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 n. (archaic) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.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 | |