Meaning of recess | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A village in County Galway, Ireland.
2. interval, gap, break
3. A depressed, hollow, or indented space; also, a hole or opening.
   countable
4. A small space created by building part of a wall further back from the rest; a niche.
   countable, uncountable
5. interval
6. The place in a prison where the communal lavatories are located.
   countable, plural-normally, slang, uncountable
7. A hidden, innermost, or inaccessible place or part of a place.
   countable
8. A place of retirement, retreat, or seclusion.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
9. intermission
10. An obscure, remote, or secret situation.
    countable, figuratively, plural-normally, uncountable
11. A temporary stoppage of an activity; a break, a pause.
    countable
12. A period of time when the proceedings of a committee, court of law, parliament, or other official body are temporarily suspended.
    countable, uncountable
13. A time away from studying during the school day for a meal or recreation.
    Australia, British, Canada, Philippines, US, countable, uncountable
14. An act of retiring or withdrawing; a moving back.
    archaic, countable
15. A decree or resolution of the diet of the Holy Roman Empire or the Hanseatic League.
    countable, historical
16. An act of retiring or withdrawing from public life, society, etc.; also, an act of living in retirement or seclusion, or a period of such retirement or seclusion.
    countable, obsolete
17. Leisure, relaxation.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
18. The state of being withdrawn.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
19. A departure from a norm or position.
    countable, figuratively, obsolete
20. A time interval during which something ceases; an interruption, a respite.
    countable, figuratively, obsolete
21. An overall-concave, reentrant section of a sinuous fold and thrust belt, thrust sheet, or a single thrust fault, caused by one or more of: deformation (folding and faulting) of strata and geologic structures during orogenesis, differences in the angle of critical taper during orogenesis, or differing erosional level of the present geomorphological surface.
    countable
22. An extension or outpouching of a cavity (e.g. articular recess, peritoneal recess,...)
    countable

Equivalents

Examples

“Put a generous recess behind the handle for finger space.”

“[T]he Sun, the great eye of the vvorld, prying into the receſſes of rocks, and the hollovvneſſe of valleys, receives ſpecies, or viſible forms from theſe objects, but he beholds them onely by that light vvhich proceeds from himſelf: […]”

“VVithin a Mountain's hollovv VVomb, there lies / A large Receſs, conceal'd from Human Eyes; […]”

“VVithin a long Receſs there lies a Bay, / An Iſland ſhades it from the rovvling Sea, […]”

“His dvvelling a receſs in ſome rude rock, / Book, beads, and maple-diſh his meagre ſtock, […]”

“The glare of the touch enlightened only the rude vvalls of the citadel, ſome points of the cliff belovv, and ſome tall pins that vvaved over them, leaving in doubtful gloom many a receſs of the ruin, and many a tangled thicket, that ſpread among the rocks beyond.”

“The Liner train wagon is a simple underframe on bogies, with coned location points that engage recesses in the container bases.”

“[T]he Harmony, Proportion and Beauty of Buildings are equally admirable, vvhether they be executed in plain Free-ſtone, or the moſt beautiful Marble; vvhether the Carvings or Mouldings be gilt or not; the Receſſes or Panels in the VValls be curiouſly painted, or only plaiſter'd.”

“My uncle now clambered on top of the half score of mattresses which form a French bed, and which stood in a deep recess; […]”

“[T]he soldier looked to the oriel windows. The recesses within them were raised a step or two from the wall.”

“Uncertain where to go next, and bewildered by the crowd of people who were already astir, they sat down in one of the recesses of the bridge, to rest.”

“I hied me to the window-recess; and while I sat there and looked out on the still trees and dim lawn, to a sweet air was sung in mellow tones, […]”

“This hall is the living-room of the house, and walls and roof are of stout logs. […] Deep recesses half way up the walls contain various provender in barrels and sacks.”

“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.”

“[I]n the recesses of the palace her mysterious figure was at once invisible and omnipresent.”

“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.”

“[U]s hitherto this Corner and ſecret receſſe hath defended, novv the Vttermoſt point of our Land is laid open: and things the leſſe they haue beene vvithin knovvledge, the greater the glorie is to atchieue them.”

“[T]hy tidings bring, / Departure from this happy place, our ſweet / Receſs, and onely conſolation left / Familiar to our eyes, all places elſe / Inhoſpitable appeer and deſolate, […]”

“His cousin June—and coming straight to his recess!”

“the difficulties and recesses of science”

“[…] Momus […] ſeeing in the frame of mans heart, ſuch Angles and receſſes, founde fault there vvas not a vvindovve to looke into them: […]”

“[…] GOD not onely ſerving himſelf vvith truth out of the mouthes of impious perſons, but magnifying the receſſes of his Counſell and VViſdome and Predeſtination, vvho uſes the ſame Doctrine to glorifie himſelf and to confound his enemies, […]”

“[P]enitential Sorrovv vvill, and muſt proceed much farther. It muſt force, and make its vvay into the very inmoſt Corners, and Receſſes of the Soul; […]”

“But thou, nor they, ſhall ſearch the Thoughts that roll / Deep in the cloſe Receſſes of my Soul.”

