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Definition of 'rest'Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), . Related to (l).
Noun
(uncountable|of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
- I need to get a good rest tonight; I was up late last night.
- The sun sets, and the workers go to their rest .
(countable) Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
- We took a rest at the top of the hill to get our breath back.
(uncountable) Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
- It was nice to have a rest from the phone ringing when I unplugged it for a while.
* Bible, Judges iii. 30
- And the land had rest fourscore years.
(uncountable|of an object or concept) A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.
- The boulder came to rest just behind the house after rolling down the mountain.
- The ocean was finally at rest .
- Now that we're all in agreement, we can put that issue to rest .
(euphemistic|uncountable) A final position after death.
- She was laid to rest in the village cemetery.
(music|countable) A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
- Remember there's a rest at the end of the fourth bar.
(music|countable) A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
(physics|uncountable) Absence of motion.
- The body's centre of gravity may affect its state of rest .
(snooker|countable) A stick with a U-, V- or X-shaped head used to support the tip of a cue when the cue ball is otherwise out of reach.
- Higgins can't quite reach the white with his cue, so he'll be using the rest .
(countable) Any object designed to be used to support something else.
- She put the phone receiver back in its rest .
- He placed his hands on the arm rests of the chair.
A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
* Dryden
- their visors closed, their lances in the rest
A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
* J. H. Newman
- halfway houses and travellers' rests
* Milton
- in dust our final rest , and native home
* Bible, Deuteronomy xii. 9
- Ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the Lord your God giveth you.
(poetry) A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account.
* Abbott
- An account is said to be taken with annual or semiannual rests .
(dated) A set or game at tennis.
Synonyms
* (sleep) sleep, slumber
* (relief from exertion) break, repose, time off
* (freedom from trouble) peace, quiet, roo, silence, stillness, tranquility
* (repose afforded by death) peace
* (object designed to be used to support something else) cradle (of a telephone ), support
Antonyms
* motion
* activity
Hypernyms
* bridge
Hyponyms
* (object designed to be used to support something else) arm rest, elbow rest, foot rest, head rest, leg rest, neck rest, wrist rest
* (pause of specified length in a piece of music) breve rest, demisemiquaver rest, hemidemisemiquaver rest, minim rest, quaver rest, semibreve rest, semiquaver rest
Derived terms
* arm rest
* at rest
* bed rest
* breve rest
* chin rest
* crotchet rest
* day of rest
* demisemiquaver rest
* elbow rest
* foot rest
* gun rest
* head rest
* hemidemisemiquaver rest
* incisal rest
* lay to rest
* leg rest
* minim rest
* neck rest
* parade rest
* put to rest
( rel-mid)
* quarter rest
* quaver rest
* rest area
* rest day
* rest energy
* rest home
* rest mass
* rest period
* rest position
* rest stop
* restful
* restless
* restroom
* semibreve rest
* semiquaver rest
* tool rest/tool-rest
* whole rest
* wolffian rest
* wrist rest
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Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .
Verb
( en-verb)
To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.
* Bible, Exodus xxiii. 12
- Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest .
To come to a pause or an end; end.
To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.
* Milton
- There rest , if any rest can harbour there.
(intransitive|transitive|reflexive) To be or to put into a state of rest.
* 1485 , Sir (Thomas Malory), (w, Le Morte d'Arthur) , Book X:
- And thereby at a pryory they rested them all nyght.
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* {{quote-news|year=2011|date=September 29|author=Jon Smith|work=BBC Sport
|title= Tottenham 3-1 Shamrock Rovers
|passage=With the north London derby to come at the weekend, Spurs boss Harry Redknapp opted to rest many of his key players, although he brought back Aaron Lennon after a month out through injury.}}
To stay, remain, be situated.
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(transitive|intransitive|reflexive) To lean, lie, or lay.
- A column rests on its pedestal.
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(intransitive|transitive|legal|US) To complete one's active advocacy in a trial or other proceeding, and thus to wait for the outcome (however, one is still generally available to answer questions, etc.)
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To sleep; slumber.
To lie dormant.
To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
To rely or depend on.
* Dryden
- On him I rested , after long debate, / And not without considering, fixed fate.
* {{quote-magazine|date=2013-08-03|volume=408|issue=8847|magazine=(The Economist)
|title= Boundary problems
|passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.
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To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
* Addison
- to rest in Heaven's determination
Synonyms
* relax
* (give rest to) relieve
* (stop working) have a breather, pause, take a break, take time off, take time out
* (be situated) be, lie, remain, reside, stay
* lay, lean, place, put
* lean, lie
Troponyms
* (lie down and take repose) sleep, nap
Derived terms
* rest assured
* rest in peace/RIP
* rest on one's laurels
Etymology 3
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m) from (etyl) ).
Noun
( -)
(label) That which remains.
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Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
* (w) (1635–1699)
- Plato and the rest of the philosophers
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
- Armed like the rest , the Trojan prince appears.
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|title=( The Celebrity)|chapter=11
|passage=The rest of us were engaged in various occupations: Mr. Trevor relating experiences of steamboat days on the Ohio to Mrs. Cooke; Miss Trevor buried in a serial in the Century; and Farrar and I taking an inventory of the fishing-tackle, when we were startled by a loud and profane ejaculation.}}
A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the (Bank of England), the balance of assets above liabilities.
Synonyms
* remainder
* lave
Derived terms
* all the rest
Verb
( en-verb)
(obsolete) To remain.
Etymology 4
Aphetic form of (m).
Verb
( en-verb)
(obsolete) To arrest.
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Similar to 'rest'right, reset, rust, roost, roast, react, roust, resat, resit, rost, recut, reget, ryght, roset, roist
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