Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A support for a lance on the side of the breastplate of medieval armor.
- noun The part that is left over after something has been removed; remainder.
- noun That or those remaining.
- intransitive verb To be or continue to be; remain.
- intransitive verb To remain or be left over.
- noun A period of inactivity, relaxation, or sleep.
- noun Sleep or the refreshment resulting from inactivity or sleep.
- noun The repose of death.
- noun Mental or emotional calm.
- noun The state of being motionless; the absence of motion.
- noun The condition of being settled or resolved.
- noun An interval of silence corresponding to one of the possible time values within a measure.
- noun The mark or symbol indicating such a pause and its length.
- noun A short pause in a line of poetry; a caesura.
- noun A device used as a support.
- intransitive verb To cease motion, work, or activity, especially in order to become refreshed.
- intransitive verb To lie down and sleep.
- intransitive verb To be in or come to a motionless state.
- intransitive verb To be located or be in a specified place.
- intransitive verb To be fixed or directed on something.
- intransitive verb To be unchanged or unresolved.
- intransitive verb To be supported or based; lie, lean, or sit.
- intransitive verb To be imposed or vested, as a responsibility or burden.
- intransitive verb To depend or rely.
- intransitive verb Law To complete the main presentation of one's portion of a legal case.
- intransitive verb To cause or allow to be inactive or relaxed so as to regain energy.
- intransitive verb To place, lay, or lean, as for support or repose.
- intransitive verb To base or ground.
- intransitive verb To fix or direct (the gaze, for example).
- intransitive verb Law To complete the main presentation of (one's portion of a case).
- idiom (at rest) Asleep.
- idiom (at rest) Dead.
- idiom (at rest) Motionless; inactive.
- idiom (at rest) Free from anxiety or distress.
- idiom (lay/put) To bury (a dead body); inter.
- idiom (lay/put) To resolve or settle (an issue, for example).
from The Century Dictionary.
- To be left.; remain.
- To continue to be; remain: as, rest assured that it is true.
- To keep; cause to continue or remain: used with a predicate adjective following and qualifying the object.
- To arrest.
- noun That which is left, or which remains after the separation of a part, either in fact or in contemplation; remainder.
- noun Those not included in a proposition or description; others.
- noun Balance; difference; specifically, in the weekly reports of the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities, forming a sort of reserve fund against contingencies.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But it must be followed by rest from mental labour, and is, in fact, a part of the same regimen which enforces rest -- it is an artificial _rest_.
Study and Stimulants; Or, the Use of Intoxicants and Narcotics in Relation to Intellectual Life Alfred Arthur Reade
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But inasmuch as the recurrence of the _Sabbath-day_ was what constituted _a week_; in other words, since the essential feature of a week, as a Jewish division of time, was the recurrence of the Jewish day of rest; — τὸ σάββατον or τὰ σάββατα, the Hebrew name for _the day of rest_, became transferred to _the week_.
The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark John William Burgon 1850
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At the double lines at ten and three, there might be a rest of two minutes; an officer appointed for the purpose, ringing a bell at each of the parts marked on the plan, and making the signal for the _rest_, whatever signal might be determined upon.
The Teacher Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young Jacob Abbott 1841
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The only blessing I hope from time is _forgetfulness_ -- my only prayer to heaven is -- _rest, rest, rest_.
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IV. iii.27 (` is rest to do more exploits with his mace than a morris pike] [W: a Maurice-pike] This conjecture is very ingenious, yet the commentator talks unnecessarily of the _rest of a musket. _ by which he makes the hero of the speech set up the _rest_ of a _musket, _ to do exploits with a _pike.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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I. i.138 (318,5) The sway, revenue, execution of the rest] [W: of th 'hest] I do not see any great difficulty in the words, _execution of the rest_, which are in both the old copies.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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No one had ever sung it that way -- the rest is history.
Margie Goldsmith: Visiting the Memphis Kings: Elvis and Dr. Martin Luther King Margie Goldsmith 2010
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No one had ever sung it that way -- the rest is history.
Margie Goldsmith: Visiting the Memphis Kings: Elvis and Dr. Martin Luther King Margie Goldsmith 2010
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So when I became of voting age, I went ahead and registered as a Democrat and the rest is history.
Kathleen Wells, J.D.: Three Purple - Heart Recipient Jim Bryan Expects Victory As Florida Write - In Candidate J.D. Kathleen Wells 2010
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So when I became of voting age, I went ahead and registered as a Democrat and the rest is history.
Kathleen Wells, J.D.: Three Purple - Heart Recipient Jim Bryan Expects Victory As Florida Write - In Candidate J.D. Kathleen Wells 2010
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In a series of experiments on roundworms, mice and human brain tissue, they found that a protein called REST, which controls the expression of many genes related to neural firing, also controls life span.
Longevity Linked to Proteins That Calm Overexcited Neurons | Quanta Magazine Veronique Greenwood 2019
anydelirium commented on the word rest
'"I want rest- rest!" said Mrs. Kent, laughing wildly. "Can you find that for me? Don't you know I'm a ghost, Emily? I died years ago... I walk in the dark."' - the book Emily's Quest, by L.M. Montgomery
February 19, 2008
gangerh commented on the word rest
This signals a break in filming - either to sort out a technical problem or to change the scene - and you should stay in the area until you are needed again.
July 6, 2008
jmjarmstrong commented on the word rest
JM had his nap interrupted by a phone call and never did get the rest.
June 19, 2011
vendingmachine commented on the word rest
A rest is an interval of silence in a piece of music, marked by a symbol indicating the length of the pause.
June 28, 2015