What's the difference between regain and revive?

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.

Revive


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
  • (v. i.) Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.
  • (v. i.) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.
  • (v. i.) To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.
  • (v. i.) To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.
  • (v. i.) Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.
  • (v. i.) To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken.
  • (v. i.) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) King also described how representatives of every country at this month's G7 meeting in Canada seemed to be relying on an export-led recovery to revive their economies.
  • (2) It happens to anyone and everyone and this has been an 11-year battle.” Emergency services were called to the oval about 6.30pm to treat Luke for head injuries, but were unable to revive him.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump signs order reviving controversial pipeline projects “The Obama administration correctly found that the Tribe’s treaty rights needed to be respected, and that the easement should not be granted without further review and consideration of alternative crossing locations,” said Jan Hasselman, an attorney for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.
  • (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) While demand in the US remains sluggish, Toyota has benefited at home from a revival in demand for its Prius petrol-electric hybrid, Japan's best-selling passenger car for the past five months.
  • (6) But the genius of the High Line was to revive and repurpose a decaying piece of legacy infrastructure, and by doing so to revitalise several moribund districts of Manhattan, whereas the garden bridge would be new-build in an already vibrant part of London.
  • (7) Fear of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome and other blood-transmitted diseases has created a revival of autologous transfusion during cardiac surgery.
  • (8) | Mary Dejevsky Read more Third, if that breakthrough can be delivered with good faith on all sides, that could potentially be the basis to revive the Kerry-Lavrov ceasefire , open humanitarian channels into Aleppo, and start the process of negotiating a lasting peace.
  • (9) The present data further demonstrate that a subpopulation of B cells which were functionally deleted during aging can be revived in vivo with 7m8oGuo.
  • (10) While the results reflect antiandrogenic and antispermatogenic action of V. rosea, the selective retention of the spermatogonia provides scope for the much desired revival of spermatogenesis on cessation of the treatment.
  • (11) The definition of the blurring of narrow beam rotation radiography is revived.
  • (12) JP Bean tells the story of the folk revival of the 1950s and 60s, "not an easy task", added Cocker, "especially when the events in question took place many years ago and may have involved the consumption of alcohol".
  • (13) It has been the UK's view that a violation of Iraq's obligations under resolution 687 which is sufficiently serious to undermine the basis of the ceasefire can revive the authorisation to use force in resolution 678.
  • (14) Earlier this month China devalued its currency in a move aimed at reviving its slowing economy.
  • (15) With the other half, they want the front page and, while they may dream of a splash on the lines of "Minister makes inspiring call to revive Labour", they know their article will be buried on page 94 and swiftly forgotten if it contains nothing more dramatic than that.
  • (16) The Times editor, James Harding, recently decided to revive the supplement following reader complaints at his decision to scrap it seven months earlier .
  • (17) Designed seven years ago by Foggo Associates , the 24-storey spam tin has been revived by one of the world’s biggest pension funds, TIAA-CREF.
  • (18) Ukraine peace process: leaders agree roadmap to revive talks Read more By far the biggest shock, however, has been just how much money Ukraine’s politicians seem to stash away in hard cash.
  • (19) But Gates’s decision to “bump off from art” and live “in the sphere of dirt, the dirty, the stuff that we think is in the ground” was revelatory, leading to invitations to Davos and a TED Talk, where he talked about how he revived a neighborhood with imagination and hard graft .
  • (20) Fornalini in 1984 independently revived the concept of APT using the closed method of needle induction, as later accepted.