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  • (n.) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.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.

Compare recess with other words:

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recess vs. trial

fella vs. recess

depress vs. recess

bedsite vs. recess

breaktime vs. recess

aperture vs. recess

notch vs. recess

depression vs. recess

alcove vs. recess

apply vs. recess

mobile vs. recess

interregnum vs. recess

concave vs. recess

recess vs. rest

groove vs. recess

encave vs. recess

recess vs. wallpress

bosomy vs. recess

loculus vs. recess

penetralia vs. recess

bore vs. recess

exedra vs. recess

apsis vs. recess

appoint vs. recess

recess vs. recessive

recess vs. recession

empire vs. recess

diet vs. recess

german vs. recess

imperial vs. recess

decree vs. recess

opening vs. recess

playground vs. recess

hole vs. recess

recess vs. space

inset vs. recess

pause vs. recess

recess vs. vacation

break vs. recess

counterbore vs. recess

countersink vs. recess

nook vs. recess

lunette vs. recess

overture vs. recess

catacomb vs. recess

indentation vs. recess

creek vs. recess

rabbet vs. recess

cove vs. recess

recede vs. recess

hearth vs. recess

bay vs. recess

niche vs. recess

center vs. recess

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