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Rest   /rɛst/   Listen
Rest

noun
1.
Something left after other parts have been taken away.  Synonyms: balance, remainder, residual, residue, residuum.  "He threw away the rest" , "He took what he wanted and I got the balance"
2.
Freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility).  Synonyms: ease, relaxation, repose.
3.
A pause for relaxation.  Synonyms: relief, respite, rest period.
4.
A state of inaction.
5.
Euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb).  Synonyms: eternal rest, eternal sleep, quietus, sleep.  "They had to put their family pet to sleep"
6.
A support on which things can be put.
7.
A musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration.
verb
(past & past part. rested; pres. part. resting)
1.
Not move; be in a resting position.
2.
Take a short break from one's activities in order to relax.  Synonyms: breathe, catch one's breath, take a breather.
3.
Give a rest to.  "Rest the dogs for a moment"
4.
Have a place in relation to something else.  Synonym: lie.  "The responsibility rests with the Allies"
5.
Be at rest.
6.
Stay the same; remain in a certain state.  Synonyms: remain, stay.  "Rest assured" , "Stay alone" , "He remained unmoved by her tears" , "The bad weather continued for another week"
7.
Be inherent or innate in.  Synonyms: repose, reside.
8.
Put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying.
9.
Sit, as on a branch.  Synonyms: perch, roost.
10.
Rest on or as if on a pillow.  Synonym: pillow.
11.
Be inactive, refrain from acting.



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"Rest" Quotes from Famous Books



... lighted tapers, to show the caverns of death—as unconcerned as if they were immortal. They were used as burying-places for three hundred years; and, in one part, is a large pit full of skulls and bones, said to be the sad remains of a great mortality occasioned by a plague. In the rest, there is nothing but dust. They consist, chiefly, of great wide corridors and labyrinths, hewn out of the rock. At the end of some of these long passages, are unexpected glimpses of the daylight, shining down from ...
— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Vol VIII - Italy and Greece, Part Two • Various
... has not had the advantage of Prof. Myres's revision, in view of the rest of the book which he has not seen. Being for some time abroad on war-work, it was impossible to communicate with him; and it is therefore thought best to print his paper just as it was written some months before the lectures ...
— The Unity of Civilization • Various
... investigation of some silly subject like The Transience of Venusian Immigrants in Relation to the Martian Polar Ice Cap Cycle. Solarian sociologists are the butt of enough ridicule now. Do something like that and for the rest of your life you get knocking of the knees whenever anybody inquires about the specialty you worked in and threatens to ...
— Cubs of the Wolf • Raymond F. Jones
... passed safely through that valley of what might have been a horrible massacre. The unearthly racket we made was undoubtedly our salvation, but we were not out of danger by any means and continued our flight until eleven P. M. when we went into corral for food and rest. At three A. M. we again struck the trail and it is well that we did, for those blood-thirsty redskins laid death and destruction in their wake and came very near overtaking us a day later. Arriving at Leavenworth, I boarded a Missouri River palace for St. Louis, ...
— Dangers of the Trail in 1865 - A Narrative of Actual Events • Charles E Young
... that David ceased his supplications and lay down to snatch a moment's rest. When he awoke, he sprang up suddenly and saw Mantel still sitting before the open window where he left him, smoking his cigar and ...
— The Redemption of David Corson • Charles Frederic Goss


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