Rest vs Rise - What's the difference?
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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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, title= To stay, remain, be situated.
(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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, title= To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
* 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.
(label) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
# To move upwards.
# To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
# To slope upward.
# (of a celestial body) To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
#* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) , ,
# To become erect; to assume an upright position.
# To leave one's bed; to get up.
#* Old proverb
# (figurative) To be resurrected.
# (figurative) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
#* (1800-1859)
(label) To increase in value or standing.
# To attain a higher status.
#* (rfdate) (Augustus Hare) (1834-1903)
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
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, title= # To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
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# To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
To begin; to develop.
# To develop.
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# To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
# (of a river) To have its source (in a particular place).
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# To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight.
# To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
#* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
# To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
#* Spectator
(obsolete) To retire; to give up a siege.
* (Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)
To come; to offer itself.
* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
(printing, dated) To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form.
The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
(chiefly, UK) An increase (in a quantity, price, etc).
The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
(UK, Ireland, Australia) An increase in someone's pay rate; a raise.
(Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names .
An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
* 1884 , (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) , ,
An angry reaction.
As nouns the difference between rest and rise
is that rest is prison while rise is the process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.As a verb rise is
(label) to move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.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.
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.}}
- 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.
Synonyms
* remainder * laveDerived terms
* all the restEtymology 4
Aphetic form of (m).Statistics
*rise
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) risen, from (etyl) . See also (l). (cognates) Cognate with (etyl) rize, (etyl) .Verb
- And still the hours passed, and at last I knew by the glimmer of light in the tomb above that the sun had risen again, and a maddening thirst had hold of me. And then I thought of all the barrels piled up in the vault and of the liquor that they held; and stuck not because 'twas spirit, for I would scarce have paused to sate that thirst even with molten lead.
- He that would thrive must rise by five.
- It was near ninebefore the House rose .
- among the rising theologians of Germany
- Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
The rise of smart beta, passage=Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.}}
- Professor Peter Crome, chair of the audit's steering group, said the report "provides further concrete evidence that the care of patients with dementia in hospital is in need of a radical shake-up". While a few hospitals had risen to the challenge of improving patients' experiences, many have not, he said. The report recommends that all staff receive basic dementia awareness training, and staffing levels should be maintained to help such patients.
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- The majestic Marannon, or Amazon River, rises out of the Lake Launcocha, situated in the province of Tarma, in 10° 14? south latitude, and ten leagues to the north of Pasco.
- At our heels all hell should rise / With blackest insurrection.
- No more shall nation against nation rise .
- A thought rose in me, which often perplexes men of contemplative natures.
- He, rising with small honour from Gunza,was gone.
- There chanced to the prince's hand to rise / An ancient book.
Synonyms
* (move upwards) climb, go up * (be resurrected) be resurrected, come back from the dead * climb, increase, go upAntonyms
* (move upwards) descend, drop, fall, sink * (of a celestial body) set * be reduced, decrease, drop, fall, go downCoordinate terms
* raiseEtymology 2
From the above verb.Noun
(en noun)- The rise of the tide.
- There was a rise of nearly two degrees since yesterday.
- Exercise is usually accompanied by a temporary rise in blood pressure.
- The rise of the working class.
- The rise of the printing press.
- The rise of the feminists.
- The rise of his pants was so low that his tailbone was exposed.
- The governor just gave me a rise of 2-pounds-6.
- I went along up the bank with one eye out for pap and t?other one out for what the rise might fetch along.
- I knew that would get a rise out of him.