What's the difference between recess and secess?

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  • (n.) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.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

Secess


Definition:

  • (n.) Retirement; retreat; secession.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Barra has long been considered an ‘off world’ for Rio’s emerging upper-middle classes, and there was even a secession attempt in the 1980s,” says Gaffney.
  • (2) Bangladesh is the original "basket case", a term coined by Henry Kissinger , the US secretary of state, to describe the country immediately after its violent secession from Pakistan in 1971 .
  • (3) But constitutions are texts that exist to serve a particular moment in history and certain circumstances.” Romeva then hinted that even if the Spanish courts ruled against independence, it would not prevent the push for secession.
  • (4) Breakaway MNLF guerrillas led by its commander Nur Misuari have issued new secession threats from their remaining strongholds such as southern Jolo island, a few hours by boat from Zamboanga city.
  • (5) The competition between the two men sharpened after the referendum of 2011 that led to South Sudan’s secession from Sudan.
  • (6) But the lure of secession, of exit strategies from the euro or even the EU, remains strong for a reason.
  • (7) What makes a secessionist claim successful in the eyes of the international community – indeed, in the eyes of the people fighting for secession – is the existence of a historical grievance over territory.
  • (8) Spain's prime minister and the secession-minded leader of Catalonia have begun talks amid a bitter dispute over the wealthy north-eastern region's plans for a referendum on independence in November.
  • (9) As this week's protests and moves towards Catalan secession have shown, Spain's social and political fabric cannot cope with much more pain.
  • (10) Scotland factor: if Cameron again came just short after a yes vote, the secession of Scottish MPs in (probably) 2016 could well lend him a majority by changing the Commons arithmetic in his favour, although whether he could survive until the election in these circumstances is a moot point.
  • (11) Senior officers had told him that they were seeking a "final solution", determined "to cleanse east Pakistan once and for all of the threat of secession, even if it means killing 2 million people and ruling the province as a colony for 30 years."
  • (12) We have Silicon Valley-types having the smug gall to call for a secession of California after Trump’s win, despite tech companies, by their sheer inactivity, contributing to his win.
  • (13) With the secession of South Sudan in 2011 , the government lost most of its oil fields and its biggest source of government revenue and foreign exchange.
  • (14) Apart from the political parties, there are the tribes, the southern movement (which has been demanding secession) and the Houthis in the north who have their own grievances.
  • (15) But if it can – and that's a big if – the risk of secession will be worth taking.
  • (16) Above all else, the Brexit vote has furnished the Scottish nationalists with the ideal grounds for a further push for secession.
  • (17) Weir Group has become the latest pillar of the Scottish business establishment to raise concerns over the independence debate after backing SSE's warning that talk of secession is creating uncertainty for companies.
  • (18) On 1 January 1993, the people of what became the Czech Republic were divorced from their brethren in Slovakia (to Havel's real distress, though there was nothing more he could have done to stop the secession).
  • (19) Tribal conflict has worsened the situation, killing more than 1,600 people in Jonglei since South Sudan's secession.
  • (20) Quebec has held two referendums on secession, the second of which, in 1995, was voted down by a margin of less than 1%.

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