What's the difference between playground and recess?

Playground


Definition:

  • (n.) A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The education secretary's wife, Sarah Vine, a columnist, said her son William, nine, and daughter Beatrice, 11, now realise how much their father is hated for his position in government because other children tell them in the playground.
  • (2) Children as young as 18 months start by sliding on tiny skis in soft supple boots, while over-threes have more formal lessons in the snow playground.
  • (3) Just five weeks later - following persistent noise complaints from all the neighbours, following a written complaint from the primary school whose playground backs on to the flat, following a police visit to break up a fight between him and his flatmate - he has been evicted.
  • (4) Tracey Iglehart, a teacher at Rosa Parks elementary school in Berkeley, California, did not expect Donald Trump to show up on the playground.
  • (5) "Pulpit poofs" were hounded from the church, playground workers were exposed as "lesbians plotting to pervert nursery tots", celebrities such as Kenny Everett, Russell Harty and Freddie Mercury were hounded as diseased vermin.
  • (6) I walked across the playground, my heart full of flowers: I was loved by someone!
  • (7) The "might is right" alternative – the playground resort to "brute force" recalling Europe's past "descent into barbarism" – was no alternative at all.
  • (8) Yet few of them are encouraged to learn Bengali, Urdu or Polish in the playground, and I'm not aware that any school has tried to foster or formalise peer group learning of that kind.
  • (9) Any place of mass communal touch is a potential magnet for spreading disease - such as children's playgrounds.
  • (10) At lunchtime I have a 45 minute cover duty with a pupil who requires individual supervision and we use some of the playground equipment.
  • (11) This was the childhood playground of actor Richard Harris, where he performed death-defying handstands and cycling tricks on the cliffside walls when not showboating by the sea.
  • (12) Observations of their children's playground behavior in preschool settings and measures of sociometric status were also obtained.
  • (13) You see it a lot in discussions that happen around schooling, the idea that you need to school boys differently to girls because all boys want to do is run around in the playground and kick the shit out of each other.
  • (14) More tellingly, pop has also become the playground of a privileged elite.
  • (15) Many complexes have dedicated around half their space to restaurants, cinemas, skating rinks, bowling alleys, spas, playgrounds and even language schools.
  • (16) The playground of the school, filled with displaced families when the shell hit.
  • (17) Photograph: Adharanand Finn On another wall by a playground, Jeff points out the faces of Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden, and painted between them the question: “Hero or traitor?” The relative freedom Bogotá’s street artists have become accustomed too, however, may be about to change.
  • (18) Back in Duran Duran's heyday, the only communal fan experiences were concerts, playground discussions or sporadic missives from distant pen pals.
  • (19) When white people do it, it’s political engagement and revolution – and when black people do it, it’s violent and disruptive and the worst thing to ever happen, when in reality the worst thing to ever happen was Tamir Rice dying on an Ohio playground,” she said, referring to the 12-year-old killed by a white police officer in Cleveland last year.
  • (20) In order to evaluate the playground risk factors, 45 nursery schools of a USL were investigated.

Recess


Definition:

  • (n.) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.
  • (n.) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
  • (n.) Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school.
  • (n.) Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc.
  • (n.) A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
  • (n.) Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science.
  • (n.) A sinus.
  • (v. t.) To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall.
  • (n.) A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But the wounding charge in 2010 has become Brown's creation of a structural hole in the budget, more serious than the cyclical hit which the recession made in tax receipts, at least 4% of GDP.
  • (2) S&P – the only one of the three major agencies not to have stripped the UK of its coveted AAA status – said it had been surprised at the pick-up in activity during 2013 – a year that began with fears of a triple-dip recession.
  • (3) Epidermolytic PPK is a well delineated autosomal dominant entity, but no recessive form is known.
  • (4) In junctions, 3' PSS termini are preserved by fill-in DNA synthesis, although their 5' recessed ends cannot serve as a primer.
  • (5) No changes in degree of recession were observed during the 4-year period.
  • (6) Although the reeler, an autosomal recessive mutant mouse with the abnormality of lamination in the central nervous system, died about 3 weeks of age when fed ordinary laboratory chow, this mouse could grow up normally and prolong its destined, short lifespan to 50 weeks and more when given assistance in taking paste food and water from the weaning period.
  • (7) About one out of three profoundly deaf children has an autosomal recessive form of inherited deafness.
  • (8) Frequency and localization of spontaneous and induced by high temperature (37 degrees C) recessive lethal mutations in X-chromosome of females belonging to the 1(1) ts 403 strain defective in synthesis of heat-shock proteins (HSP) were studied.
  • (9) Cable argued that the additional £30bn austerity proposed by the chancellor after 2015 went beyond the joint coalition commitment to eradicate the structural part of the UK's current budget deficit – the part of non-investment spending that will not disappear even when the economy has fully emerged from the recession of 2008-09.
  • (10) The polygenic control of diabetogenesis in NOD mice, in which a recessive gene linked to the major histocompatibility complex is but one of several controlling loci, suggests that similar polygenic interactions underlie this type of diabetes in humans.
  • (11) If a tear is found, remove all unstable meniscal fragments, leaving a rim, if possible, especially adjacent to the popliteus recess, and then proceed to open cystectomy.
  • (12) Spain's IBEX has tumbled more than 2%, despite its central bank predicting that the country's recession is over.
  • (13) In Colchester, David Sherwood of Fenn Wright reported: "High tenant demand but increasingly tenants in rent arrears as the recession bites."
  • (14) Bimedial rectus recession with measurement from the limbus was combined with conjuctival recession 85 children undergoing surgery for esotropia.
  • (15) When used in snail neurones such electrodes gave very similar pHi values to those recorded simultaneously by recessed-tip glass micro-electrodes.
  • (16) An autosomal recessive mode of inheritance of this deficiency was found.
  • (17) Deficiency of glucosamine-6-sulphatase activity leads to the lysosomal storage of the glycosaminoglycan, heparan sulphate and the monosaccharide sulphate N-acetylglucosamine 6-sulphate and the autosomal recessive genetic disorder mucopolysaccharidosis type IIID.
  • (18) All the teeth were also measured on both their buccal and lingual aspects to assess the amount of gingival recession.
  • (19) The data on sex-chromosome loss, sex-linked recessive lethals and autosomal translocations suggest lack of mutagenicity.
  • (20) Parental consanguinity suggests that an autosomal recessive mutation is the likely aetiology.

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