REST ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rest on mean? 

• REST ON (verb)
  The verb REST ON has 2 senses:

1. rest on for support

2. be based on; of theories and claims, for example

  Familiarity information: REST ON used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REST ON (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rest on for support

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

lean against; lean on; rest on

Context example:

you can lean on me if you get tired

Hypernyms (to "rest on" is one way to...):

adjoin; contact; meet; touch (be in direct physical contact with; make contact)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be based on; of theories and claims, for example

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

build on; build upon; repose on; rest on

Context example:

What's this new evidence based on?

Hypernyms (to "rest on" is one way to...):

depend on; depend upon; devolve on; hinge on; hinge upon; ride; turn on (be contingent on)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rest on"):

owe (be indebted to, in an abstract or intellectual sense)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

 Context examples 

I must not confuse them with experiences which will have to rest on my own observation, or my memory of them.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

His character, however, answered Elinor, does not rest on ONE act of kindness, to which his affection for Marianne, were humanity out of the case, would have prompted him.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It was wide and heavy, and protruded outward and down until it seemed to rest on his chest.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

They all appeared with dejected looks, and in the meanest habit; most of them telling me, “they died in poverty and disgrace, and the rest on a scaffold or a gibbet.”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

My eye passed all other objects to rest on those most remote, the blue peaks; it was those I longed to surmount; all within their boundary of rock and heath seemed prison-ground, exile limits.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She would very gladly have gone out to enjoy the bright wintry weather, but discovering that Laurie was dropping with sleep in spite of manful efforts to conceal the fact, she persuaded him to rest on the sofa, while she wrote a note to her mother.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

In this perturbed state of mind, with thoughts that could rest on nothing, she walked on; but it would not do; in half a minute the letter was unfolded again, and collecting herself as well as she could, she again began the mortifying perusal of all that related to Wickham, and commanded herself so far as to examine the meaning of every sentence.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

But during an average day, parts of your skin may brush surfaces in stores, elevators, and restrooms; get nicked by a kitchen knife; be washed with rain; rest on a gym mat; and be slobbered on by a dog.

(Skin microbes fairly stable over time, NIH)

I rest on the sofa, so as not to disturb her.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He lay down to rest on the other side of the open, near the edge of the bushes, his tongue lolling out, his chest heaving and panting, his nose still hurting him and causing him to continue his whimper.

(White Fang, by Jack London)