Rest vs. Motion — What's the Difference?

Cease work or movement in order to relax, sleep, or recover strength

In physics, motion is the phenomenon in which an object changes its position over time. Motion is mathematically described in terms of displacement, distance, velocity, acceleration, speed, and time.

Be placed or supported so as to stay in a specified position

The action or process of moving or being moved

Be based on; depend on

A formal proposal put to a legislature or committee

Conclude presentation of either party's case in a suit or prosecution

An evacuation of the bowels

Remain or be left in a specified condition

Direct or command (someone) with a movement of the hand or head

An instance or period of resting

Propose for discussion and resolution at a meeting or legislative assembly

An interval of silence of a specified duration.

The act or process of changing position or place.

An object that is used to support something

A meaningful or expressive change in the position of the body or a part of the body; a gesture.

The remaining part of something

Active operation

A small, detached portion of an organ or tissue.

The ability or power to move

A rally in real tennis.

The manner in which the body moves, as in walking.

A period of inactivity, relaxation, or sleep:The hikers stopped for a rest.

A prompting from within; an impulse or inclination

Sleep or the refreshment resulting from inactivity or sleep:Get plenty of rest before the race.

(Music) Melodic ascent and descent of pitch.

The repose of death:eternal rest.

(Law) An application made to a court for an order or a ruling.

Mental or emotional calm:The news put my mind at rest.

A formal proposal put to the vote under parliamentary procedures.

The state of being motionless; the absence of motion:The car accelerates quickly from a state of rest.

A mechanical device or piece of machinery that moves or causes motion; a mechanism.

The condition of being settled or resolved:a remark that put the matter to rest.

The movement or action of such a device.

An interval of silence corresponding to one of the possible time values within a measure.

To direct by making a gesture

The mark or symbol indicating such a pause and its length.

To indicate by making a gesture; signal

A short pause in a line of poetry; a caesura.

To make a motion (that something should happen).

A device used as a support:a back rest.

To signal by making a gesture

(Games)See bridge1.

(uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another.

The part that is left over after something has been removed; remainder.

(countable) A change of position with respect to time.

That or those remaining

(physics) A change from one place to another.

A support for a lance on the side of the breastplate of medieval armor.

(countable) A parliamentary action to propose something. A similar procedure in any official or business meeting.

To cease motion, work, or activity, especially in order to become refreshed:The laborers rested in the shade.

(obsolete) An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.

To lie down and sleep:rested for an hour on the couch.

(philosophy) from κίνησις (kinesis); any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place.

To be in or come to a motionless state:The can rolled along, finally resting when it hit the curb.

Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.

To be located or be in a specified place:The manuscript rests in the museum.

(law) A formal request, oral or written, made to a judge or court of law to obtain an official court ruling or order for a legal action to be taken by, or on behalf of, the movant.

To be fixed or directed on something:His gaze rested on the necklace.

(euphemistic) A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.

To be unchanged or unresolved:After arguing for an hour, we let the matter rest.

(music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct motion is that by single degrees of the scale. Contrary motion is when parts move in opposite directions. Disjunct motion is motion by skips. Oblique motion is when one part is stationary while another moves. Similar or direct motion is when parts move in the same direction.)

To be supported or based; lie, lean, or sit:The ladder rests firmly anst the tree.

(obsolete) A puppet, or puppet show.

To be imposed or vested, as a responsibility or burden:The final decision rests with the crperson.

(mechanical engineering) A piece of moving mechanism, such as on a steam locomotive.

To depend or rely:That argument rests on a false assumption.

To gesture indicating a desired movement.

(Law)To complete the n presentation of one's portion of a legal case:The defense rests.

(proscribed) To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.

To cause or allow to be inactive or relaxed so as to ren energy:The coach rested his best players. I rested my eyes before studying.

To make a proposal; to offer plans.

To place, lay, or lean, as for support or repose:rested the rake anst the fence.

The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or involuntary; - opposed to rest.

To base or ground:I rested my conclusion on that fact.

Power of, or capacity for, motion.

To fix or direct (the gaze, for example).

Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east.

(Law)To complete the n presentation of (one's portion of a case):The prosecutor was not ready to rest her case.

Change in the relative position of the parts of anything; action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts.

To be or continue to be; remain

Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.

To remain or be left over.

A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress; esp., a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion to adjourn.

Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.

An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant.

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

Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts.

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

A puppet show or puppet.

A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.

To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the hand; as, to motion to one to take a seat.

A final position after death.

To make proposal; to offer plans.

A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.

To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head; as, to motion one to a seat.

A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.

To propose; to move.

Absence of motion.

A natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something

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.

The use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals

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

A change of position that does not entail a change of location;

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

A state of change;

A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.

A formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote;

(poetry) A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.

The act of changing location from one place to another;

The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals after which compound interest is added to capital.

An optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object;

(dated) A set or game at tennis.

Show, express or direct through movement;

(uncountable) That which remains.

Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.

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.

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

(intransitive) To come to a pause or an end; end.

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

To be or to put into a state of rest.

(intransitive) To stay, remain, be situated.

To lean, lie, or lay.

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.)

(intransitive) To sleep; slumber.

(intransitive) To lie dormant.

(intransitive) To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.

(intransitive) To rely or depend on.

To be satisfied; to acquiesce.

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

To keep a certain way.

To arrest.

To arrest.

To cease from action or motion, especially from action which has caused weariness; to desist from labor or exertion.

To be free from whanever wearies or disturbs; to be quiet or still.

To lie; to repose; to recline; to lan; as, to rest on a couch.

To stand firm; to be fixed; to be supported; as, a column rests on its pedestal.

To sleep; to slumber; hence, poetically, to be dead.

To lean in confidence; to trust; to rely; to repose without anxiety; as, to rest on a man's promise.

To be satisfied; to acquiesce.

To lay or place at rest; to quiet.

To place, as on a support; to cause to lean.

To be left; to remain; to continue to be.

A state of quiet or repose; a cessation from motion or labor; tranquillity; as, rest from mental exertion; rest of body or mind.

Hence, freedom from everything which wearies or disturbs; peace; security.

Sleep; slumber; hence, poetically, death.

That on which anything rests or leans for support; as, a rest in a lathe, for supporting the cutting tool or steadying the work.

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

A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.

A short pause in reading verse; a cæsura.

The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account.

A set or game at tennis.

Silence in music or in one of its parts; the name of the character that stands for such silence. They are named as notes are, whole, half, quarter,etc.

That which is left, or which remains after the separation of a part, either in fact or in contemplation; remainder; residue.

Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.

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.

Something left after other parts have been taken away;

Freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility);

A pause for relaxation;

A state of inaction;

Euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb);

A support on which things can be put;

A musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration

Not move; be in a resting position

Take a short break from one's activities in order to relax

Give a rest to;

Have a place in relation to something else;

Be at rest

Stay the same; remain in a certain state;

Be inherent or innate in;

Put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying;

Sit, as on a branch;

Rest on or as if on a pillow;

Be inactive, refrain from acting;