N. stability,
quiescence,
obstinacy,
permanence,
persistence,
endurance,
durability, standing,
status quo, maintenance, preservation,
conservation,
conservation, law of the medes and persians, standing dish
V. let alone, let be, let it be,
persist, remain, stay,
tarry,
rest,
stet, hold, hold on, last,
endure,
bide,
abide,
aby, dwell, maintain, keep, stand, stand still, stand fast,
subsist, live, outlive,
survive, hold one's ground, keep one's ground, hold one's footing, keep one's footing, hold good
Adj. stable,
persisting, permanent, established, unchanged &c. (change ), renewed,
intact,
inviolate,
persistent,
monotonous, uncheckered, unfailing, undestroyed,
unrepealed, unsuppressed,
conservative, qualis ab incepto,
prescriptive,
stationary Adv. in statu quo, for good, finally, at a stand, at a standstill,
uti possidetis, without a shadow of turning
Phr. esto perpetua, nolumus leges angliae mutari, j'y suis et j'y ereste
N. cessation, discontinuance,
desistance,
desinence,
intermission, remission,
suspense, suspension,
interruption, stop,
stopping,
closure,
stoppage,
halt, arrival,
pause,
rest,
lull, respite,
truce, drop,
interregnum,
abeyance,
cloture, dead stop, dead stand, dead lock,
finis, cerrado, blowout, burnout, meltdown,
disintegration,
comma,
colon,
semicolon, period, full stop, end, death
V. cease, discontinue,
desist, stay,
halt, break off, leave off, hold, stop, pull up, stop short, stick, hang fire,
halt,
pause,
rest, burn out, blow out, melt down, have done with, give over,
surcease, shut up shop, give up, hold one's hand, stay one's hand, rest on one's oars repose on one's laurels, come to a stand, come to a standstill, come to a deadlock, come to a full stop, arrive, go out, die away, wear away, wear off, pass away, be at an end,
disintegrate, self-destruct,
intromit,
interrupt,
suspend,
interpel,
intermit,
remit, put an end to, put a stop to, put a period to,
derail, turn off, switch off, power down, deactivate, disconnect, bring to a stand, bring to a standstill, stop, cut short, arrest, stem the tide, stem the torrent, pull the check- string, pull the plug on
Int. hold, stop, enough,
avast, have done, a truce to, soft, leave off, tenez, phr, "i pause for a reply"
N. support, ground, foundation, base, basis, terra firma, bearing,
fulcrum,
bait, caudex crib, point d’appui, ποῦ στῶ, purchase footing, hold, locus standi, landing place, landing stage, stage, platform, block,
rest, resting place,
groundwork,
substratum,
riprap,
sustentation,
subvention, floor, supporter, aid, prop, stand,
anvil, fulciment|, cue rest,
jigger,
monkey, stay, shore,
skid, rib,
truss,
bandage, sleeper,
stirrup, stilts,
shoe, sole,
heel,
splint,
lap, bar, rod,
boom,
sprit,
outrigger, ratlings, staff, stick,
crutch,
alpenstock,
baton,
staddle,
bourdon,
cowlstaff, lathi, mahlstick, post,
pillar, shaft,
thill, column,
pilaster,
pediment,
pedicle,
pedestal,
plinth,
shank, leg,
socle,
zocle,
buttress,
jamb,
mullion,
abutment,
baluster,
banister,
stanchion,
balustrade,
headstone, upright, door post,
jamb, door jamb, frame,
framework,
scaffold, skeleton, beam,
rafter, girder,
lintel,
joist,
travis,
trave, corner stone, summer,
transom,
rung, round, step,
sill, angle rafter, hip rafter,
cantilever,
modillion, crown post, king post,
vertebra,
columella,
backbone,
keystone,
axle,
axletree, axis, arch,
mainstay,
trunnion,
pivot,
rowlock,
peg,
tiebeam, thole pin, board,
ledge,
shelf,
hob,
bracket,
trevet,
trivet,
arbor,
rack,
mantel, mantle piece, mantleshelf,
slab,
console, counter, dresser,
flange,
corbel, table,
trestle, shoulder,
perch, horse,
easel,
desk,
clotheshorse,
hatrack, retable,
teapoy, seat, throne,
dais,
divan, musnud, chair,
bench, form,
stool,
sofa,
settee,
stall, arm chair, easy chair, elbow chair, rocking chair,
couch,
fauteuil,
woolsack,
ottoman, settle,
squab,
bench,
aparejo,
faldstool, horn, long chair, long sleeve chair, morris chair, lamba chauki, lamba kursi,
saddle,
pannel,
pillion, side saddle,
pack saddle,
pommel, bed,
berth,
pallet, tester,
crib,
cot,
hammock,
shakedown, trucklebed,
cradle,
litter, stretcher,
bedstead, four poster, french bed,
bunk,
kip, palang,
bedding, bichhona,
mattress,
paillasse,
pillow,
bolster, mat,
rug,
cushion,
footstool,
hassock,
tabouret,
tripod, monopod,
atlas, persides,
atlantes,
caryatides,
hercules V. be supported &c, lie on, sit on, recline on, lean on, loll on, rest on, stand on, step on, repose on, abut on, bear on, be based on &c, have at one's back,
bestride,
bestraddle, support, bear, carry, hold,
sustain, shoulder, hold up, back up, bolster up, shore up,
uphold,
upbear, prop, under prop, under pin, under set,
