Rest On

Definition: Rest On

Rest On

Verb

1. Rest on for support; "you can lean on me if you get tired".

2. Be based on; of theories and claims, for example; "What's this new evidence based on?".

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

Synonyms: Rest On

Cessation

Hold one's hand, stay one's hand; rest on one's oars repose on one's laurels.

Duty

Verb: be the duty of; be incumbent; Adjective: on, be responsible; Adjective: behoove, become, befit, beseem; belong to, pertain to; fall to one's lot; devolve on; lie upon, lie on one's head, lie at one's door; rest with, rest on the shoulders of. take upon oneself; (promise); be bound to, become bound to, be sponsor for, become sponsor for; incur a responsibility; Noun: be under an obligation, stand under an obligation, lie under an obligation; have to answer for, owe to it oneself.

Quiescence

Remain, stay; stand, lie to, ride at anchor, remain in situ, tarry, mark time; bring to, heave to, lay to; pull up, draw up; hold, halt; stop, stop short; rest, pause, anchor; cast to an anchor, come to an anchor; rest on one's oars; repose on one's laurels, take breath; stop; (discontinue).

Support

Verb: be supported; lie on, sit on, recline on, lean on, loll on, rest on, stand on, step on, repose on, abut on, bear on, be based on; have at one's back; bestride, bestraddle.

Crosswords: Rest On

Got to sit down, take a rest on the porch (LOOKIN' OUT MY BACK DOOR; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival)

Hands that rest on jutting hips repenting (What It Feels Like For A Girl; performing artist: Madonna; writing credit: Madonna and Guy Sigsworth)

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Music

• Can't Rest on the Times (reference)

• Rest on Me (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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A blue-footed booby stops for a rest on the NOAA Ship RESEARCHER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Signal building party taking a rest on Kagalaska Island. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

A heron takes a rest on a pile of stone crab traps. Credit: Fisheries.

Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve. Pelicans rest on a shell deposit at low tide near Marsh Landing dock on the southwest side of Sapelo Island. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Mallard ducks rest on a prarie pothole. Credit: Tim McCabe.

Petroglyphs rest on grounds overlooking the Agua Fria National Monument landscape. Archaeologists believe residents dwelled here in 1200 A.D. Credit: gene Dahlem.

"Boxer Tribute -- While Pantherjets rest on the catapults in readiness, officers and men of the carrier USS Boxer (CVA-21) uncover to pay tribute to pilots and crewmembers of the ship who gave their lives during the Korean War." Photograph and caption were released by Commander Naval Forces Far East under date of 9 August 1953. Plane on the port catapult is a Grumman F9F of Fighter Squadron 151 (VF-151). Credit: NAVY.

Momentary lull. Workmen rest on an 8-inch gun barrel during lunch hour. This group is part of many men working at top speed on war orders at an eastern arsenal. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ponies at noon-day rest on the Great Siberian Highway. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

In this parasitic disease the diagnosis does not rest on identification of the parasite. (references)

Modern methods of treatment have improved greatly the outlook for patients having heart attacks, but major progress in our battle against this number one killer must rest on finding preventive measures. (references)

Economic History

Morocco

Much of the pressure will rest on municipalities who are in charge of waste treatment and vehicular and industrial pollution monitoring. (references)

Japan

Japanese employment practices have been said to rest on "three pillars:" lifetime employment, seniority-based wages, and enterprise unions. (references)

Argentina

Approximately 80 percent of materials handling equipment using internal combustion engines run on diesel fuel, the rest on CNG/LPG (Compressed Natural Gas - Propane), and almost none on gasoline. (references)

Political Economy

HAITI

It sets the standard workday at 8 hours and the workweek at 48 hours, with 24 hours of rest on Sunday. (references)

Sudan

The workweek is limited by law to six 8-hour days, with a day of rest on Friday, which usually is respected. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "rest on": rest on one's laurels ♦ rest on one's oars ♦ rest on one's oars repose on one's laurels ♦ rest on smb.'s word ♦ rest on top ♦ to rest on one's laurels. Additional references.

