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# resting

«resting» in Mova's school dictionary: **lying down, sleeping or relaxing to get back strength** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (present participle of rest: rest, rests, rested, resting); adjective (resting, not resting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) lying down, sleeping or relaxing to get back strength. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resting/#m1)

2) (euphemism, humorous, UK) of an actor: out of work, with no part in a play or film. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resting/#m2)

3) lying or leaning on something ("resting on the table"). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resting/#m3)

4) (euphemism) dead and buried ("resting in peace"). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resting/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

Everyday for rest; in the theatre world "resting" is a jokey, face-saving way for actors to say they have no job. On graves "resting" stands for dead.

### examples

- The baby is resting after her feed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resting/#x1)
- Please be quiet, Grandpa is resting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resting/#x2)
- "Are you in anything at the moment?" "No, I'm resting," said the actor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resting/#x3)
- My uncle has been resting for a year; he works in a café now. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resting/#x4)
- The bike was resting against the wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resting/#x5)
- Here lies Mary, resting in peace. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resting/#x6)
- Your heart rate when resting is lower than after running. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resting/#x7)
- After resting a few minutes longer, they set out again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resting/#x8)

### note

Know the context: an actor "resting" is unemployed, not tired. "Resting heart rate" in science means the rate when sitting still. In maths, resting time may be subtracted from total travel time.

### In the corpora

- [Dams on rivers, roads, new buildings and the loss of resting places along the way all make migration harder today.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/54-migration-the-great-journeys/17/)
- [Sea lions often squabble loudly over the best resting spots on the rocks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters/6/)
- [Schools teach the tripod grip: the pencil pinched between thumb and first finger, resting on the middle finger, near the tip.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up/1/)
- ["Final resting place" means a person's grave.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/24/)
- ["Resting" means out of work, said jokingly of an actor (mostly UK).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/21-work-firing-and-the-economy/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «resting» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resting/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.