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recess 音标拼音: [rɪs'ɛs] [r'isɛs] n. 休息,休会,放假,凹进处,深处,隐窝
vt. 使凹进 vi. 休假,休息 休息,休会,放假,凹进处,深处,隐窝使凹进休假,休息 recess n 1: a state of abeyance or suspended business [synonym: {deferral}, {recess}] 2: a small concavity [synonym: {recess}, {recession}, {niche}, {corner}] 3: an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands) [synonym: {inlet}, {recess}] 4: an enclosure that is set back or indented [synonym: {recess}, {niche}] 5: a pause from doing something (as work); "we took a 10-minute break"; "he took time out to recuperate" [synonym: {respite}, {recess}, {break}, {time out}] v 1: put into a recess; "recess lights" 2: make a recess in; "recess the piece of wood" 3: close at the end of a session; "The court adjourned" [synonym: {adjourn}, {recess}, {break up}] Recess \Re*cess"\ (r[-e]*s[e^]s"), n. [L. recessus, fr. recedere, recessum. See {Recede}.] 1. A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides. [1913 Webster] Every degree of ignorance being so far a recess and degradation from rationality. --South. [1913 Webster] My recess hath given them confidence that I may be conquered. --Eikon Basilike. [1913 Webster] 2. The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy. [1913 Webster] In the recess of the jury they are to consider the evidence. --Sir M. Hale. [1913 Webster] Good verse recess and solitude requires. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 3. Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school; as, the children were allowed to play in the school yard during recess. [1913 Webster] The recess of . . . Parliament lasted six weeks. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 4. Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc. [1913 Webster] A bed which stood in a deep recess. --W. Irving. [1913 Webster] 5. A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion. [1913 Webster] Departure from this happy place, our sweet Recess, and only consolation left. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 6. Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science; the deepest recesses of the mind. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster PJC] 7. (Bot. & Zool.) A sinus. [1913 Webster] Recess \Re*cess"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Recessed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Recessing}.] To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall. [1913 Webster] Recess \Re*cess"\, n. [G.] A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire. --Brande & C. [1913 Webster] 231 Moby Thesaurus words for "recess":
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