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Definition: Rest

Rest

Noun

1. Something left after other parts have been taken away; "there was no remainder"; "he threw away the rest".

2. Freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility); "took his repose by the swimming pool".

3. A pause for relaxation; "people actually accomplish more when they take time for short rests".

4. A state of inaction; "a body will continue in a state of rest until acted upon".

5. Euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb); "she was laid to rest beside her husband"; "they had to put their family pet to sleep".

6. A support on which things can be put; "the gun was steadied on a special rest".

7. A musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration.

Verb

1. Not move; be in a resting position.

2. Take a short breath.

3. Give a rest to; "He rested his bad leg"; "Rest the dogs for a moment".

4. Have a place in relation to something else: "The fate of Bosnia lies in the hands of the West"; "The responsibility rests with the Allies".

5. Be at rest.

6. Stay the same; remain in a certain state; "The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "rest assured"; "stay alone"; "He remained unmoved by her tears"; "The bad weather continued for another week".

7. Be inherent or innate in;.

8. Put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying; "Rest your head on my shoulder".

9. Sit, as on a branch; "The birds perched high in the treee".

10. : rest on or as if on a pillow, of one's head.

11. : be inactive, refrain from acting on something.

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

Date "rest" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Rest

DomainDefinition

19th Century Satire

A trade in which every hobo holds a Union Card for life. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.

Bible

Rest (1.) Gr. katapausis, equivalent to the Hebrew word _noah_ (Heb. 4:1). (2.) Gr. anapausis, "rest from weariness" (Matt. 11:28). (3.) Gr. anesis, "relaxation" (2 Thess. 1:7). (4.) Gr. sabbatismos, a Sabbath rest, a rest from all work (Heb. 4:9; R.V., "sabbath"), a rest like that of God when he had finished the work of creation. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.

Literature

Rest (The). A contraction of residue- thus, resid', resit, res't. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Military

In artillery, a command that indicates that the unit(s) or gun(s) to which it is addressed shall not follow up fire orders during the time that the order is in force. (references)

Public Administration

The support for a telephone receiver or handset. Source: European Union. (references)

Transportation

Any uninterrupted period of at least one hour during which the driver may freely dispose of his time. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Specialty Definition: Rest

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Rest (Old English ræst, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. German Rast, Rilste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasia, league, i.e. resting or stopping place), is a cessation from active or regular work, hence a time of relief from mental or manual labour. Specific meanings are for an interval of silence in Music, marked by a sign indicating the length of the pause; for the forked support with iron-shod spike carried by the soldier till the end of the 17th century as a rest for the heavy musket; and for the support for the cue in billiards to be used when the striking ball is out of reach of the natural rest formed by the hand.

In the medieval armour of the horsed man-at-arms, and later in the armour of the tournament, a contrivance was fixed to the side of the body-armour near the right arm-pit, in which the butt-end of the lance was placed to prevent the lance being driven back after striking the opponent at full charge. Hence a knight, as a preliminary to the charge, laid his lance in rest. This rest is a shortened form of arrest, to check, stop, as is seen by the French equivalent, arret.

In Physics and in the technical sense of geometric mensuration, rest denotes a particular relation between a pair of observers. By Albert Einstein's celebrated definition, two observers measure having been at rest to each other in any particular trial if they succeed to identify a third observer as middle between each other, in that trial.

Further, rest, that which remains over and above, is derived from the French rester, to remain over, Latin restare, to remain, literally, to stay behind. The principal specific use of this word is in commerce for the balance of undivided profit; it has thus always been the term used by the Bank of England for that which in other banks and companies is called the reserve.

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Rest

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

REST

EnglishRadar Electronic-Scan TechniqueElectrical Engineering, Post & Telecom

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Rest

Synonyms: ease (n), eternal rest (n), eternal sleep (n), quietus (n), relaxation (n), relief (n), remainder (n), residual (n), residue (n), residuum (n), respite (n), rest period (n), sleep (n), breathe (v), catch one's breath (v), lie (v), perch (v), pillow (v), remain (v), repose (v), reside (v), roost (v), stay (v), take a breather (v). (additional references)
Antonyms: be active (v), change (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Rest

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Cessation

Verb: cease, discontinue, desist, stay, halt; break off, leave off; hold, stop, pull up, stop short; stick, hang fire; halt; pause, rest; burn out, blow out, melt down.

Intermission, remission; suspense, suspension; interruption; stop; stopping; Verb: closure, stoppage, halt; arrival. pause, rest, lull, respite, truce, drop; interregnum, abeyance; cloture.

Death

Noun: death; decease, demise; dissolution, departure, obit, release, rest, quietus, fall; loss, bereavement; mortality, morbidity.

Inaction

Inactivity; rest; (repose); quiescence; want of occupation, inoccupation; idle hours, time hanging on one's hands, dolce far niente; sinecure, featherbed, featherbedding, cushy job, no-show job; soft snap, soft thing.

Permanence

Verb: let alone, let be, let it be; persist, remain, stay, tarry, rest; stet; hold, hold on; last, endure, bide, abide, aby, dwell, maintain, keep; stand, stand still, stand fast; subsist, live, outlive, survive; hold one's ground, keep one's ground, hold one's footing, keep one's footing; hold good.

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).

Remainder

Noun: remainder, residue; remains, remanent, remnant, rest, relic; leavings, heeltap, odds and ends, cheesepairings, candle ends, orts; residuum; dregs; (dirt); refuse; (useless); stubble, result, educt; fag-end; ruins, wreck, skeleton., stump; alluvium.

Repose

Verb: repose; rest, rest and be thankful; take a rest, take one's ease, take it easy.

Noun: repose, rest, silken repose; sleep.

Support

Noun: support, ground, foundation, base, basis; terra firma; bearing, fulcrum, bait, caudex crib; point d'appui, gr/pou sto/gr, purchase footing, hold, locus standi; landing place, landing stage; stage, platform; block; rest, resting place; groundwork, substratum, riprap, sustentation, subvention; floor; (basement).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Rest

English words defined with "rest": Back restchin restday of rest, Dotted resteternal restlay to restParade restrest area, rest day, rest energy, rest mass, rest on, rest stopSteady restwhole rest. (references)
Specialty definitions using "rest": Adrenal Rest Tumor, Among the rest, angle of restfinancial assets and liabilities vis-à-vis the rest of the world,other than the official reserves, for The Rest Of Themmedium and long term assets vis-à-vis the rest of the worldnet change in financial assets and liabilities vis-à-vis the rest of the worldreclining back rest, Rest on One's Oars, REST ROOM ATTENDANT, rest time rulesweekly rest day. (references)
Etymologies containing "rest": Resty. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Rest" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Danish (remainder, rest), Dutch (remainder, rest), German (balance, carryover, end, left over, relic, remain, remainder, remains, reminder, remnant, residual, residue, rest, scrap, tail), Hungarian (inert, languid, slothful, sluggard, sluggish), Romanian (balance, carry over, change, end, oddment, patch, remainder, remanent, remnant, residue, residuum, rest, rump, survival, tailing), Swedish (remainder, residual, rest, survival, travelled).

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Modern Usage: Rest

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest. (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

My favorite part about graduating now will be dodging my student loan officer for the rest of my life (Reality Bites; writing credit: Ben Stiller, written by Helen Childress.)

I'll give you a winter prediction: It's gonna be cold, it's gonna be grey, and it's gonna last you for the rest of your life (Groundhog Day; writing credit: Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis.)

