Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A temporary cessation of the customary activities of an engagement, occupation, or pursuit: synonym: pause.
- noun A period in the school day during which students are given time to play or relax.
- noun A remote, secret, or secluded place.
- noun An indentation or small hollow.
- noun An alcove.
- intransitive verb To place in a recess.
- intransitive verb To create or fashion a recess in.
- intransitive verb To suspend for a recess.
- intransitive verb To take a recess.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make a recess in; form with a space sunk beyond the general surface: as, to
recess a wall. - To place in a recess; form as a recess; make a recess of or for; hence, to conceal in or as if in a recess.
- To take a recess; adjourn or separate for a short time: as, the convention recessed till the afternoon.
- noun The act of receding, or going back or away; withdrawal; retirement; recession.
- noun A state of being withdrawn or retired; seclusion; privacy.
- noun A time of withdrawal or retirement; an interval of release from occupation; specifically, a period of relief from attendance, as of a school, a jury, a legislative body, or other assembly; a temporary dismissal.
- noun A place of retirement or seclusion; a remote or secret spot or situation; a nook; hence, a hidden or abstruse part of anything: as, the recesses of a forest; the recesses of philosophy.
- noun A receding space or inward indentation or depression in a line of continuity; a niche, alcove, or the like: as, a recess in a room for a window or a bed; a recess in a wall or the side of a hill. See cut under
ambry . - noun A treaty, law, decree, or contract embodying the results of a negotiation; especially, a decree or law promulgated by tlie Diet of the old German empire, or by that of the Hanseatic League.
- noun In botany, a sinus of a lobed leaf.
- noun In anatomy and zoology, a receding or hollowedout part; a depression or sinus; a recessus.
- noun Synonyms Prorogation, Dissolution, etc. (see
adjournment ), intermission, respite. - noun Retreat, nook, corner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make a recess in.
- noun A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
- noun A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat.
- noun The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
- noun Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school.
- noun Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc.
- noun A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
- noun Secret or abstruse part.
- noun (Bot. & Zoöl.) A sinus.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun countable or uncountable A
break ,pause orvacation . - noun An
inset ,hole ,space oropening . - noun US A time of play, usually, on a
playground . - noun A
decree of theimperial diet of the oldGerman empire . - verb To
inset into something, or torecede . - verb intransitive To take or declare a break.
- verb transitive, informal To
appoint , with arecess appointment . - adjective obsolete, rare Remote, distant (in time or place).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small concavity
- noun an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
- verb make a recess in
- noun an enclosure that is set back or indented
- verb put into a recess
- noun a pause from doing something (as work)
- verb close at the end of a session
- noun a state of abeyance or suspended business
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The second session provides for the suspension of an officer during the recess, and for a temporary appointment _during the recess_.
Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. John Sherman
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FRANKEN: OK, first of all, I love the term recess appointment.
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Additionally the term recess is often at issue, originally the Senate was only in session for six months out of the year.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local tallpine 2010
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Additionally the term recess is often at issue, originally the Senate was only in session for six months out of the year.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local greenleaf 2010
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That means the Senate remains in "recess" for purposes of the recess appointment power, despite the empty formalities of the individual senators who wield the gavel in pro forma sessions.
Wonkbook: Health-care challenge boosted; helping homeowners; House looks at Social Security supplement Ezra Klein 2010
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That means the Senate remains in "recess" for purposes of the recess appointment power, despite the empty formalities of the individual senators who wield the gavel in pro forma sessions.
Call the Senate's bluff on recess appointments Steven G. Bradbury 2010
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Bitching about how long the Senate chamber has to be empty for it to be a "recess" is so petty.
Balkinization 2007
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Or rather a discussion of how recess is becoming more of a luxury than a staple.
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Or rather a discussion of how recess is becoming more of a luxury than a staple.
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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Furthermore, a compromise on liability language, the one hold-up before the August recess, is within reach.
Regan Nelson: Where Is Congress Six Months After the BP Gulf Disaster? Regan Nelson 2010
qms commented on the word recess
The lumberjacks lay down their peaveys
And gypsies dispose of their tea leaves.
Good sense is forsaken
And liberties taken
While Erin consorts with the Kiwis.
May 24, 2018