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re·cess

(rē′sĕs′, rĭ-sĕs′)

a. A temporary cessation of the customary activities of an engagement, occupation, or pursuit: The chairman of the committee called for a recess until Thursday. See Synonyms at pause.

b. A period in the school day during which students are given time to play or relax.

2. often recesses A remote, secret, or secluded place: a bird that lives deep in the recesses of the forest.

a. An indentation or small hollow: Dirt accumulated in the recesses of the statue.

b. An alcove.

v. re·cessed, re·cess·ing, re·cess·es

v.tr.

1. To place in a recess.

2. To create or fashion a recess in: recessed a portion of the wall.

3. To suspend for a recess: The committee chair recessed the hearings.

v.intr.

To take a recess: The investigators recessed for lunch.

[Latin recessus, retreat, from past participle of recēdere, to recede; see recede¹.]

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recess

1. a space, such as a niche or alcove, set back or indented

2. (often plural) a secluded or secret place: recesses of the mind.

3. a cessation of business, such as the closure of Parliament during a vacation

4. (Anatomy) anatomy a small cavity or depression in a bodily organ, part, or structure

5. (Education) US and Canadian a break between classes at a school

vb (tr)

6. to place or set (something) in a recess

7. (Building) to build a recess or recesses in (a wall, building, etc)

[C16: from Latin recessus a retreat, from recēdere to recede]

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re•cess

(rɪˈsɛs, ˈri sɛs)

n.

1. a temporary withdrawal or cessation from the usual work or activity; break.

2. a period of such withdrawal: a five-minute recess.

3. a receding part or space, as an alcove in a room.

4. an indentation, as in a coastline or a hill.

5. recesses, a secluded or inner area or part: in the recesses of the palace.

v.t.

6. to place or set in a recess.

7. to set or form as or like a recess: to recess a wall.

8. to suspend or defer for a recess: to recess the Senate.

v.i.

9. to take a recess.

[1510–20; < Latin recessus a withdrawal, receding part =recēd(ere) to recede¹ + -tus suffix of v. action]

recess

Past participle: recessed
Gerund: recessing

Imperative
recess
recess

Present
I recess
you recess
he/she/it recesses
we recess
you recess
they recess

Preterite
I recessed
you recessed
he/she/it recessed
we recessed
you recessed
they recessed

Present Continuous
I am recessing
you are recessing
he/she/it is recessing
we are recessing
you are recessing
they are recessing

Present Perfect
I have recessed
you have recessed
he/she/it has recessed
we have recessed
you have recessed
they have recessed

Past Continuous
I was recessing
you were recessing
he/she/it was recessing
we were recessing
you were recessing
they were recessing

Past Perfect
I had recessed
you had recessed
he/she/it had recessed
we had recessed
you had recessed
they had recessed

Future
I will recess
you will recess
he/she/it will recess
we will recess
you will recess
they will recess

Future Perfect
I will have recessed
you will have recessed
he/she/it will have recessed
we will have recessed
you will have recessed
they will have recessed

Future Continuous
I will be recessing
you will be recessing
he/she/it will be recessing
we will be recessing
you will be recessing
they will be recessing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been recessing
you have been recessing
he/she/it has been recessing
we have been recessing
you have been recessing
they have been recessing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been recessing
you will have been recessing
he/she/it will have been recessing
we will have been recessing
you will have been recessing
they will have been recessing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been recessing
you had been recessing
he/she/it had been recessing
we had been recessing
you had been recessing
they had been recessing

Conditional
I would recess
you would recess
he/she/it would recess
we would recess
you would recess
they would recess

Past Conditional
I would have recessed
you would have recessed
he/she/it would have recessed
we would have recessed
you would have recessed
they would have recessed

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recess

A period during the school day when there are no classes.

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Noun	1.	recess - a state of abeyance or suspended business deferral abeyance, suspension - temporary cessation or suspension
	2.	recess - a small concavity niche, recession, corner pharyngeal recess - a small recess in the wall of the pharynx concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature - a shape that curves or bends inward
	3.	recess - an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands) inlet body of water, water - the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean); "they invaded our territorial waters"; "they were sitting by the water's edge" cove - a small inlet fiord, fjord - a long narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs; common in Norway lake - a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land loch - a long narrow inlet of the sea in Scotland (especially when it is nearly landlocked) sea - a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land
	4.	recess - an enclosure that is set back or indented niche alcove, bay - a small recess opening off a larger room apse, apsis - a domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church; usually contains the altar cinerarium, columbarium - a niche for a funeral urn containing the ashes of the cremated dead enclosure - a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose fireplace, hearth, open fireplace - an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built; "the fireplace was so large you could walk inside it"; "he laid a fire in the hearth and lit it"; "the hearth was black with the charcoal of many fires" mihrab - (Islam) a niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the direction of Mecca
	5.	recess - a pause from doing something (as work); "we took a 10-minute break"; "he took time out to recuperate" time out, respite, break pause - temporary inactivity spring break - a week or more of recess during the spring term at school
Verb	1.	recess - put into a recess; "recess lights" lay, place, put, set, position, pose - put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
	2.	recess - make a recess in; "recess the piece of wood" indent - notch the edge of or make jagged
	3.	recess - close at the end of a session; "The court adjourned" adjourn, break up end, cease, terminate, finish, stop - have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"

recess

noun

1. break, rest, holiday, closure, interval, vacation, respite, intermission, cessation of business Parliament returns to work today after its summer recess.

