Recess

What do we mean by recess?

A temporary cessation of the customary activities of an engagement, occupation, or pursuit: synonym: pause. noun

A period in the school day during which students are given time to play or relax. noun

A remote, secret, or secluded place. noun

An indentation or small hollow. noun

An alcove. noun

To place in a recess. intransitive verb

To create or fashion a recess in. intransitive verb

To suspend for a recess. intransitive verb

To take a recess. intransitive verb

The act of receding, or going back or away; withdrawal; retirement; recession. noun

A state of being withdrawn or retired; seclusion; privacy. noun

A time of withdrawal or retirement; an interval of release from occupation; specifically, a period of relief from attendance, as of a school, a jury, a legislative body, or other assembly; a temporary dismissal. noun

A place of retirement or seclusion; a remote or secret spot or situation; a nook; hence, a hidden or abstruse part of anything: as, the recesses of a forest; the recesses of philosophy. noun

A receding space or inward indentation or depression in a line of continuity; a niche, alcove, or the like: as, a recess in a room for a window or a bed; a recess in a wall or the side of a hill. See cut under ambry. noun

A treaty, law, decree, or contract embodying the results of a negotiation; especially, a decree or law promulgated by tlie Diet of the old German empire, or by that of the Hanseatic League. noun

In botany, a sinus of a lobed leaf. noun

In anatomy and zoology, a receding or hollowedout part; a depression or sinus; a recessus. noun

Synonyms Prorogation, Dissolution, etc. (see adjournment), intermission, respite. noun

A break, pause or vacation.

An inset, hole, space or opening.

A time of play during the school day, usually on a playground; break, playtime.

A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.

A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat.

The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.

A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.

A secret or abstruse part.

A sinus.

Words that are spelled similarly to recess:
recess, precess, secess.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word recess:
recesses, appointment, entablature, effigy, vacated, coolidge, stat, truman, chancel, confirmation, grover, arched, eisenhower, flanked, lunch, calvin, senate, projecting, seat, framed, session, playground, roosevelt, monkey, expired, window, carved, holidays, ceiling, wall, clause, nomination, appeals, confirmed, resumed, tomb, altar, obama, arch, formally, rectangular, classroom, nominated, door, bench, marble, diet, court, timber, congressional, reformed, bush, harry, sessions, columns, rejected, congress, fill, president, decorated, animated, floor, windows, district, kids, break, rear, disney, chamber, clinton, entrance.

Words that rhyme with recess:
process, address, access, assess, press, express, s, stress, progress, success, nevertheless, less, distress, acquiesce, dress, coalesce, egress, finesse, possess, guess, mess, suppress, excess, redress, nonetheless, abscess, impress, digress, bless, ness, esse, largesse, regress, profess, obsess, yes, cress, caress, confess, unless, transgress, chess, oppress, compress, es, depress, repress, abs, tress, ess, reassess, tess, fess, convalesce, jess, ls, dispossess, hess, hesse, les, aggress, ccs, bess, oas, undress, noblesse, precess, watercress, gress, repossess, ts, headdress, ines, letterpress, cbs, attests, dss, ws, more or less, fesse, due process, ques, uss, inverness, overdress, wes, nes, cmos, fluoresce, winter cress, fress, lcs, evening dress, requests, name and address, work in progress, damsel in distress, in progress, outguess, bessemer process.

Adjectives that are often used to describe recess:
deep, lateral, dark, small, short, frontal, minute, arched, brief, little, long, parliamentary, epitympanic, facial, shallow, secret, circular, inner, innermost, superior, optic, sphenoethmoidal, anterior, semicircular, deepest, posterior, hidden, congressional, curtained, inferior, central, narrow, pineal, rectangular, suprapineal, costodiaphragmatic, day, pharyngeal, shaped, dim, hour, preoptic, infundibular, ethmoidal, like, cool, corresponding, green, wide, slight, sweet, left, week, usual, shadowy, remote, gloomy, supratubal, azygoesophageal, farthest, sacred, tympanic, close, synovial, annular, obscure, darkest, extra, deeper, vaulted, spherical, elliptical, headed, triangular, conical, mysterious, rocky, eastern, curved, far, prestyloid, joint, interior, legislative.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective recess:
time, program, appointment, bell, action, appointments, committee, period, periods, bed, times, bearing, from, gate, pads, plan, pad, structure, bearings, process, december, hour, stories, session, law, fig, fatigue, plays, mounted.

Consonant match to recess:
rhesus, rescous, ruscus, ross s.

Words that sound like recess:
recess, resists, rhesus, resis, risus, wrists, risks, recessed, russes, races, rests, crysis, rissa, reassess, arrests, rices, rusts, rosses, ursus, reese's, rases, rusks, wrests, aristos, rishis, wrasses, rsis, process, precise, reeses, receipts, roasts, reso, resets, resize, roosts, precess, receipes, risso, risu, reseize, recense, raw sex, ressa, rhexis, russets, secess, this house, roses, resist, riches, crisis, racist, rises, righteous, arises, raises, reyes, rasist, rosette, rasa, risa, ricin, cirrhosis, rison, arouses, rizza, rinses, rosas, resa, croesus, raisa, arrises, crassus, resi, razes, racette, raissa, recy, porosis, ressource, chryseis, aransas, briseis, perosis, rassa, roosa, rose's, richesse, crucis, phoresis, rastus, iasis, red sauce, crasis, razzes, drusus, rhesa, araceous, roseus.