"recess" Definition

Definitions for the word "recess" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
A sinus.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. t.
To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
1 space set back in a wall. 2 (often in pl.) Remote or secret place. 3 temporary cessation from work, esp. Of parliament. v. 1 make a recess in. 2 place in a recess. 3 us take a recess; adjourn. [latin recessus: related to *recede]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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