Word Finder - rests

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(of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.

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

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• sleep
• slumber

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Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.

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

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• break
• repose
• time off

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Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.

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

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• peace
• quiet
• roo
• silence
• stillness
• tranquility

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(of an object or concept) A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.

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

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A final position after death.

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She was laid to rest in the village cemetery.

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• peace

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A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.

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

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A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.

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Absence of motion.

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

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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.

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

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Any object designed to be used to support something else.

example

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

synonyms

• cradle
• support

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A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.

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A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.

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A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.

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The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals after which compound interest is added to capital.

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A set or game at tennis.

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

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To come to a pause or an end; end.

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To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.

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To be or to put into a state of rest.

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I shall not rest until I have uncovered the truth.

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To stay, remain, be situated.

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The blame seems to rest with your father.

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To lean, lie, or lay.

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A column rests on its pedestal.

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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.)

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I rest my case.

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To sleep; slumber.

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To lie dormant.

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To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.

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To rely or depend on.

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The decision rests on getting a bank loan.

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To be satisfied; to acquiesce.

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To remain.

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To arrest.

But his fame rests mainly on his theological works.

Common sense tells us the obvious is usually where the truth rests and the obvious is either Fitzgerald or someone in the Dawkins family.

The responsibility rests with Clifford alone.

After another moult the insect passes into the passive nymphal or " pupal " stage, during which it takes no food and rests in some safe hiding-place, such as the soil at the base of its food-plant or the hollow of a leaf-stalk.

Macaulay in especial exerted all his art, though in contradiction of probability and fact, to deepen still further the shade which rests upon his reputation.

But Samuel's fame rests on the service which he rendered in adapting the life of the Jews of the diaspora to the law of the land.

His reputation mainly rests on his Introduzione ad una teoria geometrica delle curve piane, which proclaims him as a follower of the Steinerian or synthetical school of geometricians.

The physical theory, in its earlier form in The World, and later in the Principles of Philosophy (which the present account follows), rests upon the metaphysical conclusions of the Meditations.

The story of Alexander's visit to Jerusalem rests on no better authority than a later Jewish romance.

Lord Mansfield's great reputation rests chiefly on his judicial career.

The convex side rests upon the duchy of Coburg and is in part bounded by Bavaria, while the concave side, turned towards the north, contains portions of four other Thuringian states and Prussia between its horns, which are 46 m.

The theory upon which the rite everywhere rests is clearly the belief, for which there is an abundance of concurrent testimony, that the liver was at one time regarded as the seat of vitality.

It rests on a series of arcades supported by white marble columns.

The two works on which his reputation principally rests are the A postolici, or History of Apostles and Fathers in the first three centuries of the Church (1677), and Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Historia Literaria (1688).

The principal component parts of a traveller are the main cross girders forming the revolving bridge, the two end carriages on which the bridge rests, the cranes.

Still the main weight of intuitionalist theism rests upon the conception of God as First Cause.

The supposition that sensation thus rests on a material process of absorption from external bodies naturally led up to the idea that plants and even inorganic subtances are precipient, and so to an indistinct recognition of organic life as a scale of intelligence.

Thus he suggests that man has not eyes of a microscopic delicacy, because he would receive no great advantage from such acute organs, since though adding indefinitely to his speculative knowledge of the physical world they would 1 Yet he leaves open the question whether the Deity has annexed thought to matter as a faculty, or whether it rests on a distinct spiritual principle.

The detailed exhibition of the organizing activity of nature in the several processes of the organic and inorganic world rests on a number of fanciful and unscientific ideas.

But none of these stories rests on trustworthy evidence; on the other hand, there can be no doubt that Aurelius trusted her while she lived, and mourned her loss.

Later, the axis branches by the formation of new growing-points, and in this way the complex system of axes forming the body of the ordinary vascular plant is built up. In the flowering plants the embryo, after developing up to a certain point, stopf growing and rests, enclosed within the seed.

Another suggestion, which rests, however, merely on its own internal probability, is that Squarcione had at the outset used his pupil Andrea as the unavowed executant of certain commissions, but that after a while Andrea began painting on his own account, thus injuring the professional interests of his chief.

The name Jarchi, formerly used for Rashi, rests on a misunderstanding.

There is a foundation of schists and crystalline rocks upon which rests a series of sandstones.

