Meaning of recess in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• A break, pause or vacation.

  Example: Spring recess offers a good chance to travel.

• An inset, hole, space or opening.

  Example: Put a generous recess behind the handle for finger space.

• A time of play during the school day, usually on a playground; break, playtime.

  Example: Students who do not listen in class will not play outside during recess.

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

• A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat.

  Example: the recess of the tides

• The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.

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

• A secret or abstruse part.

  Example: the difficulties and recesses of science

• A sinus.

verb

• To inset into something, or to recede.

  Example: Recess the screw so it does not stick out.

• To take or declare a break.

  Example: Class will recess for 20 minutes.

• To appoint, with a recess appointment.

• To make a recess in.

  Example: to recess a wall

adjective

• Remote, distant (in time or place).