reSTname

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  computingengineeringmathematicsSyllabic abbreviation of reStructuredText, a plain-text markup language.

restnoun詞源 1/ɹɛst/

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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
  • And the land had rest fourscore years.
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  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.
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  A final position after death. Also, death itself: "Not alone, not alone would I go to my rest in the heart of the love..." -- George William Russell ("Love")

  • She was laid to rest in the village cemetery.
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  entertainmentlifestylemusicA pause of a specified length in a piece of music.

  • Remember there's a rest at the end of the fourth bar.
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  entertainmentlifestylemusicA written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.

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  natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsAbsence of motion.

  • The body's centre of gravity may affect its state of rest.

restverb詞源 2/ɹɛst/

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  To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.

  • My day's work is over; now I will rest.
  • I shall not rest until I have uncovered the truth.
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  To come to a pause or an end; end.

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  To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.

  • There rest, if any rest can harbour there.
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  To put into a state of rest.

  • We need to rest the horses before we ride any further.
  • And thereby at a pryory they rested them all nyght.
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  To stay, remain, be situated, or belong to.

  • The blame seems to rest with your father.
  • Copyright in the typographical arrangement rests with the Crown.
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  To rely or depend on.

  • The decision rests on getting a bank loan.
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  To be based on; to rely on something for proof or explanation

  • On him I rested, after long debate, / And not without considering, fixed fate.
  • 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.[…]But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.
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  To lean, lie, or lay.

  • A column rests on its pedestal.
  • I rested my head in my hands.

restnoun詞源 3/ɹɛst/

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  That which remains.

  • She ate some of the food, but was not hungry enough to eat it all, so she put the rest in the refrigerator to finish later.
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  Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.

  • Plato and the rest of the philosophers
  • Arm'd like the rest, the Trojan prince appears.
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  businessfinanceA 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.

restverb詞源 4/ɹɛst/

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  To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way.

  • You can rest assured that a sick child will say when it's again ready to eat, so it won't starve and doesn't need to be cajoled into eating.
  • Rest you merry.
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  obsoleteTo keep a certain way.

  • God rest you merry, gentlemen.

restverb詞源 5/ɹɛst/

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  obsoleteTo arrest.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• representational state transfer
• Revised Extended Standard Theory