Usually means: Cessation of work or movement.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. rest, the rest: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. rest, rest, rest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rest, rest, rest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rest, the rest: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rest: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rest, rest, rest: Wordnik
  7. rest, the rest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. REST, Rest, 'rest, rest: Wiktionary
  9. rest: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. rest: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. rest: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Rest, rest: Dictionary.com
  13. rest (1), rest (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. rest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. REST (disambiguation), REST (gene), REST, Rest (Charlotte Gainsbourg album), Rest (Gregor Samsa album), Rest (band), Rest (cue sports), Rest (disambiguation), Rest (finance), Rest (music), Rest (painting), Rest (physics), Rest, The Rest (rugby union), The Rest: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Rest: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. rest: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. rest: Rhymezone
  19. Rest (m), rest: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. rest: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Rest: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. rest: Free Dictionary
  23. rest: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. rest: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. rest: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. -rest: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Rest: Encyclopedia of Organ Stops

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Rest (object), -rest, rest: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. REST: ILC Internet Terms
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. Rest (object), -rest, rest: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Rest: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Rest (object), -rest, rest: Medical dictionary
  6. Rest: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. REST: Acronym Finder
  2. -rest, rest: Idioms
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rest: Easton Bible

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rest: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Rest, the rest: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rest: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  3. rest: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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