Ya know, my father used to say, every man's got a devil, and you can't rest until you find him. But if it's any consolation to you, you have put a smile on my face (The Crow; writing credit: David J. Schow, John Shirley)

I got mine, Wayne, you get the rest of them (The Firm; writing credit: David Rabe)

Lyrics

Tonight and the rest of my life (Tonight and the Rest of My Life; performing artist: Nina Gordon)

For all the rest of time (I Don't Want To Miss A Thing; performing artist: AEROSMITH)

Ain't gonna spend the rest of my life, Quietly fading away (Games People Play; performing artist: Alan Parsons Project)

And if we're good we'll lay to rest (Like A Stone; performing artist: AUDIOSLAVE)

Like the rest of the Romeos wore a permanent wave, yeah (Keeping The Faith; performing artist: Billy Joel)

Clever

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. (references; author: Mark Twain)

99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name. (references; author: unknown)

You, you, and you: panic. The rest of you, come with me. (references; author: unknown)

Live for Jesus now and spend the rest of eternity in the non-smoking section. (references; author: unknown)

You better think about the future, for it's where you will spend the rest of your life. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Rest In Peace Uncle Fred (1970)

You're Human Like the Rest of Them (1967)

Der Rest ist Schweigen (1959)

Rest in Violence (1958)

Papa's Day of Rest (1951)

Song Titles

Tonight And The Rest Of Our Lives (performing artist: Nina Gordon)

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

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Commercial Usage: Rest

DomainTitle

Books

  • Come aside and rest awhile : a book of family prayer (reference)

  • How to Ace the Rest of Calculus: The Streetwise Guide: Including Multi-Variable Calculus (reference)

  • Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? the Rest of the Story on the New Class of Ssri Antidepressants Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Lovan, Luvox & More. (reference)

  • Thoughts from a Mind That Never Rests: As Well As Some Afterthoughts While at Rest (reference)

  • Rabbit Angstrom : The Four Novels : Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit at Rest (Everyman's Library) (reference)

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Theater & Movies

  • Rest in Peace Cuervo Jones (reference)

  • Shades of Hip Hop: R.I.P. - Rest in Peace (reference)

  • Babylon 5 - Season 5 - Journey's End (Wheel of Fire / Objects in Motion / Objects at Rest / Sleeping in Light) (reference)

  • Where Is the Rest of the Unive (reference)

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Music

  

High Tech

  • Adjustable Foot Rest Keeps Legs& Feet At Comfortable Sitting (reference)

  • Fellowes Premium Ergonomic Foot Rest - Graphite Carpet - 1 Knob Adjustment (reference)

  • Fellowes Full Articulate Keyboard Manage Gliding Mouse Tray & Gel Wrist Rest (reference)

  • 3M Gel-Filled Wrist Rest - Blue Economical Non-Adjustable (reference)

  • Kensington Contour Wrist Rest Neoprene with Non-Skid Base Blue (reference)

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Consumer Goods

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

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Image Slideshow: Rest

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Photo Album: Rest

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One of the many uses for the laser in medical research is as a light source to detect premalignant and malignant cells in a Pap smear. Shown here are gynecologic cells passing in a stream through the laser beam where each cell is analyzed. Abnormal-appearing cells can be sorted from the rest of the cells and later examined by a pathologist for evidence of cancer. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

At the Panel Table from L-R: Kathleen Rest, Dep. Dir. Program, NIOSH (speaking); Richard Jackson, Dir. of NCEH; Jim Hughes, Dir. NCID; Joe Henderson, Assoc. Dir. for B.T.; Julie Gerberding, Dir. of CDC. Credit: CDC.

Crew of Coast Guard PBY-5 (08055) V-189 Joseph Sosbee standing on left - rest of crew unidentified. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Stopping for lunch and a rest enroute Off of EXPLORER Photo sheet No. 3 of sequence. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Oyster setting tanks at the University of Maryland Horn Point Environmental Laboratory on the Choptank River. Used by the Oyster Recovery Partnership, oyster larvae are placed in these tanks for two days, allowing them to set on shells where they stay and continue to grow for the rest of their lives. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Noah White, the Antarctic radio operator, takes a well-deserved rest. Homeward bound after 12 months at the South Pole. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

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

Artist's conception of pole and line fishing. When one fish is hooked, the rest of the school tends to follow the hooked fish to the side of the fishing vessel . Credit: Fisheries.

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

Three Brown Pelicans rest at the entrance to Maximo Park. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

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

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Digital Photo Gallery: Rest
 

"Flag at Rest" by phong
Commentary: "A shot I took of The Washingtom Monument that turned out pretty well."
"Rest" by Soaronski -
Commentary: "Park."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Rest

AuthorQuotation

Charles Dederich

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

Homer

For too much rest becomes a pain.

Jonathan Swift

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Joseph Joubert

Tenderness is the rest of passion.

Laurence Sterne

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Ovid

The rest who does not know?
What is without periods of rest will not endure.

Pierre Corneille

Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.

Plutarch

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

Walt Whitman

Produce great men, the rest follows.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Rest

AuthorDateQuotation

Magna Carta

1215

And if we shall not have corrected the transgression (or, in the event of our being out of the realm, if our justiciar shall not have corrected it) within forty days, reckoning from the time it has been intimated to us (or to our justiciar, if we should be out of the realm), the four barons aforesaid shall refer that matter to the rest of the five and twenty barons, and those five and twenty barons shall, together with the community of the whole realm, distrain and distress us in all possible ways, namely, by seizing our castles, lands, possessions, and in any other way they can, until redress has been obtained as they deem fit, saving harmless our own person, and the persons of our queen and children; and when redress has been obtained, they shall resume their old relations towards us. (reference)

John Locke

1690

A few established laws served the turn, and the discretion and care of the ruler supplied the rest. (Second Treatise of Government)

US Declaration of Independence

1776

We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. (reference)

Communist Manifesto

1848

For the rest, nothing is more ridiculous than the virtuous indignation of our bourgeois at the community of women which, they pretend, is to be openly and officially established by the Communists. (reference)

Treaty of Versailles

1919

Fifth.­The adoption of a weekly rest of at least twenty-four hours, which should include Sunday wherever practicable. (reference)

United Nations

1948

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay. (reference)

John F. Kennedy

1961

In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course. (reference)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

1963

There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1941)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Rest

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

And there was time enough for Emma to form a reasonable judgment, as their visit included all the rest of the morning

Sylvie and Bruno

Carroll, Lewis

And she led him out of the room, unnoticed by the rest of the party, who were wholly absorbed in watching the old Beggar

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

I cannot rest, I cannot stay, I cannot linger anywhere

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Once in a great while, the thoughts, that had seemed so vital and so active, yet had been put to rest so quietly, revived again

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The Spanish convent is dismal above all the rest.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Copy out your themes again the rest of you.

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

God give your Grace good rest.

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

They let her rest awhile, and then helped her up again, and the three walked back and forth, back and forth between the pains

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

I dispatched four of them, but the rest got away, and I presently shut my window

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Rest

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Bed rest and medicine will help you get better. (references)

The rest degenerate and disappear over the years. (references)

Rest after meals, because activity may slow digestion. (references)

Business

The rest (97 percent) of the market is supplied from imports. (references)

For many exporters, the United Kingdom is the gateway to the rest of Europe. (references)

The rest comes from power purchase from neighboring countries, Laos and Burma. (references)

Children

China

The goal of many of these programs is to allow persons with disabilities to be integrated into the rest of society. (references)

Bulgaria

Policies and public attitudes prevalent during the Communist era, which separated mentally and physically disabled persons, including very young children from the rest of society, have persisted. (references)

Thailand

The 2002-2006 plan is scheduled to be released in January 2002. Although special juvenile courts and detention centers exist in 34 provinces, children are tried in the same courts and detained with adults in the rest of the country. (references)

Civil Liberties

Finland

A majority of the newspapers are independent and the rest are produced by political parties. (references)

Papua New Guinea

Movement within Bougainville and between Bougainville and the rest of the country is unrestricted. (references)

Austria

In May he won a preliminary court order in one suit; the rest of the cases were pending at year's end. (references)

Economic History

Guatemala

The rest sell directly to Guatemalan buyers. (references)

Egypt

The second stage will cover the rest of Egypt. (references)

Colombia

Most of the rest has been imported from Bolivia. (references)

Human Rights

Dominican Republic

The rest were wives, girlfriends, other civilians, or fellow officers. (references)

Pakistan

Half of the leaders and workers were released on April 2; the rest were released by mid-April. (references)

