restingn.1
/ˈrɛstɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈrɛstɪŋ/ 1. † b. Respite from trouble, distress, etc.; peace of mind. Obsolete.
a. Rest, repose, inactivity; the taking of one's rest.Recorded earliest in resting day n. at Compounds 1a.
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society > leisure > [noun]
restingOE
leisure13..
voidnessa1382
remissionc1384
vacationc1386
ease1393
otiosity1483
holiday1526
otiation1589
idlesse1596
vacance1610
playa1616
vacancya1616
remissness1624
recess1644
otium cum dignitate1729
dolce far niente1814
disoccupation1834
otium1850
non-work1855
kef1864
toillessness1877
the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > [noun] > rest
roOE
restOE
leathc1175
quieta1398
leathinga1400
restinga1450
reposinga1470
reposec1485
requiem1565
respire1590
reposure1602
reposal1614
reposance1647
lassation1650
recumbency1653
requiescence1654
OE Form of Confession (Royal 2 B.v) in Studier i Modern Språkvetenskap (1968) 3 101 For ealræ þære gesceafte þe þu on syx dagum gesceapen hæfdest & þa þu gerestes on þæm seofeðan dæge, Min drihten god, for þinan restingdæge [altered from restandæge] gehæl mine sawle.
c1330 Seven Sages (Auch.) (1933) 20 (MED) Þer inne was al his plaiyng In time of solas and his resting.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Lev. xxv. 4 Þe seuynþe..ȝeer of þe loond shal be þe saboot of þe restynge of þe lord.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 6846 Ox and ass, womman and knaue; Þat dai sal þai resting haue.
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail lv. 306 Here behoveth non Resteng forto be [Fr. il ne se doit gesir].
a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 71 (MED) Þe soper at euyn ys al contrarye, ffor þanne fallyth to þe body reste of trauaille and restynge [L. requies] to þe wyttes.
1590 J. Stockwood Eng. Accidence 54 Verbes that betoken bodily moouing, going, resting, or dooing.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Relaschement, a reposing, resting, refreshing.
1660 H. Thorndike Due Way Composing 53 No man daring to maintain, that both were, or are tied to the same measure of resting.
1703 tr. H. van Oosten Dutch Gardener 18 The resting of a Tree, you commonly perceive on a Bud.
1786 T. Baldwin Airopaidia xxxxi. 179 The resting and lingering [of the balloon] between Great and Little Barrow.
1850 R. Browning Christmas-eve xix. 67 To..enjoy the gentle resting From further tracking.
1877 Cornhill Mag. Oct. 389 I'm quite ready to rest as long as you like. I consider resting my strong point.
1912 Catholic Encycl. XIV. 335/2 During the first three centuries practice and tradition had consecrated the Sunday to the public worship of God by the hearing of Mass and resting from work.
2008 Daily Tel. 13 Oct. 24/8 Even now, I know I still need more practice at resting.
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a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 34 (MED) Haue resting on honde, ant sent þou me þi sonde sone, er þou me slo.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 7438 (MED) And he bigan to harpe and sing, Of his vnro he had resting [a1400 Fairf. toke resting; a1400 Vesp. tok lething].
c. A pause; a stop for rest.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > break in a journey
resting?a1425
arresta1500
bait1580
alto1591
halt1598
station1604
stop1650
stoppage1840
noon halt1843
stop-off1869
lay-over1873
stop-over1881
water stop1896
overnight1936
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 112 (MED) Rasis bigan at þe purpure veyne of þe riȝt arme & after interualle, i. ristyng or awhile, of þe lefte.
a1500 Rule Minoresses in W. W. Seton Two 15th Cent. Franciscan Rules (1914) 102 (MED) Þey schal first a litel ringe & make a suffisaunt restinge, so þat þe Sustres may make hem redi.
1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke iii. 172 In these compositions of sixe parts, you must haue an especiall care of causing your parts giue place one to another, which you cannot do without restings.
1656 O. Sedgwick Humbled Sinner xv. 123 Yet some others rise high and stay long in restings.
1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) 52 A very aged woman, who..through..weakness made five or six restings by the way.
1758 Herald 19 Jan. 113 He is forced to make restings in utterance where no stops are to be found in his authors.
1786 Mrs. Johnson Francis (Dublin ed.) xiii. 177 At the commencement of their respective journies they both move slowly, and are both accustomed to make frequent stops and restings.
