rest

(mostly in plural) backlog, unfinished business

rest (nominative singular)
resty (nominative plural)
restu (genitive singular)
restů (genitive plural)
restu (dative singular)
restům (dative plural)
rest (accusative singular)
resty (accusative plural)
reste (singular vocative)
resty (plural vocative)
restu (locative singular)
restech (locative plural)
restem (instrumental singular)
resty (instrumental plural)


rest

head

rest c (singular definite resten, plural indefinite rester)

resten (definite singular)
rester (indefinite plural)

Borrowed from French reste, probably via German Rest.


rest

nl-noun

rest f (plural resten, diminutive restje n)

resten (plural)
restje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: res

Negerhollands: rest

From Middle Dutch reste, from Middle French reste.


rest

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

The sun sets, and the workers go to their rest.

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

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

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

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

And the land had rest fourscore years.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 3:30:

(uncountable) Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.

The boulder came to rest just behind the house after rolling down the mountain.

The ocean was finally at rest.

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

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

She was laid to rest in the village cemetery.

(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")

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

(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.

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

(physics, uncountable) Absence of motion.

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

(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.

She put the phone receiver back in its rest.

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

(countable) Any object designed to be used to support something else.

their visors closed, their lances in the rest

1700, [John] Dryden, “The Flower and the Leaf: Or, The Lady in the Arbour. A Vision.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

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

c. 1851, Catholicus (pen name of John Henry Newman, letter in The Times
halfway houses and travellers' rests

in dust our final rest, and native home

1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

Ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the Lord your God giveth you.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy xii:9:

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.

a new account was opened under the heading "Irondale Mine" and so continued witli semiannual rest

1874, New York Court of Appeals, Records and Briefs:

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

en-noun

rest (countable and uncountable, plural rests)

راحة

relief from exertion; state of quiet and recreation

հանգիստ

peace, freedom from trouble, tranquility

rest

stick used to support the cue in snooker

стойка

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.


rest

Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 23:12:

(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.

There rest, if any rest can harbour there.

1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

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

My day's work is over; now I will rest.

We need to rest the horses before we ride any further.

I shall not rest until I have uncovered the truth.

And thereby at a pryory they rested them all nyght.

1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book X:

With the north London derby to come at the weekend, Spurs boss Harry Redknapp opted to rest many of his key players, although he brought back Aaron Lennon after a month out through injury.

2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3-1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport:

(intransitive, transitive, reflexive, copulative) To be or to put into a state of rest.

The blame seems to rest with your father.

(intransitive) To stay, remain, be situated.

A column rests on its pedestal.

I rested my head in my hands.

She rested against my shoulder.

I rested against the wall for a minute.

(transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To lean, lie, or lay.

The defense rests, your Honor.

I rest my case.

(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.)

I sing to him that rests below,
And, since the grasses round me wave,
I take the grasses of the grave,
And make them pipes whereon to blow.

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXI, page 35:

(intransitive) To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.

The decision rests on getting a bank loan.

On him I rested, after long debate, / And not without considering, fixed fate.

1700, John Dryden, Sigismonda and Guiscardo:

Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.[…]But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.

2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

to rest in Heaven's determination

1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 1:

en-verb

rest (third-person singular simple present rests, present participle resting, simple past and past participle rested)

rests (present singular third-person)
resting (participle present)
rested (participle past)
rested (past)

relax

lie down and take repose, especially by sleeping

опирам се

intransitive: lie or lean or be supported

From Middle English resten, from Old English restan, from Proto-West Germanic *rastijan (“to rest”), from Proto-Indo-European *ros-, *res-, *erH- (“rest”). Cognate with Dutch rusten (“to rest”), Middle Low German resten (“to rest”), German rasten (“to rest”), Danish raste (“to rest”), Swedish rasta (“to rest”).


rest

She ate some of the food, but was not hungry enough to eat it all, so she put the rest in the refrigerator to finish later.

Plato and the rest of the philosophers

1676, Bishop Stillingfleet, A Defence of the Discourse Concerning the Idolatry Practised in the Church of Rome:

Arm'd like the rest, the Trojan prince appears.