Taiwan

The new modified adversarial trial system is a potential model for the rest of the judicial system. (references)

Indigenous People

Botswana

They are physically, linguistically, and culturally distinct from the rest of the population. (references)

Dominica

Unemployment is believed to be higher than in rest of the country, while the average income is below the national average. (references)

Panama

Despite legal protection and formal equality, indigenous people generally endure relatively higher levels of poverty, disease, malnutrition, and illiteracy than the rest of the population. (references)

Minorities

Senegal

Casamance is substantially less arid, less Islamic, and less Wolof than the rest of the country. (references)

Philippines

Provinces in Mindanao that are predominantly Muslim lag behind the rest of the region in almost all aspects of socioeconomic development. (references)

United Kingdom

Employment discrimination on religious grounds is prohibited by law in Northern Ireland, although not in the rest of the country, and a public tribunal adjudicates complaints. (references)

Political Economy

SWEDEN

Both overtime and rest periods are regulated. (references)

ISRAEL

The weekly rest must be at least 36 consecutive hours and include the Sabbath. (references)

TUNISIA

Most business sectors observe a 48-hour workweek, with one 24-hour rest period. (references)

Political Rights

Denmark

Greenlanders and Faroese are Danish citizens with the same rights as those in the rest of the Kingdom. (references)

Yemen

Decisionmaking and real political power still rest in the hands of the executive branch, particularly the President. (references)

Burma

As for the rest, it claimed that 105 had resigned their parliamentary status, 139 had been disqualified by the commission, 27 had resigned from the NLD, and 31 had died. (references)

Trade

Ecuador

Sixty percent of the letters of credit opened were at 90 days sight; the rest were at sight. (references)

Netherlands

U.S. firms exporting to the Netherlands or the rest of the EU can call a customs information hotline for a ruling. (references)

Chile

Foreign trade financing and money exchange operations are particularly active and efficient compared to the rest of Latin America. (references)

Travel

Egypt

Buses take 3 1/2 hours, with a rest stop. (references)

Qatar

Friday is a day of rest for all sectors, including all Embassies. (references)

Cape Verde

A satellite earth station in Praia links Cape Verde with the rest of the world. (references)

Women

Tanzania

FGM is almost nonexistent in the rest of the country. (references)

Turkey

Under inheritance laws, a widow generally receives 1/4 of the estate, and her children receive the rest. (references)

Iceland

A 12 percent difference in pay may be attributable to the fact that men work on average 4.2 more hours per week than women, but the rest of the gap is unexplained. (references)

Worker Rights

Rwanda

There is no mandated rest period. (references)

Syria

The laws mandate one 24-hour rest day per week. (references)

Malaysia

Each workweek must include a 24-hour rest period. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

SOUL, n. A spiritual entity concerning which there hath been brave disputation. Plato held that those souls which in a previous state of existence (antedating Athens) had obtained the clearest glimpses of eternal truth entered into the bodies of persons who became philosophers. Plato himself was a philosopher. The souls that had least contemplated divine truth animated the bodies of usurpers and despots. Dionysius I, who had threatened to decapitate the broad- browed philosopher, was a usurper and a despot. Plato, doubtless, was not the first to construct a system of philosophy that could be quoted against his enemies; certainly he was not the last. "Concerning the nature of the soul," saith the renowned author of Diversiones Sanctorum, "there hath been hardly more argument than that of its place in the body. Mine own belief is that the soul hath her seat in the abdomen -- in which faith we may discern and interpret a truth hitherto unintelligible, namely that the glutton is of all men most devout. He is said in the Scripture to 'make a god of his belly' -- why, then, should he not be pious, having ever his Deity with him to freshen his faith? Who so well as he can know the might and majesty that he shrines? Truly and soberly, the soul and the stomach are one Divine Entity; and such was the belief of Promasius, who nevertheless erred in denying it immortality. He had observed that its visible and material substance failed and decayed with the rest of the body after death, but of its immaterial essence he knew nothing. This is what we call the Appetite, and it survives the wreck and reek of mortality, to be rewarded or punished in another world, according to what it hath demanded in the flesh. The Appetite whose coarse clamoring was for the unwholesome viands of the general market and the public refectory shall be cast into eternal famine, whilst that which firmly through civilly insisted on ortolans, caviare, terrapin, anchovies, pates de foie gras and all such Christian comestibles shall flesh its spiritual tooth in the souls of them forever and ever, and wreak its divine thirst upon the immortal parts of the rarest and richest wines ever quaffed here below. Such is my religious faith, though I grieve to confess that neither His Holiness the Pope nor His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury (whom I equally and profoundly revere) will assent to its dissemination."

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

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Spoken Usage: Rest

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Andy Rooney

The rest of our country has been great to New York since the attack. New Yorkers are being consoled, felt sorry for, sympathized with, even loved.

Ann Richards

Well, I don't really have a favorite. The one I like who's saying something that is significant and matters is Howard Dean. Now, the rest of them may come up with something.

Barbara Walters

You feel socialism works. It seems that the tide in the rest of the world is turning away. We see people in you country hungry. We see people going on boats and risking their lives to leave this country. Does social work.

Jerry Lewis

I'm going to be able to do the top of the show. I'll do five or six hours, and then I've got to rest for eight, and then I'll do the balance.

Rod Steiger

I would do those for the rest of my life. I never sign with a studio really. And if I did, I would sign to do biographies.

Rush Limbaugh

My guess is that President Kennedy would have, as most of the rest of us have, urged a bit bolder tax relief.

William Shatner

Tragedy, loss, grief. Big, big factor of grief. And so, to take the moment and say my heart, our hearts go out to all those people who are grieving Danny Pearl and the rest of the world, there's so many, so many tragedies.

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

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Speeches: Rest

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Thomas Jefferson

1801-1809An animal whose body is at rest, and who does not reflect, must be disposed to sleep of course.

John Quincy Adams

1825-1829With all the rest we have free trade, even with the insular colonies of all the European nations, except Great Britain.

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837Thus will all conflicting claims to jurisdiction between the States and the Indian tribes be put to rest.

Franklin Pierce

1853-1857But let not the foundation of our hope rest upon man's wisdom.

John F. Kennedy

1961-1963In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than in mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969Our destiny in the midst of change will rest on the unchanged character of our people, and on their faith.

Richard Nixon

1969-1974Together with the rest of the world, let us resolve to move forward from the beginnings we have made.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981A growing defense effort and a vigorous foreign policy rest upon a strong economy here in the United States.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989To view the State of the Union in perspective, we must not ignore the rest of the world.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001Those people ought to have retirement as well as the rest of us.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Rest

"Rest" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.21% of the time. "Rest" is used about 15,687 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
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100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)88.21%13,837657
Lexical Verb (infinitive)10.03%1,5735,250
Lexical Verb (base form)1.73%27117,854
Noun (proper)0.04%6143,867
                    Total100.00%15,687N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Rest

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "rest".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
AdnahN/ABiblical

Eternal rest

BarsabasN/ABiblical

Son of rest

HenN/ABiblical

Rest

ManahethitesN/ABiblical

My prince of rest

ManoahN/ABiblical

Rest

NahathN/ABiblical

Rest

NohaN/ABiblical

Rest

RephidimN/ABiblical

Places of rest

ShabbethaiN/ABiblical

My rest

Timnath-heresN/ABiblical

Numbering of the rest

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Expressions: Rest

Expressions using "rest": a day of rest ad at rest Adrenal Rest Tumor all the rest of it and all the rest of it and the rest and the rest of it arm rest at rest at rest inactive motionless static still Back rest be at rest Bed Rest bring to rest chin rest come to rest complete rest Compound rest crotchet rest cut above the rest day of rest Dotted rest elbow rest eternal rest foot rest for the rest for The Rest Of Them for The Rest Of Us get to rest give smb. no rest go to rest god rest his soul got rest his soul! gun rest have a day's rest have a rest have rest head rest it is time to go to rest knifes rest lay to rest let rest lose rest may he rest in peace may he rest in peace! Mountain Rest need rest not a moment's rest one's rest parade rest quaver rest receiver rest reclining back rest rest 0 rest 2 rest a ladder against the wall rest against rest area rest assured rest assured that rest camp rest cure rest day rest easy rest energy rest harrow Rest Haven rest home rest house rest in peace rest interval rest mass rest of 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 rest one's case rest one's elbows on the table rest oneself rest pause rest period rest place rest room rest stop rest time rules rest up rest upon rest upon one's oars rest with rest with smb. retire to rest set a question at rest set at rest set one's mind at rest set the question at rest set your mind at rest about that! slide rest snatch some rest. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "rest": rest-breaks, rest-camp, rest-cure, rest-day, rest-harrow, rest-home, rest-house, rest-houses, rest-paregoric, rest-periods, rest-room, rest-spot, rest-station, rest-stop, rest-type.

