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Definition: RESTORING |
RESTORINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Restore |
Date "RESTORING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Restitution | Adjective: restoring; Verb: recuperative. |
Restoration | Restoring; Verb: restorative, recuperative; sanative, reparative, sanatory, reparatory; curative, remedial. |
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Screenplays | And we will be restoring normality as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway. (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Restoring Roman Holiday (2002) | |
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![]() | Gary Wolfe, a conservation technician with the Cass County Soil and Water Conservation District, looks at prairie flowers planted by a landowner interested in restoring prairie grasses and forbs.Credit: Lynn Betts. | Seedlings restoring a wetlands area in Florida.Credit: Jerry Sintz. | |
![]() | George F. Thompson, painter of U.S. Capitol. Restoring paintings in U.S. Senate corridors I.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | George F. Thompson, painter of U.S. Capitol. Restoring paintings in U.S. Senate corridors II.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Leigh Hunt | Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind. |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | In its positive aims, however, this form of Socialism aspires either to restoring the old means of production and of exchange, and with them the old property relations, and the old society, or to cramping the modern means of production and of exchange, within the framework of the old property relations that have been, and were bound to be, exploded by those means. (reference) |
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Health | Botulinum toxin therapy is effective in ameliorating the symptoms and restoring fluency. (references) | |
Restoring normal growth and preventing kidney stones, another common problem in this disorder, are the major goals of therapy. (references) | ||
A major goal of this research is to develop methods for repairing damaged nerves and restoring full use and strength to injured areas. (references) | ||
Business | The new leaders gained popular support by curbing inflation, restoring the economy, and rebuilding many war-damaged industrial plants. (references) | |
Economic History | Algeria | President Bouteflika's agenda focused initially on restoring security and stability to the country. (references) |
Niger | The present government actively seeks foreign private investment and considers it key to restoring economic growth and development. (references) | |
Lithuania | Since restoring its independence in 1990, Lithuania has implemented reforms aimed at abolishing the remains of the former socialist system. (references) | |
Human Rights | Burkina Faso | In May 1999, in response to the Independent Investigatory Commission's report, the President announced the creation of a Council of Wisemen to review the political crimes that have taken place since the country's independence, and to make recommendations for restoring social peace in the wake of the Zongo killings. (references) |
Malaysia | However, many observers believe judicial independence has improved since Tan Sri Mohamed Dzaiddin Abdullah was appointed Chief Justice in December 2000. Immediately following his appointment, Chief Justice Dzaiddin spoke publicly about the importance of restoring public trust in the judiciary and instituted a rotational case-assignment system to ensure the impartiality of judges hearing any given case. (references) | |
Minorities | Austria | He paid a fine to cover the cost of restoring the damage done to the graves. (references) |
Political Economy | Albania | The government of Albania, however, has made significant progress in restoring public order throughout the country. (references) |
Nigeria | Significant progress has been made in restoring respect for basic human rights and in returning a semblance of market discipline to a few sectors of the economy. (references) | |
CZECH REPUBLIC | A Czech Securities Commission opened in 1998 with a mission of improving the regulatory framework of the capital market, increasing capital market transparency, and restoring investor confidence. (references) | |
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John Adams | 1797-1801 | A minister thus specially commissioned it was expected would have proved the instrument of restoring mutual confidence between the two republics. |
Rutherford Hayes | 1877-1881 | In the important work of restoring the South it is not the political situation alone that merits attention. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Its passage can help high-unemployment areas by creating jobs and restoring neighborhoods. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Today, we are restoring the Florida Everglades, saving Yellowstone, preserving the red-rock canyons of Utah, protecting California's redwoods and our precious coasts. |
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| "RESTORING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 97.39% of the time. "RESTORING" is used about 460 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 97.39% | 448 | 12,964 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.3% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.65% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.65% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 460 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "RESTORING": partial restoring time ♦ restoring force ♦ restoring moment ♦ restoring temperature ♦ restoring torque. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "RESTORING": energy-restoring, health-restoring, life-restoring, non-restoring, nonself-restoring, over-restoring, self-restoring. