RESTORATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Restoration mean? 

• RESTORATION (noun)
  The noun RESTORATION has 7 senses:

1. the reign of Charles II in England; 1660-1685

2. the act of restoring something or someone to a satisfactory state

3. getting something back again

4. the state of being restored to its former good condition

5. some artifact that has been restored or reconstructed

6. a model that represents the landscape of a former geological age or that represents and extinct animal etc.

7. the re-establishment of the British monarchy in 1660

  Familiarity information: RESTORATION used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESTORATION (noun)

Sense 1

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)

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:

Getting something back again

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

regaining; restitution; restoration; return

Context example:

upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing

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 4

Meaning:

The state of being restored to its former good condition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

refurbishment; renovation; restoration

Context example:

the inn was a renovation of a Colonial house

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 5

Meaning:

Some artifact that has been restored or reconstructed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

the restoration looked exactly like the original

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:

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 7

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)

 Context examples 

Silencing expression of survivin potentially leads to restoration of the apoptotic process in cancer cells, thereby facilitating chemotherapeutic treatments.

(Gataparsen Sodium, NCI Thesaurus)

Any of the proteins involved in the enzymatic restoration of DNA structure after chemical, radiation, or spontaneous damage.

(DNA Repair Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

DNA Repair Genes encode DNA Repair Proteins, involved in enzymatic restoration of DNA structure after chemical, radiation, or spontaneous damage.

(DNA Repair Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Enzymatic restoration of DNA structure after chemical, radiation, or spontaneous damage.

(DNA Repair, NCI Thesaurus)

Other treatments include medicines and hair restoration.

(Hair Loss, NIH)

By preventing this HDM2-p53 interaction, the proteosome-mediated enzymatic degradation of p53 is inhibited, which may result in the restoration of p53 signaling and thus the p53-mediated induction of tumor cell apoptosis.

(HDM2 Antagonist JNJ-26854165, NCI Thesaurus)

By preventing this HDM2-p53 interaction, the proteosome-mediated enzymatic degradation of p53 is inhibited, which may result in the restoration of p53 signaling and, thus, the p53-mediated induction of tumor cell apoptosis.

(p53/HDM2 Interaction Inhibitor CGM097, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon vaccination, these exosomes may stimulate natural killer (NK) cell activation and proliferation, restoration of NKG2D expression on NK cells, and antigen-specific T-cell responses.

(NSCLC Antigen-Loaded Dendritic Cell-derived Exosomes, NCI Thesaurus)

Measures applied for the restoration of life to a newborn.

(Neonatal Resuscitation, NCI Thesaurus)

Transplants from matched siblings led to the best restoration of immune function.

(Early treatment benefits infants with severe combined immunodeficiency, NIH)