1857 A. MacLean Oran & Other Poems 3 Yet, what achievement will this bosom calm, And make a resting for the dove of peace?
1873 Overland Monthly & Out West Mag. May 423/2 With long-continued toil, broken, as before, with frequent enforced restings, he cut out fresh turf.
1950 Philos. Rev. 59 541 Its ‘motion’ can only be interpreted as a series of consecutive ‘restings’.
1999 R. Schweid Cockroach Papers iv. 92 These are the doings and restings, the eating and sleepings of living creatures.
d. Theatre. Of an actor: the state or condition of having no acting work; unemployment.
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society > occupation and work > lack of work > [noun] > unemployment > in the theatre
resting1904
1904 P. G. Wodehouse Gold Bat ii. 17 He would have made a splendid actor: he was so good at resting.
1924 G. B. Stern Tents of Israel vi. 85 A young singer..[who] had sold all her things during her long period of enforced ‘resting’.
1973 J. Burrows Like Evening Gone i. 12 Though what..she did with herself in the great metropolis, in the frequent intervals of ‘resting’—she didn't take typing jobs.
1997 Theatre July 13/1 Apart from a five-month period of ‘resting’ in her first year, Derbhle has been in work almost continuously since leaving college.
a. Rest in a particular place; a place where a person rests or may rest; a resting place. Also figurative. Obsolete.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > lodging-place > temporary
harbourc1300
sojourna1375
restinga1382
resting placea1382
sojourninga1400
diversoryc1410
deversaryc1485
inn1529
roost1607
peregrination1610
roosting place1643
harbourage1651
séjour1769
pied-à-terre1823
hoochie1952
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Psalms cxxxi. 8 Ris, Lord, in to thi resting [a1425 L.V. reste; L. requiem]; thou and the arke of thin halewing.
a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 6654 (MED) Abrahams bosum ys a dwellyng Þat holy men haue yn restyng.
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xxii. 84 (MED) The Roche was A wastable plase, And non Resteng there-Inne Nas.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xxvi. 8 His ristynge is noght bot in a meke saule that is withoute ill steryngis.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. iv. 49 God..hath not his resting in another but in hym selfe.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II v. i. 6 Heere let vs rest, if this rebellious earth, Haue any resting for her true Kings Queene. View more context for this quotation
1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. i. xlv. 87/1 To seeke their resting among the vast Mountaines.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 237 Such resting found the sole Of unblest feet. View more context for this quotation
a1763 T. Godfrey Juvenile Poems (1765) 79 Hence Myra, with that scornful air, Nor frown within this grove, Fell hate shall find no resting here, 'Tis sacred all to Love.
1854 Southern Literary Messenger Aug. 483/1 Sometimes in fancy do the princely dead, Ruled from their resting by the poet's rhyme..Come slowly down the vista'd vale of Time.
1884 E. Radford tr. H. Heine Measured Steps 73 The cross-road marks his resting, Who found no rest till the end.
b. = resthouse n. 2. Obsolete. rare.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > lodging-place > temporary > for travellers, pilgrims, etc.
schooleOE
hospitalc1300
khanc1400
xenodochy?c1550
posting inn1556
vent1577
caravanserai1585
yam1587
serai1609
venta1610
post-house1611
xenodochium1612
imaret1613
seraglio1617
rancho1648
hospitium1650
watering-house1664
choultry1698
accommodation house1787
stage-house1788
spital1794
stand1805
resthouse1807
hospice1818
resting1879
stopping house1883
truck stop1961
1879 Mrs. A. G. F. E. James Indian Househ. Managem. 27 Huts and restings, or dâk-bungalows, are usually furnished with a bed, a table, and two or three hard chairs.
3. The action or an act of placing hope or trust in a person or thing (also with †on, †upon); reliance on, confidence in; continued satisfaction.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > contentment or satisfaction > [noun]
queemnesseOE
queemc1175
suffisancec1374
pleasingc1400
complacencec1436
resting?a1475
satisfaction1477
happinessa1500
thankfulness1500
contention1516
contentationa1533
contenting1541
satisfiedness1571
content1578
contentedness1581
appeasement1586
contentment1597
heart's content1600
acquiescence1612
pleasedness1626
well-apaidness1633
well-pleasedness1633
complacency1643
acquiescency1646
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > [noun]
sickerlaika1225
sickerness?c1225
sickerheadc1250
boldness1330
certaintya1340
traistc1340
assurancec1374
certain138.
sureness1419
surancea1450
affiancec1460
certitude?a1475
resting?a1475
security1535
firmancec1540
confidence1555
assuredness1561
resolution1590
plerophory1598
reliance1606
undoubtfulness1619
positiveness1711
positivity1741
decidedness1800
positivism1842
undoubtingness1857
inexpugnability1864
?a1475 (a1396) W. Hilton Scale of Perfection (Harl. 6579) i. lviii. f. 39 (MED) Of þis blindnesse and of þis fals restynge of heretikes in here oune felynge spekiþ þe wiseman.
