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breathing space
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nanobreak
microvacation
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pastime
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restful
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selah
restward
recline
solace
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downtime
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restfulness
me time
solitary
lone
lonely
resting
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chill out
house
lie on the oars
laid-back
lay back
ease
unstrain
rest period
minibreak
abiding-place
rest up
loosen up
relief
wind down
take a break
lounge
laze
stopover
everything happens for a reason
layover
lull
stop
staying
remit
set
set one's watch back
take it easy
lap
give someone a break
allay
leisureful
relax
tone down
physical break
unbend
ease up
slow down
decompress
kick up one's heels
nod
hunker down
soft
sojourn
work through
bytime
easy
quiescence
restful
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lone
lonely
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soft
easy
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breathing place
breathing time
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nanobreak
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pursuit
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pastime
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solace
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me time
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house
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lay back
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remit
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lap
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allay
relax
tone down
unbend
ease up
slow down
decompress
kick up one's heels
nod
hunker down
work through
noun
noun
verb
- To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.
- To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
- To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point.
- To interrupt an activity and wait.
noun
- A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
- A break or paragraph in writing.
- Hesitation; suspense; doubt.
- A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
- In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation mark.
- take pause: hesitate; give pause: cause to hesitate
- A sign indicating continuance of a note or rest.
verb
- To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break.
- To be able to write or say the letters that form words.
- To work in place of (someone).
- To constitute; to measure.
- To clarify; to explain in detail.
- Of letters: to compose (a word).
- To indicate that (some event) will occur.
- To rest from work for a time.
- To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
- To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.
noun
- A period of rest; time off.
- An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.
- A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.
- An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short distance.
- Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
- A definite period (of work or other activity).
- A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.
- The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.
- A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.
- A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.
noun
- A break, pause or vacation.
- A small space created by building part of a wall further back from the rest.
- A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
- A time of play during the school day, usually on a playground.
- An inset, hole, hollow space or opening.
- A remote, secret or abstruse place.
- A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
- A period of time when the proceedings of a parliament, committee, court of law, or other official body are temporarily suspended.
verb
verb
- take a short break from one's activities in order to relax
- draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs
- be alive
- impart as if by breathing
- allow the passage of air through
- utter or tell
- manifest or evince
- reach full flavor by absorbing air and being let to stand after having been uncorked
- expel (gases or odors)
verb
- take a short break from one's activities in order to relax
- give a rest to
- not move; be in a resting position
- 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
noun
- a pause for relaxation
- something left after other parts have been taken away
- freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
- 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
noun
- a diversion that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly)
- a sense of concern with and curiosity about someone or something
- a reason for wanting something done
- the power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.)
- a fixed charge for borrowing money; usually a percentage of the amount borrowed
- (law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something
- (usually plural) a social group whose members control some field of activity and who have common aims
verb
verb
- To relax; to chill out; to rest and become relieved of stress
- To undo something.
- To close out a position, especially a complicated position.
- To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.
- To analyse (a call stack) so as to generate a stack trace etc.
- To separate (something that is wound up)
noun
verb
- To come into rest.
- To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score
- (of a blow) To deliver.
- To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
- To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.
- To acquire; to secure.
- To go down well with an audience.
- To bring to land.
- (of a punch) To connect
- To capture or arrest.
noun
- The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
- The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
- lant; urine
- The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
- Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and erected.
- On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
- realm, domain.
- In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
- A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.
- The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
- A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
- The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
- A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
- A country or region.
- A shock or fright.
- The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
noun
- A place of rest or repose.
- House music.
- A workhouse.
- An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.
- A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
- A theatre.
- An apartment building within a public housing estate.
- One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
- A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
- Size and quality of residential accommodations.
- The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
- A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier.
- A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.
- The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
- Lotto; bingo.
- A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
- A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
- A small stand of trees in a swamp.
- A set of cells in a Sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box in classic Sudoku.
- The people who live in a house; a household.
- A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.
- A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.
- The fourth Lenormand card.
- A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
verb
- To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
- To admit to residence; to harbor.
- To contain or cover mechanical parts.
- To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
- To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
- To eat.
- To keep within a structure or container.
- To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
verb
- To give respite to (someone).
- To move (something) slowly and carefully.
- To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc.
- To reduce the difficulty of (something).
- To proceed with little effort.
- To alleviate, assuage or lessen (pain).
- To loosen or slacken the tension on a line.
- To lessen in intensity.
noun
- Additional space provided to allow greater movement.
- Release from constraint, obligation, or a constrained position.
- Followed by of or from: release from or reduction of pain, hardship, or annoyance.
- Freedom from pain, hardship, and annoyance, sometimes (derogatory, archaic) idleness, sloth.
- Ability, the means to do something
- Freedom from difficulty.
- Skill, dexterity, facility.
- Freedom from worry and concern; peace; sometimes (derogatory, archaic) indifference.
- Freedom from effort, leisure, rest.
