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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.

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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.

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 A state of being withdrawn or retired; seclusion; privacy.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.

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 The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.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. A sinus.

noun. A break, pause or vacation.

noun. An inset, hole, space or opening.

noun. A time of play, usually, on a playground.

noun. A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.

verb. To inset into something, or to recede.

verb. To take or declare a break.

verb. To appoint, with a recess appointment.

adjective. Remote, distant (in time or place).

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

"The second session provides for the suspension of an officer during the recess, and for a temporary appointment _during the recess_."

contrariety of access and recess  hollow  iliac recess  inlet  interior  

recessed  recessing  recession  recessive  

abeyance  cease  end  finish  indent  

Bess  Es  Etess  Fs  Hess  

alcove  archway  bower  cavern  chamber  

Jim Crow  abeyance  adjourn  adytum  alcove  

recessed  recesses  recessing  recesss