different between rest vs ground

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?st, IPA^(key): /??st/
• Rhymes: -?st
• Homophone: wrest

Etymology 1

From Middle English rest, reste, from Old English rest, ræst (“rest, quiet, freedom from toil, repose, sleep, resting-place, a bed, couch, grave”), from Proto-Germanic *rast?, *rastij? (“rest”), from Proto-Indo-European *ros-, *res-, *erH- (“rest”). Cognate with West Frisian rêst (“rest”), Dutch rust (“rest”), German Rast (“rest”), Swedish rast (“rest”), Norwegian rest (“rest”), Icelandic röst (“rest”), Old Irish árus (“dwelling”), German Ruhe (“calm”), Albanian resht (“to stop, pause”), Welsh araf (“quiet, calm, gentle”), Lithuanian rovà (“calm”), Ancient Greek ???? (er??, “rest, respite”), Avestan ????????????????????????? (aⁱrime, “calm, peaceful”), Sanskrit ???? (rámate, “he stays still, calms down”), Gothic ???????????????????? (rimis, “tranquility”). Related to roo.

Noun

rest (countable and uncountable, plural rests)

1. (uncountable, of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.

   Synonyms: sleep, slumber

2. (countable) Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.

   Synonyms: break, repose, time off

3. (uncountable) Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.

   • And the land had rest fourscore years.

   Synonyms: peace, quiet, roo, silence, stillness, tranquility

4. (uncountable, of an object or concept) A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.

5. (euphemistic, uncountable) A final position after death.

   Synonym: peace

6. (music, countable) A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.

   Hyponyms: breve rest, demisemiquaver rest, hemidemisemiquaver rest, minim rest, quaver rest, semibreve rest, semiquaver rest

7. (music, countable) A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
8. (physics, uncountable) Absence of motion.

   Antonym: motion

9. (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.

   Hypernym: bridge

10. (countable) Any object designed to be used to support something else.

    Synonyms: (of a telephone) cradle, support

    Hyponyms: arm rest, elbow rest, foot rest, head rest, leg rest, neck rest, wrist rest

11. A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.

    • their visors closed, their lances in the rest

12. A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
    • c. 1851, Catholicus (pen name of John Henry Newman, letter in The Times

      halfway houses and travellers' rests
13. (poetry) A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
14. The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals after which compound interest is added to capital.
    • 1874, New York Court of Appeals, Records and Briefs

      a new account was opened under the heading "Irondale Mine" and so continued witli semiannual rest

15. (dated) A set or game at tennis.

Antonyms

• activity

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English resten, from Old English restan (“to rest, cease from toil, be at rest, sleep, rest in death, lie dead, lie in the grave, remain unmoved or undisturbed, be still, rest from, remain, lie”), from Proto-West Germanic *rastijan (“to rest”), from Proto-Indo-European *ros-, *res-, *erH- (“rest”). Cognate with Dutch rusten (“to rest”), Middle Low German resten (“to rest”), German rasten (“to rest”), Danish raste (“to rest”), Swedish rasta (“to rest”).

Verb

rest (third-person singular simple present rests, present participle resting, simple past and past participle rested)

1. (intransitive) To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.
2. (intransitive) To come to a pause or an end; end.
3. (intransitive) To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.
4. (intransitive, transitive, reflexive, copulative) To be or to put into a state of rest.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book X:

     And thereby at a pryory they rested them all nyght.
5. (intransitive) To stay, remain, be situated.

6. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To lean, lie, or lay.

7. (intransitive, transitive, law, 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.)

8. (intransitive) To sleep; slumber.
9. (intransitive) To lie dormant.
10. (intransitive) To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
11. (intransitive) To rely or depend on.
    • 1700, John Dryden, Sigismonda and Guiscardo

      On him I rested, after long debate, / And not without considering, fixed fate.

12. To be satisfied; to acquiesce.

    • to rest in Heaven's determination

Synonyms

• (lie down and take repose, especially by sleeping): 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
• (transitive: lean, lay): lay, lean, place, put
• (intransitive: lie, lean): lean, lie

Troponyms

• (lie down and take repose): nap, sleep

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English reste, from Old French reste, from Old French rester (“to remain”), from Latin rest? (“to stay back, stay behind”), from re- + st? (“to stand”). Replaced native Middle English lave (“rest, remainder”) (from Old English l?f (“remnant, remainder”)).

