Definition of recess

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Recess (n.) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides..

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Recessed :: Recessed (a.) Withdrawn; secluded.
Break :: Break (v. t.) A projection or recess from the face of a building.
Recess :: Recess (v. t.) To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall..
Recess :: Recess (n.) Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school..
Deep :: Deep (superl.) Extending far back from the front or outer part; of great horizontal dimension (measured backward from the front or nearer part, mouth, etc.); as, a deep cave or recess or wound; a gallery ten seats deep; a company of soldiers six files deep..
Creek :: Creek (n.) A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river..
Bay Window :: Bay window () A window forming a bay or recess in a room, and projecting outward from the wall, either in a rectangular, polygonal, or semicircular form; -- often corruptly called a bow window..
Pan :: Pan (n.) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge..
Tympanum :: Tympanum (n.) The recessed face of a pediment within the frame made by the upper and lower cornices, being usually a triangular space or table..
Recess :: Recess (n.) A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
Counterbore :: Counterbore (n.) A kind of pin drill with the cutting edge or edges normal to the axis; -- used for enlarging a hole, or for forming a flat-bottomed recess at its mouth..
Cove :: Cove (n.) A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain..
Encave :: Encave (v. t.) To hide in, or as in, a cave or recess..
Recessive :: Recessive (a.) Going back; receding.
Precessional :: Precessional (a.) Of or pertaining to pression; as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes..
Recession :: Recession (n.) The act of ceding back; restoration; repeated cession; as, the recession of conquered territory to its former sovereign..
Inlet :: Inlet (n.) A bay or recess,as in the shore of a sea, lake, or large river; a narrow strip of water running into the land or between islands..
Indentation :: Indentation (n.) A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything; as, the indentations of a leaf, of the coast, etc..
Centre :: Centre (v. t.) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.
Alcove :: Alcove (n.) A recessed portion of a room, or a small room opening into a larger one; especially, a recess to contain a bed; a lateral recess in a library..
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