Recess

Definition: Recess

Recess

Noun

1. A state of abeyance or suspended business.

2. A small concavity.

3. An arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands).

4. An enclosure that is set back or indented.

5. A pause from doing something (as work); "we took a 10-minute break"; "he took time out to recuperate".

Verb

1. Put into a recess; "recess lights".

2. Make a recess in; "recess the piece of wood".

3. Close at the end of a session; "The court adjourned".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "recess" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Geography

Language

Law

Transportation

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Synonyms: Recess

Ambush

Noun: camouflage; mimicry; hiding place; secret place, secret drawer; recess, hold, holes and corners; closet, crypt, adytum, abditory, oubliette.

Angularity

Corner, nook, recess, niche, oriel, coign.

Receptacle

Compartment; cell, cellule; follicle; hole, corner, niche, recess, nook; crypt, stall, pigeonhole, cove, oriel; cave; (concavity).

Regression

Noun: regress, regression; retrocession, retrogression, retrograduation, retroaction; reculade; retreat, withdrawal, retirement, remigration; recession; (motion from); recess; crab-like motion.

Repose

Day of rest, dies non, Sabbath, Lord's day, holiday, red-letter day, vacation, recess.

Seclusion Exclusion

Noun: seclusion, privacy; retirement; reclusion, recess; snugness; Adjective: delitescence; rustication, rus in urbe; solitude; solitariness; (singleness); isolation; loneliness; Adjective: estrangement from the world, voluntary exile; aloofness.

Crosswords: Recess

Class, since we have fifteen minutes until recess, please put your pencils down and stare at the front of the room (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Recess (1969)

We're Gonna Have Recess (1967)

In the Window Recess (1909)

Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street (2001)

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Books

• Arthur and the Recess Rookie (Arthur Good Sports #3) (reference)

• Lord, Don't Let It Rain at Recess (reference)

• Recess Prayer Meditations for Teachers (reference)

• The Great Jungle Gym Standoff (Disney's Recess) (reference)

• The Recess Queen (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Recess - School's Out (reference)

• Recess Christmas - Miracle on Third Street (reference)

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Music

• Infinite Recess (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Rakgear Recess Pak Black (reference)

• Rakgear Recess Pak Red/yellow (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• DeWalt DW2202BK #2 1" Square Recess Bit Tips (6-Pack) (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Figure 1. A drilled roller (round boulder) used as a sounding weight. Figure 2 . Ordinary sounding lead weight, sometimes attaining many kilograms. The lead dates from the Christian era. The trapezoidal form with a recess for tallow and acquiring bottom samples dates from a few centuries back. In this form, millio ns of sounding were made. Fig. 3. French sounding lead used in many expeditions. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Informal recess -- for an Easter egg hunt. Credit: Library of Congress.

Louis L. Redding, left, of Wilmington, Del., and Thurgood Marshall, general counsel for NAACP, conferring at the Supreme Court, during a recess in the court's hearing on racial integration in the public schools. Credit: Library of Congress.

Corrigan talking with reporters during recess / NEA. Credit: Library of Congress.

Production. 155mm shells. Boring the burster tube recess of 155mm shell on a Denver lathe in a converted auto plant. Willy's, Toledo, Ohio. Credit: Library of Congress.

Recess, Radburn, New Jersey. Credit: Library of Congress.

Recess time at grade school in Hobbs, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.

Children resting during recess at a rural school near Tipler, Wisconsin. Credit: Library of Congress.

Going out for noon recess at a rural school. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ojo Sarco, New Mexico. One-room school in an isolated mountainous Spanish-American community, which has eight grades and two teachers. Afternoon recess. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Clause 3: The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session. (reference)

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At one end of the room, in a recess, were a number of barrels, piled one upon another, containing bundles of official documents

However, they are taking a recess.