2. alcove, corner, bay, depression, hollow, niche, cavity, nook, oriel, indentation a discreet recess next to a fireplace

plural noun

1. depths, reaches, heart, retreats, bowels, innards (informal), secret places, innermost parts, penetralia He emerged from the dark recesses of the garage.

verb

1. adjourn, break, stop, take a break, take a recess, suspend proceedings The hearings have now recessed for dinner.

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recess

noun

A pause or interval, as from work or duty:

break, intermission, respite, rest, time-out.

Informal: breather.

verb

To interrupt regular activity for a short period:

break.

Idioms: take a break, take a breather, take five.

Translations

عُطْلَة البَرْلَمانفُرْصَة بين دَرْسَيْنكُوَّه

alkovnamezidobípřestávkavýklenek

alkoveferiefrikvarterindhakpause

Pause Ferien Nische

välitunti

alcôve pause recoin récré récréation

szünetszünidőzugmélyedés

frímínúturòinghléskot

intervallo nascondere recessi recesso recludere

あそびあそびをとるゆとり休み時間休憩をとる

alkova

brīvdienasbrīvlaikskluss stūrītisnišapārtraukums

parlamentsferie

repouso

перемена углубление

alkovňa

odmor

girişniştatil teneffüs

休会休庭凹进处壁龛学校的课间休息

recess

[rɪˈses]

A. N

1. (Jur, Pol) (= cessation of business) → clausura f (US) (Jur) (= short break) → descanso m (esp US) (Scol) → recreo m
parliament is in recess → la sesión del parlamento está suspendida

2. (Archit) → hueco m, nicho m

3. (= secret place) → escondrijo m (fig) → la parte más oculta
in the recesses of his mind → en los recovecos de su mente, en lo más oculto de su mente

B. VI (US) (Jur, Parl) → prorrogarse, suspenderse la sesión

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recess

[ˈriːsɛs rɪˈsɛs]

(in room) → renfoncement m; (for bed) → alcôve f

(= holiday) [parliament, courts] → vacances fpl
to be in recess → être en vacances

(= short break) → pause f; (in court hearing) → suspension f d'audience; (at school) → récréation f

recesses

npl [room, cave] → recoins mpl
the deep recesses of one's mind → les recoins les plus obscurs de son esprit

recess

(= cessation) (of Parliament) → (Sitzungs)pause f; (of law courts) → Ferien pl; (US Sch) → Pause f

(= alcove) → Nische f

(= secret place) → Winkel m; in the (deepest) recesses of his mind → in den (tiefsten) Tiefen seines Geistes

vt (= set back) → in eine/die Nische stellen; cupboard, cooker → einbauen; windows → vertiefen; lighting → versenken; (= make a recess in) wall etc → eine Nische machen in (+acc), → vertiefen

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recess

[rɪˈsɛs] n

a. (Law, Parliament) (cessation of business) → ferie fpl, vacanza (Am) (Law) (short break) → sospensione f (Scol) (esp Am) → intervallo

b. (for bed) → rientranza; (for statue) → nicchia (fig) (of mind) → recesso

recess

(riˈses) , (ˈriːses) noun

1. a part of a room set back from the main part; an alcove. We can put the dining-table in that recess.

2. the time during which Parliament or the law-courts do not work. Parliament is in recess.

3. (American) a short period of free time between school classes.

re·cess

n. suspensión; cavidad, espacio vacío.

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The second clause of the second section of the second article empowers the President of the United States "to nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other OFFICERS of United States whose appointments are NOT in the Constitution OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, and WHICH SHALL BE ESTABLISHED BY LAW." Immediately after this clause follows another in these words: "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." It is from this last provision that the pretended power of the President to fill vacancies in the Senate has been deduced.

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Within the wall thus exposed by the displacing of the bones, we perceived a still interior recess, in depth about four feet in width three, in height six or seven.

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It's nothing but limes now, for everyone is sucking them in their desks in schooltime, and trading them off for pencils, bead rings, paper dolls, or something else, at recess. If one girl likes another, she gives her a lime.

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She then led the way to an arched recess on our right hand, beyond which I dimly discerned a broad flight of oaken stairs.

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When we had watched long enough to see that Jake was getting along all right and working his signs very good, we loafed along again, allowing to strike the schoolhouse about recess time, which was a three-mile tramp.

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Laurence sat in a recess near the book-ease, reading, not for the first time, the Midsummer Night's Dream.

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At this moment a distant noise of barking and growling, which the traveller had for some time heard, became extremely loud and furious, and made the knight suppose that the hermit, alarmed by his threat of making forcible entry, had called the dogs who made this clamour to aid him in his defence, out of some inner recess in which they had been kennelled.

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As if planted on purpose for him, there soon appeared a little tuft of maples, with a delightful recess in the midst, and such a fresh bubbling spring that it seemed never to have sparkled for any wayfarer but David Swan.

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I remained in a recess of the rock, gazing on this wonderful and stupendous scene.

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The recess beneath the counter in which his flock mattress was thrust, looked like a grave.

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Then slowly they retreated but this time with a strange grating sound and finally they disappeared in some black and distant recess of my dungeon.

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He is haunted from out the crumbled palaces of vanished kings, where "in the form of blue flames one sees spirits moving through each dark recess." He is haunted by the traditional voices of the old masters of his craft, and lastly, more than all, by the dead women and men of his race, the ancestors that count in the making of his composite soul and have their silent say in every action, thought, and impulse of his life.