Recess vs. Vacation — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Recess and Vacation
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Recess
A temporary cessation of the customary activities of an engagement, occupation, or pursuit
The chairman of the committee called for a recess until Thursday.
Vacation
A vacation (American English), or holiday (British English), is a leave of absence from a regular job, or a specific trip or journey, usually for the purpose of recreation or tourism. People often take a vacation during specific holiday observances, or for specific festivals or celebrations.
Recess
A period in the school day during which students are given time to play or relax.
Vacation
A period of time devoted to pleasure, rest, or relaxation, especially one with pay granted to an employee.
Recess
Often recesses A remote, secret, or secluded place
A bird that lives deep in the recesses of the forest.
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Vacation
A holiday.
Recess
An indentation or small hollow
Dirt accumulated in the recesses of the statue.
Vacation
A fixed period of holidays, especially one during which a school, court, or business suspends activities.
Recess
An alcove.
Vacation
The act or an instance of vacating.
Recess
To place in a recess.
Vacation
To take or spend a vacation.
Recess
To create or fashion a recess in
Recessed a portion of the wall.
Vacation
Freedom from some business or activity.
Recess
To suspend for a recess
The committee chair recessed the hearings.
Vacation
(obsolete) Free time given over to a specific purpose; occupation, activity.
Recess
To take a recess
The investigators recessed for lunch.
Vacation
A period during which official activity or business is formally suspended; an official holiday from university, law courts etc.
Recess
(archaic) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back.
The recess of the tides
Vacation
(North America) A holiday; a stretch of leisure time away from work or duty and devoted to rest or pleasure.
Recess
The state of being withdrawn.
Vacation
An extended period of time away from work or school.
Spring vacation offers a good opportunity to travel.
Recess
A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
Vacation
The act of vacating something; moving out.
The Conservative Party’s vacation of the centre ground gave an opportunity to its opponents.
Recess
A small space created by building part of a wall further back from the rest.
Vacation
The act of making legally void.
Recess
An inset, hole, hollow space or opening.
Put a generous recess behind the handle for finger space.
Vacation
(intransitive) To spend or take a vacation.
This year, we’re vacationing in Mexico.
Recess
A remote, secret or abstruse place.
The difficulties and recesses of science
Vacation
The act of vacating; a making void or of no force; as, the vacation of an office or a charter.
Recess
A break, pause or vacation.
Spring recess offers a good chance to travel.
Vacation
Intermission of a stated employment, procedure, or office; a period of intermission; rest; leisure.
It was not in his nature, however, at least till years had chastened it, to take any vacation from controversy.
Recess
(government) A period of time when the proceedings of a parliament, committee, court of law, or other official body are temporarily suspended.
Vacation
Intermission of judicial proceedings; the space of time between the end of one term and the beginning of the next; nonterm; recess.
Recess
A time of play during the school day, usually on a playground.
Students who do not listen in class will not play outside during recess.
Vacation
A period of intermission of regular paid work or employment, or of studies and exercises at an educational institution; the time during which a person temporarily ceases regular duties of any kind and performs other activites, usually some form of liesure; holidays; recess (at a school); as, the spring vacation; to spend one's vacation travelling; to paint the house while on vacation. Vacation is typically used for rest, travel, or recreation, but may be used for any purpose. In Britain this sense of vacation is usually referred to as holiday.
Recess
A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
Vacation
The time when an office is vacant;
Recess
(transitive) 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.
Vacation
Leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure;
We get two weeks of vacation every summer
We took a short holiday in Puerto Rico
Recess
(transitive) To make a recess in.
To recess a wall
Vacation
The act of making something legally void
Recess
To place in a recess.
Vacation
Spend or take a vacation
Recess
To take or declare a break.
Class will recess for 20 minutes.
Recess
(transitive) To suspend (formal proceedings) temporarily.
Recess
To suspend its proceedings for a period of time.
This court shall recess for its normal two hour lunch now.
Recess
To appoint, with a recess appointment.
Recess
Remote, distant.
Recess
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.
Recess
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.
Recess
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.
Recess
Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc.
A bed which stood in a deep recess.
Recess
A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
Departure from this happy place, our sweetRecess, and only consolation left.
Recess
Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science; the deepest recesses of the mind.
Recess
A sinus.
Recess
A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
Recess
To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall.
Recess
A state of abeyance or suspended business
Recess
A small concavity
Recess
An arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
Recess
An enclosure that is set back or indented
Recess
A pause from doing something (as work);
We took a 10-minute break
He took time out to recuperate
Recess
Put into a recess;
Recess lights
Recess
Make a recess in;
Recess the piece of wood
Recess
Close at the end of a session;
The court adjourned
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