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REST ON

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rest on for support

Example:

you can lean on me if you get tired

Synonyms:

lean against; lean on; rest on

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "rest on" is one way to...):

adjoin; contact; meet; touch (be in direct physical contact with; make contact)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be based on; of theories and claims, for example

Example:

What's this new evidence based on?

Synonyms:

build on; build upon; repose on; rest on

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "rest on" is one way to...):

depend on; depend upon; devolve on; hinge on; hinge upon; ride; turn on (be contingent on)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rest on"):

owe (be indebted to, in an abstract or intellectual sense)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

Marianne entered the house with a heart swelling with emotion from the consciousness of being only eighty miles from Barton, and not thirty from Combe Magna; and before she had been five minutes within its walls, while the others were busily helping Charlotte to show her child to the housekeeper, she quitted it again, stealing away through the winding shrubberies, now just beginning to be in beauty, to gain a distant eminence; where, from its Grecian temple, her eye, wandering over a wide tract of country to the south-east, could fondly rest on the farthest ridge of hills in the horizon, and fancy that from their summits Combe Magna might be seen.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)