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?st, IPA^(key): /??st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

rest (uncountable)

2. (uncountable) That which remains.

   Synonyms: lave, remainder

3. Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
   • 1676, Bishop Stillingfleet, A Defence of the Discourse Concerning the Idolatry Practised in the Church of Rome

     Plato and the rest of the philosophers

   • Arm'd like the rest, the Trojan prince appears.

4. (Britain, finance) 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

• (that which remains): See also Thesaurus:remainder

Derived terms

• all the rest

Translations

Verb

rest (third-person singular simple present rests, present participle resting, simple past and past participle rested)

1. (no object, with complement) To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way.

   ("Be glad, be joyful"; later: "Good luck to you.")

2. (transitive, obsolete) To keep a certain way.

   ("May God grant you happiness and peace, gentlemen"; literally: "May God keep you happy and in peace, gentlemen.")

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 4

Aphetic form of arrest.

Verb

rest (third-person singular simple present rests, present participle resting, simple past and past participle rested)

1. (obsolete, transitive, colloquial) To arrest.

Anagrams

• -estr-, -ster, -ster-, ERTs, SERT, TERs, erst, estr-, rets, tres

Czech

Etymology

From German Rest.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?r?st]
• Hyphenation: rest

Noun

rest m inan

1. (mostly in plural) backlog, unfinished business
2. arrear(s)

Declension

Further reading

• rest in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• rest in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Anagrams

• setr

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French reste, probably via German Rest.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??asd?], [???sd?]
• Homophone: rast

Noun

rest c (singular definite resten, plural indefinite rester)

1. remnant, remainder, rest
2. (in the plural) scraps of food
3. (mathematics) residue, remainder

Derived terms

• forresten
• madrest
• restgæld
• restlager
• restklasse

References

• “rest” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch reste, from Middle French reste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?st/
• Hyphenation: rest
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

rest f (plural resten, diminutive restje n)

1. rest (that which remains)

   Synonyms: overblijfsel, overschot

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: res

Anagrams

• erts, ster

Hungarian

Etymology

From a Northern Italian dialect, compare Emilian rest, Piedmontese rest, Romagnol rést, Italian resto (“rest”), from restare, from Latin rest? (“I stay behind, remain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?r??t]
• Hyphenation: rest
• Rhymes: -??t

Adjective

rest (comparative restebb, superlative legrestebb)

1. lazy

   Synonyms: henye, lusta, renyhe, tunya

Declension

Derived terms

• restell
• restség

(Expressions):

• a rest kétszer fárad

Further reading

• rest in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Ladin

Noun

rest m (plural resc)

1. rest, residue

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from French reste.

Noun

rest m (definite singular resten, indefinite plural rester, definite plural restene)

1. remainder, rest

Derived terms

• forresten
• matrest

References

• “rest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from French reste.

Noun

rest m (definite singular resten, indefinite plural restar, definite plural restane)

1. remainder, rest

Derived terms

• forresten
• matrest

References

• “rest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *rast?, *rastij? (“rest”), from Proto-Indo-European *ros-, *res-, *erH- (“rest”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rest/

Noun

rest f

1. rest
2. resting place; bed

Derived terms

• restl?as

Descendants

• Middle English: reste, rest; (rüst, rist)
  • Scots: rest
  • English: rest

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French reste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rest/

Noun

rest n (plural resturi)

1. rest (remainder)

Declension

See also

• r?mas, r?m??i??

Noun

rest (definite singular restul)

1. change (small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination)

Usage notes

• The use of the meaning for change is restrictive to money, usually in small sums, taken after making a transaction. To describe such change when it is in one's pocket or lying around, the term m?run?i? is preferred.

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

rest c

1. (plural only) remainder, rest (what remains)

2. (mathematics) remainder

3. leftover

Declension

Verb

rest

1. supine of resa.
2. past participle of resa.

Anagrams

• ters

Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hreistr.

Noun

rest m

1. fish scales

Related terms

• res

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rísta (pret. reist).

