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Definition: Rest Stop |
Rest StopNoun1. 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 StopSynonyms: layby (n), lay-by (n), pull-off (n), rest area (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Rest Stop |
| English words defined with "rest stop": Cessation of arms ♦ Gest ♦ lay-by ♦ pit stop, pull-off ♦ rest area ♦ To make a stand, To take breath. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "rest stop": HEEL-NAILING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ Linux ♦ service-car operator, steam winder. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You just took a little rest stop that wasn't on the schedule! (Midnight Cowboy; writing credit: Waldo Salt) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Rest stop while climbing to station at Ragged Point.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | New Bedford, Pennsylvania. A rest stop for Greyhound buses.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | WTC [i.e. World Transportation Commission] members at rest stop in mountains on East Bengal Railway.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Travel | Egypt | Buses take 3 1/2 hours, with a rest stop. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lyrics matchbox rest stop twenty | 5 |
house maryland rest stop | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "rest stop"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Italian | luogo di sosta (layby). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | estray opstay apartadero (by-pass lane, lay-by, passing bay, passing place, pull in, rest area, sidetrack, turn-out). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: protests, spotters. | |
| Words within the letters "e-o-p-r-s-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: posters, potters, prestos, protest, respots, spotter, stopers. | |
-2 letters: estops, otters, pestos, posers, posset, poster, potter, presto, prests, proses, ptoses, repots, respot, rosets, rottes, sorest, spores, sports, stoper, stopes, stores, streps, strops, topers, torses, tortes, tosser, toters, tropes, tsores. | |
-3 letters: estop, otter, pesos, pesto, pests, petto, poets, pores, ports, poser, poses, posse, posts, press. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-o-p-r-s-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: prostates, sportiest, sternpost. | |
+2 letters: pastorates, poetasters, postarrest, postmaster, poststrike, prostrates, protesters, protestors, proustites, spectators, sternposts, stroppiest. | |
+3 letters: introspects, operettists, orthoepists, parotitises, periostitis, photoresist, pinspotters, posterities, postharvest, postmasters, postmortems, prosthetics, prosthetist, prostitutes, protectress, protestants, protosteles, protostomes, retrospects, stepmothers, stereotypes, tetraspores, waterspouts. | |
+4 letters: antistrophes, catastrophes, computerists, countersteps, disportments, optometrists, orthopedists, paternosters, petrologists, photoresists, photosetters, phytosterols, poltergeists, postmistress, prosthetists, septentrions, spatterdocks, sportscaster, sportswriter, stepbrothers, stereotypers, stereotypies, stratosphere, streptolysin, streptomyces, superstation, superstition, transportees, transporters, trapshooters. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 73 74 53 74 6F 70 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01110011 01110100 00100000 01010011 01110100 01101111 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e s t   S t o p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0073 0074 0053 0074 006F 0070 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52718586253868182 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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