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| recess | |
| 1. n. (or un) A break, pause or vacation. |  |
| Spring recess offers a good chance to travel. | |
| 2. n. An inset, hole, space or opening. | |
| Put a generous recess behind the handle for finger space. | |
| 3. n. (US, Australia, Canada) A time of play during the school day, usually on a playground; (UK) break, playtime. | |
| Students who do not listen in class will not play outside during recess. | |
| 4. n. A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire. | |
| 5. n. (archaic) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat. | |
| the recess of the tides | |
| 6. n. (archaic) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy. | |
| 7. n. (archaic) A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion. | |
| 8. n. A secret or abstruse part. | |
| the difficulties and recesses of science | |
| 9. n. (botany, zoology) A sinus. | |
| 10. v. To inset into something, or to recede. | |
| Wow, look at how that gargoyle recesses into the rest of architecture. | |
| Recess the screw so it does not stick out. | |
| 11. v. (intransitive) To take or declare a break. | |
| This court shall recess for its normal two hour lunch now. | |
| Class will recess for 20 minutes. | |
| 12. v. (transitive, informal) To appoint, with a recess appointment. | |
| 13. v. To make a recess in. | |
| to recess a wall | |
| 14. adj. (obsolete, rare) Remote, distant (in time or place). | |
| Thomas Salusbury: Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: I should think it best in the subsequent discourses to begin to examine whether the Earth be esteemed immoveable, as | |
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