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Business

However, this association was not successful in achieving its goals, and is currently in recess. (references)

Economic History

Ecuador

Congress meets throughout the year except for recess in July and December. (references)

Italy

The bill is likely to be approved and implemented before the parliament summer recess in August. (references)

Nigeria

He reemerged and was promptly arrested on June 23. With Abiola in prison and tempers rising, Abacha convened the Constitutional Conference June 27, but it almost immediately went into recess and did not reconvene until July 11, 1994. (references)

Human Rights

Croatia

By December the trial had consisted of eight brief sessions, each ending with a recess to consider motions raised by the defendants. (references)

Croatia

This decision by Del Ponte was seen by observers as a vote of confidence in the Government's ability to conduct an impartial trial in difficult war crimes cases; the trial began in June in the Rijeka county court, and had proceeded through several brief sessions by year's end, with each session ending in a recess to consider defense motions. (references)

Political Rights

Yemen

In a national referendum held in February, citizens approved several amendments to the Constitution, including amendments that would extend the terms of Members of Parliament from 4 to 6 years and the President from 5 to 7 years, allow the President to dissolve Parliament without a referendum in rare instances, and abolish the President's ability to issue decrees while Parliament was in recess. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "recess": attic recess ♦ body recess ♦ epitympanic recess ♦ noon recess ♦ pharyngeal recess ♦ pocket recess ♦ recess of the unconscious ♦ subhepatic recess ♦ university recess. Additional references.

Afrikaans

pouse (break, intermission, pause). (various references)

Albanian

perëndim (decline, evening, occident, setting, West), bëj vrimë (clip), kamare (dugout, niche), liman i vodël, mënjanoj prapa, mazgallë (embrasure), bëj pushim (rest on one's oars), ndërpritem (cease, to be interrupted), vendos në një vend të fshehur, pjesë e futur, pushim (break, cease, cessation, chuck, discharge, dismissal, dismission, intermission, leave, letup, outage, pause, playtime, recreation, relaxation, reprieve, respite, rest, standstill, stoppage), pushim i madh, pushime (holidays), shtyj (actuate, adjourn, bring, carry over, dare, delay, detrude, dig, dispose, drive, dub, flip, goad, hang up, hold over, hustle, impel, incite, induce, instigate, jab, jog, jolt, jostle, jumble, lead on, leave over, lengthen, motivate, motive, move, postpone, pressurize, propel, push, shove, thrust, trundle, urge, waive, walk), vend i fshehtë (cache, concealment, hide, hiding place, nook, penetralia), ndërprerje (break, breaking, cease, cessation, chasm, check, cutoff, discontinuance, discontinuation, intercept, interception, intermission, interrupt, interruption, intersection, letup, outage, suspension, truce). (various references)

Arabic 

‏علق جلسات البرلمان, ‏ركود إقتصادي, ‏أخذ عطلة (vacation), ‏أوقف جلسات المحكمة, ‏إرتداد (apostasy, bounce, defection, kick, rebound, recall, recantation, recoil, reflection, reflexion, regress, relapse, renunciation, repercussion, retroversion, reverberation, withdrawal), ‏خبايا القلب, ‏خلوة (nook, sanctum), ‏خفايا, ‏رصع (beset, embay, inlay, insert, intersperse, set, stud, trim), ‏عطلة البرلمان, ‏فترة إستراحة (intermission, pause), ‏تراجع (back away, back down, back up, backwards, blemish, degradation, draw back, drawback, fall back, fall behind, give back, give ground, give the right of way, kick, lose ground, move back, palinode, recede, recession, recoil, regress, regression, renege, retire, retract, retraction, retreat, retreating, retrogression, sell out, stand, take back, turn back, unsay, withdraw), ‏تجويف (bore, bowl, cavity, chamber, concavity, dent, excavation, hole, hollow, pit, pocket, scoop, sinus, socket), ‏حدث فجوة, ‏وضع في فجوة جدار, ‏مشكاة (lamp, lantern, niche, pendant), ‏مخبأ (cache, dug-out, hideout, hidey-hole, hiding, hiding place, lair, laird, resort, shed, stash), ‏مخدع النوم, ‏مضجع (bed, couch, recumbent), ‏طية (flexure, fold, gather, lap, lappet, plait, plica, queue, tuck, wrap). (various references)

