Complement and Rest

complement

noun

A word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction.
A complete number or quantity.
- usage: "a full complement"
Number needed to make up a whole force.
- usage: "a full complement of workers"
- synonyms: full complement
Something added to complete or embellish or make perfect.
- usage: "a fine wine is a perfect complement to the dinner"; "wild rice was served as an accompaniment to the main dish"
- synonyms: accompaniment
One of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response.
Either of two parts that mutually complete each other.

verb

Make complete or perfect; supply what is wanting or form the complement to.
- usage: "I need some pepper to complement the sweet touch in the soup"

(v.t.) To supply a lack; to supplement.
(v.t.) The whole working force of a vessel.
(v.t.) Something added for ornamentation; an accessory.
(v.t.) To compliment.
(v.t.) A second quantity added to a given quantity to make it equal to a third given quantity.
(v.t.) A compliment.
(v.t.) Full quantity, number or amount; a complete set; completeness.
(v.t.) The interval wanting to complete the octave; -- the fourth is the complement of the fifth, the sixth of the third.
(v.t.) That which fills up or completes; the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete.
(v.t.) That which is required to supply a deficiency or to complete a symmetrical whole.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

rest

noun

Something left after other parts have been taken away.
- usage: "there was no remainder"; "he threw away the rest"; "he took what he wanted and I got the balance"
- synonyms: remainder, balance, residual, residue, residuum
Freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility. )
- usage: "took his repose by the swimming pool"
- synonyms: ease, repose, relaxation
A pause for relaxation.
- usage: "people actually accomplish more when they take time for short rests"
- synonyms: respite, relief, rest period
A state of inaction.
- usage: "a body will continue in a state of rest until acted upon"
Euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb. )
- usage: "she was laid to rest beside her husband"; "they had to put their family pet to sleep"
- synonyms: eternal rest, sleep, eternal sleep, quietus
A support on which things can be put.
- usage: "the gun was steadied on a special rest"
A musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration.

verb

Not move; be in a resting position.
Take a short break from one's activities in order to relax.
- synonyms: breathe, catch one's breath, take a breather
Give a rest to.
- usage: "He rested his bad leg"; "Rest the dogs for a moment"
Have a place in relation to something else.
- usage: "The fate of Bosnia lies in the hands of the West"; "The responsibility rests with the Allies"
- synonyms: lie
Be at rest.
Stay the same; remain in a certain state.
- usage: "The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "rest assured"; "stay alone"; "He remained unmoved by her tears"; "The bad weather continued for another week"
- synonyms: stay, remain
Be inherent or innate in;.
- synonyms: reside, repose
Put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying.
- usage: "Rest your head on my shoulder"
Sit, as on a branch.
- usage: "The birds perched high in the tree"
- synonyms: perch, roost
Rest on or as if on a pillow.
- usage: "pillow your head"
- synonyms: pillow
Be inactive, refrain from acting.
- usage: "The committee is resting over the summer"

(n.) A state of quiet or repose; a cessation from motion or labor; tranquillity; as, rest from mental exertion; rest of body or mind.
(n.) To stand firm; to be fixed; to be supported; as, a column rests on its pedestal.
(n.) To cease from action or motion, especially from action which has caused weariness; to desist from labor or exertion.
(n.) Sleep; slumber; hence, poetically, death.
(n.) That which is left or which remains after the separation of a part, either in fact or in contemplation; remainder; residue.
(v.t.) To arrest.
(n.) To be free from whanever wearies or disturbs; to be quiet or still.
(n.) That on which anything rests or leans for support; as, a rest in a lathe, for supporting the cutting tool or steadying the work.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A projection from the right side of the cuirass, serving to support the lance.
(n.) A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn or permanently, as, in an abode.
(n.) To sleep; to slumber; hence, poetically, to be dead.
(n.) Hence, freedom from everything which wearies or disturbs; peace; security.
(n.) To lean in confidence; to trust; to rely; to repose without anxiety; as, to rest on a man's promise.
(n.) The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account.
(n.) A set or game at tennis.
(n.) Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
(v.t.) To lay or place at rest; to quiet.
(n.) To lie; to repose; to recline; to lan; as, to rest on a couch.
(n.) 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.
(v.i.) To be left; to remain; to continue to be.
(v.t.) To place, as on a support; to cause to lean.
(n.) A short pause in reading verse; a c/sura.
(n.) To be satisfied; to acquiesce.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

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