Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word RESTING

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Definitions of RESTING

1. The action of rest
2. A pause; a break; an interlude.
3. That rests; that is not in action or in the process of growth.
4. Remaining; stationary.
5. A place where one can rest; a resting place.
6. (euphemism) Unemployed; out of work.
7. inflection of rest

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Examples of Using RESTING in a Sentence

• Resting heart rates of less than 50 BPM are often normal during sleep in young and healthy adults and athletes.
• An eruption that ejects large volumes of magma over a short period of time can cause significant detriment to the structural integrity of such a chamber, greatly diminishing its capacity to support its own roof, and any substrate or rock resting above.
• Foundationalism concerns philosophical theories of knowledge resting upon non-inferential justified belief, or some secure foundation of certainty such as a conclusion inferred from a basis of sound premises.
• Their functions include establishing a resting membrane potential, shaping action potentials and other electrical signals by gating the flow of ions across the cell membrane, controlling the flow of ions across secretory and epithelial cells, and regulating cell volume.
• Often served with or after dessert, they are typically heavily sweetened and un-aged, beyond a resting period during production, when necessary, for their flavors to mingle.
• A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink.
• These curtain walls either bear on the framework below or are suspended from the framework above, rather than resting on load-bearing walls of conventional construction.
• From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina kills 1,836 people throughout the southern United States; the funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo" is the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris and its satellite Dysnomia are discovered by a Palomar Observatory-based team, becoming the tenth planet to be discovered and breaking ground for the discovery of new dwarf planets such as Haumea and Makemake; Saddam Hussein sits before an Iraqi judge at a courthouse in Baghdad; the shrine and resting place for Rafic Hariri; the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (designed to explore Mars) is launched from Cape Canaveral; the Live 8 concert in the Tiergarten, Berlin.
• Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York, is the final resting place of numerous famous figures, including Washington Irving, whose 1820 short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is set in the adjacent burying ground at the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow.
• Acritarchs may include the remains of a wide range of quite different kinds of organisms—ranging from the egg cases of small metazoans to resting cysts of many kinds of chlorophyta (green algae).
• When erosion removes most of the overlying block, leaving island-like remnants resting on the lower block, the remnants are called klippen (singular klippe).
• For many years, his gardens at Arkley Manor were open to the public, allowing the results of his no-dig methods, indicated by a symbol featuring a robin resting on a spade handle, to be seen first-hand.
• Polymnia is depicted as serious, pensive and meditative, and often holding a finger to her mouth, dressed in a long cloak and veil and resting her elbow on a pillar.
• The Elysian Fields, also called Elysium, are the final resting place of the souls of the heroic and the virtuous in Greek mythology and religion.
• A form of bronze cauldron gong known as a resting bell was widely used in ancient Greece and Rome: for instance in the famous Oracle of Dodona, where disc gongs were also used.
• She shone her light on the being resting inside and fishes and lizards came out, along with many kinds of birds, mammals and amphibians.
• It is perhaps best known as the final resting place for over one hundred victims of the sinking of the Titanic.
• Pulotu is the resting place of those passed on in the Polynesian narrative of Tonga and Samoa, the world of darkness "lalo fonua" (as opposed to the human world of light).
• The Narayana form of Vishnu is often depicted as resting on Shesha, accompanied by his consort Lakshmi.
• Bogong Rocks is a shelter where the oldest evidence of Aboriginal occupation was found at a bogong moth resting site.

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