Rest

What do we mean by rest?

A support for a lance on the side of the breastplate of medieval armor. noun

The part that is left over after something has been removed; remainder. noun

That or those remaining. noun

To be or continue to be; remain. intransitive verb

To remain or be left over. intransitive verb

A period of inactivity, relaxation, or sleep. noun

Sleep or the refreshment resulting from inactivity or sleep. noun

The repose of death. noun

Mental or emotional calm. noun

The state of being motionless; the absence of motion. noun

The condition of being settled or resolved. noun

An interval of silence corresponding to one of the possible time values within a measure. noun

The mark or symbol indicating such a pause and its length. noun

A short pause in a line of poetry; a caesura. noun

A device used as a support. noun

To cease motion, work, or activity, especially in order to become refreshed. intransitive verb

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

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

Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.

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

A final position after death.

A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.

A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.

Absence of motion.

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.

Any object designed to be used to support something else.

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

A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.

A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.

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

A set or game at tennis.

Words that are spelled similarly to rest:
rest.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word rest:
unproductive, roads, settled, rivers, couples, statistical, orthodox, life, remainder.

Words that rhyme with rest:
test, manifest, best, request, suggest, quest, attest, crest, nest, lest, contest, vest, chest, west, behest, arrest, zest, abreast, protest, blessed, invest, divest, jest, digest, incest, breast, distressed, obsessed, pest, guest, fest, ingest, detest, impressed, bequest, celeste, depressed, wrest, molest, assessed, unrest, accessed, blest, gest, possessed, stressed, pressed, inquest, este, infest, addressed, oppressed, teste, acquiesced, suppressed, geste, dressed, congest, recessed, northwest, midwest, expressed, slugfest, brest, armrest, compressed, southwest, budapest, coalesced, repressed, dispossessed, headrest, finessed, yest, prest, transgressed, professed, goldcrest, retest, alkahest, digressed, bucharest, mest, drest, caressed, backrest, feste, blood test, confessed, unimpressed, dest, self-professed, house arrest, at best, guessed, reinvest, messed, mae west, undressed, cardiac arrest.

Adjectives that are often used to describe rest:
little, complete, absolute, short, long, good, eternal, perfect, brief, much, more, adequate, final, prolonged, proper, enough, quiet, back, earned, needed, bed, physical, everlasting, sufficient, relative, true, mental, peaceful, sweet, longer, strict, heavenly, minute, entire, comparative, deserved, better, day, holy, occlusal, foot, necessary, weekly, extra, worth, welcome, dead, nice, temporary, steady, spiritual, blessed, endless, physiological, sacred, arm, promised, weary, undisturbed, nightly, comfortable, needful, thorough, uninterrupted, unbroken, occasional, pleasant, happy, solemn, hour, momentary, perpetual, insufficient, glorious, broken, extended, refreshing, patient.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective rest:
rooms, periods, houses, house, pain, period, minutes, hands, thee, head, awhile, day, days, hand, position, pauses, stops, seconds, cure, room, while, content, eyes, mass, area, homes, arms, minute, soul, areas, moment, breaks, harrow, diet, tremor, bit, arm, intervals, mind, heart, feet, exercise, hour, min, food, end, facilities, sleep, seats, briefly, energy, stop, home, forehead, palms, figure, camp, elbow, athlete, friend, limitation, means, elbows, fig, cures, child, fingers, forearm, pointer, air, images, interval, break, frame, tranquil, limbs, foot, camps, applications, billets, imaging, angina, based, therapy, chin, weight, leg.

Consonant match to rest:
roast, roost, rust, wrest, wrist, roust, rast, rist, raced, rost, riced, reust, ruest.

Words that sound like rest:
rest, arrest, wrest, reste, wrist, rust, rist, roast, roost, raced, rost, rast, reast, roust, riced, raste, roist, risd, breast, dressed, crest, pressed, rests, ret, ress, caressed, brest, rst, rhett, trest, prest, arrests, ernst, irst, retched, rester, resto, rette, erst, rett, chrest, wrst, resi, arrester, drest, tressed, ressa, resta, wrester, recit, threst, wret, uresti, arrestor, earst, arrestee, wrests, breste, ferrest, regt, rasd, cresst, west, zest, hest, yest, yoest, weste, crust, earnest, receipt, recite, ernest, frist, crist, grist, rawest, brust, arest, arist, arista, krist, prist, aristo, aurous, reest, brist, christe, chryst, cryst, racette, recy, hris, prust, krust, ariss, chorist, arrased, aurate, aurist.