Resting-place

Definition

rest 1 /rest/ v ၁။ (က) နားေနသည္။ စိတ္ခ်သည္။ အိပ္သည္။ lie down and rest for an hour after lunch ❍ The nurse said we couldn't visit him because he was resting. ❍ ( fig ) He will never rest (ie never have peace of mind) until he knows the truth. (ခ) အနားေပးသည္။ နားသည္။ Sit down and rest your legs. ❍ Are you rested enough to go on? See also RIP ၂။ ~ (sth)on/ against sth တည္ထားသည္။ ေထာက္ထားသည္။ ထားသည္။ Her elbows rested/ She rested her elbows on the table. ❍ Rest the ladder against the wall. ၃။ ( fml ) (စကားကို) ျဖတ္သည္။ (ကိစၥ) ထားလိုက္ သည္။ let the matter/ topic/ affair rest ❍ The matter cannot rest there—I demand an apology. ၄။ ( esp law ) ေလွ်ာက္လဲခ်က္ကို အဆံုးသတ္သည္။ I rest my case. n ၁။ [C,U] ~(from sth) အနားယူျခင္း။ အိပ္စက္ျခင္း။ have a good night's rest ❍ stop for a well-earned rest ❍ have/ take a rest from all your hard work ❍ Sunday is a day of rest. ❍ Try to get some rest now— you've got a busy day tomorrow. ❍ BREAK 2 ၂။ [C] (often in compounds) အမီွ။ ေဒါက္။ a rest for a billiard cue ❍ an armrest (eg on a seat or chair). See also FOOTREST, HEADREST ၃။ [C] ( music ) နားခ်ိန္။ နားရန္ သေကၤတ။ The trumpets have six bars' rest. ❍ MUSIC ❏ at rest [ IDM ] ၁။ မေရြ႕မလ်ား။ မလႈပ္မယွက္။ ၂။ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္း စြာ။ ( euph ) be/ lie at rest (ie be buried) in one's grave. ❏ come to rest [ IDM ] ရပ္တန္႔သြားသည္။ The car crashed through the barrier and came to rest in a field. ❏ give sth/ it a rest [ IDM ] ( infml ) နားထားပါ။ ေတာ္စမ္းပါ။ If you've hurt your ankle you should give sport a rest for a few weeks. ❍ Oh, give it a rest, will you? You've been complaining all day! ❏ lay sb to rest [ IDM ]( euph ) ျမႇဳပ္ႏွံသည္။ She was laid to rest beside her late husband. ❏ lay/ put sth to rest [ IDM ] (ထင္ေၾကးေပးမႈမ်ားကို) ပိတ္ပစ္လိုက္သည္။ An official announcement finally laid speculation to rest. ❏ rest area, rest stop ns ( US ) = LAY-BY ❏ rest assured (that…) [ IDM ] ( fml ) စိတ္ခ်ေနပါ…။ You may rest assured that everything possible is being done. ❏ rest-cure n (လဲေလ်ာင္း) အနားယူေစျခင္းျဖင့္ ကုသမႈ။ ( fig ironic ) This job's certainly no rest-cure! ❏ rest-day n (အားကစားၿပိဳင္ပြဲကာလအတြင္း) နားရက္။ ❏ restful /-fl/ adj ~ (to sb/ sth) ေအးေအးလူလူရိွေသာ။ ေအးေစ[ေသာ]။ restful sleep ❍ a restful Sunday afternoon ❍ Pastel colours are restful to the eye. ❏ rest-home n အိုမင္း၊ ဖ်ားနာသူတို႔ကို ျပဳစု ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ေသာ ေဂဟာ။ ❏ resting-place n ( euph ) ေျမပံု။ အုတ္ဂူ။ his final resting-place in the local churchyard. ❏ rest on one's laurels [ IDM ] ( esp derog ) တက္ေထာင္ သည္။ ❏ rest on sb/ sth [ PHRV ] (no passive) ၁။ … အေပၚ တည္မီွသည္။ The team's hopes of a medal now rest on Gunnell. ၂။ (အၾကည့္) က်ေရာက္လာသည္။ Her eyes travelled slowly around the room and finally rested on me. ❏ rest on sth [ PHRV ] (no passive) အေျချပဳထားသည္။ မ႑ိဳင္ျပဳထားသည္။ an argument/ a claim resting on a false assumption ❍ The whole theory rests on a very simple idea. ❍ The success of the play rests largely on the performances of the main actors. ❏ rest room n ( US euph ) အမ်ားသံုး ေရအိမ္။ ❍ TOILET ❏ rest with sb (to do sth) [ PHRV ]( fml ) … အေပၚတည္ သည္။ …တြင္တာဝန္ရိွသည္။ The decision rests entirely with you. ❍ It rests with management to justify their actions. rest 2 /rest/ n the ~ (of sth) ၁။ [sing] အက်န္။ က်န္သည့္ အပိုင္းအျခား။ က်န္တာ။ the rest of the world/ my life/ her money ❍ watch the rest of a film ❍ Take what you want and throw the rest away. ၂။ [pl v ] က်န္လူ။ က်န္တဲ့လူေတြ။ က်န္တာေတြ။ Paul and I are playing tennis this afternoon. What are the rest of you going to do? ❍ The first question was difficult, but the rest were quite easy. ❏ and (all) the rest (of it) [ IDM ]( infml ) ရိွရိွသမွ် သဗၺရနံေပါင္း။ He wants a huge house and an expensive car and all the rest of it. ❍ She believes in God and heaven and hell and the rest. ❏ for the rest [ IDM ]( fml ) ထိုမွတစ္ပါးတြင္ကား။ The book contains some interesting passages about the author's childhood. For the rest, it is rather dull.

Examples

1. I’m not really hungry – do you want the rest?
2. [rest of] : We spent the rest of the day watching TV.
3. Rain will spread to the rest of the country by evening.
4. Jim had become separated from the rest and got completely lost.
5. [rest of] : The rest of the gang’s leaders were either dead or in jail.
6. Can we stop for a minute? I need a rest.
7. He was ordered to have complete rest after his heart attack.
8. [rest from] : She took a well-earned rest from her studies.
9. [take/have a rest] : He took a short rest in the afternoon.
10. [get some rest] : You should go and get some rest before tonight’s performance.
11. ‘Well?’ she demanded
12. as he replaced the receiver on its rest.