Rest vs Brake - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between rest and brake

is that rest is prison while brake is a fern; bracken or brake can be a thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc or brake can be a tool used for breaking flax or hemp or brake can be (label) an ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista or brake can be (obsolete) a cage.

As a verb brake is

to bruise and crush; to knead or brake can be to operate (a) brake(s) or brake can be (lb) (break).

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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brake

English

(brake)

Etymology 1

Apparently a shortened form of (bracken). (Compare (chick), (chicken).)

Noun

(en noun)

A fern; bracken.

Etymology 2

Compare Middle Low German brake.

Noun

(en noun)

A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.

He halts, and searches with his eyes

Among the scatter'd rocks:

And now at distance can discern

A stirring in a brake of fern

* Shakespeare

Rounds rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough, / To shelter thee from tempest and from rain.

* Sir Walter Scott

He stayed not for brake , and he stopped not for stone.

Etymology 3

From (etyl) braeke.

Noun

(en noun)

A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.

A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See .)

A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after ploughing; a drag.

Verb

(brak)

To bruise and crush; to knead

The farmer's son brakes''' the flax while mother ' brakes the bread dough

To pulverise with a harrow

Derived terms

* brakeage

Etymology 4

Origin uncertain.

Noun

(en noun)

(label) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.

# (label) The winch of a crossbow.

The handle of a pump.

A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, by friction; also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car.

# The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle

# (label) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine or other motor by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake.

# (label) Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc.

A baker's kneading trough.

(Johnson)

A device used to confine or prevent the motion of an animal.

# A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him.

# An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.

#* 1868 , March 7, The Illustrated London News , number 1472, volume 52, “Law and Police”, page 223:

He was shooting, and the field where the [cock-fighting] ring was verged on the shooting-brake where the rabbits were.

#* J. Brende

A horseand because of his fierceness kept him within a brake of iron bars.

# A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.

# A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.^(w)

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=It had been arranged as part of the day's programme that Mr. Cooke was to drive those who wished to go over the Rise in his new brake .}}

#*{{quote-book, year=1976, author=(Terrance Dicks)

, title=, chapter=1, page=11 , passage=A few moments later they heard the sound of an engine, and a muddy shooting brake appeared on the road behind them.}}

That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.

Derived terms

* air brake * antilock brake * brake band * brake disc * brake drum * brake fluid * brake harrow * brake horsepower * brake lining * brakeman, brakesman * brake drum * brake pad * brake van * brake wheel * brakey * caliper brake * disc brake * emergency brake * foot brake * hand brake * parking brake * press brake

Descendants

* Portuguese:

Verb

(brak)

To operate (a) brake(s).

To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.

Etymology 5

Origin uncertain.

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A cage.

* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 83:

Methods of applying pain were many and ingenious, in particular the ways of twisting, stretching and manipulating the body out of shape, normally falling under the catch-all term of the rack, or the brakes .

Etymology 6

Inflected forms.

Verb

(head)

(lb) (break)

* Exodus 32:3, KJV:

And all the people brake off the golden earrings

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