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      rest
      noun
      (uncountable, of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
      (countable) Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
      (uncountable) Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
      (uncountable, of an object or concept) A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.
      (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")
      (music, countable) A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
      (music, countable) A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
      (physics, uncountable) Absence of motion.
      (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.
      (countable) Any object designed to be used to support something else.
      A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
      A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
      (poetry) A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
      The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals after which compound interest is added to capital.
      (uncountable) That which remains.
      Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
      (UK, 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.
      (computing) Acronym of representational state transfer. [(software architecture) A way of providing interoperability between computer systems on the Internet based on textual representations of Web resources and a predefined set of stateless operations.]
      (linguistics) Acronym of Revised Extended Standard Theory.
      (dated) A set or game at tennis.
      verb
      (intransitive) To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.
      (intransitive) To come to a pause or an end; end.
      (intransitive) To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.
      (transitive, reflexive, copulative) To put into a state of rest.
      (intransitive) To stay, remain, be situated, or belong to.
      (intransitive) To rely or depend on.
      (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To lean, lie, or lay.
      (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.)
      (intransitive) To sleep; slumber.
      (intransitive) To lie dormant.
      (intransitive) To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
      To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
      (no object, with complement) To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way.
      (transitive, obsolete) To keep a certain way.
      (obsolete, transitive, colloquial) To arrest.
      Synonyms for rest
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      Words related to rest
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