Ending with "rest": arm-rest, bed-rest, foot-rest, head-rest, rod-rest.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Rest

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

simmons beauty rest

395

spoon rest

41

rest

326

the rest of your life

41

beauty rest

192

rest in peace

39

rest in piece

126

rifle rest

38

simmons beauty rest mattress

124

back rest

38

life rest single

106

arm rest

37

beauty rest mattress

93

bed rest pillow

32

in lyrics piece rest saliva

91

rest stops

29

in lyrics piece rest

90

traveler rest

27

foot rest

67

harvey paul rest story

26

therm a rest

63

back motorcycle rest

26

area rest

61

rest haven

25

rest home

60

law life lyrics rest unwritten

25

in piece rest saliva

52

paul harveys the rest of the story

25

wrist rest

52

life lyrics rest

24

traveler rest sc

51

pregnancy bed rest

22

rest of the story

50

simmons beauty rest world class

22

go high mountain rest that

48

violin shoulder rest

22

bed rest

45

shooting rest

20

arrow rest

43

child comfort comfortable cool feel non rest this

20
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Rest

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

Afrikaans

  

rus (repose, Russian), res (remainder), afval (apostasy, apostatize, clippings, cuttings, debris, defection, desert, drop, drop out, fall, fall away, lose, lose flesh, lose in weight, parings, refuse, remainder, rubbish, rubble, secede, waste, windfall). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

çlodh (recreate, recuperate, repose, wind). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏طمئن (assure, promise, reassure), ‏بقية (end, remainder, remnant, stub, survival), ‏دعم (back, back up, backing, backup, bolster, boost, buttress, carry, consolidate, encourage, encouragement, favor, favour, fuel, hold, prop, put up, reinforce, second, shore, stanchion, stand up for, stick by, subsidize, support, take sides, truss, underpin, uphold, upholding), ‏راحة (comfort, cosiness, ease, grace, leisure, letup, lie, pause, recuperation, relief, repose, stop), ‏رويحة, ‏رقاد (shut eye, sleep), ‏أزال (abstract, assuage, ax, axe, bulldoze, clear, clear away, declassify, dismantle, dispel, eliminate, enucleate, eviscerate, excise, obliterate, preclude, put aside, relieve, remove, retrench, rid, rub, rub out, settle, slip, smooth, stave off, suppress, take away), ‏إجازة (allowance, authorization, furlough, holiday, leave, permission, permissiveness, permit, vacation, variance, warrant, warranty), ‏إستراح (breathe, ensconce oneself, hit the hay, lighten, recuperate, refresh, repose, set at rest, stand at ease, subside), ‏إستراحة (break, breather, lounge, repose, silence, standoff, stoppage, subsidence), ‏إستجم (relax), ‏إستند (carry forward, lean, lean on, repose), ‏بقي (abide, be, bide, continue, endure, exist, remain, reside, sit, stay, stick around, stop, subsist, sustain, tarry), ‏الاستراحة, راحة (comfort), ‏طمأنينة (quietism, repose, tranquility), ‏علق (annotate, comment, commentate, dangle, gloss, hang, hang up, hinge, pin out, shelve, sling, stop, string up, suspend, swing), ‏علق آماله على, ‏علق الجلسات, ‏سكون (calmness, easement, hush, inactivity, placidity, quiescence, quiet, quietude, remission, repose, sedation, sleep, still, stillness, tranquillity), ‏توقف (break off, breakdown, come to a halt, cut off, demise, discontinue, end, halt, hinge, hitch, lapse, layover, let up, letup, obstruction, pass by, pause, pull up, quit, run down, setback, stall, stand, stay, stop, stop over, stoppage, stopping, touch), ‏وقوف في منتصف بيت الشعر, ‏نوم (put smb. to bed, put to sleep, send smb. to sleep, shake down, shut eye, sleep), ‏هدأ (allay, appease, assuage, attemper, becalm, calm, calm down, cool, die down, dust, ease, hush, keep quiet, lull, moderate, mollify, pacify, palliate, placate, quench, quieten, relieve, salve, settle, settle down, simmer, smooth, sober, soothe, stay, steady, still, subside, supple, sweeten, tranquillize), ‏معسكر الراحة, ‏مسند (attribute, back, cushion, pillow, predicable, predicate, predicative, subject), ‏متكأ (couch, cushion, divan, ottoman, sofa), ‏الإستراحة. (various references)

   

Aymara

  

aparaña (to rest). (various references)

   

Basque

  

hondakin (remainder). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

покой (calm, ease, peace, quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quietude, repose, slumber), давам почивка на, лежа неподвижно, лежа (couch, lain, lie, lie down, range, repose, set, sit), базирам (base, found), приют (asylum, home, hospice, retreat, shelter), почивка (break, intermission, interval, repose, respite, time off, time out), почивен, мир (accord, concord, pax, peace, quiet, quietude, serenity, world), почивам (pass away, pass on, repose), място за почивка (resting place), полагам (lay, place, put, put forth, put out, replace, repose, run), подставка (chock, horse-block, jamb, mounting, pedestal, prop, seat, sole, stand, standard, stock, support), подслон (harborage, harbour, harbourage, housing, inn, nest, protection, refuge, roof, sconce, shelter), подложка (bolster, chock, cushion, insert, insertion, mat, overlay, pad, padding, planch, saddle, seat, seating, sole, stock), подпора (abut, abutment, brace, bracing, bracket, counterfort, jamb, pillar, post, prop, puncheon, shore, sprag, stand, stock, stull, support, tree, upright), пауза (break, gap, interact, intermission, interregnum, interval, pause, stop, time off, time out), давам спокойствие на, давам отдих на (reprieve, respite), почивам си (repose, take a rest), оставям незасят, стойка (attitude, bipod, carriage, crutch, deportment, holder, leg, pier, pillar, port, post, posture, rack, riser, set, stand, tree), слагам (apply, deposit, fit in, fix, ground, implant, impose, lay, lay down, pass, pitch, place, plank down, pop, posit, position, pull on, put, put down, put in, put on, put to, run, set, sew on, ship, stand, stick, stick down, vat), спокойствие (calm, calmness, composure, countenance, ease, easiness, immovability, impassivity, imperturbability, peace, placidity, poise, quiet, quietness, quietude, repose, security, serenity, stillness, tranquility, tranquillity), спокоен съм (sleep), спирка (halt, pull in, stage, station, stop), спирам се (determine, draw bit, dwell on, enlarge, jib, pull up, repose, stand, stay, stop), резервен фонд (reserve), за почивка, възлагам (allocate, allot, apportion, assign, commission, depute, detail, endue, entrust, indue, put on, set), стоя неподвижно, отмора (diversion, recreation, relaxation, reprieve, respite), отпочивам си (relax), отпочивам, отдъхвам (relax, respire), отдих (leisure, relaxation, repose, reprieve, respite, truce), облягам се (settle back, sit back), опора (abut, anchor, anchorage, backlog, bearer, bulwark, buttress, column, cradle, crutch, dependence, faith, foothold, holder, jamb, lodgement, lodgment, mainstay, palladium, pillar, prop, purchase, rampart, rock, roothold, sinews, staff, stand by, stay, stock, stronghold, support, tower, underpinning), надявам се (expect, hope, ween), крепя се (steady). (various references)

