20) She wanted the department to give her reporters better access to Helmand province, where British troops were fighting and dying as they battled to regain control.

Restore


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover.
  • (v. t.) To give or bring back, as that which has been lost., or taken away; to bring back to the owner; to replace.
  • (v. t.) To renew; to reestablish; as, to restore harmony among those who are variance.
  • (v. t.) To give in place of, or as satisfaction for.
  • (v. t.) To make good; to make amends for.
  • (v. t.) To bring back from a state of injury or decay, or from a changed condition; as, to restore a painting, statue, etc.
  • (v. t.) To form a picture or model of, as of something lost or mutilated; as, to restore a ruined building, city, or the like.
  • (n.) Restoration.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Both the vitellogenesis and the GtH cell activity are restored in the fish exposed to short photoperiod if it is followed by a long photoperiod.
  • (2) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
  • (3) When TSLP was pretreated with TF5 in vitro, the most restorative effects on the decreased MLR were found in hyperplastic stage and the effects were becoming less with the advance of tumor developments.
  • (4) However, the presence of these two molecules was restored if testosterone was supplemented immediately after orchiectomy.
  • (5) The goals of treatment are the restoration of normal gut peristalsis and the correction of nutritional deficiencies.
  • (6) According to the finite element analysis, the design bases of fixed restorations applied in the teeth accompanied with the absorption of the alveolar bone were preferred.
  • (7) Full activity could be restored by addition of nanogram amounts of endotoxin or of FCS before assay.
  • (8) Cryopreserved autologous blood cells may thus restore some patients with CGL in transformation to chronic-phase disease and so may help to prolong life.
  • (9) Based upon the analysis of 1015 case records of patients, aged 16-70, with different hip joint pathology types, carried out during 1985-1990, there were revealed mistakes and complications after reconstructive-restorative operations.
  • (10) Administration of one of the precursors of noradrenaline l-DOPA not only prevented the decrease in tissue noradrenaline content in myocardium, but restored completely its reserves, exhausted by electrostimulation of the aortic arch.
  • (11) Exogenous rIL-2 restored T-cell proliferation only in the salivary gland cultures of this patient.
  • (12) Pickles said that to restore its public standing, the corporation needed to be more transparent, including opening itself up to freedom of information requests.
  • (13) Nonetheless, anatomical continuity was restored at the site of injury, axons projected across this region, and rostral spinal and brainstem neurons could be retrogradely labelled following HRP injections administered caudal to the lesion.
  • (14) Considerable glucose 6-phosphatase activity survived 240min of treatment with phospholipase C at 5 degrees C, but in the absence of substrate or at physiological glucose 6-phosphate concentrations the delipidated enzyme was completely inactivated within 10min at 37 degrees C. However, 80mM-glucose 6-phosphate stabilized it and phospholipid dispersions substantially restored thermal stability.
  • (15) The specific fluorescence was affected following reserpine or 6-hydroxydopamine treatment; however, the rewarming process restored fluorescence only in the reserpine-treated tissue.
  • (16) These two latter techniques were developed in an attempt to restore normal left ventricular geometry.
  • (17) The improvement in the two groups of patients was statistically comparable to the relief of pain and the over-all restoration of function.
  • (18) Co2+ partially restored the activities lost by chelation.
  • (19) at 13:00 h which restored DNA replication to follicles of Stages 2-10: FSH acted primarily on Stages 2-5 and LH on Stages 5-10.
  • (20) Possible explanations of the clinical gains include 1) psychological encouragement, 2) improvements of mechanical efficiency, 3) restoration of cardiovascular fitness, thus breaking a vicous circle of dyspnoea, inactivity and worsening dyspnoea, 4) strengthening of the body musculature, thus reducing the proportion of anaerobic work, 5) biochemical adaptations reducing glycolysis in the active tissues, and 6) indirect responses to such factors as group support, with advice on smoking habits, breathing patterns and bronchial hygiene.