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "RESTORING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 恢复 (recover, recovered, recovering, recuperate, Recuperated, Recuperating, recuperation, Restoration, restore, Re-store, restored, revert, Reverted, reverting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | returfjeder (backing spring, restoring spring, return spring), retableringstid (partial restoring time, returning time), reparation af varer (including restoring them to their original condition and putting them in order (processing), repair of goods), omstilling (automatic re-setting, automatic restoring, conversion, inversion, transfer, transposition), gennemfoerelse af faelles projekter for at bevare,restaurere og udstille kunstvaerker (restoring and showing to advantage works of art, the implementation of joint projects for conserving), genoprettelse af den territoriale balance (restoring territorial balance), genoprettelse af den territoriale ligevægt (restoring territorial balance), genoprettende kraft (restoring force), genoprettende moment (restoring torque), automatisk omstilling (automatic re-setting, automatic restoring), kraft mod ligevaegtstilstand (restoring force), udrettende moment (restoring moment), tilbageføringsmoment (restoring torque), tilbagefσringskraft (restoring force), tilbagestillingstemperatur (restoring temperature), hvis forspaendingen havde vaeret mindre,ville fortoejningssystemet have vaeret for slapt,hvad der ville have foert til for store bevaegelser vaek fra boringen,foer den kompenserende kraft blev frembragt af fortoejningssystemet (if the pretension been lower, the mooring system would have been too loose resulting in too large excursions off the well before sufficient restoring force was supplied by the mooring system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | restauratiekoppel (restoring torque), restauratiekracht (restoring force), bij magere voorspanning zou het meersysteem te los zijn geweest,met als gevolg te grote afdwalingen ten opzichte van de put voordat voldoende tegenkracht werd uitgeoefend door het meersysteem (if the pretension been lower, the mooring system would have been too loose resulting in too large excursions off the well before sufficient restoring force was supplied by the mooring system), contraveer (backing spring, restoring spring, return spring), daaronder begrepen revisie (including restoring them to their original condition and putting them in order (processing), repair of goods), herstel van het ruimtelijk evenwicht (restoring territorial balance), herstelling van goederen (including restoring them to their original condition and putting them in order (processing), repair of goods), herstelwerkzaamheden worden aan een producerende put uitgevoerd,in de hoop de produktie weer op gang te brengen of te vergroten (work-ovr operations are performed on a producing oil well with the hope of restoring or increasing production), partieel herstel van het immuunsysteem (partially restoring immune function), terugtrekveer (backing spring, pull of spring, release spring, restoring spring, retracting spring, retraction spring, return spring), stabilizerend moment (restoring moment), terugdrijfkoppel (restoring torque), terugdrijvende kracht (restoring force), terugdrukveer (backing spring, restoring spring, return spring), terughaalveer (backing spring, restoring spring, return spring), het uitvoeren van gezamenlijke projecten voor het in stand houden, restaureren en op het voordeligst doen uitkomen van kunstwerken (restoring and showing to advantage works of art, the implementation of joint projects for conserving). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | palautusvoima (restoring force), palautusmomentti (restoring moment, restoring torque), palautusjousi (backing spring, restoring spring, return spring), palauttava voima (restoring force), lämpökytkimen päästölämpötila (restoring temperature), kaikusalvan osittaispäästöaika (partial restoring time). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | relèvement (recovery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zurückerstattend, umlagernd. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ροπή επαναφοράς (restoring torque, righting moment), ροπή αποκατάστασης (restoring moment), χρόνος μερικής επαναφοράς (partial restoring time), επιδιόρθωση των εμπορευμάτων,περιλαμβανομένης της αποκατάστασης και της ρύθμισής τους για λειτουργ (including restoring them to their original condition and putting them in order (processing), repair of goods), εάν η "PRETENSION" είναι ανεπαρκής,το σύστημα της προσδέσεως θα είναι "χαλαρό" προκαλώντας,εξαιτίας αυτού,πολύ σημαντικές τροχιακές μετακινήσει, ελατήριο επαναφοράς (backing spring, pull of spring, release spring, restoring spring, retracting spring, retraction spring, return spring), αναλαμβάνονται επιχειρήσεις διευθετήσεως σ'ένα παραγωγικό πηγάδι υδρογονανθράκων,με την ελπίδα να αποκαταστήσουμε ή να αυξήσουμε την παρ (work-ovr operations are performed on a producing oil well with the hope of restoring or increasing production), αυτόματη επαναφορά (automatic re-setting, automatic restoring), θερμοκρασία αποκατάστασης (restoring temperature), δύναμη επαναφοράς (restoring force). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | השבה (giving back, reinstating, returning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | visszaállító nyomaték (restoring moment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ristabilire parzialmente la funzionalità immunitaria (partially restoring immune function), riparazione delle merci (including restoring them to their original condition and putting them in order (processing), repair of goods), riequilibrio territoriale (restoring territorial balance), restauro dei film d'epoca (restoring old films), momento di ripristino (restoring moment), coppia antagonista (antagonistic torque, restoring torque), coppia di richiamo (restoring torque), forza di richiamo (restoring force), forza ripristinante (restoring force), in un pozzo di produzione d'olio sono eseguite operazioni di ripresa con la speranza di ripristinare o d'aumentare la produzione (work-ovr operations are performed on a producing oil well with the hope of restoring or increasing production), con una pretensione più bassa,il sistema d'ormeggio sarebbe stato troppo allentato,cio che avrebbe provocato una troppo larga deviazione dal pozzo,prima d'aver potuto applicare un sufficiente ripristino di forza al sistema d'ormeggio (if the pretension been lower, the mooring system would have been "too loose" resulting in too large excursions off the well before sufficient restoring force was supplied by the mooring system), molla di richiamo (backing spring, pull of spring, release spring, restoring spring, retracting spring, retraction spring, return spring), tempo di ripristino parziale (partial restoring time), momento raddrizzante (restoring moment, righting moment), momento stabilizzante (restoring moment), temperatura di ristabilimento di un interruttore termostatico (restoring temperature), l'attuazione di progetti comuni di salvaguardia, di restauro e di valorizzazione di opere artistiche (restoring and showing to advantage works of art, the implementation of joint projects for conserving). