What's the difference between recess and rest?

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  • (n.) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.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

Rest


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To arrest.
  • (n.) A state of quiet or repose; a cessation from motion or labor; tranquillity; as, rest from mental exertion; rest of body or mind.
  • (n.) Hence, freedom from everything which wearies or disturbs; peace; security.
  • (n.) Sleep; slumber; hence, poetically, death.
  • (n.) That on which anything rests or leans for support; as, a rest in a lathe, for supporting the cutting tool or steadying the work.
  • (n.) A projection from the right side of the cuirass, serving to support the lance.
  • (n.) A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
  • (n.) A short pause in reading verse; a c/sura.
  • (n.) The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account.
  • (n.) A set or game at tennis.
  • (n.) Silence in music or in one of its parts; the name of the character that stands for such silence. They are named as notes are, whole, half, quarter,etc.
  • (n.) To cease from action or motion, especially from action which has caused weariness; to desist from labor or exertion.
  • (n.) To be free from whanever wearies or disturbs; to be quiet or still.
  • (n.) To lie; to repose; to recline; to lan; as, to rest on a couch.
  • (n.) To stand firm; to be fixed; to be supported; as, a column rests on its pedestal.
  • (n.) To sleep; to slumber; hence, poetically, to be dead.
  • (n.) To lean in confidence; to trust; to rely; to repose without anxiety; as, to rest on a man's promise.
  • (n.) To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
  • (v. t.) To lay or place at rest; to quiet.
  • (v. t.) To place, as on a support; to cause to lean.
  • (n.) That which is left, or which remains after the separation of a part, either in fact or in contemplation; remainder; residue.
  • (n.) Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
  • (n.) A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.
  • (v. i.) To be left; to remain; to continue to be.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Circuit weight training does not exacerbate resting or exercise blood pressure and may have beneficial effects.
  • (2) In contrast, resting cells of strain CHA750 produced five times less IAA in a buffer (pH 6.0) containing 1 mM-L-tryptophan than did resting cells of the wild-type, illustrating the major contribution of TSO to IAA synthesis under these conditions.
  • (3) Manometric studies with resting cells obtained by growth on each of these sulfur sources yielded net oxygen uptake for all substrates except sulfite and dithionate.
  • (4) The results also suggest that the dispersed condition of pigment in the melanophores represents the "resting state" of the melanophores when they are under no stimulation.
  • (5) Immediate postexercise two-dimensional echocardiography demonstrated exercise-induced changes in 8 (47%) patients (2 with normal and 6 with abnormal results from rest studies).
  • (6) Only in 17 of the 97 examinees all the examined parameters were found normal, in the rest deviations from the normal echographic picture were revealed.
  • (7) Subjects then rested supine until 10.00 h when blood was again taken, and blood pressure recorded.
  • (8) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
  • (9) Under resting conditions, the variance of cerebral metabolism seems to be primarily related to regions which are closely involved with the limbic system.
  • (10) In a comparative study 11 athletes and 11 untrained students were investigated at rest, of these 6 trained and 5 untrained individuals during exercise as well.
  • (11) Channel activation persists through the process of platelet isolation and washing and is manifested in higher measured values of [Ca2+]cyt and [Ca2+]dt in the "resting state."
  • (12) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
  • (13) The spikes likely correspond to VP3, a hemagglutinin, while the rest of the mass density in the outer shell represents 780 molecules of VP7, a neutralization antigen.
  • (14) Furthermore, experiments with the fluorescence-activated cell sorter revealed increased forward light scatter from resting exudate PMN compared to blood PMN.
  • (15) 14 patients with painful neuroma, skin hyperesthesia or neuralgic rest pain were followed up (mean 20 months) after excision of skin and scar, neurolysis and coverage with pedicled or free flaps.
  • (16) Among the 295 nonpathogenic strains, 115 were sensitive to all antibiotics whereas the rest were resistant to 1-5 kinds of antibiotics.
  • (17) The children's pulse, pulse rate variability, and blood pressure were then measured at rest and during a challenging situation.
  • (18) The functional capacity to present antigens to T cells was lacking in normal resting B cells, but was acquired following LK treatment.
  • (19) Assessments were made daily by patients, using visual analogue scales, of their pain levels at rest, at night and on activity, and of the limitation of their activity.
  • (20) An "overshoot" elevation of ejection fraction above resting levels was demonstrated following termination of exercise in most patients.