pick up vs rest

pick up

verb
  • To take control (physically) of something. 

  • To acquire (something) accidentally; to catch (a disease). 

  • To collect and detain (a suspect). 

  • To lift; to grasp and raise. 

  • To clean up; to return to an organized state. 

  • To point out the behaviour, habits, or actions of (a person) in a critical manner; used with on. 

  • To meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation. 

  • To receive calls; to function correctly. 

  • To record; to notch up. 

  • To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand; to realize. 

  • To promote somebody who was previously passed over. 

  • To collect an object, especially in passing. 

  • To answer a telephone. 

  • To mark, to defend against an opposition player by following them closely. 

  • To behave in a manner that results in a foul. 

  • To restart or resume. 

  • To receive (a radio signal or the like). 

  • To notice, detect or discern; to pick up on 

  • To improve, increase, or speed up. 

  • To reduce the despondency of. 

  • To pay for. 

  • To obtain and publish a story, news item, etc. 

  • To collect a passenger. 

rest

verb
  • To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion. 

  • To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed. 

  • To rely or depend on. 

  • To be or to put into a state of rest. 

  • 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.) 

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

  • To sleep; slumber. 

  • To come to a pause or an end; end. 

  • To be satisfied; to acquiesce. 

  • To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead. 

  • To lie dormant. 

  • To stay, remain, be situated. 

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

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

  • Absence of motion. 

  • Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • Any object designed to be used to support something else. 

  • Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep. 

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

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

  • A final position after death. 

  • A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura. 

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

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

  • That which remains. 

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

  • Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation. 

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