Bulgarian 

оттеглям постройка, правя вдлъбнатина (groove), правя кухина, прекъсвам занятия, прекъсвам работа, малко заливче, правя ниша в (niche), ниша (alcove, bay, housing, niche, recession), слагам в ниша (niche), оттеглям назад, вдлъбнатина (chase, concave, concavity, cove, groove, hole, hollow, indent, indentation, indention, notch, pan, pit, socket, well), ваканция (holidays, leave, vac, vacation), врязване в планинска верига, кухина (cavity, chamber, fossa, hole, hollow, lumen, pit, ventricle, vug), кътче (nest, nook), междучасие (break, intermission, interval, recreation). (various references)

Catalan

descans (break, intermission, pause). (various references)

Chinese 

休惜 , 凹进处. (various references)

Czech

zákoutí, výklenek (alcove, bay, niche, stall), prázdniny (holiday, holidays, vac, vacation), přerušení (adjournment, breach, break, cessation, discontinuation, disruption, intermission, interruption, let, let up, stop, stoppage, suspense), odroèit (adjourn, postpone, prorogue, remand, reprieve, retard), odložit (abort, adjourn, cast aside, cast off, defer, delay, discard, doff, get off, hang out, hold over, lay aside, lay by, Park, postpone, put aside, put away, put off, reprieve, stay, suspend, take off, throw away), ústup (climb down, countermarch, retreat). (various references)

Danish

reces (step), tilflugtsrum (refuge hole), tilflugtsniche (refuge hole), sidefals (groove, gusset), portnische (gate recesses), portgrav, pause (break, intermission, pause), forsaenkning (depression), fals i sidemur (groove). (various references)

Dutch

rust (break, calm, calmness, composure, intermission, pause, quiet, quietness, repose, rest, silence), pauze (break, intermission, pause). (various references)

Esperanto

paŭzo (break, intermission, pause), alkovo (alcove). (various references)

Faeroese

steðgur (break, intermission, pause), hvíld (break, intermission, pause), íhald (break, intermission, pause). (various references)

Farsi 

گوشه (Angle, Corner, Jest, Lobe, Nook, Quip), دوره فترت , طاقچه ساختن , عقب نشینی (Retreat, Scuttle), تعطیل موقتی , تورفتگی (Dent, Depression, Dint, Indent), بازگشت (Recession, Recurrence, Reference, Return), تنفس کردن (Inhale, Respire), فترت (Interregnum, Interval), کنار (Apart, Away, Bank, Besides, Brim, Brink, By, Limit, Lip, List, Margin, Next, Rand, Shunt, Verge), مرخصی گرفتن (Vacation), موقتاتعطیل کردن , پس رفت کردن (Regress), پس زنی (Backlash, Backstroke, Jib, Kick, Rebuttal, Repercussion, Repulse), پستی (Bastardization, Blackguardism, Mail, Misery, Postal, Ribaldry, Turpitude, Villainy, Vulgarity), تنفس (Intake, Respiration). (various references)

Finnish

syvennys (alcove, depression, niche). (various references)

French

pause (rest), niche (refuge hole), embrasure, alcôve. (various references)

German

Pause (break, copy, halt, intermission, interval, letup, lull, pause, playtime, recreation, rest, tracing, truce), versenken (countersink, engulf, hole, lower, scupper, scuttle, send to the bottom, sink, to engulf), Nische (alcove, booth, niche), Aussparung (ward). (various references)

Greek 

εσοχή (alcove, nook, scarf). (various references)

Hebrew 

מחקר (research, search, study, thesis), קער (syncline), פ�'ר�" (holiday, vacation), �'ומח�" (alcove, inglenook, niche). (various references)

Hungarian

zug (corner, nook), eldugott hely. (various references)

Indonesian

istirahat (pause, relaxation, repose). (various references)

Italian

rientranza (cove, dent, indentation, reentrance, re-entrant, reentry), recesso (alcove, bay, stash), alcova (alcove). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

