Definition of Recess

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Recess

A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.

The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.

Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school.

Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc.

A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.

Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science.

A sinus.

To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall.

A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.

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Recess Quotations

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.
Alan Shepard

All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.
Alberto Giacometti

The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nation's homeland security. I voiced my disappointment with the House leadership when this report was left until after the August recess for action.
Leonard Boswell

I used to collect hockey cards. It was like Vegas at my school. You'd go to school with your box of cards, and at recess and lunchtime there were all these games we'd play.
Steve Nash

Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?
Robert Byrd

Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess.
Melissa Leo

Recess Translations

recess in Afrikaans is pouse
recess in Dutch is pauze, rust
recess in Finnish is tauko
recess in German is Unterbrechung, Aussparung {f}, Pause, Pause
recess in Italian is interruzione
recess in Portuguese is rebaixo
recess in Spanish is interrupcion, descanso, hueco

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