1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Job (new ed.) xiii. 64/2 When God punisheth vs, in what wise soeuer it bee, wee muste mounte vp higher, without any resting vpon the bodily aduersitie.
1607 S. Hieron Good Fight in Wks. (1620) I. 221 There is no building vpon our selues, but a hopefull resting vpon the Lord.
1649 R. Baxter Saints Everlasting Rest (new ed.) iii. §2. 40 (margin) It is a Resting on the deceiving promise of the Devil for Justification.
1739 D. Waterland Wks. (1823) VIII. 279 In order to guard the more strongly against a common failing, viz. the resting in a string of unmeaning words.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxvi. 109 It was not hope,..it was not resignation; it was only a calm resting in the present.
1883 Harper's Mag. Oct. 801/1 True criticism both of the Bible and of history was, in his view, no resting in the dicta of the early fathers nor acceptance of the discipline of earlier ages [etc.].
1902 E. E. Keedy Naturalness Christian Life vi. 133 There are men to whom prayer is the most inevitable of things, the resting in God's purpose, or the agonizing of the soul.
2009 Argus (Dundalk, Ireland) (Nexis) 29 Feb. There is no resting on their laurels.
Compounds
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a. Denoting a period of rest.
resting day n.
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OERestingdæge [see sense 1a].
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndales Answere iii. p. cclxviii It pleased hym to haue wekely celebrate wyth the restynge day drawen from wordely besynes, to the desyre of heuen & acceptable seruyce of god.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 379 The Last shall be the very Resting-Day.
a1772 W. Langhorne Serm. on Pract. Subj. (1773) I. 180 When God had finished the works of creation, which was at the end of six days, he made the seventh a resting-day for himself.
1853 W. H. Johnstone Sunday & Sabbath iv. 54 We must separate the two ideas which enter into the English conception of Sunday..the Sabbath, or resting-day, and the Lord's-day, or praying-day.
2008 Africa News (Nexis) 7 Jan. We use Sunday and other so-called Christian holidays as resting days.
resting hour n.
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1615 in H. M. Paton Accts. Masters of Wks. (1957) I. 361 With sum uther turnes done be him at his resting houris.
?1786 J. E. Moore Genuine Mem. II. 199 We continued on deck the major part of resting hours, as the sable curtain of evening on the deep, disclosed to me a scene intirely new.
1898 Windsor Mag. Mar. 532/2 Paul had known no resting hour since she had gone.
1992 Mnemosyne 45 337 It is not true..that real-life shepherds spend their resting hour having loud singing contests.
resting time n.
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a1450 ( tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) f. 62 (MED) It nediþ to knowe þe customs..of þe enemyes..ȝif þey be woned to assaille..att mete time or in restinge time [L. hora reficiendi lassis].
1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. ii. iv. sig. I.vj/1 For things that lacke a resting time, can neuer long indure.
1780 I. Mauduit Three Lett. to Lord Viscount Howe iii. 25 After six days resting time, rowed back again.
1898 Catholic World May 219 Sleep..has been termed psycho-physiologically the resting-time of consciousness.
1997 A. Roy God of Small Things (1998) iv. 102 ‘Ay!’ the Orangedrink Lemondrink Man said. ‘Look, this is my Resting Time... So I can't have you singing English songs here. Stop it.’
resting while n. now rare
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?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) i. pr. iv. l. 281 I..desiryng to putte furþe in execusioun..þo þinges þat I hadde lerned of þe among my secre restyng whiles [L. otia].
1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer i. f. cccxxxiiiiv God forbede..thou seke any other doynges, but suche as I haue lerned the in our restynge whyles.
1720 T. Salmon Tryals for High-treason IV. 231 At Noon there was a Resting while, and I think the Prisoner went down.
1908 J. Payne Carol & Cadence 119 After a resting-while, They Eastward bent Their course.
b. With the sense ‘serving for or providing rest’.† resting land n. Obsolete
resting fold n.