The legislative power of the state rests with the general assembly, consisting of two chambers, one of senators (19 in number) and one of representatives (75).

In the deltas of shoal rivers, with a strong tide or current and no land visible, a 5 lb lead is substituted for the log-ship; the lead rests on the bottom, and the speed is obtained in a manner similar to that previously described.

The weight W 1 carried by the part of the frame supported by the wheel (whose diameter is D) is transmitted first to the pins P 1, P2, which are fixed to the frame, and then to the spring links L 1, L2, which are jointed at their respective ends to the spring S, the centre of which rests on the axle-box.

No biological generalization rests on a wider series of observations, or has been subjected to a more critical scrutiny than that every living organism has come into existence from a living portion or portions of a pre-existing organism.

Of Egyptian ritual little is known; our knowledge rests mainly on the evidence of pictures.

Although he wrote poetry, also an anthology of verses on the monasteries of Mesopotamia and Egypt, and a genealogical work, his fame rests upon his Book of Songs (Kitab ul-Aghani), which gives an account of the chief Arabian songs, ancient and modern, with the stories of the composers and singers.

In September 1533 the birth of a daughter, afterwards Queen Elizabeth, instead of the long-hoped-for son, was a heavy disappointment; next year Of this there is no direct proof, but the statement rests upon contemporary belief and chiefly upon the extraordinary terms of the dispensation granted to Henry to marry Anne Boleyn, which included the suspension of all canons relating to impediments created by "affinity rising ex illicito coitu in any degree even in the first."

The marble urn containing the body of the poet still rests at Ravenna, where what Byron calls "a little cupola more neat than solemn" has been erected over it.

In either case it is of course open to anyone to maintain that the apparent completeness of synthesis really rests on the subtle intrusion of elements of feeling into the rational process.

It is on the service that he rendered to science in establishing the relations between electricity and magnetism, and in developing the science of electromagnetism, or, as he called it, electrodynamics, that Ampere's fame mainly rests.

Not that this date rests on positive evidence.

The Arithmetica, the greatest treatise on which the fame of Diophantus rests, purports to be in thirteen Books, but none of the Greek MSS.

A series of black shales with nodular limestones, the Pendleside series, rests upon the Mountain Limestone on the east, south and north-west; much of the upper course of the Derwent has been cut through these soft beds.

Hegius's chief claim to be remembered rests not upon his published works, but upon his services in the cause of humanism.

But the link that connects him with churchly realism, as well as with the NeoPlatonic mysticism, is the conviction that complete and certain knowledge rests wholly on divine revelation, i.e.

The nymph of a thrips-insect (Thysanoptera) is sluggish, its legs and wings being sheathed by a delicate membrane, while the nymph of the male scaleinsect rests enclosed beneath a waxy covering.

But it must be observed that the classification of Nitzsch, just given, rests much more on characters furnished by the general structure than on those furnished by the carotid artery only.

But it is not upon material prosperity that Boston rests its claims for consideration.

Who can still affirm that all which in this realm appears as striking rests only on deception and error?

The evidence in favour of Gauden's authorship rests chiefly on his own assertions and those of his wife (who after his death sent to her son John a narrative of the claim), and on the fact that it was admitted by Clarendon, who sould have had means of being acquainted with the truth.

Malay is essentially, with few exceptions, a dissyllabic language, and the syllabic accent rests on the penultimate unless that syllable is open and short; e.g.

But the real work on which his title to remembrance rests is the influence he exercised on the thought and practice of the navy.

Therefore, according to Kekule, the double linkages are in a state of continual oscillation, and if his dynamical notion of valency, or a similar hypothesis, be correct, then the difference between the 1.2 and 1.6 di-derivatives rests on the insufficiency of his formula, which represents the configuration during one set of oscillations only.

The proof of this statement rests on the fact that if the hydrogen atoms were not co-planar, then substitution derivatives (the substituting groups not containing asymmetric carbon atoms) should exist in enantiomorphic forms, differing in crystal form and in their action on polarized light; such optical antipodes have, however, not yet been separated.

His fame rests upon his exposition of the principles necessary to chemistry as a secience, but of his contributions to analytical inorganic chemistry little can be said.

The authorship of the writings ascribed to him in several biographical notices rests on no better authority than the apocryphal statements of Thomas Dempster.