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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

... I will do so:—But look you, Cassius, The angry spot doth glow on Caesar's brow. And all the rest look like a chidden train: Calphurnia's cheek is pale; and Cicero Looks with such ferret and such fiery eyes, As we have seen him in the Capitol, Being crossed in conference ...

— The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded • Delia Bacon

... almost every striking scene, composed at the leisure of the cast, but so vividly supplemented with descriptions of the leading lady's clothes that it hardly required any effort of the imagination to conjure up the rest. The postures and the chief garments of Pilate—he was eating pomegranates when the curtain rose and listening to scandal from his slave maidens about Mary Magdalene—were at once recognised in their resemblance to those of the photographs, and in the thrill of ...

— Hilda - A Story of Calcutta • Sara Jeannette Duncan

... the outpost, carried the rest of the situation by assault. He rushed into the dining-room and kissed his mother, with one ...

— Long Live the King • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... ecclesiastical organization which was represented in Rome, in the Episcopate, and in the Canon law; the democratic monachism; the intellectual temper with its pursuit of pure knowledge; the religious mystical spirit which was included in all the rest and yet separate from them. But other elements than these were at work in the twelfth century,—the literary and historic movement, the legal revival, the new scepticism, the spirit of wide imperialism, the romantic ...

— Henry the Second • Mrs. J. R. Green

... step would set her mind at rest, sleep was impossible to her after such excitement, fatigue, and disappointment; and the solitude she had longed for only gave her leave to turn over all the painful circumstances of her position without let or hindrance. Never had she felt so bitterly towards her uncle. In vain did ...

— Mr. Hogarth's Will • Catherine Helen Spence

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