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1.nounA break, pause or vacation."Spring recess offers a good chance to travel."
2.nounAn inset, hole, space or opening."Put a generous recess behind the handle for finger space."
3.nounA time of play during the school day, usually on a playground; break, playtime."Students who do not listen in class will not play outside during recess."
4.nounA decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
5.nounA withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat."the recess of the tides"
6.nounThe state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
7.nounA place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
8.nounA secret or abstruse part."the difficulties and recesses of science"
9.nounA sinus.
10.verbTo inset into something, or to recede."Recess the screw so it does not stick out."
11.verbTo take or declare a break."Class will recess for 20 minutes."
12.verbTo appoint, with a recess appointment.
13.verbTo make a recess in."to recess a wall"
14.adjectiveRemote, distant (in time or place).