“CONVERSATION calls out into Light vvhat has been lodged in all the Receſſes and ſecret Chambers of the Soul: […]”

“Then was a little respite to the fear, / That in my heart's recesses deep had lain, / All of that night, so pitifully pass'd: […]”

“As to the fundamental difference of opinion respecting the sources of knowledge (apart from the corollaries which either party may have drawn from its own principle, or imputed to its opponent's), the question lies far too deep in the recesses of psychology for us to discuss it here.”

“Spring recess offers a good chance to travel.”

“After the Easter recess, Sir George Lynn, who was lately elected member for Millcote, will have to go up to town and take his seat; […]”

“The recess of the English Parliament lasted six weeks.”

“Students who do not listen in class will not play outside during recess.”

“the recess of the tides”

“And his Receſſe from the Church, ye proffe not othervviſe, than by the Fame and comon Opinion of thoſe Parts; […]”

“[M]oſt of the other lakes, becauſe they come from Linnes, and huge pooles, or ſuch lowe bottomes, fedde with ſpringes, as ſeeme to haue no acceſſe, but onelye receſſe of waters, wherof there be many in Scotlande.”

“This their vvorke [spiders' webs] being finiſhed, […] they hold as it vvere in theyr hands a thred dravvne from the middeſt or Center, by vvhich they haue eaſie acceſſe and receſſe to and fro to their beguiling nets; […]”

“My receſſe hath given them confidence that I may be conquered.”

“[A] great, gray, Houſe Snail (as they call it) vvhich being cloſ'd up in one of our ſmall Receivers, did not onely, not fall dovvn from the ſide of the Glaſs, upon the dravving out of the Air […] but vvas not ſo much depriv'd of progreſſive motion by the receſs of the Air: […]”

“There being no Sort of Reproach vvhich a Man reſents vvith ſo keen, and ſo juſt an Indignation, as the Charge of Folly. […] Foraſmuch as it carries in it an inſulting Negative upon that, vvhich conſtitutes the Perſon ſo charged properly a Man: Every Degree of Ignorance being ſo far a Receſs and Degradation from Rationality, and conſequently from Humanity itſelf.”

“[T]he principal Receſs of this Infection, vvhich vvas from February to April, vvas after the Froſt vvas broken, and the VVeather mild and vvarm.”

“It may be obſerved, that ſtill as vve recede from the light, nature has ſo contrived it, that the pupil is enlarged by the retiring of the iris, in proportion to our receſs.”

“Conformably to this a receſs [the Recess of Augsburg] vvas framed, approved of, and publiſhed vvith the uſual formalities. […] Such are the capital articles in this famous Receſs, vvhich is the baſis of religious peace in Germany, […]”

“Besides the fundamental laws and the capitulations, the constitution of the Empire was contained in the Recesses or collections of Decrees of the Diet, which was the general legislative body of the whole Federal union; […]”

“First we went to the Castle of St. Elmo, built on a very high rock, whence we had an intire prospect of yᵉ whole Citty, which lyes in shape of a theatre upon the sea brinke, with all the circumjacent islands, as far as Capreæ, famous for the debauched recesses of Tiberius.”

“The ſoft Receſſes of Your Hours improve / The Three fair Pledges of Your Happy Love: […]”

“[…] When the Evidence is fully given, the Jurors withdraw to a private Place, […] In this Receſs of the Jury they are to conſider their Evidence, […]”

“[D]uring my Receſs at St Jones’s I receiv’d a very obliging Letter from him, aſſuring me that his Proceſs for a Divorce vvent on vvith Succeſs, tho’ he met vvith ſome Difficulties in it that he did not expect.”

“It [Rome] is divided into 14 Regions or Wards; has 7 Mountaines, and as may Campi or Vally's; in these are faire Parks or Gardens call'd Villas, being onely places of recesse and pleasure, at some distance from the streetes, yet within the walls.”

“A small part of this subject many years since had dropped from my pen; but looking, at some opportunities, upon the argument, I thought some things more considerable might be deduced; and applying myself further, at times of recess, I felt it grow and multiply under my imagination: […]”

“Fair Thames ſhe haunts, and ev'ry neighb'ring Grove / Sacred to ſoft Receſs, and gentle Love.”

“His hours of leiſure and receſs employs, / In dravving pictures of forbidden joys, […]”

“Good Verſe, receſs and Solitude requires: / And Eaſe from Cares, and undiſturb'd Deſires.”

“This, part of METAPHISICKE: I doe not finde laboured and performed, vvhereat I maruaile not, Becauſe I hold it not poſſible to bee inuented by that courſe of inuention vvhich hath beene vſed, in regard that men (vvhich is the Roote of all error) haue made too untimely a departure, and to[o] remote a receſſe from particulars.”

“The external maladies are. 1. Tumours, vvhich are receſſes of the parts of mans body, from the natural ſtate, […]”

“But in the end (as Perſons capable of reaſon) on both ſides they made rather a kind of Receſſe, then a Breach of Treaty, and concluded vpon a Truce for ſome moneths follovving.”

“But ſo the Fates, for Puniſhment ordain'd, / The ſmall Receſs the vveary Land obtain'd; / So little Breath to riſing Freedom gave, / 'Tvvas hard to knovv the Subject from the Slave.”

“Orogenic arcs are made up by more advanced segments (salients) separated by less advanced zones (recesses) (Miser, 1932). Within salients, the critical taper is lower, the distance among thrust ramps is larger, and there may be more ramps departing from the basal décollement layer with respect to the recess areas.”

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