Albanian

bëj pushim (recess, rest on one's oars). (various references)

Bulgarian 

почивам на лаврите си (rest on one's laurels). (various references)

Czech

spoèívat na (lean against, overlie). (various references)

French

s'appuyer (rest). (various references)

German

aufliegen (be displayed, be laid out, be laid up, be on, be on the turntable, be published, lie on top, rest on top). (various references)

Greek 

στηρίζομαι σε, ακουμπώ (abut, lean, touch). (various references)

Hungarian

alapul (to be based, to be based upon sg, to rest on sg), ül a babérjain (rest on one's laurels). (various references)

Indonesian

bertumpu (have support, touch upon). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

胡座�'かく (to rest on one's laurels, to sit cross-legged). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

あぐら�'かく (to rest on one's laurels, to sit cross-legged). (various references)

Pig Latin

estray onay.(various references)

Romanian

întemeia pe. (various references)

Russian 

лежать на (rest upon). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uživati u plodovima rada (rest on one's laurels). (various references)

Spanish

posarse en, posar en. (various references)

Swedish

vila på lagrarna (lie on one's oars, rest on one's oars), vila på årona (rest on one's oars). (various references)

Turkish

sabit bakmak, ileri gelmek (arise from, be based on, be derived from, come, result from, root in, set forth), güvenmek (accredit, bank on, bargain on, base oneself on, believe, build, calculate, confide, confide in, count on, credit, depend, fall back upon a thing, figure on, give credence to, go on, have confidence in, lean on, look to, pin one's faith on, place one's trust in, place reliance in, place reliance on, put faith in, put one's trust in, reckon on, reckon upon, recline upon, rely on, rely upon, repose, repose in, take smth. on trust, throw oneself on, trust), gözünü ayırmamak (fasten, fix, keep an eye on, stake in, stand over), dikmek (bed, bed out, construct, crop, engraft, erect, fix, ingraft, lay down, needle, perk, perk up, plant, post, prick, prick up, put stitches in, raise, rear, rest, rivet, seam, seam together, seam up, set, set out, set up, sew, sew up, sow, stitch up, suture, tailor, Upend), bel bağlamak (bank on, bargain on, base oneself on, build, calculate, go on, look to, place reliance in, place reliance on, reckon on, reckon upon, rely on, rely upon, repose in, trust to), bağlı olmak (appertain, be attached to, be based on, be linked, bound up with, cleave, depend, hang, hang on, hinge on, interconnect, interdepend, pay homage to, pivot, relate, sit under, turn on, turn upon). (various references)

Ukrainian

покладати (pin on). (various references)

innitatur, innitebatur, innitente, innitentibus, innitetur, inniti, innixi, innixum. (various references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: nestor, noters, stoner, tenors, tensor, toners, trones.

-1 letter: nerts, noter, notes, onset, rents, roset, rotes, senor, seton, snore, snort, steno, stern, stone, store, tenor, terns, toner, tones, tores, torse, trone.

-2 letters: eons, erns, eros, erst, nest, nets, noes, nose, note, ones, ores, orts, rent, rest, rets, roes, rose, rote, rots, sent, snot, sone, sore, sorn, sort, tens, tern, toes, tone.

+1 letter: atoners, cornets, enroots, estrone, frontes, hornets, mentors, monster, nestors, norites, oestrin, orients, postern, rodents, senator, shorten, snorted, snorter, sorbent, stentor, stoners, stonier, tenours, tensors, thrones, tongers, tonners, tonsure, treason.

+2 letters: ancestor, antrorse, assentor, baronets, bestrown, bethorns, bornites, brownest, burstone, cointers, concerts, construe, converts, corniest, coronets, counters, crownets, drystone, earstone, enactors, enterons, entresol, estragon, estrogen, estrones, extensor, forspent, fortunes, genitors, honester, horniest, instroke, intoners, introrse, investor, jointers, knotters, mesotron, monstera, monsters, monteros, mordents, mounters, negators, networks, neutrons, northers, notaries, notchers, noticers, notornes, oestrins, oestrone, oneriest, onstream, operants, ornithes, outearns, outsnore, pointers, porniest, portends, portents, posterns, pronates, proteans, proteins, protends, recounts, refronts, remounts, resonant, resonate, retinols, rontgens, roundest, routines, seafront, senators, senorita, serotine, shortens, snootier, snorters, snottier, snoutier, softener, songster, sorbents, southern, starnose, stentors, sternson, stronger, sturgeon, tenoners, tenorist, ternions, tonearms, tonsured, tonsures, torments, torrents, tourneys, treasons, tritones, tropines, trounces, turnsole, tyrosine, unsorted, wrongest.