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1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 111 The mellow low and bleat, Greeting..Resting-fold and milking-pail.
1908 ‘S. Rudd’ Dad in Politics 104 The sheep were camped on a ridge, and Bobby crept up with the stealth of a black, and, pouncing like a starved dingo on the resting fold, grabbed the nearest one.
resting ground n.
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1753 R. Rolt Mem. Life J. Lindesay iii. ii. 248 They planted seven cannon on some resting ground there.
1865 D. Masson Recent Brit. Philos. 185 Condillac's theory..would seem at this point to be the most natural resting-ground for Mr. Mill himself.
1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 27 Oct. 10/3 Feeding and resting grounds scattered over the country for the use of birds during migration.
1992 J. Smith Spiritual Living for Skeptical Age vi. 74 The forces of gravity are pulling the pebble toward..some very firm resting ground.
resting house n.
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1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Jas. iv. f. xxxviv He canne not abyde to haue his resting house defyled with worldly lustes.
a1651 C. Love Grace (1652) 238 Though the grave be an house, yet be comforted, it is a resting house.
1787 J. Trusler Habitable World Described I. 255 In some measure to refresh and relieve the traveller, two mountian-stoves or resting houses, are maintained on Filefield.
1879 Mrs. A. G. F. E. James Indian Househ. Managem. 33 At a dâk-bungalow, or travellers' resting-house... These resting-houses are found in every station.
2008 Jrnl. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 8 Feb. 29 The Rat Inn..is believed to have been a drovers' resting house in the 1750s.
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1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos vii. 122 Alhayle O contrey myne by destnye due, And you alhayll..O Troian gods of promise true. Here is my dwelling house, my resting lond.
1866 J. Harris Shakspere's Shrine 187 At such a time came Death, And call'd the watcher to the resting-land.
resting point n.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > [noun] > resting- or sticking-point
resting point1574
sticking place1578
sticking point1814
1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Job (new ed.) xxxii. 161/1 God..will haue vs to haue some certayne resting poynt, that we may not builde as the Spiders do, but haue stayednesse in him.
1607 Times, Places, & Persons Holie Script. 59 Our true resting point, is the turning againe vnto God, from whose fauour and fellowship we be departed.
1798 F. O'Gallagher Syst. Nature ii. 145 Hence the center of a spherical body is its resting point.
1866 J. H. Newman Dream of Gerontius §3. 24 And memory lacks its natural resting-points, Of years, and centuries, and periods.
1994 Latin Mass Jan. 43/3 Even this is but a resting point, albeit a momentous one.
resting seat n.
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a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) iv. 456 To us Troians why doest thou then envy In Italy to make her resting seat?
1674 J. Bryan Harvest-home vii. 48 An everlasting resting seat.
1800 J. Anderson Recreations in Agric. III. 131 Their general practice was, to fill up the under part of the aperture between the pillars with a solid wall (placing on many occasions a resting seat between them).
1919 K. Trask Without Walls ii. i. 79 (stage direction) A resting seat in a grove of trees.
2006 M. Streissguth Johnny Cash (2007) Introd. p. xiii The balladeer..never used the resting seat.
c. Chiefly Biology, with the senses ‘characterized by suspension of growth, activity, or alertness; dormant, inactive’ (cf. resting adj. 1b).
resting condition n.
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1852 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 10 409 It is probably this resting condition which alone of all the forms of development of Stephanosphæra possesses the power..of being revived by a new addition of water.
1952 New Biol. 13 64 The ‘basal metabolic rate’..is essentially the rate at which oxygen is consumed by the body when it is in a resting condition.
2009 Internat. Jrnl. Psychophysiol. 71 205 EEG was recorded during an eyes-closed resting condition.
resting position n.
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1801 J. Britton Beauties Wilts. §ix. 158 A colossal statue of Apollo, in a resting position.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 828 The eyes remain in their static or resting position.
1921 D. Gabell Prosthetic Dentistry iv. 76 The closed resting position of the mandible is one of more stable equilibrium than any other.
1986 L. Grant-Adamson Guilty Knowl. (1988) (BNC) 198 The handle slid from her grasp. It shot back to its resting position.
2006 J. T. Costa Other Insect Societies xvii. 542 The caterpillars feed to repletion and then retrace their path home..onto the tent surface, where they take up a resting position.
resting state n.
