Dictionary Definition
rest
Noun
1 something left after other parts have been
taken away; "there was no remainder"; "he threw away the rest"; "he
took what he wanted and I got the balance" [syn: remainder, balance, residual, residue, residuum]
2 freedom from activity (work or strain or
responsibility); "took his repose by the swimming pool" [syn:
ease, repose, relaxation]
3 a pause for relaxation; "people actually
accomplish more when they take time for short rests" [syn: respite, relief, rest
period]
4 a state of inaction; "a body will continue in a
state of rest until acted upon"
5 euphemisms for death (based on an analogy
between lying in a bed and in a tomb); "she was laid to rest beside
her husband"; "they had to put their family pet to sleep" [syn:
eternal
rest, sleep, eternal
sleep, quietus]
6 a support on which things can be put; "the gun
was steadied on a special rest"
7 a musical notation indicating a silence of a
specified duration
Verb
1 not move; be in a resting position
2 take a short break from one's activities in
order to relax [syn: breathe, catch
one's breath, take a
breather]
3 give a rest to; "He rested his bad leg"; "Rest
the dogs for a moment"
4 have a place in relation to something else;
"The fate of Bosnia lies in the hands of the West"; "The
responsibility rests with the Allies" [syn: lie]
5 be at rest [ant: be
active]
6 stay the same; remain in a certain state; "The
dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "rest
assured"; "stay alone"; "He remained unmoved by her tears"; "The
bad weather continued for another week" [syn: stay, remain] [ant: change]
8 put something in a resting position, as for
support or steadying; "Rest your head on my shoulder"
10 rest on or as if on a pillow; "pillow your
head" [syn: pillow]
11 be inactive, refrain from acting; "The
committee is resting over the summer"
User Contributed Dictionary
see Rest
English
Etymology 1
From the word rest, from a Germanic root.Pronunciation
- , /rɛst/, /rEst/
- Rhymes: -ɛst
Noun
- The relief from work or activity afforded by sleeping; sleep.
- The sun sets, and the workers go to their rest.
- Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and recreation.
- We took a rest at the top of the hill to get our breath back.
- Peace, freedom from
trouble, tranquillity.
- Outside my window, the ocean was at rest.
- The repose afforded by death.
- She was laid to rest in the village cemetery.
- A pause of a specified
length in a piece of music.
- Remember there's a rest at the end of the fourth bar.
- A written symbol indicating such a pause in a score.
- In the context of "physics|uncountable": Absence of motion.
- The body's centre of gravity may affect its state of rest.
- In the context of "snooker|countable": A stick with a U-, V- or
X-shaped head used to support the tip of the 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.
- 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.
- She put the phone receiver back in its rest.
Synonyms
- sense sleep sleep, slumber
- sense relief from exertion break, repose, time off
- sense freedom from trouble peace, quiet, silence, stillness, tranquility
- sense repose afforded by death peace
- cradle (of a telephone), support
Antonyms
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- arm rest
- breve rest
- crotchet rest
- day of rest
- demisemiquaver rest
- elbow rest
- foot rest
- head rest
- hemidemisemiquaver rest
- leg rest
- minim rest
- neck rest
- quaver rest
- restroom
- rest stop
- semibreve rest
- semiquaver rest
- wrist rest
Translations
relief afforded by sleeping; sleep
relief from exertion; state of quiet and
recreation
peace, freedom from trouble, tranquillity
- Finnish: rauha, tyyneys, rauhallisuus
- French: paix
- Greek: ηρεμία
- Italian: pace
- Russian: покой
- Slovene: počitek
repose afforded by death
- Czech: odpočinek
- Finnish: lepo
- Greek: ανάπαυση
- Russian: покой
- Slovene: počitek
pause of a specified length in a piece of music
- Finnish: tauko
- Greek: παύση
- Russian: пауза
symbol indicating a pause in music
- Finnish: taukomerkki
- Greek: παύση
- Russian: пауза
physics: absence of motion
stick used to support the cue in snooker
- Finnish: tuki
- Russian: подставка (podstávka)
object designed to be used to support something
else
Etymology 2
From the word reste, from rester (to rest), from restare, from the prefix re- + the verb stare (to stand).Pronunciation
- , /rɛst/, /rEst/
-
- Rhymes: -ɛst
Noun
- That which remains.
- She ate some of the food, but was not hungry enough to eat it all, so she put the rest in the refrigerator to finish later.
