Definitions from Wiktionary (REST)

▸ noun:  (uncountable, of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
▸ noun:  (countable) Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
▸ noun:  (uncountable, of an object or concept) A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.
▸ noun:  (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")
▸ noun:  (music, countable) A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
▸ noun:  (music, countable) A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
▸ noun:  (physics, uncountable) Absence of motion.
▸ noun:  (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.
▸ noun:  (countable) Any object designed to be used to support something else.
▸ noun:  A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
▸ noun:  A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
▸ noun:  (poetry) A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
▸ noun:  The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals after which compound interest is added to capital.
▸ noun:  (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.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To come to a pause or an end; end.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.
▸ verb:  (transitive, reflexive, copulative) To put into a state of rest.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To stay, remain, be situated.
▸ verb:  (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To lean, lie, or lay.
▸ verb:  (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.)
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To sleep; slumber.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To lie dormant.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To rely or depend on.
▸ verb:  To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) That which remains.
▸ noun:  Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
▸ noun:  (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.
▸ verb:  (no object, with complement) To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To keep a certain way.
▸ verb:  (obsolete, transitive, colloquial) To arrest.
▸ noun:  (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.]
▸ noun:  (linguistics) Acronym of Revised Extended Standard Theory.
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