休憩 (break, intermission, rest), 少憩 (short rest). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

なかやすみ (rest), きゅうそくじか�", きゅうかい (adjournment, long-cherished hope, love of antiquity, rotting and crumbling, the baseball world), きゅうけい (arched, bow-shaped, break, bulb, castration, confinement in a palace, crescent-shaped, globular or spherical shape, intermission, old style, old type, onion, prosecution, rest, segment), しょうけい (a short break or breather, accession, aspiration, brief recess, commerce and economics, expedient, fine scenery, hieroglyphics, inheritance, lane, longing, path, scenic view, short rest, shortcut, subtotal, succession, type of character representing pictures), ほねやすめ (recreation, relaxation), あそびじか�" (playtime), やすみ (absence, holiday, moulting, respite, rest, suspension, vacation). (various references)

Korean 

오목면. (various references)

Manx

traa seyr (break, breaking up, spare time), scart (apart, detached, disjoined, gape, separate, separated, slashed), far-uinnag (alcove, ambry, bole, false window), cuilleig (alcove), boayl fadanagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

ecessray.(various references)

Portuguese

recesso (setback). (various references)

Romanian

respinge (alienate, beat back, blackball, cast away, check, confute, decline, deny, disaffirm, discard, disprove, except, fend, force back, kill, leave, negate, negative, overrule, plough, rebuff, rebut, refuse, refute, reject, relinquish, repel, repudiate, repugn, repulse, return, throw out), tainã (arcanum, hugger mugger, mystery, privacy, ration, reticence, secrecy, secret), scobi (cave, dig, groove, gutter, hew out, hole, hollow, Peck, pick), pune într-un loc ascuns, pauzã (break, interlude, intermission, interruption, interval, lull, pause, respite, rest, rule, spell, stand, stop, truce), nişã (alcove, bay, cubicle, niche), fosã (Fosse, pit), firidã (alcove, niche), cotlon (den, fold, hollow), cavitate (cave, cavity, delve, dimple, hole, hollow, hollowness, socket), alcov (alcove), înfundãturã (hollow). (various references)

Russian 

отодвигать назад, паз (channel, chase, groove, gutter, mortise, notch, slot), перемена в школе, перерыв в работе, перерыв;каникулы, поднутрять (undercut), помещать в углубление (socketing), делать перерыв в работе, ниша (alcove, bay, dinette, housing, hovel, niche), углублять (deepen, ratchet up, sink), впадина (cave, cavity, concave, delve, depression, dimple, dint, excavation, falling, fossa, hollow, indentation, notch, trough, vug), вогнутость (concavity, excavation), выемка (cannelure, coulisse, cutting, gab, groove, gutter, indent, indentation, notch, notching, roach, ward), каникулы (holiday, holidays, hols, vacation), тайник (cache, hideaway, hideout, hiding place, hiding-place), углубление (depression, dimple, excavation, fossa, hole, hollow, impression, notch, oriel, recession), прятать в тайник. (various references)

Scottish

còs (a cave, hollow), cùil (angle, closet, corner, niche, nook). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

raspustiti (disband, dismiss, prorogue), raspust (holiday, vacation), zabačeno mesto, udubljenje (chamfer, dent), odmor (break, caesura, holiday, intermission, pastime, pause, quiet, reposal, repose, respite, rest, vacation), napraviti udubljenje. (various references)

Spanish

descanso (at ease, break, breather, breathing space, decree, distraction, diversion, encampment, flop, half time, holidays, interlude, intermission, interval, landing, let up, pause, relaxation, repose, rest, stand at ease, tease, time out, travel), nicho (alcove, niche), hueco (airy-fairy, alcove, cave, cavity, chimerical, concave, conceited, empty, fantastic, frivolous, gap, hole, hollow, of fantasy, pocket, vain, void, well). (various references)

