Definitions For Rest

noun

• Freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
• A support on which things can be put
• A musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration
• Something left after other parts have been taken away
• Euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
• A state of inaction
• A pause for relaxation
• To stop doing work or an activity : to spend time relaxing, sleeping, or doing nothing after you have been active or doing work
• To give rest to (someone)
• To stop using (something) so that it can become strong again

verb

• Be at rest
• Stay the same; remain in a certain state
• Take a short break from one's activities in order to relax
• Give a rest to
• Rest on or as if on a pillow
• Sit, as on a branch
• Not move; be in a resting position
• Put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying
• Be inactive, refrain from acting
• Be inherent or innate in
• Have a place in relation to something else