1697, Virgil, translated by John Dryden, The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

The rest of us were engaged in various occupations: Mr. Trevor relating experiences of steamboat days on the Ohio to Mrs. Cooke; Miss Trevor buried in a serial in the Century; and Farrar and I taking an inventory of the fishing-tackle, when we were startled by a loud and profane ejaculation.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter XI, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

Shepard: The rest of the galaxy isn't just going to bow down just because we tell them to. We'll need the fleets to bring them in line.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:

It also showed that 26 of the top 30 AI patent requests came from businesses. Universities or public research organizations made up the rest.
Audio (US): (file)

2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 2019-02-07

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.

From Middle English reste, from Old French reste, from Old French rester (“to remain”), from Latin restō (“to stay back, stay behind”), from re- + stō (“to stand”). Replaced native Middle English lave (“rest, remainder”) (from Old English lāf (“remnant, remainder”)).


rest

You can rest assured that a sick child will say when it's again ready to eat, so it won't starve and doesn't need to be cajoled into eating.

Rest you merry. ("Be glad, be joyful"; later: "Good luck to you.")

(no object, with complement) To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way.

God rest you merry, gentlemen. ("May God grant you happiness and peace, gentlemen"; literally: "May God keep you happy and in peace, gentlemen.")

(transitive, obsolete) To keep a certain way.

From Middle English resten, from Old French rester, from Latin restō.


rest

(obsolete, transitive, colloquial) To arrest.


rest

hu-adj

rest (comparative restebb, superlative legrestebb)

restebb (comparative)
legrestebb (superlative)
rest (nominative singular)
restek (nominative plural)
restet (accusative singular)
resteket (accusative plural)
restnek (dative singular)
resteknek (dative plural)
resttel (instrumental singular)
restekkel (instrumental plural)
restért (causal-final singular)
restekért (causal-final plural)
restté (singular translative)
restekké (plural translative)
restig (singular terminative)
restekig (plural terminative)
restként (essive-formal singular)
restekként (essive-formal plural)
restül (essive-modal singular)
restben (inessive singular)
restekben (inessive plural)
resten (singular superessive)
resteken (plural superessive)
restnél (adessive singular)
resteknél (adessive plural)
restbe (illative singular)
restekbe (illative plural)
restre (singular sublative)
restekre (plural sublative)
resthez (allative singular)
restekhez (allative plural)
restből (elative singular)
restekből (elative plural)
restről (delative singular)
restekről (delative plural)
resttől (ablative singular)
restektől (ablative plural)
resté (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
resteké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
restéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
restekéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)

From a Northern Italian dialect, compare Emilian rest, Piedmontese rest, Romagnol rést, Italian resto (“rest”), from restare, from Latin restō (“I stay behind, remain”).


rest

resten av

rester

resten (definite singular)
rester (indefinite plural)
restene (definite plural)


rest

resten av

restar

resten (definite singular)
restar (indefinite plural)
restane (definite plural)


rest

rest (nominative singular)
resta (nominative plural)
reste (nominative plural)
reste (accusative singular)
resta (accusative plural)
reste (accusative plural)
reste (genitive singular)
resta (genitive plural)
reste (dative singular)
restum (dative plural)


rest

resturi (plural)
rest (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
restul (accusative definite nominative singular)
resturi (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
resturile (accusative definite nominative plural)
rest (indefinite singular)
restului (definite singular)
resturi (indefinite singular)
resturilor (definite plural)
restule (singular vocative)
resturilor (vocative)


rest

Poftim restul de la înghețată, băiete.

Here's the change from the ice-cream, son.

change (small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination)

rest (accusative indefinite nominative)
restul (accusative definite nominative)
rest (indefinite)
restului (definite)
restule (vocative)


rest

Resten är gula.

(in the plural) remainder, rest (what remains)

11 dividerat med 2 är 5, med 1 i rest

Idag blir det rester

rest (indefinite nominative singular)
rests (genitive indefinite singular)
resten (definite nominative singular)
restens (definite genitive singular)
rester (indefinite nominative plural)
resters (genitive indefinite plural)
resterna (definite nominative plural)
resternas (definite genitive plural)

Borrowed from French reste, from Latin restāre (“remain”).


rest

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.