   

Catalan

  

queden (they rest). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

休息 (to rest). (various references)

   

Czech

  

přestávka (break, interlude, intermission, interval, lull, pause, standstill, stop), klid (calm, calmness, composure, coolness, countenance, ease, equanimity, imperturbability, peace, quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quietness, repose, serenity, stand, standstill, still, stillness, tranquillity), ležet (be, lie, lie down), oddech (pause, reprieve, truce), odpoèívat (lave, lie, recline, repose), odpoèinek (relaxation, repose, stop), opìra, úkryt (cache, cover, covert, hideaway, hiding, hiding place, lurking place, sconce, shelter), ostatek (remainder), zbytek (end, fag end, leftover, remain, remainder, remnant, residue, scrap, survival, vestige), podstavec (base, easel, foot, horse, Mount, pedestal, plinth, support, trestle), pomlka, spánek (shuteye, sleep, slumber, temple), spoèívat (repose, reside), spoléhat (rely, repose, trust), utišit (allay, appease, assuage, becalm, ease, hush, pacify, quiet down, quieten, relieve, silence, sooth, stay, tranquillize), zùstat (be, remain, stay), opřít (support). (various references)

   

Danish

  

ro (repose, row), rest (remainder), hvile (repose). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

rest (remainder), rommel (chaos, clippings, confusion, cuttings, debris, disorder, garbage, leavings, parings, refuse, remainder, rubbish, rubble, tangle, waste, windfall), afval (apostasy, clippings, cuttings, debris, defection, garbage, leavings, parings, refuse, remainder, rubbish, rubble, waste, windfall). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

ripozo (repose), ripozi (repose), resto (remainder), restaĵo (remainder), esti deponita (be deposited, be in the keeping). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

tað ið eftir er (remainder), leivd (remainder), hvíla seg (repose). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

الباقی , بقایا (Leftover, Vestige), دیگران , ارمیدن (Repose), اسایش (Comfort, Welfare), استراحت (Breather, Relaxation, Repose, Respite), باقیمانده (Fragment, Remainder, Survivor), اسودن (Nestle, Nubuckle), محل استراحت , سایرین , تجدیدقوا (Refection), تکیه دادن (Accent, Bolster), کردن (Braid, Do, Fold, Gig, Grade, Ground, Hatch, Have, Hinder, Joint, List, Lob, Pass, Peer, Perform, Pickup, Poop, Ramble, Set, Settle, Stick, Tag, Thread, Tip), نتیجه (Affect, Consequence, Effect, Growth, Harvest, Hatch, Outcome, Outgrwth, Resolution, Result, Sequel, Success, Upshot), متکی بودن به , استراحت کردن (Lair, Nubuckle, Retire). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

levätä (have a rest, repose). (various references)

   

French

  

repos (recess, recovery, recreations, recuperation, repose), reste (remainder, remains, remnant, residual, residue, residuum), support, se reposer (repose, rest up), reposer (recline, refresh, re-lay, repose), appui. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

rêst (repose), ôffal (apostasy, apostate, clippings, cuttings, defection, parings, refuse, remainder, rubbish, waste, windfall), ôfeart (clippings, cuttings, parings, refuse, remainder, rubbish, waste, windfall). (various references)

   

German

  

Ruhe (be quiet, calm, calmness, hush, order, peace, peacefulness, placidity, privacy, quiescence, quiet, quietness, quietude, repose, reposefulness, restfulness, retirement, sereneness, silence, smoothness, steadiness, stillness, tranquility, tranquillity, tranquilness), Rest (balance, carryover, end, left over, relic, remain, remainder, remains, reminder, remnant, residual, residue, scrap, tail), ruhen (be abed, be asleep, be buried, be in abeyance, be laid down, be quiet, be supported, be suspended, cease, lie, repose, stand idle, stop, to rest, tranquilnesses), ausruhen (be buried, have a rest, relax, take a rest, to relax, to rest), Stütze (aid, bastion, brace, dole, help, linchpin, mainstay, pillar, prop, support, sustainer, welfare), sich ausruhen (lie back, relax, repose, repose oneself, rest oneself, rest up, to take a rest), rasten (make a halt, speeded, to rest), Rast (rages, repose, speeds). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ξεκούραση (breather, relaxation), ανάπαυση (cosiness, ease, leisure, quietus, relaxation, reposal, repose, respite). (various references)

   

Hawaiian

  

çlodh (repose). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

להנפש, נפישה (repose), נוח (affable, calm, comfortable, convenient, cushy, easy, easygoing, fair, favourable, genial, good natured, mild, propitious, snug, soft), ניחה (satisfaction), הפסק (cessation, interruption, stop), שאר (relic, remainder, residue), שארית (relic, remainder, remnant, residue), תנוחה (halt, pause, position, posture, stance), לנפוש (relax, repose), לנוח (lie, lie down, repose), נחת (calm, contentment, ease, gratification, mildness, peace, quiet, repose, satisfaction, tranquillity), לרגוע (be calm, relax, repose), משען (abutment, anchor, brace, buttress, prop, staff, stay, support), להשאר (abide, be left over, bide, remain, stay), להשעין (lean, prop, recline), להשען (lean, prop, recline, rely), יתר (abundance, excess, excessive, more, remainder, superfluous, surplus), יתרה (balance, remainder, surplus), מנוח (deceased, ease, late, peace, quiet, resting place, sanctuary), מנוחה (ease, quiet, relaxing, repose, resting place, tranquillity), מרגעה, מרגוע (pacifying, repose), לנוות (dwell). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

pihenés (break, bunk fatigue, halt, recreation, refreshing, relaxation, repose, respite, slack), maradék (end, frazzle, left over, left overs, oddments, pickings, remainder, remains, remnant, residua, residue, residuum, rump, stub, tailings, the rest). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

rehat, merebah (fall down, lie down), mengaso (take a break), jeda (caesura, juncture, respite, take a rest), beristirahat (respite). (various references)

   

Italian

  

riposo (quietness, refreshment, relaxation, repose, rest period), riposarsi (repose). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

憩い, 余り (not much, not very, remainder, remnant, surplus), 休憩 (break, intermission, recess). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

きゅう (ball, being absent, being finished, ex-, gather, gift, globe, nine, retire, sleep, sphere, steep, sudden, taking a day off, urgent, wage), ていおんぷ, やすみ (absence, holiday, moulting, recess, respite, suspension, vacation), あんせい, あんまり (balance, excess, fullness, not much, not very, other, remainder, remains, remnant, residue, scraps, surplus, too much), あんそく (repose), あまり (balance, excess, fullness, not much, not very, other, remainder, remains, remnant, residue, scraps, surplus, too much), いこい, ていおん (bass, fixed temperature, low temperature, low tone, low voice), せいよう (straighten one's posture, the west, Western countries), おやすみ (absence, Good night, holiday), きゅうし (bow and arrow, cessation, dying in miserable circumstances, express messenger, historic ruins, historic site, molar, narrowly averting death, one's old master, one's old teacher, pause, ruins, sudden death), きゅうけい (arched, bow-shaped, break, bulb, castration, confinement in a palace, crescent-shaped, globular or spherical shape, intermission, old style, old type, onion, prosecution, recess, segment), きゅうよう (break, maintaining, recreation, supplying, urgent business), きゅうふ (delivery, former husband, former wife, pay, present), きゅうそく (pace, rapid, relaxation, relief, resting, speed of a pitched ball), きゅうしふ (full stop, period), なかやすみ (recess), レスト , いきやすめ (breaktime). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

나머지 (remainder, remnant). (various references)

   

Malagasy

  

mandry, anio (the rest of the day). (various references)

   

Malay

  

aso ... mengaso (repose). (various references)

   

