rest

• enPR: rĕst, IPA^(key): /ɹɛst/

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• Rhymes: -ɛst
• Homophone: wrest

From Middle English rest, reste, from Old English rest, ræst (“rest, quiet, freedom from toil, repose, sleep, resting-place, a bed, couch, grave”), from Proto-Germanic *rastō, *rastijō (“rest”), from Proto-Indo-European *ros-, *res-, *erH- (“rest”). Cognate with West Frisian rêst (“rest”), Dutch rust (“rest”), German Rast (“rest”), Swedish rast (“rest”), Norwegian rest (“rest”), Icelandic röst (“rest”), Old Irish árus (“dwelling”), German Ruhe (“calm”), Albanian resht (“to stop, pause”), Welsh araf (“quiet, calm, gentle”), Lithuanian rovà (“calm”), Ancient Greek ἐρωή (erōḗ, “rest, respite”), Avestan 𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬨𐬈‎ (airime, “calm, peaceful”), Sanskrit रमते (rámate, “he stays still, calms down”), Gothic 𐍂𐌹𐌼𐌹𐍃 (rimis, “tranquility”). Related to roo.

rest (countable and uncountable, plural rests)

1. (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.

2. (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.

3. (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.

4. (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.

5. (euphemistic, uncountable) A final position after death.

   She was laid to rest in the village cemetery.

6. (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.

7. (music, countable) A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
8. (physics, uncountable) Absence of motion.

   The body's centre of gravity may affect its state of rest.

9. (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.

10. (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.

11. A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Dryden

      their visors closed, their lances in the rest

12. A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
    • (Can we date this quote?) John Henry Newman

      halfway houses and travellers' rests

    • (Can we date this quote?) John 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.

13. (poetry) A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
14. The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals after which compound interest is added to capital.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Abbott

      An account is said to be taken with annual or semiannual rests.

15. (dated) A set or game at tennis.

• (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

• (physics: absence of motion): motion
• activity

• (snooker: stick used to support the tip of the cue when the cue ball is out of reach): bridge

• (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

From Middle English resten, from Old English restan (“to rest, cease from toil, be at rest, sleep, rest in death, lie dead, lie in the grave, remain unmoved or undisturbed, be still, rest from, remain, lie”), from Proto-Germanic *rastijaną (“to rest”), from Proto-Indo-European *ros-, *res-, *erH- (“rest”). Cognate with Dutch rusten (“to rest”), Middle Low German resten (“to rest”), German rasten (“to rest”), Danish raste (“to rest”), Swedish rasta (“to rest”).

rest (third-person singular simple present rests, present participle resting, simple past and past participle rested)

1. (intransitive) 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.

2. (intransitive) To come to a pause or an end; end.
3. (intransitive) To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     There rest, if any rest can harbour there.

4. (intransitive, transitive, reflexive) To be or to put into a state of rest.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book X:

     And thereby at a pryory they rested them all nyght.

   My day's work is over; now I will rest.   We need to rest the horses before we ride any further.   I shall not rest until I have uncovered the truth.   Rest assured that I will do my best.

   • 2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3-1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport:

     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.

5. (intransitive) To stay, remain, be situated.

   The blame seems to rest with your father.

6. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To lean, lie, or lay.

   A column rests on its pedestal.

   I rested my head in my hands.   She rested against my shoulder.   I rested against the wall for a minute.

7. (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.)

   The defense rests, your Honor.   I rest my case.

8. (intransitive) To sleep; slumber.
9. (intransitive) To lie dormant.
10. (intransitive) To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
11. (intransitive) To rely or depend on.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Dryden

      On him I rested, after long debate, / And not without considering, fixed fate.

    • 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

      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. […] But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.

    The decision rests on getting a bank loan.

12. To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Joseph Addison

      to rest in Heaven's determination

• (lie down and take repose, especially by sleeping): 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
• (transitive: lean, lay): lay, lean, place, put
• (intransitive: lie, lean): lean, lie

• (lie down and take repose): sleep, nap

• rest assured
• rest in peace/RIP
• rest on one's laurels

From Middle English reste, from Old French reste, from Old French rester (“to remain”), from Latin restō (“to stay back, stay behind”), from re- + stō (“to stand”). Replaced native Middle English lave (“rest, remainder”) (from Old English lāf (“remnant, remainder”)).

• enPR: rĕst, IPA^(key): /ɹɛst/

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rest (uncountable)

1. (uncountable) 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.

2. Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Bishop Stillingfleet

     Plato and the rest of the philosophers

   • (Can we date this quote?) John Dryden

     Armed like the rest, the Trojan prince appears.

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 11, in The Celebrity:

     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.

   • 2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America‎, archived from the original on 7 February 2019:

     It also showed that 26 of the top 30 AI patent requests came from businesses. Universities or public research organizations made up the rest.

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3. (Britain, 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.

• (that which remains): lave, remainder; See also Thesaurus:remainder

• all the rest

rest (third-person singular simple present rests, present participle resting, simple past and past participle rested)

1. (obsolete) To remain.

Aphetic form of arrest.

rest (third-person singular simple present rests, present participle resting, simple past and past participle rested)

1. (obsolete) To arrest.

• -ster, ERTs, SERT, erst, rets, tres

From Middle Dutch reste, from Middle French reste.

• IPA^(key): /rɛst/

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• Hyphenation: rest
• Rhymes: -ɛst

rest f (plural resten, diminutive restje n)

1. rest (that which remains)

   Synonyms: overblijfsel, overschot

• asrest
• etensrest
• restafval

• Afrikaans: res

• erts, ster

From a Northern Italian dialect, compare Emilian rest, Romagnol rést, Italian resto (“rest”), from restare, from Latin restō (“I stay behind, remain”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɛʃt]
• Hyphenation: rest

rest (comparative restebb, superlative legrestebb)

1. lazy

   Synonyms: henye, lusta, renyhe, tunya

• restell
• restség

(Expressions):

• a rest kétszer fárad

rest m (plural resc)

1. rest, residue

Borrowed from French reste.

rest m (definite singular resten, indefinite plural rester, definite plural restene)

1. remainder, rest

   resten av ― the rest of

   rester ― remains, remnants

• forresten
• matrest

• “rest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from French reste.

rest m (definite singular resten, indefinite plural restar, definite plural restane)

1. remainder, rest

   resten av ― the rest of

   restar ― remains, remnants

• forresten
• matrest

• “rest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *rastō, *rastijō (“rest”), from Proto-Indo-European *ros-, *res-, *erH- (“rest”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈrest/

rest f

1. rest
2. resting place; bed

• restlēas

• Middle English: reste, rest; (rüst, rist)
  • Scots: rest
  • English: rest

Borrowed from French reste.

• IPA^(key): /rest/

rest n (plural resturi)

1. rest (remainder)

• rămas, rămășiță

rest (definite singular restul)

1. change (small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination)

   Poftim restul de la înghețată, băiete.

   Here's your change from the ice-cream you bought, son.

• 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 mărunțiș is preferred.

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rest c

1. (plural only) remainder, rest (what remains)

   Resten är gula.

   The rest are yellows.

2. (mathematics) remainder

   11 dividerat med 2 är 5, med 1 i rest ― 11 divided by 2 is 5 remainder 1

3. leftover

rest

1. supine of resa.
2. past participle of resa.

From Old Norse hreistr.

rest m

1. fish scales

• res

From Old Norse rísta (pret. reist).

rest

1. to plough
2. to carve

rest m

1. a plough