📖 Definitions of "Recess"
noun
- 1
A break, pause or vacation.
"Spring recess offers a good chance to travel."
- 2
An inset, hole, space or opening.
"Put a generous recess behind the handle for finger space."
- 3
A time of play during the school day, usually on a playground; break, playtime.
"Students who do not listen in class will not play outside during recess."
- 4
A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
verb
- 1
To inset into something, or to recede.
"Recess the screw so it does not stick out."
- 2
To take or declare a break.
"Class will recess for 20 minutes."
- 3
To appoint, with a recess appointment.
- 4
To make a recess in.
"to recess a wall"
adjective
- 1
Remote, distant (in time or place).
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