Manx

  

yn chooid elley, taggey (second in command, stud), scuirr (abort, adjourn, adjournment, break up, bring to, cease, ceasing, cessation, desist, discontinuance, discontinue, halt, intermission, intermittence, leave off, let up, pause, prorogation, prorogue, pull up, respite, retirement, ring off; interval, shut off, stall, stop), goaill fea (quiet, quieten, take it easy), fieau (wait, waiting), fea (quiet, quietness, stillness), cur aash da, cagh elley (everyone else), aashagh (acquiescent, easy, effortless, leisurely, softly), aash (break, ease, easement). (various references)

   

Maya

  

he'el (to rest). (various references)

   

Mohawk

  

-torihshenks (to rest). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

hvile (repose). (various references)

   

Occitan

  

repausar (se), rèsta (remainder). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

restu (remainder), resto (remainder), deskanso (repose), deskansá (repose). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

estray.(various references)

   

Polish

  

wypoczywać (repose). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

resto (drain, hangover, heel, leftover, odd-come-short, offal, remainder, remnant, residual, residue, residuum), repouso (lying, recumbence, recumbency, refreshment, repose, time-out), descanso (bracket, break, crutch, halt, landing, lay-over, leisure, lounge, pillow, pillow-block, placement, quiescence, quiescency, recumbence, recumbency, refreshment, relaxation, repose, requiem, respite, resting, saddle, sleep, stand, time-out, touch-down, truce), descansar (breathe, doss, halt, lie by, lounge, recess, repose, respire, sleep, take a rest, unyoke). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

rest (balance, carry over, change, end, oddment, patch, remainder, remanent, remnant, residue, residuum, rump, survival, tailing). (various references)

   

Romansch

  

ruassar (to rest). (various references)

   

Romany

  

noonchìzava (to rest). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

отдыхать (lay off, relax, repose, resting, take a holiday). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

tàmh (dwelling, quiet, sleep, staying), suaimhneas (geniality, quietness, security), socair (at your ease, comfort : air do shocair, ease, gentle, mild, quiet, steady, take), fois (leisure, peace), clos. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

predah (breather, pause), počivati (repose), počinak (repose), plandovati (laze), pauza (break, breather, intermission, pause), ostatak (leftover, odd-come-short, oddment, relic, remain, remainder, remnant, residual, residue, residuum, rump, vestige), oslonac (backbone, backing, hold, standfast, support, supporter), oslanjati se (reckon on), oduška (outlet, pause, vent, ventil), odmoriti (stop and take breath), odmor (break, caesura, holiday, intermission, pastime, pause, quiet, recess, reposal, repose, respite, vacation), odmarati se (repose, sit back), naslon (back, support), mirovati (relax). (various references)

   

Sicilian

  

ripusari (to rest). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

descanso (at ease, break, breather, breathing space, decree, distraction, diversion, encampment, flop, half time, holidays, interlude, intermission, interval, landing, let up, pause, recess, relaxation, repose, stand at ease, tease, time out, travel), descansar (diversify, lay over, lie, lie up, recline, repose, take a rest, think over), resto (balance, carryover, debt, diversion, ecstasy, end, interval, left over, remainder, return). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vila (abeyance, be in abeyance, lie, recline, recumbency, repose), ro (oar, peace, pull, quietness, quietude, repose, row, scull, tranquility, tranquillity), rast (break, halt, pause, recreation, repose), rest (remainder, residual, survival, travelled). (various references)

   

Tagalog

  

pahingá (repose), magpahingá (repose). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

rahat (at ease, at rest, cavalier, comfort, comfortable, comfy, complacent, composure, cosy, cushioned, cushy, ease, easy, facile, leisure, luxurious, peace, restful, serene, snug, unconstrained, unconventional, undisturbed, unembarassed, untroubled), dayanak (abutment, anchorage, base, fulcrum, ground, hinge, Mount, pivot, prop, shore, support), durmak (be, cease, come to a halt, come to a stop, discontinue, draw rein, draw up, endure, halt, harp, hold, hold on, intermit, keep, let up, linger, pack up, pull in, pull up, remain, run down, stall, stand, stay, stop), durak (caesura, full point, full stop, stand, station, stop, stopping place), dinlenmek (lie back, lie up, recreate oneself, relax, repose, repose oneself, sit back, take a rest), dinlenme yeri (health resort, resort, resting place), dinlenme (breathing space, recreation, recumbency, relaxation, repose, respite), dinlendirmek (let rest, recreate, repose, resettle), 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 on, rivet, seam, seam together, seam up, set, set out, set up, sew, sew up, sow, stitch up, suture, tailor, Upend), çıkarmak (bare, belch, blank, bring out, bruit about, deduct, delete, derive, disconnect, dislocate, dislodge, dismantle, displace, divest, doff, draw off, draw out, drive out, drop, educe, eject, elicit, eliminate, emit, enact, enucleate, evolve, exclude, excogitate, excrete, exhale, exhaust, expel, expunge, extract, extricate, extrude, exude, foot, foot up, give forth, give off, haul up, hawk, issue, let out, make out, omit, order off, order out, oust, out, pay off, present, print out, provoke, publish, pull off, put off, put out, put up, reject, remove, rout out, rout up, rule out, scratch, shoot out, slip off, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spit, start, stick out, strike, strike off, strike through, strip, strip off, subtract, take, take from, take off, take out, throw off, throw out, tide over, touch off, uncase, unfix, vent, void, vomit, winkle out, wipe out, wipe up, work out, wreak), dayanmak (abut, be based on, be predicated on, bear up, bear up against, bear with, Brook, consist, endure, found, go on, ground, hang, hang on, hinge on, hold, hold on, hold one's own, hold out, hold up, last, lean, lean upon, offer resistance, osculate, put up with, rely on, rely upon, repose, repose on, resist, rest against, root in, stand, stand on, stand the racket, stand up, stand upon, stay, stick, stick it, stick out, survive, sweat out, take, take it, thole, tolerate, trace, wear, withstand), gömülü olmak, dayamak (base on, base upon, lean against, ply, ply with, prop, prop up, recline, recline on, recline upon, support), bakiye (arrear, arrears, balance, effects, remainder, remaining balance, remnant, residuum), bakíye (remainder), aynen kalmak (remain), artik (abiding, left, left over, remainder, remaining), artık (anymore, at that, discard, dreg, dregs, dross, effluent, fag end, hog-wash, leftover, no longer, no more, refuse, remainder, remnant, residual, residue, scraps, shoddy, spoils, tag end, waste), ölüm (bitter end, capital, deadly, death, decease, demise, departure, dissolution, doom, dying, end, ending, exit, killing, kiss off, last, latter end, longed-for rest, mortuary, necro-, obituary, passing, passing away, quietus, sleep, the great divide, the grim reaper, the reaper, tomb), destek (aid, anchorage, assistance, backing, backup, bolster, booster, brace, bracer, bracket, buttress, contribution, cooperation, corbel, countenance, crutch, endorsement, friend, indorsement, mounting, pillar, pit prop, prop, reinforcement, relief, rider, second, shore, shot, sponsorship, spur, staff, stake, stanchion, stand by, stay, stiffening, strut, support, supporter, supporting, sustenance, truss, underlay, upholder), kalan (arrears, balance, left behind, leftover, over, remainder, remaining, residual, residuary, residue, residuum, rump, surviving, vestigial), yaslanmak (lean, recline, repose, repose on, rest against, sit back), uzanmak (be couched, be ranging to the, grasp at, hand up, kip, kip down, lie, lie down, loll, lounge, outstretch, range, reach, reach forth, reach out, reach out for, recline, repose oneself, run, run along, skirt along, snatch at, sprawl, spread), uyumak (be asleep, be inactive, doss, go to sleep, have rest, kip, sleep, slumber, snooze), uyku (bye bye, dorm-, nap, repose, shuteye, sleep, sleeping, slumbers), olmaya devam etmek, mola vermek (have a break, have a slack, lay over, stop off, stop over, take a breather), misafirhane (guesthouse, kip, rest house, resting place, youth hostel), ebedi istirahatte olmak (repose), koymak (closure, dot smb. one, lay, lay down, lay on, Park, place, plant, position, put, put down, set, set down, stick, sting), es, kalıntı (carcase, carcass, end, hangover, relic, remainder, remnant, residual, residue, ruins, rump, spoils, waif), istirahat etmek (lie up, repose oneself, take a rest), ihtiyat akçesi (margin, reserve fund), hareketsizlik (immobility, inaction, inactivity, inertia, inertness, quiet, quietness, quietude, stagnancy, stagnation, still, stillness), gerisi, geri (aback, back, backward, backwards, behind, hind, posterior, re-, rear, rearward, retro-, reverse, reversing, slow), yatmak (bang, be couched, couch, go to bed, go to sleep, have a screw, hit the hay, hit the sack, incline, kip, kip down, lay, lay oneself down, lie, lie down, lie up, recline, repose, repose oneself, sleep with, turn in), mezar (bed, burial place, grave, sepulcher, sepulchre, tomb, vault). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

rahatlyk (repose), ynjalyk (peace, repose), tapa (repose), dynз (relaxation). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

