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Rest Area

Definition: Rest Area

Rest Area

Noun

1. Designated paved area beside a main road where cars can stop temporarily; "in England they call a rest area a lay-by".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Rest Area

Synonyms: layby (n), lay-by (n), pull-off (n), rest stop (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Rest area

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In the United States, a rest area is a public facility, located adjacent to a highway or interstate, at which drivers can eat and sleep.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rest area."

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Crosswords: Rest Area

English words defined with "rest area": lay-bypull-offrest stop. (references)
Specialty definitions using "rest area": AMUSEMENT PARK WORKERBAKER HELPER, bed groundCOOK, FAST FOODdamsite testingisolated zoneJEWEL GRINDER IKITCHEN STEWARD/STEWARDESSPORTER, BAGGAGE, porter, luggagestock camp. (references)

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Photo Album: Rest Area

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A rest area set up with snacks for the volunteers.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Rest Area at Alkali Creek Trailhead.Credit: Merv Coleman.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Rest Area

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  interstate rest area

15
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Rest Area

Language Translations for "rest area"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

rustplaats (bed ground, resting-place, stance, stock camp). (various references)

   

German

  

rastplatz (picnic area, pull in, resting place). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

estray areaay

   

Spanish

  

apartadero (by-pass lane, lay-by, passing bay, passing place, pull in, rest stop, sidetrack, turn-out). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

rastplats (halting place, lay by, lay-by, parking zone, picnic area, service area, turn-out). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Rest Area

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-r-r-s-t"

-1 letter: aerates, erratas, retears, serrate, tearers.

-2 letters: aerate, aretes, arrest, easter, eaters, eraser, errata, rarest, raster, raters, reatas, reseat, rester, retear, searer, seater, starer, tarres, tearer, teaser, terrae, terras, terser.

-3 letters: areae, areas, arete, arras, aster, eater, erase, ester, rares, raser, rater, rates, rears, reata, reest, reset, saree, serer, setae, stare, steer, stere, tares.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-r-r-s-t"
 

+2 letters: aftercares, caretakers, deaerators, parameters, parrakeets, ratepayers, reradiates, retardates, shearwater, warrantees.

 

+3 letters: brainteaser, breakfaster, breakwaters, earthshaker, heartbreaks, maltreaters, quarterages, rearmaments, repatriates, restartable, retranslate, retreatants, sauerbraten, secretarial, secretariat, shearwaters, steatorrhea, talebearers, transferase, traversable, treasurable.

 

+4 letters: accelerators, aftermarkets, arrangements, brainteasers, breakfasters, characteries, earthenwares, earthshakers, exaggerators, granitewares, halterbreaks, headquarters, incarcerates, oversaturate, parametrizes, prebreakfast, preparatives, prevaricates, quartersawed, quaternaries, racetrackers, reaggregates, recalibrates, reincarnates, restaurateur, restrainable, retranslated, retranslates, sauerbratens, secretariats, skateboarder, steatorrheas, subterranean, trainbearers, transferable, transferases, transparence.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Rest Area


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 73 74      41 72 65 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01110011 01110100 00100000 01000001 01110010 01100101 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#115 &#116 &#32 &#65 &#114 &#101 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0073 0074      0041 0072 0065 0061

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

52718586235847167

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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