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1789 M. Martin Let. 28 Jan. in T. J. Pettigrew Mem. Life & Writings John Coakley Lettsom (1817) II. 7 I presumed to recommend dividing each man's land into proper shifts of potatoes, Mangel Wurzel, carrots..and two or three similar portions of lucern, by way of a resting state for the land.
1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 828 They [sc. sclerotia] were long regarded as independent forms of fungi, but it has been discovered that they are only resting states in which nourishment is stored up.
1917 H. W. Conn Bacteria, Yeasts, & Molds in Home (rev. ed.) v. 60 The yeast in an ordinary yeast cake already described is in the resting state... It is alive but is not actively growing.
1962 T. G. Hiebert Abbrev. Basic Med. Physiol. (ed. 4) ii. iii. 119 Cardiac muscle fibers are polarized in their resting state.
1991 Macintosh User's Guide for Macintosh PowerBook Computers i. 4 Sleep is a resting state in which the computer appears to be off but is actually still on at a reduced power level.
C2. Medicine. attributive with the sense ‘measured, taken, or occurring while at rest’ (as opposed to during exercise), as resting pulse, resting metabolic rate, etc.
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1903 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 148 466/2 His resting pulse was 68.
1958 Jrnl. Chronic Dis. 7 228 A 10-minute observation was made, with the patient comfortably seated, to determine resting energy expenditure.
1967 Brain 90 603 The simple or ‘resting’ tremor..has been implicated in the maintenance of posture.
1998 Zest July 122/2 An inactive 5ft 6in woman who weighs 9½st will have a resting metabolic rate of about 1,400 calories a day.
2008 Ulster Med. Jrnl. 77 139/1 Exercise stress tests were performed..for assessment of chest pain in patients without prior history of myocardial infarction or Q-waves on the resting electrocardiogram.
C3. † resting wimble n. Obsolete rare. (apparently) = rest wimble n. at rest n.1 Compounds 1b.
resting chair n. Scottish a long seat or bench with a back and arms.
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1614 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 43 As for a resting chyre.., I did enquyre at an upholster the pryce of itt.
1739 Trans. Gaelic Soc. Inverness 13 141 Little tent bed or a resting Chair bed.
1846 Renfrewshire Mag. Nov. 95 I was thoughtless, healthy, young..And fondly thought it would be long Ere I should need a resting chair.
1986 Shetland Life Nov. 18/3 Her ‘but-end’ was furnished in the traditional style with restin' chair, oilcloth covered table and a few wooden chairs.
resting period n. a period of rest or inactivity, esp. a period of dormancy of a spore, seed, etc., before germination, or of a perennial plant between growing seasons.
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1838 J. C. Loudon Suburban Gardener 547 During the resting period, all weeds should be destroyed while they are in the seed-leaf.
1904 F. E. Clements in Bot. Surv. Nebraska No. 7. 51 Disseminules designed to pass through a resting period are often brought into conditions where they germinate at once.
1989 L. Webb Total Health & Fitness (BNC) 129/2 During its growth phase..hair grows for between three and six years. Then there is a short resting period..of about three months, when the hair is shed.
2003 Guardian 15 Sept. (Weekend Suppl.) 92/3 This includes a 30-day resting period in lightly toasted American white oak casks, the preferred wood for maturing wine and spirits.
resting potential n. a voltage difference across a tissue or cell; spec. the membrane potential of a neuron when not transmitting a nerve impulse (cf. action potential n. at action n. Compounds 1).
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1906 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 78 160 If one electrode be placed very gently on the external surface of the skin and another on any portion of the subcutaneous tissue, one obtains the ‘resting’ potential.
1963 Science 28 June 1425/2 The resting potential changes of the surrounding cells seem to be passive reflections of changes in the potentials of the neighboring neurons.
2006 E. R. Kandel In Search of Memory (2007) v. 82 The resting potential and the action potential..simply utilized the energy stored in the concentration gradient of the ions.
resting room n. (a) space to rest; (b) a room in which to rest.
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?1614 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses ix. 128 When (so farre from home) I knew not where t'obtaine it resting roome.
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed sig. A 2v I petition you would afford our aged Traveller to take up a resting room at last in your study.
1796 A. Macleod Bishop of Landaff's ‘Apol. for Bible’ Examined viii. 155 Every animal..would seem to require a distinct apartment, at least each would need to have resting room.
