Meaning of ஓய்வு in English

A support for the spear when couched for the attack.
Freedom from occupation or business; vacant time; time free from employment.
Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence, convenience; ease.
Unemployed; as, leisure hours.
A putting off of that which was appointed; a postponement or delay.
Temporary intermission of labor, or of any process or operation; interval of rest; pause; delay.
Temporary suspension of the execution of a capital offender; reprieve.
The delay of appearance at court granted to a jury beyond the proper term.
To give or grant a respite to.
To delay or postpone; to put off.
To keep back from execution; to reprieve.
To relieve by a pause or interval of rest.
To arrest.
A state of quiet or repose; a cessation from motion or labor; tranquillity; as, rest from mental exertion; rest of body or mind.
Hence, freedom from everything which wearies or disturbs; peace; security.
Sleep; slumber; hence, poetically, death.
That on which anything rests or leans for support; as, a rest in a lathe, for supporting the cutting tool or steadying the work.
A projection from the right side of the cuirass, serving to support the lance.
A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
A short pause in reading verse; a c/sura.
The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account.
A set or game at tennis.
Silence in music or in one of its parts; the name of the character that stands for such silence. They are named as notes are, whole, half, quarter,etc.
To cease from action or motion, especially from action which has caused weariness; to desist from labor or exertion.
To be free from whanever wearies or disturbs; to be quiet or still.
To lie; to repose; to recline; to lan; as, to rest on a couch.
To stand firm; to be fixed; to be supported; as, a column rests on its pedestal.
To sleep; to slumber; hence, poetically, to be dead.
To lean in confidence; to trust; to rely; to repose without anxiety; as, to rest on a man's promise.
To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
To lay or place at rest; to quiet.
To place, as on a support; to cause to lean.
That which is left, or which remains after the separation of a part, either in fact or in contemplation; remainder; residue.
Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.
To be left; to remain; to continue to be.
Retirement; -- mostly used in a jocose or burlesque way.
To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.
To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay; as, to retire bonds; to retire a note.
To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list; as, to retire a military or naval officer.
To go back or return; to draw back or away; to keep aloof; to withdraw or retreat, as from observation; to go into privacy; as, to retire to his home; to retire from the world, or from notice.
To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure; as, to retire from battle.
To withdraw from a public station, or from business; as, having made a large fortune, he retired.
To recede; to fall or bend back; as, the shore of the sea retires in bays and gulfs.
To go to bed; as, he usually retires early.
The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; also, a place to which one retires.
A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.
The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer.
A place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one withdraws or retreats; a private abode.
of Retire
Reserved; shy; not forward or obtrusive; as, retiring modesty; retiring manners.
Of or pertaining to retirement; causing retirement; suited to, or belonging to, retirement.