Translations
remainder
- Czech: zbytek
- Dutch: rest
- Esperanto: restaĵo
- Finnish: loppu, tähde
- French: reste
- German: Rest
- Italian: resto
- Polish: reszta
- Romanian: rest
- Russian: остаток
- Scottish Gaelic: còrr
- Slovene: ostanek
- Spanish: resto
- Swedish: rest
- Telugu: మిగిలినవి (migilinavi) italbrac plural, మిగిలినవారు (migilinavaaru) italbrac people, మిగిలినది (migilinadi) italbrac uncountable
Verb
- To remain.
- To be left (in a specified condition).
- Rest assured that I will do my best.
Translations
to be left
Etymology 3
From the verb restan, from a Germanic root; compare it to the Dutch verb rusten and the German verb rasten.Pronunciation
- , /rɛst/, /rEst/
-
- Rhymes: -ɛst
Verb
- To lie down and take repose, especially by sleeping.
- My day's work is over; now I will rest.
- To relieve; give
rest to.
- We need to rest the horses before we ride any further.
- To stop working, to take a
break, become inactive.
- I shall not rest until I have uncovered the truth.
- To stay, remain, be situated.
- The blame seems to rest with your father.
- To lean or lay.
- I rested my head in my hands.
- To lie or lean or be supported.
- His left hand rested on the bannister.
- In the context of "law|US|transitive": To stop presenting arguments, witnesses and
evidence for one side.
- Defense rests, Your Honor.
Synonyms
- relax
- sense give rest to relieve
- sense stop working have a breather, pause, take a break, take time off, take time out
- sense be situated be, lie, remain, reside, stay
- lay, lean, place, put
- lean, lie
Troponyms
- sense lie down and take repose sleep, nap
Translations
intransitive: take repose
- Arabic:
- Chinese: 休息 (xiūxí)
- Dutch: rusten
- Finnish: levätä, levähtää
- French: se reposer
- German: ruhen
- Greek: αναπαύομαι, ξεκουράζομαι
- Hungarian: pihen
- Ido: repozar
- Italian: riposarsi, riposare
- Japanese: 休む (やすむ, yasumu)
- Korean: 쉬다 (swida)
- Portuguese: descansar
- Russian: отдыхать (otdyχát') , отдохнуть (otdoχnút')
- Slovak: odpočívať
- Slovene: počivati
- Spanish: descansar, reposar
- Swedish: vila
give rest to
stop working, become inactive
stay, remain, be situated
- Finnish: jäädä
- Russian: оставаться (ostavát's'a) , остаться (ostát's'a)
- Swedish: ligga
transitive: lean or lay (something)
intransitive: lie or lean or be supported
- Finnish: levätä
- French: se reposer
- Greek: ακουμπώ
- Swedish: vila
US legal
- Dutch: daarbij laten
- Finnish: vetäytyä
- Spanish: desistir
Hungarian
Adjective
Old English
Etymology
From the Common Germanic root *rasto.Noun
Romanian
Etymology
restePronunciation
- /rest/|lang=ro
- change
- Poftim restul de la îngheţată, băiete. — Here's your change from the ice-cream you bought, son.
Usage notes
- The use of the meaning for change is restrictive to money, usually in small sums, taken after making a transaction. To describe such change when it is in one's pocket or lying around, the term mărunţiş is preferred.
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
restVerb
restExtensive Definition
Rest or REST may refer to:
- To relax or take time off; see leisure or nap
- Rest (album), a 2008 album by Gregor Samsa
- Rest (music), a pause in a piece of music
- Rest (physics), the relation between two observers
- RE1-silencing transcription factor, a human gene
- Representational State Transfer (REST or RESTful), a style of software architecture for distributed hypermedia systems
- Restricted Environmental Stimulation Technique, a sensory deprivation technique
- reStructuredText, a lightweight markup language
- In chemistry, a rest (abbreviated R) is a variable part of a molecule attached to a given core structure; see functional group and side chain
- In cue sports, a rest is a British English term for a set of mechanical bridges; see Glossary of cue sports terms
- In jousting, a rest (from "arrest" meaning to stop) is a cup near the armpit on the side of medieval jousting and cavalry armour
- Bank reserves in the terminology of the Bank of England
rest in German: Rest
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abeyance, abide, abide in, advocate, afterglow, afterimage, allay, alpenstock, annihilation, appease, arm, arrive, ataraxia, ataraxy, athletic supporter,
awful silence, axis,
back, backbone, backing, balance, bandeau, bane, base, basis, be a sideliner, be based
on, be coextensive with, be comprised in, be constituted by, be
contained in, be contingent on, be dependent on, be found, be left,
be located, be predicated on, be present in, be situated, be still,
bearer, bearing, bed, bed down, biological death,
bottom, bra, brace, bracer, bracket, brassiere, break, breath, breathe, breather, breathing place,
breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time, breve rest,
butt, butt end, buttress, caesura, call a recess, calm, calm down, calmness, candle ends, cane, carrier, cease-fire, cervix, cessation, cessation of life,
chaff, cigarette break,
clinical death, coast,
cocktail hour, coffee break, compose, composure, conduct pleadings,
consist in, contemplation, continue to
be, convenience,
cool, corset, couch, count sheep, cradle, crook, crossing the bar, crutch, curl up, curtains, day off, dead, dead of night, death, death knell, deathlike
silence, debris, debt of
nature, decease,
delay, demise, departure, depend, depend on, deposit, detritus, dissolution, do nothing,
doom, doorstep, doss down, downtime, doze, dozing, drift, drop, dulcify, dwell in, dying, ease, ease up, ebb of life, eighth
rest, end, end of life,
ending, enforced respite,
eternal rest, even out, excess, exist in, exit, expiration, extinction, extinguishment, fag end,
filings, final summons,
finger of death, footing, footrest, footstep, forty winks, fossil, foundation, foundation
garment, free time, freedom, freeze, fulcrum, girdle, go to bed, go to rest, go
to sleep, going, going
off, golden silence, goof-off time, grave, ground, groundwork, guy, guywire, half rest, halt, hand of death, hang, hang fire, hang on, happy
hour, heel, hesitate, hesitation, hibernate, hinge, hinge on, hit the hay, hit
the sack, holder,
holdover, holiday, hush, hush of night, husks, idle, idle hours, idleness, imperturbability,
implead, inactivity, inaudibility, indolence, inhabit, inhere in, interim, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, intermittence, interruption, interval, jaws of death,
jock, jockstrap, keep quiet,
kip, knell, languish, lapse, last debt, last muster,
last rest, last roundup, last sleep, lay, lay down, layoff, lean, leaving life, leavings, leftovers, leisure, let down, let up,
letup, lie, lie athwart, lie by, lie
dormant, lie down, lie in, lie on, lie still, lie with, loaf, loafing, lodge, loll, loss of life, lounge, lucid stillness, lull, mainstay, maintainer, make a plea,
making an end, mark time, marmoreal repose, mast, minim, mollify, mum, nap, neck, nirvana, nod, noiselessness, not
breathe, not budge, not stir, oarlock, odd moments, odds and
ends, offscourings,
orts, overage, overplus, pace, pacify, parings, parting, passing, passing away, passing
over, pause, peace, peacefulness, perishing, pivot, place, placidity, placidness, plead, position, pour balm into,
prop, put, put down, quarter rest,
quell, quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quietism, quietness, quietude, quietus, rags, recess, recline, refuse, reinforce, reinforcement, reinforcer, relax, relaxation, release, relics, rely, remain, remain motionless,
remainder, remains, remission, remnant, repose, repose in, reposit, reside, reside in, residual, residue, residuum, respite, rest in, rest on, rest
with, restfulness,
resting place, resting point, retirement, revolve on,
reward, ride, ride at anchor, ride easy,
ride hawse full, rigging, riser, roach, rock to sleep, round, rowlock, rubbish, ruins, rump, rundle, rung, sack out, satori, sawdust, scale, scourings, scraps, seat, seating, semiretirement, sentence
of death, serenity,
set, set down, settle to
rest, shades of death, shadow, shadow of death, shavings, shelf, shoulder, shroud, shut-eye, siesta, silence, silentness, silken repose,
sit back, sit it out, sixteenth rest, slack off, slacken, sleep, slumber, smooth, smooth down, smooth over,
smoothen, snooze, snug down, solemn
silence, somatic death, soothe, soundlessness, spare time,
spell, spill, spine, spoke, sprawl, sprit, stabilize, staff, stagnate, stair, stand, stand fast, stand firm,
stand on, stand still, stand-down, standing rigging, stave, stay, stay put, steady, step, step stool, stepping-stone,
stick, stick fast,
stiffener, still, stillness, stop, stop for breath, straw, strengthener, stretch out,
string, stubble, stump, subdue, subsist, subsist in, summons of
death, superfluity,
support, supporter, surcease, surplus, surplusage, survival, survive, suspension, sustainer, sweepings, tacitness, taciturnity, take, take a nap, take a recess,
take a rest, take forty winks, take it easy, take life easy,
tarry, tea break, thole, tholepin, time, time off, time out, time to
kill, time to spare, tomblike silence, trace, tranquilize, tranquillity, tread, tread water, trestle, truce, turn on, turn up, turn
upon, unbend, unlax, unwind, upholder, vacation, vegetate, vestige, wait and see, walking
stick, waste, watch and
wait, whisht, wise
passiveness