1853 Southern Literary Messenger Apr. 204/1 There is no resting room at all.
1893 Times 24 May 13/4 Having now reached the great resting-room, we can retrace our steps to the main entrance.
1917 H. W. Frost Heart Songs 65 There seems no resting room In life below.
2007 A. B. Aikman Art & Pract. Court Admin. xii. 381 Some businesses now are providing resting rooms for staff.
resting staff n. (a) a stick on which to lean for support (earliest in figurative use); (b) (British regional) a stick used to support the shafts of a cart.
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1587 J. Harmar tr. T. de Bèze Serm. xxvii. 372 Wherefore doth euerie one make vnto himselfe his particular ground & resting staffe?
1814 Ld. Byron Corsair i. vi. 7 In pensive posture leaning on the brand, Not oft a resting-staff to that red hand.
1859 Aberdeen Jrnl. 5 Jan. 4/6 A boy of nine years..was amusing himself at Jack's Brae, by swinging on the shafts of a cart, which was upheld by the resting staff.
1967 H. Orton & M. F. Wakelin Surv. Eng. Dial. IV. i. 167 Q[uestion]. What do you call this [stick], for supporting the shaft [of a cart] to give the horse a rest?.. [Devon] Resting-staff.
resting stage n. (a) a place at which rest is taken during a journey (cf. stage n. 8); also figurative; (b) chiefly Biology a stage in a process, life cycle, etc., in which there is no growth or activity; (Cell Biology) = interphase n. 1.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > [noun] > stages of mitosis or meiosis
resting stage1810
prophase1884
anaphase1887
metaphase1887
synapsis1895
telophase1895
maturation division1896
postsynapsis1898
strepsinema1900
synizesis1905
interkinesis1906
pachynema1909
telosynapsis1909
leptonema1911
metasyndesis1911
strepsitene1911
zygonema1911
zygotene1911
leptotene1912
pachytene1912
interphase1913
telosyndesis1920
prometaphase1931
dictyotene1957
dictyate1958
1810 J. Q. Adams Lect. Rhetoric & Oratory xviii. 423 Mark the divisions..so that the mind of your hearer may dwell upon them, as resting stages for his attention.
1855 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 15 243 This resting stage is always carefully arranged for by the provision of suitable integuments and store of endospermous matter.
1896 E. B. Wilson Cell ii. 53 There are..some undoubted cases..in which the centrosome remains undivided during the resting stage and only divides as the process of mitosis begins.
1922 A. D. Godley tr. Herodotus Histories III. v. 59 In Armenia there are fifteen resting-stages.
1957 C. P. Swanson Cytol. & Cytogenetics iii. 48 Cells in interphase, or the resting stage, are characterized by a nucleus that shows little or no definable structure, except for the nucleoli and the prochromosomes.
1993 Independent on Sunday 11 July (Review Suppl.) 53/4 The black ergots are the resting stage of a parasitic fungus that attacks cereal crops.
resting tremor n. Medicine tremor, esp. of the hands or arms, that appears when the body is relaxed or at rest rather than in movement; an instance of this; cf. intention tremor n. at intention n. Compounds, rest tremor n. at rest n.1 Compounds 2a.
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1936 Bull. Neurol. Inst. N.Y. 5 178 In addition to these findings a marked spontaneous resting tremor was found in the head and the limbs ipsilateral to the lesion.
1977 Ann. Internal Med. 86 25/1 Manifestations of thyrotoxicosis included nervousness, warm, moist skin, and resting tremor in all eight patients.
2008 A. Samii in S. A. Factor & W. J. Weiner Parkinson's Dis. (rev. ed.) 45 The 3 cardinal signs include resting tremor, rigidity, and bradykinesia.
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1255 in W. H. Hart & P. A. Lyons Cartularium Monasterii de Rameseia (1884) I. 464 (MED) Cum autem super sanguinis effusione, raptu puellarum, et captione querc., quæ apertionem de restyng wymbes [read wymbles] possit sustinere, fuerit convictus ratione delicti, prout melius possit, gratiam petit domini.
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† restingn.2
Obsolete. rare.
The action of becoming rancid. Cf. reese v.2
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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > unsavouriness > [noun] > becoming rancid
resting1381
reesing1615
reesting1661
1381 Diuersa Servicia in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler Curye on Inglysch (1985) 73 (MED) For to kepe venisoun fro restyng, tak venisoun wan yt ys newe & cuuer it hastely wyþ fern, [etc.].
a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 33 (MED) For to save venysone fro restyng.
