Definition of recesses Recesses
/ɹiˈsɛsʌz/ - [reesesuz] -
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What does recesses mean?
Wiktionary 
- recesses (Noun)
Plural of recess.
Part of speech
🔤WordNet
NounPlural: recesses |
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| recess - an enclosure that is set back or indented | ||
| niche | ||
| enclosure the act of enclosing something inside something else | ||
| alcove, bay a small recess opening off a larger room | ||
| apse, apsis a domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church; usually contains the altar | ||
| cinerarium, columbarium a sepulchral vault or other structure having recesses in the walls to receive cinerary urns | ||
| fireplace, open fireplace, hearth an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built; "the fireplace was so large you could walk inside it"; "he laid a fire in the hearth and lit it"; "the hearth was black with the charcoal of many fires" | ||
| recess - a small concavity | ||
| recession, niche, corner | ||
| concave shape, incurvature, concavity, incurvation a shape that curves or bends inward | ||
| recess - an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands) | ||
| inlet | ||
| body of water, water the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean); "they invaded our territorial waters"; "they were sitting by the water's edge" | ||
| sea a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land | ||
| lake a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land | ||
| cove a small inlet | ||
| fiord, fjord a long narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs; common in Norway | ||
| loch Scottish word for a lake | ||
| recess - a pause from doing something (as work); "we took a 10-minute break"; "he took time out to recuperate" | ||
| respite, break, time out | ||
| pause temporary inactivity | ||
| recess - a state of abeyance or suspended business | ||
| deferral | ||
Verb |
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| recess - put into a recess; "recess lights" | ||
| position, lay, pose, put, place, set cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation | ||
| recess - make a recess in; "recess the piece of wood" | ||
| indent notch the edge of or make jagged | ||
| recess - close at the end of a session; "The court adjourned" | ||
| adjourn, break up | ||
| cease, end, terminate, finish, stop bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I" | ||
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Wiktionary
- recess (Noun)
A break, pause or vacation. - recess (Noun)
An inset, hole, space or opening. - recess (Noun)
A time of play, usually, on a playground. - recess (Noun)
A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire. - recess (Verb)
To inset into something, or to recede. - recess (Verb)
To take or declare a break. - recess (Verb)
To appoint, with a recess appointment . - recess (Verb)
To make a recess in. - recess (Adjective)
Remote, distant in time or place.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- recess (n.)
A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides. - recess (n.)
The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy. - recess (n.)
Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school. - recess (n.)
Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc. - recess (n.)
A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion. - recess (n.)
Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science. - recess (n.)
A sinus. - recess (v. t.)
To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall. - recess (n.)
A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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recess
To delay or put off an event or an appointment.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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recess
rē-ses′, 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. [Recede.]
