rest

noun

1. (uncountable)Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.

   “I need to get a good rest tonight; I was up late last night.”

   “The sun sets, and the workers go to their rest.”

2. (countable)Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.

   “We took a rest at the top of the hill to get our breath back.”

3. (uncountable)Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.

   “It was nice to have a rest from the phone ringing when I unplugged it for a while.”

   “And the land had rest fourscore years.”

4. (uncountable)A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.

   “The boulder came to rest just behind the house after rolling down the mountain.”

   “The ocean was finally at rest.”

   “Now that we're all in agreement, we can put that issue to rest.”

5. (euphemistic, uncountable)A final position after death. Also, death itself: "Not alone, not alone would I go to my rest in the heart of the love..." -- George William Russell ("Love")

   “She was laid to rest in the village cemetery.”

6. (countable)A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.

   “Remember there's a rest at the end of the fourth bar.”

7. (countable)A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
8. (uncountable)Absence of motion.

   “The body's centre of gravity may affect its state of rest.”

9. (countable)A stick with a U-, V- or X-shaped head used to support the tip of a cue when the cue ball is otherwise out of reach.

   “Higgins can't quite reach the white with his cue, so he'll be using the rest.”

10. (countable)Any object designed to be used to support something else.

    “She put the phone receiver back in its rest.”

    “He placed his hands on the arm rests of the chair.”

11. (countable, uncountable)A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.

    “their visors closed, their lances in the rest”

12. (countable, uncountable)A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.

    “c. 1851, Catholicus (pen name of John Henry Newman, letter in The Times halfway houses and travellers' rests”

    “in dust our final rest, and native home”

    “Ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the Lord your God giveth you.”

13. (countable, uncountable)A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
14. (countable, uncountable)The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals after which compound interest is added to capital.

    “a new account was opened under the heading "Irondale Mine" and so continued witli semiannual rest”

15. (countable, dated, uncountable)A set or game at tennis.
16. (uncountable)That which remains.

    “She ate some of the food, but was not hungry enough to eat it all, so she put the rest in the refrigerator to finish later.”

17. (uncountable)Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.

    “Plato and the rest of the philosophers”

    “Arm'd like the rest, the Trojan prince appears.”

    “The rest of us were engaged in various occupations: Mr. Trevor relating experiences of steamboat days on the Ohio to Mrs. Cooke; Miss Trevor buried in a serial in the Century; and Farrar and I taking an inventory of the fishing-tackle, when we were startled by a loud and profane ejaculation.”

    “Shepard: The rest of the galaxy isn't just going to bow down just because we tell them to. We'll need the fleets to bring them in line.”

    “It also showed that 26 of the top 30 AI patent requests came from businesses. Universities or public research organizations made up the rest.”

18. (UK, uncountable)A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.
19. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable)Acronym of representational state transfer.

    “Coding a REST API has never felt right to me. I believe that REST APIs should be designed and configured, but not coded.”

verb

1. (intransitive)To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.

   “My day's work is over; now I will rest.”

   “I shall not rest until I have uncovered the truth.”

   “Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest.”

2. (intransitive)To come to a pause or an end; end.
3. (intransitive)To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.

   “There rest, if any rest can harbour there.”

4. (copulative, reflexive, transitive)To put into a state of rest.

   “We need to rest the horses before we ride any further.”

   “And thereby at a pryory they rested them all nyght.”

   “With the north London derby to come at the weekend, Spurs boss Harry Redknapp opted to rest many of his key players, although he brought back Aaron Lennon after a month out through injury.”

5. (intransitive)To stay, remain, be situated, or belong to.

   “The blame seems to rest with your father.”

   “Copyright in the typographical arrangement rests with the Crown.”

6. (intransitive)To rely or depend on.

   “The decision rests on getting a bank loan.”

7. (intransitive)To be based on; to rely on something for proof or explanation

   “On him I rested, after long debate, / And not without considering, fixed fate.”

   “Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.[…]But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.”

8. (intransitive, reflexive, transitive)To lean, lie, or lay.

   “A column rests on its pedestal.”

   “I rested my head in my hands.”

   “She rested against my shoulder.”

   “I rested against the wall for a minute.”

9. (US, intransitive, transitive)To complete one's active advocacy in a trial or other proceeding, and thus to wait for the outcome (however, one is still generally available to answer questions, etc.)

   “The defense rests, your Honor.”

   “I rest my case.”

10. (intransitive)To sleep; slumber.
11. (intransitive)To lie dormant.
12. (intransitive)To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.

    “I sing to him that rests below, ⁠And, since the grasses round me wave, ⁠I take the grasses of the grave, And make them pipes whereon to blow.”

13. To be satisfied; to acquiesce.

    “to rest in Heaven's determination”

14. To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way.

    “You can rest assured that a sick child will say when it's again ready to eat, so it won't starve and doesn't need to be cajoled into eating.”

    “Rest you merry.”

15. (obsolete, transitive)To keep a certain way.

    “God rest you merry, gentlemen.”

16. (colloquial, obsolete, transitive)To arrest.

name

1. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Revised Extended Standard Theory.
2. Syllabic abbreviation of reStructuredText, a plain-text markup language.