rest
IPA: rˈɛst
noun
- (uncountable, of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
- (countable) Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
- (uncountable) Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
- (uncountable, of an object or concept) A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.
- (euphemistic, uncountable) A final position after death.
- (music, countable) A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
- (music, countable) A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
- (physics, uncountable) Absence of motion.
- (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.
- (countable) Any object designed to be used to support something else.
- A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
- A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
- (poetry) A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
- The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals after which compound interest is added to capital.
- (dated) A set or game at tennis.
- (uncountable) That which remains.
- Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
- (UK, finance) 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.
- (computing) Acronym of representational state transfer. [(software architecture) A way of providing interoperability between computer systems on the Internet based on textual representations of Web resources and a predefined set of stateless operations.]
- (linguistics) Acronym of Revised Extended Standard Theory.
verb
- (intransitive) To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.
- (intransitive) To come to a pause or an end; end.
- (intransitive) To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.
- (intransitive, transitive, reflexive, copulative) To be or to put into a state of rest.
- (intransitive) To stay, remain, be situated.
- (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To lean, lie, or lay.
- (intransitive, transitive, law, 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.)
- (intransitive) To sleep; slumber.
- (intransitive) To lie dormant.
- (intransitive) To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
- (intransitive) To rely or depend on.
- To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
- (no object, with complement) To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way.
- (transitive, obsolete) To keep a certain way.
- (obsolete, transitive, colloquial) To arrest.
Examples of "rest" in Sentences
- The rest is still jumbled at the moment.
- I wish you a restful and relaxing break.
- The rest of the article is still the same.
- Here's wishing you a restful and relaxing break
- In the foreground a wayfarer has stopped to rest.
- No one had ever sung it that way -- the rest is history.
- The rest of the tuning stop is tuned to itself, in octaves.
- In the rest of the articles, no one was motivated to stop by.
- I hope all is well with you and that you had a restful break.
- The lander probably still rests on the surface of Venus today.
- Legend has it that the weary Hercules stopped in the valley to bathe and rest.
- So when I became of voting age, I went ahead and registered as a Democrat and the rest is history.
- The only blessing I hope from time is _forgetfulness_ -- my only prayer to heaven is -- _rest, rest, rest_.
- But it must be followed by rest from mental labour, and is, in fact, a part of the same regimen which enforces rest -- it is an artificial _rest_.
- I. i.138 (318,5) The sway, revenue, execution of the rest] [W: of th 'hest] I do not see any great difficulty in the words, _execution of the rest_, which are in both the old copies.
- At the double lines at ten and three, there might be a rest of two minutes; an officer appointed for the purpose, ringing a bell at each of the parts marked on the plan, and making the signal for the _rest_, whatever signal might be determined upon.
- IV. iii.27 (` is rest to do more exploits with his mace than a morris pike] [W: a Maurice-pike] This conjecture is very ingenious, yet the commentator talks unnecessarily of the _rest of a musket. _ by which he makes the hero of the speech set up the _rest_ of a _musket, _ to do exploits with a _pike.
- But inasmuch as the recurrence of the _Sabbath-day_ was what constituted _a week_; in other words, since the essential feature of a week, as a Jewish division of time, was the recurrence of the Jewish day of rest; — τὸ σάββατον or τὰ σάββατα, the Hebrew name for _the day of rest_, became transferred to _the week_.