meaning of recess
1. A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.
2. The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
3. Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school.
4. Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc.
5. A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
6. Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science.
7. A sinus.
8. To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall.
9. A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
10. a pause from doing something as work; "we took a 10-minute break"; "he took time out to
">recuperate"
Related Words
recess | recessed | recessing | recession | recessional | recessional march | recessionary | recessive | recessive gene |
