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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 rest /ˈrɛst/
 休息,睡眠,安息,稍息,安靜,靜止,支架,休息處,其餘者,賸餘部分(vi.)休息

From: Taiwan MOE computer dictionary

 rest
 重設率

From: Network Terminology

 rest
 休息 剩餘

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Rest, v. t.
 1. To lay or place at rest; to quiet.
 Your piety has paid
 All needful rites, to rest my wandering shade.   --Dryden.
 2. To place, as on a support; to cause to lean.
    Her weary head upon your bosom rest.   --Waller.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Rest, n.
 1. A state of quiet or repose; a cessation from motion or labor; tranquillity; as, rest from mental exertion; rest of body or mind.
    Sleep give thee all his rest!   --Shak.
 2. Hence, freedom from everything which wearies or disturbs; peace; security.
    And the land had rest fourscore years.   --Judges iii. 30.
 3. Sleep; slumber; hence, poetically, death.
 How sleep the brave who sink to rest,
 By all their country's wishes blest.   --Collins.
 4. That on which anything rests or leans for support; as, a rest in a lathe, for supporting the cutting tool or steadying the work.
    He made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.   --1 Kings vi. 6.
 5. Anc. Armor A projection from the right side of the cuirass, serving to support the lance.
    Their visors closed, their lances in the rest.   --Dryden.
 6. A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode. “Halfway houses and travelers' rests.”
    In dust our final rest, and native home.   --Milton.
    Ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the Lord your God giveth you.   --Deut. xii. 9.
 7. Pros. A short pause in reading verse; a caesura.
 8. The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. “An account is said to be taken with annual or semiannual rests.”
 9. A set or game at tennis. [Obs.]
 10. Mus. Silence in music or in one of its parts; the name of the character that stands for such silence. They are named as notes are, whole, half, quarter,etc.
 Rest house, an empty house for the accomodation of travelers; a caravansary. [India]
 To set one's rest or To set up one's rest, to have a settled determination; -- from an old game of cards, when one so expressed his intention to stand or rest upon his hand. [Obs.] --Shak.  --Bacon.
 Syn: -- Cessation; pause; intermission; stop; stay; repose; slumber; quiet; ease; quietness; stillness; tranquillity; peacefulness; peace.
 Usage: -- Rest, Repose. Rest is a ceasing from labor or exertion; repose is a mode of resting which gives relief and refreshment after toil and labor. The words are commonly interchangeable.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Rest v. t.  To arrest. [Obs.]

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Rest v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rested; p. pr. & vb. n. Resting.]
 1. To cease from action or motion, especially from action which has caused weariness; to desist from labor or exertion.
    God . . . rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.   --Gen. ii. 2.
    Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest.   --Ex. xxiii. 12.
 2. To be free from whatever wearies or disturbs; to be quiet or still.
    There rest, if any rest can harbor there.   --Milton.
 3. To lie; to repose; to recline; to lan; as, to rest on a couch.
 4. To stand firm; to be fixed; to be supported; as, a column rests on its pedestal.
 5. To sleep; to slumber; hence, poetically, to be dead.
 Fancy . . . then retries
 Into her private cell when Nature rests.   --Milton.
 6. To lean in confidence; to trust; to rely; to repose without anxiety; as, to rest on a man's promise.
 On him I rested, after long debate,
 And not without considering, fixed my fate.   --Dryden.
 7. To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
    To rest in Heaven's determination.   --Addison.
 To rest with, to be in the power of; to depend upon; as, it rests with him to decide.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Rest, n.  (With the definite article.)
 1. That which is left, or which remains after the separation of a part, either in fact or in contemplation; remainder; residue.
    Religion gives part of its reward in hand, the present comfort of having done our duty, and, for the rest, it offers us the best security that Heaven can give.   --Tillotson.
 2. Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others. “Plato and the rest of the philosophers.”
    Armed like the rest, the Trojan prince appears.   --Dryden.
 3. Com. 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. [Eng.]
 Syn: -- Remainder; overplus; surplus; remnant; residue; reserve; others.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Rest, v. i.  To be left; to remain; to continue to be.
    The affairs of men rest still uncertain.   --Shak.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 rest
      n 1: something left after other parts have been taken away;
           "there was no remainder"; "he threw away the rest"; "he
           took what he wanted and I got the balance" [syn: remainder,
            balance, residual, residue, residuum]
      2: freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility);
         "took his repose by the swimming pool" [syn: ease, repose,
          relaxation]
      3: a pause for relaxation; "people actually accomplish more
         when they take time for short rests" [syn: respite, relief,
          rest period]
      4: a state of inaction; "a body will continue in a state of
         rest until acted upon"
      5: euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a
         bed and in a tomb); "she was laid to rest beside her
         husband"; "they had to put their family pet to sleep"
         [syn: eternal rest, sleep, eternal sleep, quietus]
      6: a support on which things can be put; "the gun was steadied
         on a special rest"
      7: a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified
         duration
      v 1: not move; be in a resting position
      2: take a short break from one's activities in order to relax
         [syn: breathe, catch one's breath, take a breather]
      3: give a rest to; "He rested his bad leg"; "Rest the dogs for
         a moment"
      4: have a place in relation to something else; "The fate of
         Bosnia lies in the hands of the West"; "The responsibility
         rests with the Allies" [syn: lie]
      5: be at rest [ant: be active]
      6: stay the same; remain in a certain state; "The dress
         remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "rest
         assured"; "stay alone"; "He remained unmoved by her
         tears"; "The bad weather continued for another week" [syn:
          stay, remain] [ant: change]
      7: be inherent or innate in; [syn: reside, repose]
      8: put something in a resting position, as for support or
         steadying; "Rest your head on my shoulder"
      9: sit, as on a branch; "The birds perched high in the treee"
         [syn: perch, roost]
      10: rest on or as if on a pillow; "pillow your head" [syn: pillow]
      11: be inactive, refrain from acting; "The committee is resting
          over the summer"

From: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

 Rest
    (1.) Gr. katapausis, equivalent to the Hebrew word _noah_ (Heb.
    4:1).
      (2.) Gr. anapausis, "rest from weariness" (Matt. 11:28).
      (3.) Gr. anesis, "relaxation" (2 Thess. 1:7).
      (4.) Gr. sabbatismos, a Sabbath rest, a rest from all work
    (Heb. 4:9; R.V., "sabbath"), a rest like that of God when he had
    finished the work of creation.