Swedish

vrå (angle, corner, nook), uppehåll (break, intermission, interruption, interval, pause, sojourn, stay, stop), paus (break, breather, halt, interlude, intermission, interval, letup, lull, pause, rest, stop, time out, wait), lov (holiday, holidays, Laud, leave, permission, praise, vacation), inbuktning (inward bend), fördjupning (cavity, depression, indentation, sag, well), alkov (alcove). (various references)

Turkish

yuva (burrow, creche, creep, day care center, fireside, fold, haunt, hearth, hearth and home, hearthstone, Holt, home, hotbed, mortice, mortise, nest, nidus, nursery, race, seat, seed plot, seedbed, set), yer açmak, yatak (bearings, bed, berth, bunk, bye bye, den, doss, flop, haunt, hotbed, kip, mattress, sack, seam, seating, seminary), tatil olmak (be closed, intermit, prorogue), tatil (holiday, recessional, stoppage, vac, vacation), paydos etmek (call it a day, knock off, quit), oymak (bore, boy-scout troop, carve, cave, cave in, chase, chisel, clan, cut, engrave, etch, excavate, gouge, gouge out, grave, hollow, hollow out, incise, scoop out, sculp, sculpt, sculpture, trace over, tribe), mola (bait, baiting, break, breather, breathing space, intermission, pause, slack, stopover, time out), kovuk (cavity, cove, hole, pocket, sinus), gizli yer (cache, retirement), girinti yapmak, girinti (alcove, indentation, recession), boşluğa yerleştirmek, ara vermek (break, discontinue, have a break, intermit, interrupt, lay off, lay over, lie off, make a pause, pause, prorogue, remit, space, space out, surcease, suspend), ara (break, breather, breathing space, bye-, cessation, chasm, check, discontinuance, discontinuation, discontinuity, distance, gap, interim, interlocutory, interlude, intermediary, intermediate, intermission, interregnum, interruption, Interspace, interval, lull, mediate, meso-, recessional, recreation, respite, secondary, space, spacing, spread, stand down, surcease, time lag, time out, truce, 'tween). (various references)

Turkmen 

arakesme (break. time-out). (various references)

Ukrainian

робити перерву (noon), ховати в тайник, канікули (holidays, intermission), відсувати назад, заглиблення (absorption, dimple, dip, hollow, recession, socket, wallow), перерва в роботі. (various references)

Vietnamese 

rânh, nơi sâu kín, hố đ� o, chỗ lõm (depression). (various references)

anguli, angulis, angulo, angulorum, angulos, angulum, angulus, recessus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "recess": recessed, recesses, recessing, recession, recessional, recessionals, recessionary, recessions, recessive, recessively, recessiveness, recessivenesses, recessives. (additional references)

Words ending with "recess": precess. (additional references)

Words containing "recess": antirecession, antirecessionary, antirecessions, postrecession, precessed, precesses, precessing, precession, precessional, precessions, prerecession. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Recess" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eccess, necess, precess, reacess, recase, rece, receds, recens, receps, receses, recs, recuest, resess, Revesz, riceos, rices, Richesse, rocess, ruckess. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: screes.

-1 letter: ceres, cress, erses, scree, seers, seres.

-2 letters: cees, cere, cess, eses, recs, rees, secs, seer, sees, sere, sers.

-3 letters: cee, ere, ers, ess, rec, ree, res, sec, see, ser.

-4 letters: er, es, re.

+1 letter: censers, cerises, ceruses, creases, creeses, cresses, cresset, precess, recuses, rescues, resects, screeds, screens, secerns, secrets, secures.

+2 letters: becurses, careless, caressed, caresser, caresses, casernes, cateress, censures, cerastes, cercises, cereuses, coreless, creasers, creeshes, cressets, crevasse, crewless, cureless, cypreses, descries, escapers, excusers, frescoes, necroses, precises, recessed, recesses, reckless, recluses, rescales, rescores, rescuers, respaces, respects, scepters, sceptres, schemers, schmeers, sclerose, screwers, scrieves, searches, seceders, secretes, securers, securest, seducers, services, sesterce, setscrew, specters, spectres, spencers, surcease.