Breaktime vs. Recess
Breaktimenoun
(US) A break for a worker or workers that splits a period of work.
Recessnoun
A break, pause or vacation.
‘Spring recess offers a good chance to travel.’;
Breaktimenoun
(UK) A break for schoolchildren between lessons.
Recessnoun
An inset, hole, space or opening.
‘Put a generous recess behind the handle for finger space.’;
Recessnoun
A time of play during the school day, usually on a playground; (UK) break, playtime.
‘Students who do not listen in class will not play outside during recess.’;
Recessnoun
A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
Recessnoun
(archaic) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat.
‘the recess of the tides’;
Recessnoun
(archaic) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
Recessnoun
(archaic) A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
Recessnoun
A secret or abstruse part.
‘the difficulties and recesses of science’;
Recessnoun
A sinus.
Recessverb
To inset into something, or to recede.
‘Wow, look at how that gargoyle recesses into the rest of architecture.’; ‘Recess the screw so it does not stick out.’;
Recessverb
(intransitive) To take or declare a break.
‘This court shall recess for its normal two hour lunch now.’; ‘Class will recess for 20 minutes.’;
Recessverb
To appoint, with a recess appointment.
Recessverb
To make a recess in.
‘to recess a wall’;
Recessadjective
Remote, distant (in time or place).
Recessnoun
A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.
‘Every degree of ignorance being so far a recess and degradation from rationality.’; ‘My recess hath given them confidence that I may be conquered.’;
Recessnoun
The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
‘In the recess of the jury they are to consider the evidence.’; ‘Good verse recess and solitude requires.’;
Recessnoun
Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school; as, the children were allowed to play in the school yard during recess.
‘The recess of . . . Parliament lasted six weeks.’;
Recessnoun
Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc.
‘A bed which stood in a deep recess.’;
Recessnoun
A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
‘Departure from this happy place, our sweetRecess, and only consolation left.’;
Recessnoun
Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science; the deepest recesses of the mind.
Recessnoun
A sinus.
Recessnoun
A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
Recessverb
To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall.
Recessnoun
a state of abeyance or suspended business
Recessnoun
a small concavity
Recessnoun
an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
Recessnoun
an enclosure that is set back or indented
Recessnoun
a pause from doing something (as work);
‘we took a 10-minute break’; ‘he took time out to recuperate’;
Recessverb
put into a recess;
‘recess lights’;
Recessverb
make a recess in;
‘recess the piece of wood’;
Recessverb
close at the end of a session;
‘The court adjourned’;
