{ "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "r\u026a\u02c8s\u025bs", "\u02c8ris\u025bs" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/recess.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/recess.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (AU)", "url": "" }, { "lang": "Audio (AU)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "Mid 16th century borrowing from Latin recessus (\u201cretreat, departure; a secret spot, nook, corner\u201d), from rec\u0113d\u014d (\u201cto go back, retire, withdraw\u201d) + -tus (\u201caction noun suffix\u201d)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(archaic) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back.\nSynonyms: recession, retreat\nthe recess of the tides\n1649, Charles I of England, Eikon Basilike, page 49:My recess hath given them confidence that I may be conquered.\n1692\u20131717, Robert South, \u201cevery degree of ignorance being so far a \u2019recess\u2019 and degradation from rationality\u201d, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: J Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer,\u00a0, published 1727, \u2192OCLC:", "submean": [ "The state of being withdrawn.\nSynonyms: privacy, seclusion\n1695, C A du Fresnoy, \u201cGood verse recess and solitude requires.\u201d, in John Dryden, transl., De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting,\u00a0, London: J Heptinstall for W. Rogers,\u00a0, \u2192OCLC:\n1713, , \u201cTouching Trials by Jury\u201d, in The History of the Common Law of England:\u00a0, : J Nutt, assignee of Edw Sayer Esq; for J. Walthoe,\u00a0, \u2192OCLC, page 260: When the Evidence is fully given, the Jurors withdraw to a private Place, In this Rece\u017fs of the Jury they are to con\u017fider their Evidence, " ] }, { "mean": "A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.\n1667, John Milton, \u201cBook X\u201d, in Paradise Lost.\u00a0, London: ,\u00a0, \u2192OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books:\u00a0, London: Basil Montagu Pickering\u00a0, 1873, \u2192OCLC:Departure from this happy place, our sweetRecess, and onely consolation left\n1834, L E L, chapter III, in Francesca Carrara.\u00a0, volume III, London: Richard Bentley,\u00a0, (successor to Henry Colburn), \u2192OCLC, page 18:The recesses of the forest answered well the purposes of concealment, and Lucy was useful both as an unsuspected messenger, and also for the intelligence she was able to obtain." }, { "mean": "A small space created by building part of a wall further back from the rest.\nSynonyms: indentation, alcove\n1824, Geoffrey Crayon , \u201cThe Adventure of My Uncle\u201d, in Tales of a Traveller, part 1 (Strange Stories.\u00a0), Philadelphia, Pa.: H C Carey & I Lea,\u00a0, \u2192OCLC, page 28:My uncle now clambered on top of the half score of mattresses which form a French bed, and which stood in a deep recess; \n1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, \u201cThe Soldier in White\u201d, in Catch-22\u00a0, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, \u2192OCLC, page 169:They gathered soberly in the farthest recess of the ward and gossiped about him in malicious, offended undertones, rebelling against his presence as a ghastly imposition and resenting him malevolently for the nauseating truth of which he was bright reminder.", "submean": [ "An inset, hole, hollow space or opening.\nHyponyms: piriform recess, sphenoethmoidal recess\nPut a generous recess behind the handle for finger space.\n1964 April, G. Freeman Allen, \u201cThe BRB shows traders the Liner train prototypes\u201d, in Modern Railways, volume 19, number 187, page 265:The Liner train wagon is a simple underframe on bogies, with coned location points that engage recesses in the container bases.", "(usually in the plural) A remote, secret or abstruse place.\nthe difficulties and recesses of science\n1741, I Watts, \u201cFive Methods of Improvement de\u017fcribed and compared, viz. Ob\u017fervation, Reading, In\u017ftruction by Lectures, Conver\u017fation, and Study, with their \u017feveral Advantages and Defects\u201d, in The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logick:\u00a0, London: James Brackstone,\u00a0, \u2192OCLC, page 42:CONVERSATION calls out into Light what has been lodged in all the Rece\u017f\u017fes and \u017fecret Chambers of the Soul: " ] }, { "mean": "(countable or uncountable) A break, pause or vacation.\nSynonyms: break, day off, hiatus, moratorium; see also Thesaurus:pause, Thesaurus:vacation\nSpring recess offers a good chance to travel.", "submean": [ "(government) A period of time when the proceedings of a parliament, committee, court of law, or other official body are temporarily suspended.\n1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter I, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume I, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, \u2192OCLC, page 98:The recess of the English Parliament lasted six weeks.", "(Canada, US, Australia, UK (in certain public schools)) A time of play during the school day, usually on a playground.\nSynonyms: (UK) break, playtime\nStudents who do not listen in class will not play outside during recess." ] }, { "mean": "A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.\n1777, William Russell, The History of Modern Europe:The famous Recess of Augsburgh, which is the basis of religious peace in Germany." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To inset into something, or to recede.\nWow, look at how that gargoyle recesses into the rest of architecture.\nRecess the screw so it does not stick out.", "submean": [ "(transitive) To make a recess in.\nto recess a wall", "To place in a recess.\n1962 January, \u201cTalking of Trains: Track re-arrangement at Colwich\u201d, in Modern Railways, page 10:It will also enable slower-moving freight trains to be recessed in the new down goods loop to await, if necessary, a suitable margin before proceeding to Stafford or Stoke and so reduce confliction with other main-line trains." ] }, { "mean": "(Canada, US, intransitive, of formal proceedings) To take or declare a break.\nClass will recess for 20 minutes.", "submean": [ "(transitive) To suspend (formal proceedings) temporarily.", "(government, intransitive, of an official body) To suspend its proceedings for a period of time.\nThis court shall recess for its normal two hour lunch now." ] }, { "mean": "(transitive, informal) To appoint, with a recess appointment.\n2013 January 14, Michael Grunwald, \u201cCliff Dweller\u201d, in Time, volume 181, number 1, \u2192ISSN, page 27:To the National Rifle Association's delight, the Senate has hobbled the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives by failing to confirm a director since 2006, but Obama hasn't made a recess appointment. \"The President's view of his own power is a constrained one,\" says White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler. \"Many of his nominees have languished, but he's only recessed the ones that were critical to keep agencies functioning.\"" } ] }, { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(obsolete, rare, of time or place) Remote, distant.\n1632, Thomas Salusbury, transl., Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems:I should think it best in the subsequent discourses to begin to examine whether the Earth be esteemed immoveable, as it hath been till now believed by most men, or else moveable, as some ancient Philosophers held, and others of not very recesse times were of opinion;" } ] }, { "name": "References", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "\u201crecess\u201d, inLexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019\u20132022.\n\u201crecess\u201d, inMerriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass. 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