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RESTORATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Getting something back again
Example:
upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing
Synonyms:
regaining; restitution; restoration; return
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("restoration" is a kind of...):
acquisition (the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "restoration"):
clawback (finding a way to take money back from people that they were given in another way)
Derivation:
restore (give or bring back)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of restoring something or someone to a satisfactory state
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("restoration" is a kind of...):
fix; fixing; fixture; mend; mending; repair; reparation (the act of putting something in working order again)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "restoration"):
re-establishment (restoration to a previous state)
gentrification (the restoration of run-down urban areas by the middle class (resulting in the displacement of low-income residents))
reclamation; rehabilitation; renewal (the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation)
rehabilitation (the restoration of someone to a useful place in society)
reinstatement (the act of restoring someone to a previous position)
rejuvenation (the act of restoring to a more youthful condition)
Derivation:
restore (return to life; get or give new life or energy)
restore (return to its original or usable and functioning condition)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The re-establishment of the British monarchy in 1660
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Instance hypernyms:
group action (action taken by a group of people)
Domain region:
England (a division of the United Kingdom)
Derivation:
restore (bring back into original existence, use, function, or position)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A model that represents the landscape of a former geological age or that represents and extinct animal etc.
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("restoration" is a kind of...):
model; simulation (representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale))
Sense 5
Meaning:
Some artifact that has been restored or reconstructed
Example:
the restoration looked exactly like the original
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("restoration" is a kind of...):
artefact; artifact (a man-made object taken as a whole)
Derivation:
restore (restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken)
Sense 6
Meaning:
The state of being restored to its former good condition
Example:
the inn was a renovation of a Colonial house
Synonyms:
refurbishment; renovation; restoration
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("restoration" is a kind of...):
improvement; melioration (a condition superior to an earlier condition)
Derivation:
restore (return to its original or usable and functioning condition)
Sense 7
Meaning:
The reign of Charles II in England; 1660-1685
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Instance hypernyms:
age; historic period (an era of history having some distinctive feature)
Context examples:
Planned, non-emergency care that includes prevention and maintance and restoration of health.
(Comprehensive Care, NCI Thesaurus)
Yes: for her restoration I longed, far more than for that of my lost sight.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
They owed the restoration of Lydia, her character, every thing, to him.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
A dental restoration completely covering the aspect of the tooth normally covered by enamel.
(Full Crown, NCI Thesaurus)
If I could ever work out his restoration, as I have so innocently been the cause of his decline!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
This allows for recovery and restoration of the dental pulp.
(Dental Pulp Capping, NCI Thesaurus)
Material used on the surfaces of a prepared cavity for protection and insulation of the tooth tissues prior to placement of a restoration.
(Dental Base, NCI Thesaurus)
Contact of a tooth or restoration such that it encrouches on the interocclusal freeway space.
(Hyperocclusion, NCI Thesaurus)
The branch of surgery concerned with restoration, reconstruction, or improvement of defective, damaged, or missing structures.
(Plastic surgery, NCI Thesaurus)
A dentist who specializes in surgical placement of dental implants or the restoration of dental implants in the facial bones.
(Implant Specialist, NCI Thesaurus)
