Rest vs Chill - What's the difference?

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As a noun rest

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As an abbreviation chill is

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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.

Statistics

Anagrams

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chill

English

Noun

(en noun)

A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)

, title= Geothermal Energy , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}

A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills , or susceptibility to illness.

An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.

An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.

(Raymond)

The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.

(Knight)

Adjective

(en adjective)

Moderately cold or chilly.

A chill wind was blowing down the street.

* Milton

Noisome winds, and blasting vapours chill .

(slang) Calm, relaxed, easygoing. See also : chill out.

I'm pretty chill most of the time.

Paint-your-own ceramics studios are a chill way to express yourself while learning more about your date's right brain.

(slang) "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.

That new movie was chill , man.

Verb

(en verb)

To lower the temperature of something; to cool.

Chill before serving.

(metallurgy) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.

To become cold.

In the wind he chilled quickly.

(metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.

(slang) To relax, lie back.

Chill , man, we've got a whole week to do it; no sense in getting worked up.

The new gym teacher really has to chill or he's gonna blow a gasket.

(slang) To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group. Also chill out .

Hey, we should chill this weekend.

(slang) To smoke marijuana.

On Friday night do you wanna chill?

Derived terms

* chillax * chilliness * chilling * chilling effect * chill out / chillout * chill pill * chilly * libel chill * send chills / cast a chill

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