"rest" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

rest verbo

verbo + rest
Kolokacji: 13
come to rest • stop to rest • put to rest • allow to rest • need to rest • want to rest • ...
rest + preposición
Kolokacji: 40
rest on • rest against • rest upon • rest up • rest after • ...
rest + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 61
rest easy • rest lightly • rest comfortably • rest well • rest largely • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 11
1. finally rest = w końcu reszta finally rest
2. rest mainly = reszta głównie rest mainly
3. rest primarily = reszta głównie rest primarily
4. rest chiefly = reszta głównie rest chiefly
  • He completed three poems of a more ambitious character, on which his fame chiefly rests.
  • The weight of the body should chiefly rest on the rear leg.
  • We have still to notice the larger works, on which the author's claim to distinction chiefly rests.
  • The main defense argument, generally, is justification, and it rests chiefly on the testimony of the four officers.
  • That's where my uncertainty - and fear - chiefly rests.
  • The claims of the district to antiquity, however, rests chiefly on association which center round the old fortified town, now known as Mahasthangarh.
  • The Mayor continues to benefit from the disunity that has characterized his opposition, which rests chiefly with the black electorate.
  • His fame as a publisher, however, rests chiefly upon the enormous number of cheap books which he issued.
  • The work, however, on which Fischer's fame chiefly rests, was his studies of the purines and the sugars.
  • His fame rests chiefly on his devotion to the spread of learning.
5. rest principally = reszta głównie rest principally
(6) squarely, directly, flat
Kolokacji: 3
(8) fully, sufficiently
Kolokacji: 2
(9) simply, merely
Kolokacji: 2
(11) idly, lazily
Kolokacji: 2

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