спокій (balance, calm, calmness, composure, coolness, countenance, ease, easiness, impassivity, order, peace, placidity, quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quietness, quietude, repose, requiescence, serene, serenity, tranquility, tranquillity), спиратися (center, centre, lean), решта (remainder), грунтуватися (repose), відпочивати (lie by, lounge, repose, take a rest), відпочинок (bait, blow, comfort, recreation, refreshment, relaxation, repose, resource, sabbath, vacation), нерухомість (fixity, immobility, immovability, quiescence, quiescency, realty, requiescence, stiffness), покоїтися (repose), перерва (adjournment, blow, break, caesura, cessation, discontinuity, intermission, intermittence, interruption, interstice, letup, pause, pretermission, recreation, vacation). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự yên lòng, sự thanh thản (ease, easiness, equanimity, quiet, quietness, serenity), sự nghỉ ngơi (refreshment, repose, slack), những người khác, lúc nghỉ ngơi, giấc ngủ sự yên tâm, dấu lặng giải quyết một vấn đề, cái chống (prop, upholder), cái còn lại (remnant). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

rhelyw (remainder, residue), ymorffwys (repose), saib (leisure, pause), pwyso (lean, press, rely, weigh), hoe (spell), gweddill (balance, remainder, remains, remnant), gorffwysfa (resting-place), gorffwys (repose), dadluddedu, dadflino. (various references)

   

Yucatec

  

he'lel (repose). (various references)

   

Zulu

  

-phumula (repose). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Rest

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

adclinavit, adquiescamus, adquiescas, adquiesce, adquiescens, adquiescent, adquiescentes, adquiescentibus, adquiescere, adquiesceret, adquiesces, adquiescet, adquiescit, adquiescunt, adquieverint, adquieverunt, adquievi, adquievisti, adquievit, adquievitque, cessa, cessabant, cessabis, cessabit, cessabunt, cessamus, cessantibus, cessare, cessarit, cessassent, cessasset, cessat, cessate, cessatum, cessaverat, cessaverit, cessaverunt, cessavi, cessavimus, cessavit, cessavitque, cessem, cessent, cesseris, cesses, cesset, cessetque, cesso, cetera, ceterae, ceteram, ceteraque, ceterarum, ceterarumque, ceteras, ceteri, ceteris, cetero, ceterorum, ceteros, ceterum, concessa, cuba, cubant, cubas, cubat, cubate, cubavit, cubes, cubiti, cubitis, cubito, cubitorum, cubitos, cubitu, cubitum, cubitus, cubitus, cubitus, curo, dormi, dormiam, dormiamus, dormiamusque, dormiant, dormiat, dormiatis, dormiatque, dormiebant, dormiebat, dormiebatque, dormiemus, dormiendo, dormiendum, dormiens, dormient, dormientem, dormientes, dormienti, dormientibus, dormientis, dormierant, dormierint, dormieris, dormierit, dormieritis, dormiero, dormierunt, dormies, dormiesque, dormiet, dormietis, dormio, dormire, dormirent, dormis, dormisse, dormisset, dormisti, dormit, dormitas, dormite, dormitione, dormitis, dormiunt, dormivi, dormivit, dormivitque, ecclesiastes, inquietas, inquieti, inquietos, inquietum, interstetit, jacere, otio, otium, praecessor, praestaturum, quies, quies quietis, quiescam, quiescant, quiescas, quiescat, quiescatis, quiesce, quiescebat, quiescent, quiescentem, quiescentes, quiescentia, quiescere, quiesceremus, quiesces, quiescet, quiescis, quiescit, quiescite, quieta, quietam, quiete, quietem, quieti, quietis, quieto, quietum, quietus, quieverunt, quievi, quievimus, quievissent, quievit, quievitque, refrigerii, refrigerium, requie, requiei, requiem, requies, requiescere, requietionem, requietionis, requietum, restare, sta, stabam, stabant, stabantque, stabat, stabimus, stabis, stabisque, stabit, stabitis, stabitque, stabo, stabunt, stamus, standum, stans, stansque, stant, stante, stantem, stantes, stantibus, stantis, stantium, stare, starent, stares, staret, staretis, stari, stas, stat, state, statis, statu, statum, statura, staturae, staturam, stem, stemus, stent, stes, stet, steterant, steterat, stetere, steterim, steterint, steteris, steterit, steterunt, steteruntque, steti, stetis, stetisse, stetissent, stetisset, stetisti, stetistis, stetit, stetitque, stetur, sto, subcubuerit. (various references)

Late Latin300-700

pausare. (various references)

Middle French1400-1600

reste. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Rest

LanguageDateSourceGenesis Chapter 35, Verse 29
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintKai eklipwn apeqanen kai proseteqh proV to genoV autou presbuteroV kai plhrhV hmerwn kai eqayan auton hsau kai iakwb oi uioi autou
Latin405VulgateConsumptusque aetate mortuus est et adpositus populo suo senex et plenus dierum et sepelierunt eum Esau et Iacob filii sui
Renaissance English1526TyndaleAnd than fell he seke and dyed ad was put vnto his people: beynge olde and full of dayes. And his sonnes Esau ad Iacob buried him.
Jacobean English1611King JamesAnd Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
Victorian English1833WebsterAnd Isaac expired and died, and was gathered to his people, being old and full of days; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
Basic English1964OgdenThen Isaac came to his end and was put to rest with his father's people, an old man after a long life: and Jacob and Esau, his sons, put him in his last resting-place.

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

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Matched Bible Translations: Rest

LanguageGenesis Chapter 35, Verse 29
CebuanoUg mihalin ang espiritu ni Isaac, ug namatay siya, ug gitipon siya didto sa iyang katawohan, tigulang ug hupong sa mga adlaw, ug siya gilubong nila ni Esau ug ni Jacob.
CroatianIzak izdahne i umre, starac i godinama zasiæen, te bude pridružen svojim precima. Sahrane ga njegovi sinovi, Ezav i Jakov.
Danishså gik Isak bort; han døde og samledes til sin Slægt, gammel og mæt af Dage. Og hans Sønner Esau og Jakob jordede ham,
DutchEn Izak gaf den geest en stierf, en werd verzameld tot zijn volken, oud en zat van dagen; en zijn zonen Ezau en Jakob begroeven hem.
FinnishJa Iisak vaipui kuolemaan ja tuli otetuksi heimonsa tykö, vanhana ja elämästä kyllänsä saaneena. Ja hänen poikansa Eesau ja Jaakob hautasivat hänet.
FrenchIl expira et mourut, et il fut recueilli auprès de son peuple, âgé et rassasié de jours, et Ésaü et Jacob, ses fils, l`enterrèrent.
Germanund nahm ab und starb und ward versammelt zu seinem Volk, alt und des Lebens satt. Und seine Söhne Esau und Jakob begruben ihn.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaMaka putuslah nyawa Ishak, matilah ia dan dikumpulkan dengan nenek moyangnya pada masa ia seorang tua sepuas-puas umurnya, lalu ia dikuburkan oleh anaknya, yaitu Esaf dan Yakub.
MaoriNa ka hemo a Ihaka, ka mate, ka kohia atu ki tona iwi, he koroheke, kua maha hoki ona ra: a na ana tama, na Ehau raua ko Hakopa ia i tanu.
NorwegianDa opgav Isak ånden og døde og blev samlet til sine fedre, gammel og mett av dager; og Esau og Jakob, hans sønner, begravde ham.
RumanianIsaac wi -a dat duhul wi a murit, wi a fost adqugat la poporul squ, bqtrkn wi sqtul de zile. Fiii sqi Esau wi Iacov l-au kngropat.
Swedishdärefter gav Isak upp andan och dog och blev samlad till sina fäder, gammal och mätt på att leva. Och hans söner Esau och Jakob begrovo honom.

