Recess
[rɪ'ses;'riːses] or ['risɛs]
Definition
(noun.) an enclosure that is set back or indented.
(noun.) a small concavity.
(verb.) make a recess in; 'recess the piece of wood'.
(verb.) put into a recess; 'recess lights'.
Typed by Jennifer--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.
(n.) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
(n.) Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school.
(n.) Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc.
(n.) A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
(n.) Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science.
(n.) A sinus.
(v. t.) To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall.
(n.) A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
Editor: Megan
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Retreat, nook, corner, niche, place of retirement.[2]. Intermission, respite, remission of labor, suspension of business.
Checked by Clarice
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Cavity, nook, withdrawal, retirement, retreat, seclusion, privacy, vacation,holiday
ANT:Promontory, protrusion, projection, publicity, worktime
Checker: Mimi
Definition
n. a going back or withdrawing: retirement: seclusion: a period of remission of business: part of a room formed by a receding of the wall: a retired spot: a nook: a sinus or depressed par.—v.t. to make a recess in: to put into a recess.—adj. Recessed′ having a recess.—Recessed arch one arch within another.
Editor: Melinda
Examples
- A harp, and other matters of a very uncanonical appearance, were also visible when this dark recess was opened. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The recess beneath the counter in which his flock mattress was thrust, looked like a grave. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I remained in a recess of the rock, gazing on this wonderful and stupendous scene. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The fifteen minutes seemed an hour, but they came to an end at last, and the word 'Recess! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- And even if she were not, the sound of the bell would penetrate every recess of her tiny apartment, and rouse her to answer her friend's call. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- He proposed in the recess--in the room that used to be a picture-gallery--that Sir Monckton converted into it saloon? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A dull light placed in the deep recess of the window, made little impression on the arched room. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I found Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mr. Tulkinghorn rises with his hands in his pockets and walks into one of the window recesses. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She was too self-engrossed to penetrate the recesses of his shyness, and besides, why should she care to give herself the trouble? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Probably early men did not go deeply into the caves, because they had no means of lighting their recesses. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The middle ages carefully repressed the minds of men, and hid away in dark recesses the instruments of learning. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- They penetrate into the recesses of nature, and shew how she works in her hiding places. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Yet more was amiss with him than Miss Peecher's simply arranged little work-box of thoughts, fitted with no gloomy and dark recesses, could hold. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She went and curled herself up on the window-seat in the small, deeply-recessed window. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
Typist: Michael