restore

rétablir, rendre

Faire revenir un sentiment, une capacité ou une situation qui avait disparu.

En anglais simple : To make a lost feeling, ability, or situation exist or work again.

• The police restored order.
• A good night’s sleep restored her energy.
• The repair should restore power to the village.

Synonymes : bring back, reestablish

Expressions courantes : restore order, restore confidence, restore someone’s sight

restaurer

Remettre quelque chose dans son état antérieur, souvent en le réparant.

En anglais simple : To return something to its earlier condition, often by repairing it.

• They restored the old house.
• She is restoring a damaged painting.
• The hall has been restored to its former beauty.

Comment l'utiliser : restore something to something (They restored the house to its original condition.)

Synonymes : renovate, repair

Expressions courantes : restore a building, restore a painting, restore something to something

restaurer, récupérer

Remettre sur un ordinateur des informations perdues ou endommagées à partir d’une copie sauvegardée.

En anglais simple : To bring saved information back to a computer after it has been lost or damaged.

• You can restore the deleted files.
• We restored the system from yesterday’s backup.
• Has the software restored all your photos?

Comment l'utiliser : restore something from something (We restored the files from a backup.)

Synonymes : recover

Expressions courantes : restore a backup, restore deleted files, restore from backup

rendre, restituer

Rendre quelque chose à son propriétaire ou ramener une chose ou une personne à sa place.

En anglais simple : To return something or someone to the person or place they belong to.

• The court restored her property.
• The lost child was restored to his family.
• They demanded that their land be restored to them.

Comment l'utiliser : restore someone/something to someone (The stolen painting was restored to its owner.)

Synonymes : return, give back

Expressions courantes : restore something to someone, restore stolen property, restore someone’s rights

restauration

Opération qui remet sur un ordinateur des informations ou un système sauvegardés.

En anglais simple : The process of bringing saved information or a saved system back to a computer.

• The restore took an hour.
• We tested a full restore of the database.
• Did the system restore recover your settings?

Synonymes : recovery, restoration

Expressions courantes : system restore, full restore, backup and restore