resting
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 →
2) (euphemism, humorous, UK) of an actor: out of work, with no part in a play or film. tree →
3) lying or leaning on something ("resting on the table"). tree →
4) (euphemism) dead and buried ("resting in peace"). tree →
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 →
- Please be quiet, Grandpa is resting. tree →
- "Are you in anything at the moment?" "No, I'm resting," said the actor. tree →
- My uncle has been resting for a year; he works in a café now. tree →
- The bike was resting against the wall. tree →
- Here lies Mary, resting in peace. tree →
- Your heart rate when resting is lower than after running. tree →
- After resting a few minutes longer, they set out again. tree →
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.
- Sea lions often squabble loudly over the best resting spots on the rocks.
- Schools teach the tripod grip: the pencil pinched between thumb and first finger, resting on the middle finger, near the tip.
- "Final resting place" means a person's grave.
- "Resting" means out of work, said jokingly of an actor (mostly UK).
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «resting» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.