recess

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Etymology[edit]

From Latin recessus.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (US, UK) IPA: /ˈriː.sɛs/, /rɪ.ˈsɛs/
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Noun[edit]

recess (plural recesses)

  1. (countable or uncountable) A break, pause or vacation.
    Spring recess offers a good chance to travel.
  2. An inset, hole, space or opening.
    Put a generous recess behind the handle for finger space.
  3. (US) A time of play, usually, on a playground.
    Students who do not listen in class will not play outside during recess.
  4. A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Brande & C to this entry?)

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Translations[edit]

a break, pause or vacation
an inset, hole, space or opening
a time of play

Verb[edit]

recess (third-person singular simple present recesses, present participle recessing, simple past and past participle recessed)

  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.
  2. (intransitive) To take or declare a break.
    This court shall recess for its normal two hour lunch now.
    Class will recess for 20 minutes.
  3. (transitive, informal) To appoint, with a recess appointment.
    • 2013, Michael Grunwald, "Cliff Dweller", in Time, ISSN 0040-781X, volume 181, number 1, 2013 January 14, page 27:
      To the National Rifle Association's delight, the Senate has hobbled the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives by failing to confirm a director since 2006, but Obama hasn't made a recess appointment. […] "The President's view of his own power is a constrained one," says White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler. "Many of his nominees have languished, but he's only recessed the ones that were critical to keep agencies functioning."
  4. To make a recess in.
    to recess a wall

Translations[edit]

recede
declare a break
appoint via a recess appointment

Adjective[edit]

recess

  1. (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 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;

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Swedish[edit]

Noun[edit]

recess c

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

Declension[edit]

Declension of recess
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative recess recessen recesser recesserna
genitive recess recessens recessers recessernas

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