What is the difference between rest and breathe?
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(uncountable, of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
(countable) Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
(uncountable) Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
* Bible, Judges iii. 30
(uncountable, of an object or concept) A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.
(euphemistic, uncountable) A final position after death.
(music, countable) A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
(music, countable) A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
(physics, uncountable) Absence of motion.
(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.
(countable) 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.
* Dryden
A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
* J. H. Newman
* Milton
* Bible, Deuteronomy xii. 9
(poetry) A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account.
* Abbott
(dated) A set or game at tennis.
To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.
* Bible, Exodus xxiii. 12
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
(intransitive, transitive, reflexive) To be or to put into a state of rest.
* 1485 , Sir (Thomas Malory), (w, Le Morte d'Arthur) , Book X:
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(transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To lean, lie, or lay.
(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
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* Addison
(label) That which remains.
Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
* (w) (1635–1699)
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
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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.
To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.
To take in needed gases and expel waste gases in a similar way.
:Fish have gills so they can breathe underwater.
To use (a gas) to sustain life.
:While life as we know it depends on oxygen, scientists have speculated that alien life forms might breathe chlorine or methane.
Figuratively, to live.
:I will not allow it, as long as I still breathe .
*(rfdate) Shakespeare
*:I am in health, I breathe .
*(rfdate) Sir Walter Scott
*:Breathes there a man with soul so dead?
To draw something into the lungs.
:Try not to breathe too much smoke.
To expel air from the lungs, exhale.
:If you breathe on a mirror, it will fog up.
To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to emanate; to blow gently.
:The wind breathes through the trees.
*(rfdate) Shakespeare
*:The air breathes upon us here most sweetly.
*(rfdate) Byron
*:There breathes a living fragrance from the shore.
To give an impression of, to exude.
:The decor positively breathes classical elegance.
To whisper quietly.
:He breathed the words into her ear, but she understood them all.
To exchange gases with the environment.
:Garments made of certain new materials breathe well and keep the skin relatively dry during exercise.
To rest; to stop and catch one's breath.
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*:Thenne they lasshed to gyder many sad strokes / & tracyd and trauercyd now bakward / now sydelyng hurtlyng to gyders lyke two bores / & that same tyme they felle both grouelyng to the erthe / Thus they fought styll withoute ony reposynge two houres and neuer brethed
*(rfdate) Shakespeare
*:Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again!
To stop, to give (a horse) an opportunity to catch its breath.
:At higher altitudes you need to breathe your horse more often.
As verbs the difference between rest and breathe
is that rest is to cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion or rest can be (obsolete) to remain while breathe is to repeatedly draw air into, and expel it from, the lungs in order to extract oxygen from it and excrete waste products.As a noun rest
is (uncountable|of a person or animal) relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep or rest can be (uncountable) that which remains.rest
English
(wikipedia rest)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), . Related to (l).Noun
- I need to get a good rest tonight; I was up late last night.
- The sun sets, and the workers go to their rest .
- We took a rest at the top of the hill to get our breath back.
- It was nice to have a rest from the phone ringing when I unplugged it for a while.
- And the land had rest fourscore years.
- 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 .
- She was laid to rest in the village cemetery.
- Remember there's a rest at the end of the fourth bar.
- The body's centre of gravity may affect its state of rest .
- Higgins can't quite reach the white with his cue, so he'll be using the rest .
- She put the phone receiver back in its rest .
- He placed his hands on the arm rests of the chair.
- their visors closed, their lances in the rest
- halfway houses and travellers' rests
- in dust our final rest , and native home
- Ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the Lord your God giveth you.
- An account is said to be taken with annual or semiannual rests .
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 ), supportAntonyms
* motion * activityHypernyms
* bridgeHyponyms
* (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 restDerived 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 restEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest .
- There rest , if any rest can harbour there.
- And thereby at a pryory they rested them all nyght.
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- A column rests on its pedestal.
- On him I rested , after long debate, / And not without considering, fixed fate.
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 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, lieTroponyms
* (lie down and take repose) sleep, napDerived terms
* rest assured * rest in peace/RIP * rest on one's laurelsEtymology 3
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m) from (etyl) ).Noun
(-)- Plato and the rest of the philosophers
- Armed like the rest , the Trojan prince appears.