riprap,
bandage, give support, furnish support, afford support, supply support, lend support, give foundations, furnish foundations, afford foundations, supply foundations, lend foundations, bottom, found, base, ground, imbed,
embed, maintain, keep on foot, aid
Adj. supporting, supported, fundamental, dorsigerous
N. rest, stillness,
quiescence,
stagnation,
stagnancy,
fixity,
immobility,
catalepsy, indisturbance,
quietism, quiet, tranquility, calm,
repose, peace, dead calm, anticyclone|, statue-like repose, silence, not a breath of air, not a mouse stirring, sleep,
pause,
lull, stand still, standing still,
lock, dead lock, dead stop, dead stand, full stop, fix,
embargo, resting place,
gite,
bivouac, home,
pillow,
haven,
goal V. be quiescent, stand still, lie still, keep quiet,
repose, hold the breath, remain, stay, stand, lie to, ride at anchor, remain in situ,
tarry, mark time, bring to, heave to, lay to, pull up, draw up, hold,
halt, stop, stop short,
rest,
pause, anchor, cast to an anchor, come to an anchor, rest on one's oars, repose on one's laurels, take breath, stop,
stagnate, quieta non movere, let alone,
abide, rest and be thankful, keep within doors, stay at home, go to bed, dwell, settle, alight stick, stick fast, stand like a post, not stir a peg, not stir a step, be at a stand,
quell,
becalm,
hush, stay, lull to sleep, lay an embargo on
Adj. quiescent, still, motionless, moveless, fixed,
stationary, immotile, at rest at a stand, at a standstill, at anchor, stock, still, standing still,
sedentary, untraveled, stay-at-home,
becalmed,
stagnant, quiet, unmoved, undisturbed,
unruffled, calm, restful,
cataleptic, immovable, sleeping, silent, still as a statue, still as a post, still as a mouse, still as death,
vegetative,
vegetating Adv. at a stand, tout court, at the halt
Phr. requiescat in pace, deus nobis haec otia fecit, "the noonday quiet holds the hill"
Death Roget’s Thesaurus §360 N. death,
decease,
demise, dissolution, departure,
obit, release,
rest,
quietus, fall, loss,
bereavement, mortality,
morbidity, end of life, cessation of life, loss of life, extinction of life, ebb of life, death warrant, death watch, death rattle, death bed, stroke of death, agonies of death, shades of death, valley of death, jaws of death, hand of death, last breath, last gasp, last agonies, dying day, dying breath, dying agonies, chant du cygne, rigor mortis, stygian shore, king of terrors, king death, death,
doom, "hell's grim tyrant",
euthanasia, break up of the system, natural death, natural decay, sudden death, violent death, untimely end, watery grave, debt of nature,
suffocation,
asphyxia, fatal disease, death blow,
necrology, bills of mortality,
obituary, death song
V. die,
expire, perish, meet one's death, meet one's end, pass away, be taken, yield one's breath, resign one's breath, resign one's being, resign one's life, end one's days, end one's life, end one's earthly career, breathe one's last, cease to live, cease to breathe, depart this life, be no more, go off, drop off, pop off, lose one's life, lay down one's life, relinquish one's life, surrender one's life, drop into the grave, sink into the grave, close one's eyes, fall dead, drop dead, fall down dead, drop down dead, break one's neck, give up the ghost, yield up the ghost, be all over with one, pay the debt to nature, shuffle off this mortal coil, take one's last sleep, go the way of all flesh, hand in one's checks, pass in one's checks, hand in one's chips, pass in one's chips, join the greater number, join the majority, come to dust, turn to dust, cross the stygian ferry, cross the bar, go to one's long account, go to one's last home, go to davy jones's locker, go to the wall, receive one's death warrant, make one's will, step out, die a natural death, go out like the snuff of a candle, come to an untimely end, catch one's death, go off the hooks, kick the bucket, buy the farm, hop the twig, turn up one's toes, die a violent death
Adj. dead, lifeless, deceased,
demised, departed,
defunct, extinct, late, gone, no more,
exanimate,
inanimate, out of the world, taken off, released, departed this life, dead and gone, dead as a doornail, dead as a doorpost, dead as a mutton, dead as a herring, dead as nits, launched into eternity, gone to one's eternal reward, gone to meet one's maker, pushing up daisies, gathered to one's fathers, numbered with the dead, dying,
moribund, morient|,
hippocratic, in articulo, in extremis, in the jaws of death, in the agony of death, going off, aux abois, one one's last legs, on one's death bed, at the point of death, at death's door, at the last gasp, near one's end, given over, booked, with one foot in the grave, tottering on the brink of the grave,