Verb

rest

1. to plough
2. to carve

Noun

rest m

1. a plough

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?nd/
• Rhymes: -a?nd

Etymology 1

From Middle English grounde, from Old English grund, from Proto-Germanic *grunduz, from Proto-Indo-European *g?r?mtu-. Cognate with West Frisian grûn, Dutch grond and German Grund. Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian grundë (“brittle earth”).

Alternative forms

• GND (contraction used in electronics)

Noun

ground (countable and uncountable, plural grounds)

2. The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
   • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
3. (uncountable) Terrain.
4. Soil, earth.

5. (countable) The bottom of a body of water.
6. Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
7. (chiefly in the plural) Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause.

8. Background, context, framework, surroundings.
9. (historical) The area on which a battle is fought, particularly as referring to the area occupied by one side or the other. Often, according to the eventualities, "to give ground" or "to gain ground".
10. (figuratively, by extension) Advantage given or gained in any contest; e.g. in football, chess, debate or academic discourse.
11. The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.

    crimson flowers on a white ground

12. (sculpture) A flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
13. (point lace) The net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.

    Brussels ground

14. (etching) A gummy substance spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from eating except where an opening is made by the needle.
15. (architecture, chiefly in the plural) One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings etc. are attached.

    Grounds are usually put up first and the plastering floated flush with them.

16. (countable) A soccer stadium.

17. (electricity, Canada and US) An electrical conductor connected to the earth, or a large conductor whose electrical potential is taken as zero (such as a steel chassis).
18. (countable, cricket) The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena in which it is played; the part of the field behind a batsman's popping crease where he can not be run out (hence to make one's ground).
19. (music) A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.
20. (music) The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
    • 1592, William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of Richard III, act III, scene vii, in: The Works of Shake?pear V (1726), page 149:

      Buck[ingham]   The Mayor is here at hand; pretend ?ome fear, // Be not you ?poke with, but by mighty ?uit; // And look you get a prayer-book in your hand, // And ?tand between two churchmen, good my lord, // For on that ground I’ll build a holy de?cant: // And be not ea?ily won to our reque?ts: // Play the maid’s part, ?till an?wer nay, and take it.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Moore (Encyc.) to this entry?)

21. The pit of a theatre.
    • 1614, Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair

      the understanding gentlemen o' the ground here ask'd my judgment

Synonyms

• (electricity) earth (British)

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• Pages starting with “ground”.

Translations

See also

• floor
• terra firma

Verb

ground (third-person singular simple present grounds, present participle grounding, simple past and past participle grounded)

1. (US) To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.

   Synonym: earth

2. (transitive) To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing them to stay at home and/or give up certain privileges.

   Synonym: gate

   If you don't clean your room, I'll have no choice but to ground you.

   Eric, you are grounded until further notice for lying to us about where you were last night!

   My kids are currently grounded from television.

3. (transitive) To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.

   Because of the bad weather, all flights were grounded.

4. To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles.

   Jim was grounded in maths.

5. (baseball) To hit a ground ball. Compare fly (verb(regular)) and line (verb).
6. To place something on the ground.
7. (intransitive) To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.

   The ship grounded on the bar.

8. To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.

   • being rooted and grounded in love

   • So far from warranting any inference to the existence of a God, would, on the contrary, ground even an argument to his negation.

9. (fine arts) To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching, or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament.
10. To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of.

    I ground myself with meditation.

Translations

Etymology 2

Inflected form of grind. See also milled.

Verb

ground

1. simple past tense and past participle of grind

Adjective

ground (not comparable)

1. Crushed, or reduced to small particles.

   Synonym: milled
2. Processed by grinding.
   • 2018, H Glimpel, HJ Lauffer, A Bremstahler, Finishing Tool, In Particular End Milling Cutter, US Patent App. 15/764,739

     An advantage of such a finishing tool is that, after the machining, the workpiece has high surface quality. The surface which is produced appears finely ground to polished by means of this procedure.

Derived terms

• ground beef
• ground pepper
• stoneground

Translations

References

• ground at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• dog run

Middle English

Alternative forms

• grund, grounde

Etymology

From Old English grund, from Proto-Germanic *grunduz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ru?nd/

Noun

ground

1. ground
2. Earth

Declension

Descendants

• English: ground
  • ? Fiji Hindi: garaund
  • ? Maltese: grawnd
• Scots: grund, groond, greund
• Yola: greoune

References

• “gr?und, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.