| 单词 | recess |
| 释义 | recess (once / 524 pages) 1nv 2nv Recess is a break from doing something, like work or school. Almost everyone looks forward to taking a recess — even if you don't have access to monkey bars. Recess comes from the Latin word recessus, meaning "a going back, retreat." You may have heard children talking about recess as their favorite part of school. This meaning of the word refers to the break in a school day for children to play, usually outside in a playground. As a verb, recess means to take a break at the end of a session — usually in a court proceeding: "The judge announced the court would recess until the following day." WORD FAMILYrecess: recessed, recesses, recessing USAGE EXAMPLESThe move would be a legal gamble under the high court’s last ruling in 2014 on recess appointments. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) The sit-in occurred last June, just before Congress recessed for the July 4 holiday. Salon(Dec 29, 2016) The House of Representatives did not vote on the bill before recess. Reuters(Dec 28, 2016) 1 1n a state of abeyance or suspended business Syn|Hyper deferral abeyance, suspension temporary cessation or suspension 2n a pause from doing something (as work) Syn|Hypo|Hyper break, respite, time out spring break a week or more of recess during the spring term at school pause temporary inactivity 3v close at the end of a session 2Syn|Hyper adjourn, break up cease, end, finish, stop, terminate have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical 1n a small concavity Syn|Hypo|Hyper corner, niche, recession pharyngeal recess a small recess in the wall of the pharynx concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature a shape that curves or bends inward 2n an enclosure that is set back or indented Syn|Hypo|Hyper niche alcove, bay a small recess opening off a larger room apse, apsisa domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church; usually contains the altar cinerarium, columbariuma niche for a funeral urn containing the ashes of the cremated dead fireplace, hearth, open fireplacean open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built mihrab(Islam) a niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the direction of Mecca carrel, carrell, cubicle, stallsmall individual study area in a library firea fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning tribunethe apse of a Christian church that contains the bishop's throne enclosure a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose 3n an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands) Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper inlet Bristol Channel an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean between southern Wales and southwestern England Gulf of Aeginaa gulf of the Aegean on the southeastern coast of Greece White Seaa large inlet of the Barents Sea in the northwestern part of European Russia Zuider Zeea former inlet of the North Sea in the northern coast of the Netherlands; sealed off from the sea in 1932 by a dam that created the IJsselmeer Loch Linnhean inlet of the Atlantic Ocean on the western coast of Scotland Trondheim Fiorda long narrow inlet of the Norwegian Sea cove a small inlet fiord, fjorda long narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs; common in Norway locha long narrow inlet of the sea in Scotland (especially when it is nearly landlocked) lougha long narrow (nearly landlocked) cove in Ireland body of water, water the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean) 4v make a recess in recess the piece of wood Hyper indent notch the edge of or make jagged 5v put into a recess recess lights Hyper lay, place, pose, position, put, set put into a certain place or abstract location |
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