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

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Derivations & Misspellings: Rest

Derivations

Words beginning with "rest": restabilize, restabilized, restabilizes, restabilizing, restack, restacked, restacking, restacks, restaff, restaffed, restaffing, restaffs, restage, restaged, restages, restaging, restamp, restamped, restamping, restamps, restart, restartable, restarted, restarting, restarts, restate, restated, restatement, restatements, restates, restating, restaurant, restauranteur, restauranteurs, restaurants, restaurateur, restaurateurs, rested, rester, resters, restful, restfuller, restfullest, restfully, restfulness, restfulnesses, restimulate, restimulated, restimulates, restimulating, restimulation. (additional references)

Words ending with "rest": addrest, afforest, airest, armrest, arrest, austerest, backrest, barest, bitterest, bookrest, clearest, cleverest, crest, dapperest, dearest, deforest, demurest, direst, disinterest, dourest, drest, eagerest, fairest, footrest, forest, headrest, hillcrest, imprest, interest, limberest, maturest, merest, nearest, noninterest, obscurest, poorest, postarrest, prest, properest, purest, queerest, rainforest, rarest, reafforest, rearrest, reforest, searest, securest, serest, severest, sheerest. (additional references)

Words containing "rest": afforestation, afforestations, afforested, afforesting, afforests, agrestal, agrestic, agroforester, agroforesters, agroforestries, agroforestry, armrests, arrestant, arrestants, arrested, arrestee, arrestees, arrester, arresters, arresting, arrestingly, arrestment, arrestments, arrestor, arrestors, arrests, backrests, bookrests, cabresta, cabrestas, cabresto, cabrestos, catachrestic, catachrestical, catachrestically, chrestomathies, chrestomathy, clerestories, clerestory, crestal, crested, crestfallen, crestfallenly, crestfallenness, crestfallennesses, cresting, crestings, crestless, crests, deforestation, deforestations. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Rest" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: erest, erst, Erste, krest, Prestt, Rasgtp, rasht, rast, rasta, razt, reat, recht, rect, rees, reest, reet, reft, regt, reht, reist, Reit, Rejt, relt, Rensch, reot, rept, Resa, resat, resct, resd, resi, resit, resk, resnt, reso, resp, resr, ress, ressg, resta, restr, resu, Retb, rets, rett, rewt, rez, reza, rezm, rhet, rict, riest, risj, rjet, roest, rosta, rosti, Royst, rrost, rs, rsd, rse, rst, rste, rusht, rusot, Rustu, ryst, urest. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Rest"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "rest" (pronounced re"st)
4r e" s tabreast, addressed, breast, compressed, crest, impressed, depressed, digressed, distressed, dressed, expressed, oppressed, pressed, Prest, progressed, repressed, stressed, suppressed, transgressed, unaddressed, undressed, unimpressed, unrest, wrest.
3-e" s tarrest, acquiesced, assessed, attest, behest, bequest, best, blessed, blest, Celeste, chest, coalesced, confessed, congest, detest, digest, dispossessed, divest, fessed, finessed, gest, guessed, guest, infest, ingest, invest, jest, lest, messed, molest, nest, northwest, obsessed, pest, possessed, professed, quest, rearrest, reassessed, recessed, reinvest, repossessed, request, retest, southwest, suggest, test, vest, West, zest.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Rest

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: erst, rets.

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

-1 letter: ers, res, ret, ser, set.

-2 letters: er, es, et, re.

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

+1 letter: aster, crest, drest, ester, frets, nerts, prest, rates, reest, rents, reset, rests, rites, roset, rotes, stare, steer, stere, stern, store, strep, strew, tares, tears, terms, terns, terse, tiers, tires, tores, torse, trees, treks, tress, trets, trews, treys, tries, trues, tyers, tyres, verst, verts, wrest.

 

+2 letters: afters, airest, alerts, alters, antres, aretes, armets, arrest, artels, assert, astern, asters, averts, barest, baster, berets, berths, bestir, bister, bistre, biters, breast, brents, brutes, burets, buster, carets, cartes, caster, caters, certes, cherts, citers, corset, coster, crates, crests, cruets, cruset, curets, daters, derats, desert, deters, direst, doters, driest, dryest, duster, earths, easter, eaters, egrets, enters, erects, ergots, ersatz, eructs, erupts, escort, esprit, esters, estral, estray, estrin, estrum, estrus, ethers, everts, exerts, exsert, extras, faster, fester, fetors, forest, fortes, foster, freest, gaster, grates, greats, greets, haters, hearts, horste, inerts, insert, inters, jester, juster, kiters, laster, lister, liters, litres, luster, lustre, master, maters, matres, merest, merits, meters, metres, metros, mister, miters, mitres, muster, nester, nestor, niters, nitres, noters, oaters, orates, ostler, others, otters, ouster, outers, oxters, oyster, paster, paters, pester, peters, poster, prates, preset, presto, prests, priest, purest, ramets, rarest, raster, ratels, raters, rawest, reacts, reatas, rebuts, recast, rectos, rectus, recuts, reests, refits, relets, relist, remits, renest, rentes, repast, repots, reseat, resect, resent, resets, reshot, resift, resist, resite, resort, respot, rested, rester, result, retags, retems, retest, reties, retros, retuse, revest, revets, rewets, rifest, ripest, ritzes, rivets, rosets, roster, rottes, routes, rudest, russet, rusted, rustle, salter, satire, scoter, seater, secret, sector, sentry, serest, setter, sifter, sinter, sister, sitter, skater, slater, smiter, softer, sorbet, sorest, sorted, sorter, sortie, souter, sprent, sprite, stager, staler, stared, starer, stares, starve, stater, stayer, steers, stelar, stereo, steres, steric, sterna, sterns, sterol, stiver, stoker, stoner, stoper, stored, stores, storey, stoure, stover, strafe, strake, streak, stream, streek, streel, street, streps, stress, strewn, strews, striae, stride, strife, strike, stripe, strive, strobe, strode, stroke, strove, styler, suiter, surest, surety, sutler, suture, tabers, takers, talers, tamers, tapers, targes, tarres, taster, taters, tawers, taxers, teaser, tenors, tenser, tensor, terais, terces, ternes, terras, terser, tester, tetras, theirs, theres, therms, threes, thresh, throes, thyrse, tigers, tilers, timers, titers, titres, tokers, toners, topers, tories, torose, torses, tortes, tosser, toters, towers, toyers, traces, trades, trapes, traves, treads, treats, treens, trends, tressy, tribes, trices, triens, triers, trikes, trines, triose, tripes, triste, trokes, trones, tropes, troves, truces, truest, tryste, tsores, tubers, tuners, turves, tusker, tusser, tuyers, twerps, twiers, twyers, ulster, unrest, urates, uterus, utters, vaster, verist, verset, verste, versts, vertus, vestry, voters, waster, waters, wester, worset, wrests, wriest, writes, wryest, xyster, yarest, yester, zester, zoster.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Historic
11. Quotations: Fiction
12. Quotations: Non-fiction
13. Quotations: Spoken
14. Quotations: Speeches
15. Usage Frequency
16. Names: Derived from
17. Expressions
18. Expressions: Internet
19. Translations: Modern
20. Translations: Ancient
21. Bible Trace
22. Abbreviations
23. Acronyms
24. Derivations
25. Rhymes
26. Anagrams
27. Bibliography


  

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