Recess

Noun

 * 1)  A break, pause or vacation.
 * Spring recess offers a good chance to travel.
 * 1) An inset, hole, space or opening.
 * Put a generous recess behind the handle for finger space.
 * 1) 🇺🇸 A time of play, usually, on a playground.
 * Students who do not listen in class will not play outside during recess.

Synonyms

 * break, day off, pause, vacation

Derived terms

 * recession
 * recessive

Verb

 * 1) 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.
 * 1)  To take or declare a break.
 * This court shall recess for its normal two hour lunch now.
 * Class will recess for 20 minutes.

Adjective
recess


 * 1)  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 it hath been till now believed by most men, or else moveable, as some ancient Philosophers held, and others of not very recesse times were of opinion;

Adjectives for Recess
fathomless; remotest; dark; dim; glowing; tangled; innermost; profound; various (pi); mystic; grassy; appalling; cool; capacious; intimate; little-known; soul-haunting; shy; shady.

Thesaurus
Jim Crow, abeyance, adjourn, adytum, alcove, apartheid, apartness, ashram, asylum, bay, bolt-hole, bosom, break, breath, breathe, breather, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time, cache, caesura, call a break, call a recess, call time, carrel, cease-fire, cell, center, cigarette break, cloister, cocktail hour, coffee break, concealment, continue, core, corner, cove, cover, covert, coverture, cranny, cubby, cubbyhole, cubicle, dark corner, day off, declare a recess, deepest recesses, defer, delay, den, dent, depress, depths, detachment, dimple, dint, dissolve, downtime, drag out, drop, dugout, enforced respite, engrave, extend, foxhole, funk hole, half time, half-time intermission, halt, hang fire, hang up, happy hour, heart, heart of hearts, hermitage, hesitate, hesitation, hideaway, hideout, hidey hole, hiding, hiding place, hold off, hold over, hold up, hole, holiday, hollow, holy of holies, impress, imprint, indent, inglenook, inner, inner landscape, inner life, inner man, inner nature, inner recess, inner self, inside, interim, interior, interior man, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, intermit, intermittence, intern, internal, interregnum, interruption, interval, intervene, intrados, inward, isolation, isolationism, ivory tower, knock off, lair, lapse, lay aside, lay by, lay off, lay over, layoff, let up, letup, lull, mew, niche, nook, notch, off-time, oriel, pause, penetralia, pigeonhole, pit, pitchhole, plateau, pock, pockmark, point of repose, postpone, press in, privacy, privatism, privatization, prolong, prorogate, prorogue, protract, punch, punch in, push aside, put aside, put off, put on ice, quarantine, quiet spell, recesses, recession, reclusion, refuge, relief, remission, reserve, respite, rest, resting point, retirement, retreat, rise, roomlet, rustication, sanctuary, sanctum, sanctum sanctorum, seclusion, secrecy, secret place, secret places, segregation, separation, sequestration, set aside, set back, set by, set in, shelve, shift off, sleep on, snuggery, soul, spell, splendid isolation, stamp, stand over, stand-down, stash, stave off, stay, stop for breath, stretch out, surcease, suspend, suspension, table, take a break, take a recess, take a rest, take five, take ten, take time out, tamp, tea break, terminate, time off, time out, truce, undercovert, vacation, vital center, vitals, waive, withdrawal

Etymology
From recessus.

Noun

 * Finnish: tauko (not vacation)
 * German:, ,
 * Hungarian: szünidő
 * Japanese:, 休業
 * Korean: 휴식 (a break) 휴가 (vacation)


 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish: paus, rast
 * Turkish: tātil, mola, paydos, ara, teneffüs


 * Finnish:
 * German: Vertiefung,, Aushöhlung, Nische
 * Hungarian: mélyedés,
 * Japanese: ,


 * Russian:
 * Swedish: utrymme, spel, mån
 * Turkish: girik, oyuk, çukur, yuva, girinti, boşluk, niş


 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 休み時間, 休憩時間


 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: rast

Verb

 * Japanese: あそびをとる


 * Russian: углублять (uglublját’)


 * Finnish: pitää tauko
 * Japanese: 休憩をとる


 * Russian: делать углубление (délat’ uglublénie)

Anagrams

 * screes

Noun

 * 1) a decision, an agreement, a return (to previous conditions)
 * 2) a recess, a niche

Synonyms

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