Rest vs Drowse - What's the difference?

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Rest is a related term of drowse.

As nouns the difference between rest and drowse

is that rest is prison while drowse is the state of being sleepy and inactive.

As a verb drowse is

to be sleepy and inactive (also figurative).

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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drowse

English

Noun

(-)

The state of being sleepy and inactive.

in a drowse

Verb

(drows)

To be sleepy and inactive (also figurative).

* 1902 , , Moon-Face :

Under the aching noonday glare, when the green things drooped and the birds withdrew to the depths of the forest, and all nature drowsed , his great "Ha! ha!" and "Ho! ho!" rose up to the sky and challenged the sun.

* 1973 July, Melville Bell Grosvenor, Homeward with Ulysses'', published in ''National Geographic , volume 144, number 1:

In August the cicadas chorused, and the dusty olive trees drowsed in the sun.

To nod off; to fall asleep.

To advance drowsily.

* 1873', , ''The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today'' (' 1915 republication), page 285:

the wary tadpole returned from exile, the bullfrog resumed his ancient song, the tranquil turtle sunned his back upon bank and log and drowsed his grateful life away as in the old sweet days of yore.

* 1966 , John Cunyus Hodges, William Congreve, the man: a biography from new sources , page 25:

Congreve held fast to the Greek poets, but otherwise seems to have drowsed his way through Trinity studies.

* 2002 , Marsha Ward, The Man from Shenandoah , page 55

Ida had kept him awake while he drowsed his way up the old King's Trace in eastern Missouri, feverish and weak.

* 2008 , Sarah Mayberry, Cruise Control'', published in ''Best of Makeovers Bundle , page 209:

They were led into a large, attractive room with twin massage beds, and welcomed by their masseurs—in Balinese tradition, he had a male masseur, Anna a female. He drowsed his way through the first half hour of the treatment,

To make heavy with sleepiness or imperfect sleep; to make dull or stupid.

(Milton)

Derived terms

* drowsy * drowsily

Anagrams

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