stillborn,
mortuary, deadly
Adv. post obit, post mortem
Phr. life ebbs, life fails, life hangs by a thread, one's days are numbered, one's hour is come, one's race is run, one's doom is sealed, death knocks at the door, death stares one in the face, the breath is out of the body, the grave closes over one, sic itur ad astra, de mortuis nil nisi bonum, dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, honesta mors turpi vita potior, "in adamantine chains shall death be bound", mors ultima linea rerum est, ominia mors aequat, "spake the grisly terror", "the lone couch of this everlasting sleep", nothing is certain but death and taxes
N. melody,
rhythm, measure,
rhyme, pitch,
timbre,
intonation, tone, scale,
gamut,
diapason, diatonic chromatic scale, enharmonic scale, key,
clef, chords,
modulation,
temperament,
syncope,
syncopation, preparation, suspension, resolution, staff,
stave, line, space,
brace, bar,
rest, appoggiato,
appoggiatura,
acciaccatura, note, musical note, notes of a scale, sharp, flat, natural, high note, low note, interval,
semitone, second, third, fourth &c,
diatessaron,
breve,
semibreve,
minim,
crotchet,
quaver,
semiquaver,
demisemiquaver, hemidemisemiquaver, sustained note,
drone, burden,
tonic, key note, leading note, fundamental note,
supertonic,
mediant, dominant,
submediant,
subdominant,
octave,
tetrachord, major key, minor key, major scale, minor scale, major mode, minor mode, passage, phrase,
concord, harmony, emmeleia,
unison,
unisonance,
chime,
homophony,
euphony,
euphonism,
tonality,
consonance, consent, part, harmony,
harmonics, thorough-bass, fundamental- bass,
counterpoint,
faburden, piece of music,
composer,
harmonist, contrapuntist (musician) 416
Adj. harmonious,
harmonical, in concord, in tune, in concert,
unisonant,
concentual,
symphonizing,
isotonic,
homophonous,
assonant,
ariose,
consonant, measured,
rhythmical,
diatonic,
chromatic,
enharmonic,
melodious, musical,
melic,
tuneful,
tunable, sweet,
dulcet,
canorous,
mellow,
mellifluous, soft, clear, clear as a bell,
silvery,
euphonious,
euphonic,
euphonical,
symphonious,
enchanting, fine-toned, full-toned, silver-toned
Phr. "the hidden soul of harmony"
N. inaction, passiveness, abstinence from action, noninterference, nonintervention, fabian policy, conservative policy, neglect, inactivity,
rest,
quiescence, want of occupation, inoccupation, idle hours, time hanging on one's hands, dolce far niente,
sinecure, featherbed, featherbedding, cushy job, no- show job, soft snap, soft thing
V. not do, not act, not attempt, be inactive, abstain from doing, do nothing, hold,
spare, not stir, not move, not lift a finger, not lift a foot, not lift a peg, fold one's arms, fold one's hands, leave alone, let alone, let be, let pass, let things take their course, let it have its way, let well alone, let well enough alone, quieta non movere, stare super antiquas vias, rest and be thankful, live and let live, lie rest upon one's oars, laisser aller, faire, stand aloof, refrain keep oneself from doing, remit one's efforts, relax one's efforts,
desist, stop,
pause, wait, lie in wait, bide one's time, take time, tide it over, cool one's heels, kick one's heels, while away the time, while away tedious hours, pass the time, fill up the time, beguile the time, talk against time, let the grass grow under one's feet, waste time, lie by, lie on the shelf, lie in ordinary, lie idle, lie to, lie fallow, keep quiet,
slug, have nothing to do, whistle for want of thought,
undo, do away with, take down, take to pieces, destroy
Adj. not doing, not done, undone, passive, unoccupied, unemployed, out of employ, out of work,
fallow, desaeuvre
Adv. re infecta, at a stand, les bras croisis, with folded arms, with the hands in the pockets, with the hands behind one's back, pour passer le temps
Int. so let it be, stop, &c. 142, hands off, phr, cunctando restituit rem "if it ain't broke don't fix it", stare decisis
N. repose,
rest, silken repose, sleep, # relaxation, breathing time,
halt, stay,
pause, respite, day of rest,
dies non, sabbath, lord's day,
holiday, red-letter day,
vacation,
recess V. repose,
rest, rest and be thankful, take a rest, take one's ease, take it easy,
relax, unbend,
slacken, take breath, rest upon one's oars,
pause, stay one's hand, lie down,
recline, recline on a bed of down, recline on an easy chair, go to rest, go to bed, go to sleep, take a holiday, shut up shop, lie fallow
Adv. at rest, phr, "the best of men have ever loved repose", "to repair our nature with comforting repose"