- Freedom from financial effort or worry; affluence.
- Freedom from embarrassment or awkwardness; grace.
verb
noun
- a pause for relaxation
- the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced
- the condition of being comfortable or relieved (especially after being relieved of distress)
- (law) redress awarded by a court
- someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
- assistance in time of difficulty
- a change for the better
- aid for the aged or indigent or handicapped
- the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance)
- sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background
- the act of freeing a city or town that has been besieged
verb
noun
- The act of someone who lounges; idle reclining.
- An establishment, similar to a bar, that serves alcohol and often plays background music or shows television.
- The living room or sitting room of a house.
- A large comfortable seat for two or three people or more, a sofa or couch; also called lounge chair.
- A waiting room in an office, airport etc.
noun
- a brief stay in the course of a journey
- the event of something ending
- the act of stopping something
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- a spot where something halts or pauses
- a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
- a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
- a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
verb
- come to a halt, stop moving
- put an end to a state or an activity
- stop from happening or developing
- interrupt a trip
- cause to end
- prevent completion
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- seize on its way
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- render unsuitable for passage
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
noun
verb
- To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).
- Rhymes: -ɪt
- Audio (UK) (file)
- To restore or replace.
- To refer (something or someone) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).
- To postpone.
- IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ɹɪˈmɪt/
- To forgive, pardon (a wrong, offence, etc.).
- To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.
- To refrain from exacting or enforcing.
- IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ɹiˈmɪt/, /ɹɪˈmɪt/
noun
verb
- To put (something) down, to rest.
- To devise and assign (work) to.
- To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- To place or fix in a setting.
- To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- To prepare (a stage or film set).
- To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- To defeat a contract.
- To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- To produce after pollination.
- To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
- To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- To sit (be in a seated position).
- To arrange (type).
- To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- To introduce or describe.
- To solidify.
- To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
- To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
- Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- To adjust.
- To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- To suit; to become.
- To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- To determine or settle.
- To fit music to words.
- To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- To start (a fire).
- To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
- To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
- To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
noun
- A punch for setting nails in wood.
- The full number of eggs set under a hen.
- The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- A young oyster when first attached.
- The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- The scenery for a film or play.
- Set theory.
- the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- A rudimentary fruit.
- An object made up of several parts.
- General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
- The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- A drum kit, a drum set.
- A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
- A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
- A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).
- A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
- A group of people, usually meeting socially.
- The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- The pattern of a tartan, etc.
- A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
- A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)
- A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
adj
verb
- To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
- to envelop, enfold
- To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
- to wind around
- To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
- To polish, e.g., a surface, until smooth.
- To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
- To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
- To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
- To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
- To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
- to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
- To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
noun
- A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, etc. or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of a wheel or disk that revolves on a vertical axis.
- The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping.
- The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap (see below).
- The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
- The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.
- In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game;—so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.
- One circuit around a race track.
- An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
- A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
- That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.
- The taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue.
- A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
- The act or process of lapping.
- The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
- a place of rearing and fostering
- The upper legs of a seated person.
verb
- To make a mistake by being temporarily inattentive or tired
- To signify by a nod.
- To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement.
- To allude to something.
- To sway, move up and down.
- To briefly incline the head downwards as a cursory greeting.
- To fall asleep while under the influence of opiates.
- To gradually fall asleep.
- To head; to strike the ball with one's head.
noun
adv
adj
- yielding readily to pressure or weight
- compassionate and kind; conciliatory
- (of sound) relatively low in volume
- produced with vibration of the vocal cords
- not protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)
- (used chiefly as a direction or description in music) soft; in a quiet, subdued tone
- (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected
- (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward the hard palate; characterized by a hissing or hushing sound (as `s' and `sh')
adj
- easily hurt
- (of a commodity or market or currency) falling or likely to fall in value
- using evidence not readily amenable to experimental verification or refutation
- tolerant or lenient
- soft and mild; not harsh or stern or severe
- having little impact
- out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance
- willing to negotiate and compromise
- not burdensome or demanding; borne or done easily and without hardship
- mild and pleasant
- not brilliant or glaring
adv
- in a relaxed manner; or without hardship
- with ease (`easy' is sometimes used informally for `easily')
- without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly')
adj
adj
- not hurried or forced
- affording pleasure
- having little impact
- readily exploited or tricked
- in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich
- marked by moderate steepness
- affording comfort
- casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
- less in demand and therefore readily obtainable
- obtained with little effort or sacrifice, often obtained illegally
- not strict
noun
- Being at rest, quiet, still, inactive or motionless.
- The action of bringing something to rest or making it quiescent; the action of coming to rest or to a quiescent state.
- The state of being quiescent; dormancy.
- In insects, a temporary slowing down of metabolism and development in response to adverse environmental conditions, which, unlike diapause, does not involve physiological changes.
- The period when a cell is in a term of no growth and no division.
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