Rest

Rest may refer to:

  • Leisure
  • Human relaxation
  • Sleep

Rest may also refer to:

  • Rest (music), a pause in a piece of music
  • Rest (physics), the relation between two observers
  • Rest (album), a 2008 album by Gregor Samsa
  • Rest (band), Irish instrumental doom metal band
  • Bank reserves, holdings in accounts at the Bank of England, plus cash in bank vaults
  • Support (structure)
    • Rest (cue sports) or mechanical bridge, a device supporting a cue stick on long shots in snooker, billiards and pool games
    • Arm rest
    • Head rest
    • Footrest
    • Leg rest

REST may refer to:

  • RE1-silencing transcription factor, a human gene
  • Representational state transfer, software architecture, including RESTful web services
  • Restricted Environmental Stimulation Technique, a sensory deprivation technique
  • ReStructuredText, a lightweight markup language
  • Retail Employees Superannuation Trust, Australia's largest superannuation fund by membership
  • Revised Extended Standard Theory, a theory of linguistic competence developed by Noam Chomsky in the mid-1970s

Famous quotes containing the word rest:

    “Since the affairs of men rest still incertain,
    Let’s reason with the worst that may befall.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets, Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America, but it is not America; neither Americus Vespucius, nor Columbus, nor the rest were the discoverers of it. There is a truer account of it in mythology than in any history of America, so called, that I have seen.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The rest I keep silent; a great ox stands on my tongue.”
    —Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)