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† restingn.3
Obsolete.
The action of rest v.2
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > [noun]
havingeOE
holdc1230
withholdingc1386
restrainingc1390
refraininga1398
repression?a1425
repressing1431
bridlingc1443
restraint1443
restrainc1449
repressurec1487
restingc1503
abstention1521
controlling1523
controlment1525
distrain1531
staying1563
control1564
refrain1568
retention1578
check1579
restrainment1579
refranation1583
cohibition1586
withholdment1640
curbing1661
coercion1827
chastenment1882
detent1907
clamp-down1940
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 90 Whan bodyes beþ nouȝt ful clansid in þe restinge [v.r. resting; L. quietem] of þe feuere.
1465 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 285 (MED) My mastyr paid for entrynge of a pleynt in the Cownter ffor Pryse, and the restynge, xij d.
c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. xxxiij v/2 To helpe the officers of the cite..for resting of mysdoers.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccxii. 261 Takynge of..prisoners, or restynge of any persone, their goodes or marchandyses.
1592 T. Churchyard Let. in Chips (1817) 75 For fear off restyng I lye in the sentuary.
a1722 J. Lauder Hist. Notices Sc. Affairs (1848) II. 765 Byres of Coats pershues the toune of Edinburgh..for resting a milne-dam on his ground and bigging their girnell-houses within his property.
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Scotch bait, a halt and a resting on a stick, as practised by pedlars.
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restingadj.
/ˈrɛstɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈrɛstɪŋ/ 1.
a. That rests or is taking a rest; not in use, inactive.In quot. 1370-1: (of wood) found lying on the ground. never-resting: see never adv. and int. Compounds 2c.
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society > leisure > [adjective] > at or having leisure
freeOE
restingOE
at leisurea1529
vacant1531
otious1614
unbended1693
unbending1701
picktootha1726
disengaged1836
otiant1845
otiose1850
eased1851
vacationing1926
the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > [adjective] > resting
restingOE
restful?c1422
reposing1655
the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > [adjective] > resting > relating to or characterized by repose
restingOE
restful1340
reposeful1594
reposing1655
the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > [adjective] > resting > specifically of things
resting1648
OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) ii. xxii. 150 Hwæt wundrige we þæs, þeh þe Benedictus se fæder begeate, þæt he ferde þurh þone gast & þam gastum þara restendra broðra heora nydþearfe sæde?
1370–1 in N. Neilson Customary Rents (1910) 52 (MED) Et reddit censar. et cariagium et restingwode ad festum S. Martini.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 75 Restinge men [L. quiescentes] schal ete and drinke lasse þan trauaylinge men.
1574 T. Tusser Points Huswifrie (new ed.) f. 31, in Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) In Cambridge then, I found a gen, a resting plot.
1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints sig. Q2v Forthwith he Mercurie vnto him cal'd, And bad him flie with neuer resting speed.
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. Z5v A resting field Will, after ease, a richer harvest yeild.
1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 85 The never-resting Race of Men.
a1785 R. Glover Athenaid (1787) I. x. 260 Three days are pass'd When Sunium, Attic promontory, shades The resting sail.
1807 W. Wordsworth To Spade in Poems II. 125 The toiling many and the resting few.
1878 T. Hardy Return of Native I. i. ii. 23 As the resting man looked at the barrow.
1898 C. J. C. Hyne Adventures Capt. Kettle 213 Fishing craft, dredgers, and the other resting traffic of the Tyne.
1915 T. C. Williams tr. Virgil Georgics & Eclogues 26 Let the close-grazed fields Lie fallow, while the resting land crusts o'er Neglected.
1972 F. Mowat Whale for Killing i. 18 Lean dories and fat-bellied trap skiffs floated at their collars like resting seabirds.
2002 H. Kunzru Impressionist (2003) 481 By its [sc. the main road's] side, a resting road gang watches artillery being moved along it.
b. Biology. Not in the process of growth or activity; esp. (a) designating a spore, bud, etc., which passes the winter or other unfavourable period in a dormant state before germinating or developing (see also resting egg n. at Compounds); (b) Cell Biology designating a cell or nucleus at the interphase stage of cell division.Compare resting n.1 Compounds 1c.
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the world > plants > part of plant > growth, movement, or curvature of parts > [adjective] > inactive
resting1853
1853 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 11 210 (title) On the germination of the resting spores, and on a form of moving spores in Spirogyra.
