rest

Significat

Noun

1. Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
2. Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
3. Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
4. A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.
5. 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")
6. A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
7. A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
8. Absence of motion.
9. 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.
10. Any object designed to be used to support something else.
11. A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
12. A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
13. A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
14. The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals after which compound interest is added to capital.
15. A set or game at tennis.

Verb

1. To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.
2. To come to a pause or an end; end.
3. To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.
4. To be or to put into a state of rest.
5. To stay, remain, be situated.
6. To lean, lie, or lay.
7. 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.)
8. To sleep; slumber.
9. To lie dormant.
10. To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
11. To rely or depend on.
12. To be satisfied; to acquiesce.

Verb

1. To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way.
2. (obsolete) To keep a certain way.

Verb

To arrest.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ɹɛst/

Etimologia

From Middle English rest, reste, from Old English ræst, from Proto-West Germanic *rastu, from Proto-Germanic *rastō, from Proto-Indo-European *ros-, *res-, *erH- (“rest”). Cognate with West Frisian rêst (“rest”), Dutch rust (“rest”), German Rast (“rest”), Swedish rast (“rest”), Norwegian rest (“rest”), Icelandic röst (“rest”), Old Irish árus (“dwelling”), German Ruhe (“calm”), Albanian resht (“to stop, pause”), Welsh araf (“quiet, calm, gentle”), Lithuanian rovà (“calm”), Ancient Greek ἐρωή (erōḗ, “rest, respite”), Avestan 𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬨𐬈 (aⁱrime, “calm, peaceful”), Sanskrit रमते (rámate, “he stays still, calms down”), Gothic 𐍂𐌹𐌼𐌹𐍃 (rimis, “tranquility”). Related to roo.

Sents

She spent the rest of her life as Dowager Queen in Bohemia .