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half rest
noun
A pause or interval of silence equal in duration to two quarter rests or one half of a whole rest. In common or 4/4 time, its duration is two beats.
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A half rest takes up 2 beats, and so on.
For your lower half, rest on your knees and shins, with your legs flat and your hips on the floor, or on the tips of your toes.
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The bottom half rests in the fixed part of the motor, or stator.
McGrady played tentatively in the first half, rested the entire second half and failed to score for the first time since he arrived in New York.
In response, most of Crutchley's warships went to "Condition II" the night of August 8, which meant that half the crews were on duty while the other half rested, either in their bunks or near their battle stations.
The birds scatter in disarray, not laden with metal as the myth prescribes, but confused, half resting at the foot of the hero, half flapping their wings against each other, compromised by the lack of cover.
There are 4 common types of rests: whole rests, half rests, quarter rests and eighth rests.
Whole rests look like a bar in the upper half of the middle space, while half rests are in the lower portion.
The other half would rest with the principal.
I drive an ugly minivan now, like half the rest of the world.
Or perhaps an F.B.I. agent was monitoring me — and half the rest of the city — on some master console in a secret Midtown office.
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