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 返納 (returning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | へんのう (returning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 복구 (restore, Re-store, retrieval). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | estoringray reparaçao das mercadorias (including restoring them to their original condition and putting them in order (processing), repair of goods), tempo de restabelecimento parcial (partial restoring time), temperatura de restabelecimento (restoring temperature), momento de recuperação (restoring moment), incluindo a sua restauraçao (including restoring them to their original condition and putting them in order (processing), repair of goods), força restauradora (restoring force), força de restabelecimento (restoring force), binário de restabelecimento (restoring torque). (various references) repunere (restoration), reparator (repairing), înapoiere (backwardness, home, restitution, restoration, return). (various references) restaurar viejas películas (restoring old films), restablecer la función inmunológica (partially restoring immune function), resorte antagonista (backing spring, restoring spring, return spring), reparación de mercancías (including restoring them to their original condition and putting them in order (processing), repair of goods), tiempo de recuperación parcial (partial restoring time), temperatura de restablecimiento (restoring temperature), si la tension previa es baja el sistema de anclaje estara "demasiado flojo" lo que provocara desviaciones demasiado grandes alrededor del eje del pozo antes de que se haya podido suministrar una fuerza de recuperacion suficiente a traves del sistema de an, se efectuan operaciones de reacondicionamiento en un pozo de produccion de petroleo con la esperanza de rehabilitar o aumentar la produccion (work-ovr operations are performed on a producing oil well with the hope of restoring or increasing production), par restaurador (restoring moment, restoring torque), par antagonista (antagonistic torque, restoring torque), momento recuperador (restoring moment), la ejecución de proyectos conjuntos para la protección, restauración y realce de obras artísticas (restoring and showing to advantage works of art, the implementation of joint projects for conserving), fuerza restauradora (restoring force), fuerza de recuperación (restoring force). (various references) återställa (heal, redecorate, redintegrate, re-examine, replace, reset, restore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | relationem. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"RESTORING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: razoring, reschooling, rescoring, reshoring, reshowing, resorbing, Restalrig, restirring, restorant, ritodrine, ritorni. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "RESTORING" (pronounced rustô"ring) |
| 6 | -s t ô" r i ng | storing. |
| 4 | -ô" r i ng | adoring, boring, deploring, exploring, flooring, Goring, ignoring, imploring, outpouring, poring, pouring, roaring, scoring, shoring, snoring, soaring, underscoring, warring. |
| 3 | -r i ng | acquiring, adhering, admiring, airing, alluring, appearing, aspiring, assuring, baring, barring, bearing, bioengineering, blaring, caring, chairing, charring, cheering, childbearing, clearing, comparing, conspiring, curing, daring, declaring, despairing, disappearing, domineering, during, earring, electioneering, endearing, enduring, engineering, ensuring, expiring, fearing, firing, flaring, gearing, glaring, haring, hearing, herring, hiring, impairing, inspiring, insuring, interfering, jarring, jeering, luring, marring, maturing, ministering, mooring, nearing, obscuring, overbearing, overhearing, overpowering, pairing, paring, peering, perspiring, pioneering, premiering, preparing, procuring, profiteering, quiring, racketeering, rearing, reassuring, reengineering, rehearing, rehiring, repairing, retiring, scaring, scarring, searing, securing, sharing, shearing, smearing, snaring, sneering, sparing, sparring, Spearing, squaring, staring, starring, steering, stevedoring, swearing, tarring, tearing, tiring, touring, uncaring, uninspiring, unsparing, veering, volunteering, Waring, wearing, wiring. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: resorting. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-n-o-r-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: genitors, ignorers, introrse, restring, stringer, stronger. | |
-2 letters: eringos, genitor, goiters, goitres, goriest, gorsier, ignorer, ignores, ironers, norites, oestrin, orients, regions, resting, ringers, rioters, roister, signore, snorter, sorting, stinger, stonier, storing, tongers, trigons. | |
-3 letters: egoist, engirt, ergots, eringo, erring, estrin, genros, girons, goiter, goitre, goners, gorier, griots, grison, groins, ignore, inerts, ingest, ingots, insert. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-n-o-r-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: presorting, roistering, roystering, songwriter. | |
+2 letters: denigrators, fortressing, gingerroots, integrators, interrogees, progenitors, reassorting, reforesting, resprouting, songwriters, terrigenous, terrorising. | |
+3 letters: impregnators, intergrowths, interrobangs, interrogates, misreporting, overnighters, overstirring, overstrewing, overstriding, overstriking, registration, remigrations, risorgimento, serotonergic, stringcourse, trimetrogons. | |
+4 letters: argentiferous, disintegrator, exteriorising, garnetiferous, granodiorites, interboroughs, intercrossing, interiorising, interrogatees, interrogators, interworkings, introgressant, introgression, introgressive, irreligionist, narratologies, orchestrating, orienteerings, overasserting, overmastering, overstraining, overstressing, primogenitors, reafforesting, regenerations, registrations, reinvigorates, remonstrating, reregulations, resegregation, retrogressing, retrogression, retrospecting, risorgimentos, stringcourses, transgression. | |
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