Rest

Rest or REST may refer to:

Relief from activity

• Sleep
  • Bed rest
• Kneeling
• Lying (position)
• Sitting
• Squatting position

Structural support

• Structural support
  • Rest (cue sports)
  • Armrest
  • Headrest
  • Footrest

Arts and entertainment

Music

• Rest (music), 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
• "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"

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 (superannuation fund), an Australian industry superannuation fund

Places

• Rest, Kansas, U.S.
• Rest, Virginia, U.S.

Science and technology

• Representational state transfer, a software architectural style
• Restricted Environmental Stimulation Technique, the deliberate reduction or removal of stimuli from one or more of the senses
• reStructuredText, a lightweight markup language for Python
• RE1-silencing transcription factor, a protein encoded by the REST gene

Other uses

• Rest (finance), a financial terminology
• Rest (physics), related to inertia
• Revised Extended Standard Theory, a theory of linguistic competence developed by Noam Chomsky
• James Rest (died 1999), American psychologist

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Rest
• All pages with titles containing Rest
• Restaurant (disambiguation)
• Rest stop (disambiguation)
• Death
• Leisure
• Relaxation technique