Definition of "rest"

rest¹

/ɹɛst/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural rests
1. (uncountable, of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
2. (countable) Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
3. (uncountable) Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
  Quotations
  And the land had rest fourscore years.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Judges 3:30
4. (uncountable, of an object or concept) A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.
5. (euphemistic, uncountable) A final position after death.
6. (music, countable) A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
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.
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.
10. (countable) Any object designed to be used to support something else.
11. A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
  Quotations
  their visors closed, their lances in the rest
  1700, [John] Dryden, “The Flower and the Leaf: Or, The Lady in the Arbour. A Vision.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
12. A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
  Quotations
  halfway houses and travellers' rests
  c. 1851, Catholicus (pen name of John Henry Newman, letter in The Times
  in dust our final rest, and native home
  1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
  Ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the Lord your God giveth you.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Deuteronomy xii:9
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.
  Quotations
  a new account was opened under the heading "Irondale Mine" and so continued witli semiannual rest
  1874, New York Court of Appeals, Records and Briefs
15. (dated) A set or game at tennis.

rest²

/ɹɛst/

verb
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.
  Quotations
  Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Exodus 23:12
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.
  Quotations
  There rest, if any rest can harbour there.
  1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
4. (intransitive, transitive, reflexive, copulative) To be or to put into a state of rest.
  Quotations
  And thereby at a pryory they rested them all nyght.
  1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book X
  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.
  2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3-1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport
5. (intransitive) To stay, remain, be situated.
6. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To lean, lie, or lay.
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.)
8. (intransitive) To sleep; slumber.
9. (intransitive) To lie dormant.
10. (intransitive) To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
  Quotations
  I sing to him that rests below,⁠And, since the grasses round me wave,⁠I take the grasses of the grave,And make them pipes whereon to blow.
  1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], canto XXI, page 35
11. (intransitive) To rely or depend on.
  Quotations
  On him I rested, after long debate, / And not without considering, fixed fate.
  1700, John Dryden, Sigismonda and Guiscardo
  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.
  2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
12. To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
  Quotations
  to rest in Heaven's determination
  1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, Act I, scene ii, page 1

rest³

/ɹɛst/

noun
uncountable
1. (uncountable) That which remains.
2. Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
  Quotations
  Plato and the rest of the philosophers
  1676, Bishop Stillingfleet, A Defence of the Discourse Concerning the Idolatry Practised in the Church of Rome
  Arm'd like the rest, the Trojan prince appears.
  1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
  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.
  1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter XI, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
  Shepard: The rest of the galaxy isn't just going to bow down just because we tell them to. We'll need the fleets to bring them in line.
  2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Citadel
  Audio (US)(file)
  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.
3. (UK, 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.

rest⁴

/ɹɛst/

verb
third-person singular simple present rests, present participle resting, simple past and past participle rested
1. (no object, with complement) To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To keep a certain way.

rest⁵

/ɹɛst/

verb
third-person singular simple present rests, present participle resting, simple past and past participle rested
1. (obsolete, transitive, colloquial) To arrest.

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