Rest vs Arrest - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between rest and arrest

is that rest is a set or game at tennis while arrest is the act of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.

In obsolete terms the difference between rest and arrest

is that rest is to arrest while arrest is any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.

As nouns the difference between rest and arrest

is that rest is relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep while arrest is a check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.

As verbs the difference between rest and arrest

is that rest is to cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion while arrest is to stop the motion of (a person or animal).

As an abbreviation REST

is Representational State Transfer

rest

English

(wikipedia rest)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), . Related to (l).

Noun

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Bible, Judges iii. 30

And the land had rest fourscore years.

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

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 .

(euphemistic, uncountable) A final position after death.

She was laid to rest in the village cemetery.

(music, countable) A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.

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

(music, countable) A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.

(physics, uncountable) Absence of motion.

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

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

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

She put the phone receiver back in its rest .

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

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

* Dryden

their visors closed, their lances in the rest

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

* J. H. Newman

halfway houses and travellers' rests

* Milton

in dust our final rest , and native home

* Bible, Deuteronomy xii. 9

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

(poetry) A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.

The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account.

* Abbott

An account is said to be taken with annual or semiannual rests .

(dated) A set or game at tennis.

Synonyms

* (sleep) sleep, slumber * (relief from exertion) break, repose, time off * (freedom from trouble) peace, quiet, roo, silence, stillness, tranquility * (repose afforded by death) peace * (object designed to be used to support something else) cradle (of a telephone ), support

Antonyms

* motion * activity

Hypernyms

* bridge

Hyponyms

* (object designed to be used to support something else) arm rest, elbow rest, foot rest, head rest, leg rest, neck rest, wrist rest * (pause of specified length in a piece of music) breve rest, demisemiquaver rest, hemidemisemiquaver rest, minim rest, quaver rest, semibreve rest, semiquaver rest

Derived terms

* arm rest * at rest * bed rest * breve rest * chin rest * crotchet rest * day of rest * demisemiquaver rest * elbow rest * foot rest * gun rest * head rest * hemidemisemiquaver rest * incisal rest * lay to rest * leg rest * minim rest * neck rest * parade rest * put to rest * quarter rest * quaver rest * rest area * rest day * rest energy * rest home * rest mass * rest period * rest position * rest stop * restful * restless * restroom * semibreve rest * semiquaver rest * tool rest/tool-rest * whole rest * wolffian rest * wrist rest

Etymology 2

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.

* Bible, Exodus xxiii. 12

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

To come to a pause or an end; end.

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

* Milton

There rest , if any rest can harbour there.

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

* 1485 , Sir (Thomas Malory), (w, Le Morte d'Arthur) , Book X:

And thereby at a pryory they rested them all nyght.

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 29, author=Jon Smith, work=BBC Sport

, title= Tottenham 3-1 Shamrock Rovers , passage=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.}}

To stay, remain, be situated.

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

A column rests on its pedestal.

(intransitive, transitive, legal, 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.)

To sleep; slumber.

To lie dormant.

To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.

To rely or depend on.

* Dryden

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

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Boundary problems , passage=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.

To be satisfied; to acquiesce.

* Addison

to rest in Heaven's determination

Synonyms

* relax * (give rest to) relieve * (stop working) have a breather, pause, take a break, take time off, take time out * (be situated) be, lie, remain, reside, stay * lay, lean, place, put * lean, lie

Troponyms

* (lie down and take repose) sleep, nap

Derived terms

* rest assured * rest in peace/RIP * rest on one's laurels

Etymology 3

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m) from (etyl) ).

Noun

(-)

(label) That which remains.

Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.

* (w) (1635–1699)

Plato and the rest of the philosophers

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

Armed like the rest , the Trojan prince appears.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=11 , passage=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.}}

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.

Synonyms

* remainder * lave

Derived terms

* all the rest

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To remain.

Etymology 4

Aphetic form of (m).

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To arrest.

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Anagrams

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arrest

English

Noun

(en noun)

A check, stop, an act or instance of something.

The condition of being stopped, standstill.

(legal) The act of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.

A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.

A device to physically arrest motion.

(nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.

(obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.

* Jeremy Taylor

The sad stories of fire from heaven, the burning of his sheep, etc., were sad arrests to his troubled spirit.

(farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse.

(White)

Derived terms

* arrest warrant * cardiac arrest * house arrest

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To stop the motion of (a person or animal).

* Philips

Nor could her virtues the relentless hand / Of Death arrest .

(obsolete) To stay, remain.

(Spenser)

To stop (a process, course etc.).

* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 707:

To try to arrest the spiral of violence, I contacted Chief Buthelezi to arrange a meeting.

* 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)

Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …Western reason had entered the age of judgement.

To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.

The police have arrested a suspect in the murder inquiry.

* Shakespeare

I arrest thee of high treason.

To catch the attention of.

* 1919 : :

There is something about this picture—something bold and vigorous, which arrests the attention. I feel sure it would be highly popular.

Derived terms

* arrester, arrestor * arrestment * arresting

Anagrams

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