1886 B. A. Whitelegge in W. W. Cheyne Rec. Ess. on Bacteria in Relation to Dis. 494 ‘Resting spores’..resist destructive influences in an almost incredible way.
1889 A. W. Bennett & G. R. M. Murray Handbk. Cryptogamic Bot. 266 It [sc. the zygosperm] then remains dormant through the winter as a resting cell or hypnosperm, germinating in the spring.
1895 Sci. Progress 3 333 Structural changes in the resting nucleus, which lead up to the formation of the reduced number of chromosomes, and which I have termed collectively the synapsis.
1904 Nature 24 Nov. 76/2 Figures are given of resting-buds, twigs and their transverse sections [etc.].
1936 W. Seifriz Protoplasm i. 20 The so-called ‘resting’ cell may be very active in other ways.
1953 H. L. Edlin Forester's Handbk. ii. 22 When autumn comes, this suspends its activity, and becomes a resting bud, protected by bud scales, which remains dormant until the following spring.
1989 S. J. Gould Wonderful Life (1991) 308 Diatoms might ride out the dark storm as resting spores below the photic zone.
2003 A. T. Sumner Chromosomes: Organization & Function ii. 5/1 In between successive mitoses, the chromosomes decondense to form the ‘resting’ nucleus, in which discrete chromosomes are no longer visible.
c. Theatre. Of an actor: not currently working; without an acting job.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [adjective] > unemployed
flag-fallen1609
resting1897
disengaged1933
1897 E. Spencer Cakes & Ale iv. 41 Burgesses of the City of London were there..and journalists, and advertising agents, and ‘resting’ actors.
1958 A. Wilson Middle Age of Mrs Eliot ii. 143 The rich ‘resting’ stage stars.
1971 M. Babson Cover-up Story iv. 43 We still had the dubious privilege of representing two ‘resting’ actors.
2006 Tatler Aug. 50/1 Tradespeople, resting actors and yummy mummies stopping for a spring roll and a glass of pinot grigio between school runs.
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the world > movement > absence of movement > [adjective] > remaining stationary
standing1525
restinga1616
stationary1668
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iii. i. 61 The Northerne Starre, Of whose true fixt, and resting quality, There is no fellow in the Firmament.
3. Restful. Now rare.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > quietness or tranquillity > [adjective]
stillc1275
coyc1330
restful1340
quieta1382
peaceablec1384
peacefula1400
undisturbleda1400
somec1460
quietous1528
reposeda1533
unnoyed1543
calma1568
halcyon1570
calmya1586
quietsome1595
halcyonian1602
undisturbeda1610
halcedonian1611
tranquila1616
tranquillous1638
slumbering1645
halcydon1648
smooth1757
slumberous1765
stilly1776
sleeping1785
unfrenzied1805
Sabbath-like1824
unbustling1826
eddyless1862
restinga1865
pacific1865
Sabbatismal1881
a1865 E. C. Gaskell Lett. (1966) 792 We shall come home on Saturday, but stop till Monday; it is so resting and refreshing.
1896 A. Beardsley Let. 17 Nov. (1970) 205 I wish Mabel could have started from Southampton. I do hope her crossing may be quiet and resting after all her hard work.
1920 Scribner's Mag. Dec. 688/2 The days continue bright and warm and are very resting.
Compounds
resting egg n. Zoology a fertilized egg which can remain dormant through the winter or other unfavourable period before hatching.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [noun] > egg > egg which survives winter
resting egg1868
1868 Intellectual Observer 12 283 Three kinds of eggs have been distinguished [in rotifers]—common eggs, intended for immediate hatching; winter or resting eggs, designed for preservation probably till the next season..; and male eggs.
1934 Biol. Rev. 9 160 Among the Cladocera..the same female may produce both females and males (by parthenogenetic reproduction) and resting eggs (by gameto~genetic reproduction).
1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes xiv. 221/1 There are..annual teleosts that emerge from resting eggs when it rains and then breed and die.
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adj.OE- monumentalises
- monumentalising
- monumentalism
- monumentalities
- monumentality
- monumentalization
- monumentalize
- monumentalized
- monumentalizes
- monumentalizing
- monumentally
- monumentary
- monumentbuilder
- monumented
- monumenter
- monumenting
- monumentless
- monumentlike
- monuments
- monuments of letters
- mony
- monzonite
- monzonites
- monzonitic
- monégasque