rest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕst
ipa: /ɹɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
homophone: wrest
Forms: form: rests
Etymology: From Middle English rest, reste, from Old English ræst, from Proto-West Germanic *rastu, from Proto-Germanic *rastō, 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.
Senses: examples: text: I need to get a good rest tonight; I was up late last night.
text: The sun sets, and the workers go to their rest.
synonyms: sleep
slumber
glosses: Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
raw_tags: of a person or animal
examples: text: We took a rest at the top of the hill to get our breath back.
synonyms: break
repose
time off
glosses: Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
examples: text: It was nice to have a rest from the phone ringing when I unplugged it for a while.
text: And the land had rest fourscore years.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 3:30:
synonyms: peace
quiet
roo
silence
stillness
tranquility
glosses: Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
examples: text: The boulder came to rest just behind the house after rolling down the mountain.
text: The ocean was finally at rest.
text: Now that we're all in agreement, we can put that issue to rest.
glosses: A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.
raw_tags: of an object or concept
examples: text: She was laid to rest in the village cemetery.
synonyms: peace
glosses: A final position after death. Also, death itself: "Not alone, not alone would I go to my rest in the heart of the love..." -- George William Russell ("Love")
examples: text: Remember there's a rest at the end of the fourth bar.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
examples: text: The body's centre of gravity may affect its state of rest.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
antonyms: motion
glosses: Absence of motion.
examples: text: Higgins can't quite reach the white with his cue, so he'll be using the rest.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
hypernyms: bridge
glosses: 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.
examples: text: She put the phone receiver back in its rest.
text: He placed his hands on the arm rests of the chair.
synonyms: word: cradle
english: of a telephone
translation: of a telephone
word: support
glosses: Any object designed to be used to support something else.
examples: text: their visors closed, their lances in the rest
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “The Flower and the Leaf: Or, The Lady in the Arbour. A Vision.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
examples: text: c. 1851, Catholicus (pen name of John Henry Newman, letter in The Times
halfway houses and travellers' rests
text: in dust our final rest, and native home
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the Lord your God giveth you.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy xii:9:
glosses: A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
examples: text: a new account was opened under the heading "Irondale Mine" and so continued witli semiannual rest
ref: 1874, New York Court of Appeals, Records and Briefs:
glosses: The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals after which compound interest is added to capital.
glosses: A set or game at tennis.
Derived terms: a change is as good as a rest
armrest
arm rest
at rest
beauty rest
bedrest
breve rest
chapel of rest
chin rest
chopstick rest
come to rest
crotchet rest
day of rest
demisemiquaver rest
Diggers Rest
eighth rest
elbow rest
eternal rest
foot rest
give it a rest
gun rest
half rest
head rest
hemidemisemiquaver rest
incisal rest
knife-rest
knife rest
lance rest
lay to rest
leg rest
mesonephric rest
migratory restlessness
minim rest
neck rest
no rest for the weary
no rest for the wicked
parade rest
put to rest
quarter rest
quaver rest
rest and residue
rest and vest
rest area
rest day
rest energy
restful
rest-harrow
Rest Haven
rest home
restless
rest mass
rest of advantage
rest period
rest position
restroom
rest step
rest stop
rest stroke
semibreve rest
semiquaver rest
set up one's rest
sixteenth rest
sixty-fourth rest
slide rest
spoon rest
thirty-second rest
toolrest
tool-rest
Travelers Rest
Travellers Rest
turning rest
Walthard cell rest
whole rest
Wolffian rest
wrist rest