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| recess | |
| 1. sost. rientranza, nicchia, vano | |
| 2. sost. cavità | |
| 3. sost. recesso, recessione | |
| 4. sost. (Parlamento)sospensione delle sedute, intervallo tra due sessioni | |
| 5. verb. arretrare, far rientrare | |
| 6. verb. incassare, fare una nicchia in, fare una rientranza in | |
| 7. verb. sospendere le sedute di | |
| 8. verb. sospendere le sedute | |
| 9. verb. interrompere le attività, sospendere le attività, fare una pausa | |
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| recess | |
| 1. subst. (or un) A break, pause or vacation. |  |
| Spring recess offers a good chance to travel. | |
| 2. subst. An inset, hole, space or opening. | |
| Put a generous recess behind the handle for finger space. | |
| 3. subst. (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. subst. A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire. | |
| 5. subst. (archaic) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat. | |
| the recess of the tides | |
| 6. subst. (archaic) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy. | |
| 7. subst. (archaic) A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion. | |
| 8. subst. A secret or abstruse part. | |
| the difficulties and recesses of science | |
| 9. subst. (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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