Rest or REST may refer to:

Relief from activity

Sleep Sleep is a state of reduced mental and physical activity in which consciousness is altered and certain Sensory nervous system, sensory activity is inhibited. During sleep, there is a marked decrease in muscle activity and interactions with th ...

Bed rest Bed rest, also referred to as the rest-cure, is a medical treatment in which a person lies in bed for most of the time to try to cure an illness. Bed rest refers to voluntarily lying in bed as a treatment and not being confined to bed because of ...

Break (work) A break at work (or work-break) is a period of time during a shift in which an employee is allowed to take time off from their job. It is a type of downtime. There are different types of breaks, and depending on the length and the employer's p ...

Kneeling Kneeling is a basic human position where one or both knees touch the ground. According to Merriam-Webster, kneeling is defined as "to position the body so that one or both knees rest on the floor". Kneeling with only one knee, and not both, is ca ...

Lying (position) Lyingalso called recumbency, prostration, or decubitus in medicine ()is a type of human position in which the body is more or less horizontal and supported along its length by the surface underneath. Lying is the most common position while bein ...

Sitting Sitting is a basic action and resting position in which the body weight is supported primarily by the bony ischial tuberosities with the buttocks in contact with the ground or a horizontal surface such as a chair seat, instead of by the low ...

Squatting position Squatting is a versatile List of human positions, posture where the weight of the body is on the feet but the knees and hips are bent. In contrast, sitting involves supporting the weight of the body on the ischial tuberosities of the pelvis, with ...

Structural support

Structural support A structural support is a part of a building or structure that provides the necessary stiffness and strength in order to resist the internal forces (vertical forces of gravity and lateral forces due to wind and earthquakes) and guide them safely to ...

** Rest (cue sports) **

Armrest An armrest (or arm-rest) is a part of a chair, where a person can rest their arms on. Armrests are built into a large variety of chairs such as automotive chairs, armchairs, airline seats, sofas, and more. Adjustable armrests are commonly found ...

Headrest Head restraints (also called headrests) are an automotive safety feature, attached or integrated into the top of each seat to limit the rearward movement of the adult occupant's head, relative to the torso, in a collision—to prevent or mitiga ...

Footrest A footstool (foot stool, footrest, foot rest) is a piece of furniture or a support used to elevate the feet. There are two main types of footstool, which can be loosely categorized into those designed for comfort and those designed for functi ...

Arts and entertainment

Music

Rest (music) A rest is the absence of a sound for a defined period of time in music, or one of the musical notation signs used to indicate that. The length of a rest corresponds with that of a particular note value, thus indicating how long the silence should ...

, a silence in a piece of music * Rest (band), Irish instrumental doom metal band * ''Rest'' (Gregor Samsa album), 2008 * ''Rest'' (Charlotte Gainsbourg album), 2017 * "Rest", a 1990 song by Green Day from ''

39/Smooth ''39/Smooth'' is the debut studio album by the American Rock music, rock band Green Day, released on April 13, 1990, by Lookout Records. After finalizing their line-up, the band played frequent shows at the 924 Gilman Street venue, where they st ...

'' * "Rest", a 2014 song by Kutless from '' Glory'' * "Rest", a 2015 song by Matt Maher from '' Saints and Sinners'' * "Rest", a 2012 song by Michael Kiwanuka from '' Home Again'' * "Rest", a 2000 song by Skillet from '' Invincible'' * "Rest", a 2009 song by The Temper Trap from '' Conditions'' * "Rest", tune name for a setting of "

Dear Lord and Father of Mankind "Dear Lord and Father of Mankind" is a hymn with words taken from a longer poem, "The Brewing of Soma" by American Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier. The adaptation was made by Garrett Horder in his 1884 ''Congregational Hymns''. In many ...

Painting

* ''Repose'' (painting), by Manet, c.1871 * ''Le Repos'' (Picasso), 1932 * ''Rest'' (Bouguereau), 1879

Businesses and organisations

* Relief Society of Tigray, an NGO in Ethiopia * Rest Super, an Australian industry superannuation fund

Places

* Rest, Kansas, U.S. * Rest, Virginia, U.S.

Science and technology

Representational state transfer REST (Representational State Transfer) is a software architectural style that was created to describe the design and guide the development of the architecture for the World Wide Web. REST defines a set of constraints for how the architecture of ...

, a software architectural style *

Restricted Environmental Stimulation Technique Sensory deprivation or perceptual isolation is the deliberate reduction or removal of stimuli from one or more of the senses. Simple devices such as blindfolds or hoods and earmuffs can cut off sight and hearing, while more complex devices can a ...

, the deliberate reduction or removal of stimuli from one or more of the senses *

reStructuredText reStructuredText (RST, ReST, or reST) is a file format for textual data used primarily in the Python programming language community for technical documentation. It is part of the Docutils project of the Python Doc-SIG (Documentation Special Inte ...

, a lightweight markup language for Python *

RE1-silencing transcription factor RE1-Silencing Transcription factor (REST), also known as Neuron-Restrictive Silencer Factor (NRSF), is a protein which in humans is encoded by the ''REST'' gene, and acts as a transcriptional repressor. REST is expressly involved in the repress ...

, a protein encoded by the REST gene

Other uses

Rest (finance) Rest is a financial terminology, describing the frequency in which an outstanding loan amount is being calculated.

, a financial terminology *

Rest (physics) Inertia is the natural tendency of objects in motion to stay in motion and objects at rest to stay at rest, unless a force causes the velocity to change. It is one of the fundamental principles in classical physics, and described by Isaac Newto ...

, related to inertia *

Revised Extended Standard Theory Generative grammar is a research tradition in linguistics that aims to explain the cognitive basis of language by formulating and testing explicit models of humans' subconscious grammatical knowledge. Generative linguists, or generativists (), ...

, a theory of linguistic competence developed by Noam Chomsky * James Rest (died 1999), American psychologist