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What does rest mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word rest? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (person) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
  2. (countable) Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
  3. (uncountable) Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
  4. (object) A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.
  5. (euphemistic, uncountable) A final position after death.
  6. (music) A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
  7. (music) A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
  8. (physics) Absence of motion.
  9. (snooker, 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.
  10. (countable) 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. (poetry) 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. (dated) A set or game at tennis.
Verb
  1. (intransitive) To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.
  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.
  4. (intransitive, transitive, reflexive) To be or to put into a state of rest.
  5. (intransitive) To stay, remain, be situated.
  6. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To lean, lie, or lay.
  7. (intransitive, transitive, law, US) 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. (intransitive) To sleep; slumber.
  9. (intransitive) To lie dormant.
  10. (intransitive) To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
  11. (intransitive) To rely or depend on.
  12. To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
Noun
  1. (uncountable) That which remains.
  2. Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
  3. (Britain, finance) 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.
Verb
  1. (obsolete) To remain.
Verb
  1. (obsolete) To arrest.
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