What's the difference between recess and test?

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  • (n.) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.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

Test


Definition:

  • (n.) A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
  • (n.) Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test.
  • (n.) Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.
  • (n.) That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.
  • (n.) Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.
  • (n.) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
  • (n.) A reaction employed to recognize or distinguish any particular substance or constituent of a compound, as the production of some characteristic precipitate; also, the reagent employed to produce such reaction; thus, the ordinary test for sulphuric acid is the production of a white insoluble precipitate of barium sulphate by means of some soluble barium salt.
  • (v. t.) To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
  • (v. t.) To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try; as, to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument.
  • (v. t.) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.
  • (n.) A witness.
  • (v. i.) To make a testament, or will.
  • (n.) Alt. of Testa

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Multiple stored energy levels were randomly tested and the percent successful defibrillation was plotted against the stored energy, and the raw data were fit by logistic regression.
  • (2) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
  • (3) It was tested for recovery and separation from other selenium moieties present in urine using both in vivo-labeled rat urine and human urine spiked with unlabeled TMSe.
  • (4) These results indicated that the PG determination was the most accurate predictor of fetal lung well-being prior to birth among the clinical tests so far reported.
  • (5) Clinical surveillance, repeated laboratory tests, conventional radiology, and especially ultrasonography and CT scan all contributed to the preoperative diagnosis.
  • (6) The hypothesis that proteins are critical targets in free radical mediated cytolysis was tested using U937 mononuclear phagocytes as targets and iron together with hydrogen peroxide to generate radicals.
  • (7) LHRH therapy leads to higher plasma LH levels and a lower FSH in response to an intravenous LHRH test.
  • (8) Of the patients 73% demonstrated clinically normal sensibility test results within 23 days after operation.
  • (9) Neuropsychological testing is a relatively new field in the area of clinical neuroscience.
  • (10) Thirteen patients with bipolar affective illness who had received lithium therapy for 1-5 years were tested retrospectively for evidence of cortical dysfunction.
  • (11) Our data suggest that a rational use of surveillance cultures and serological tests may aid in an earlier diagnosis of FI in BMT patients.
  • (12) The HBV infection was tested by the reversed passive hemagglutination method for the HBsAg and by the passive hemagglutination method for the anti-HBs at the time of recruitment in 1984.
  • (13) The testing of other models and their failure to describe the kinetic observations are discussed.
  • (14) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
  • (15) Recently, the validity of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards for selection of spirometric test results has been questioned based on the finding of inverse dependence of FEV1 on effort.
  • (16) The hemodynamic efficiency of the drive was tested in a number of in vivo experiments.
  • (17) Serum samples from 23 families, including a total of 48 affected children, were tested for a set of "classical markers."
  • (18) Tests showed the cells survive and function normally in animals and reverse movement problems caused by Parkinson's in monkeys.
  • (19) The promoters of the adenovirus 2 major late gene, the mouse beta-globin gene, the mouse immunoglobulin VH gene and the LTR of the human T-lymphotropic retrovirus type I were tested for their transcription activities in cell-free extracts of four cell lines; HeLa, CESS (Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human B cell line), MT-1 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line without viral protein synthesis), and MT-2 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line producing viral proteins).
  • (20) Immunocompetence was also evident when the cells from thymectomized donors were first incubated with thymus extract for 1 hr and subsequently tested for reactivity.